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Personal Profile

Dr. Floris Goerlandt is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at 全国探花 and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Risk Management and Resource Optimization for Marine Industries. He also holds an appointment in 全国探花's Marine Affairs Program and co-leads the Maritime Risk and Safety (MARS) Group.

His research focuses on risk analysis and management, maritime safety, emergency preparedness and response, search and rescue, risk governance, and community resilience. A central theme of his work is the integration of engineering, policy, and stakeholder perspectives to support evidence-based decision making for marine transportation systems, coastal communities, and marine industries.

Current projects address topics including Arctic search and rescue, emergency response preparedness, marine traffic safety, remote pilotage, climate adaptation, digital twins for ocean industries, and risk governance in coastal communities. His research combines quantitative risk modelling with stakeholder-engaged approaches such as workshops, surveys, interviews, expert elicitation, and collaborative decision-support processes.

Dr. Goerlandt has led or contributed to numerous projects funded by organizations including NSERC, SSHRC, Public Safety Canada, the National Research Council of Canada, Mitacs, the Ocean Frontier Institute, MEOPAR, and Clear Seas. His work has informed policy and practice in maritime safety, transportation resilience, marine environmental protection, emergency management, and risk governance.

He has supervised a large number of doctoral and master's students, postdoctoral fellows, undergraduate researchers, and visiting scholars, contributing to the development of highly qualified personnel in risk management, safety, and marine systems. He actively collaborates with governments, Indigenous organizations, industry, non-governmental organizations, and international partners, and regularly organizes workshops, roundtables, and stakeholder engagement activities.

Dr. Goerlandt serves on the Steering Committee of the Canadian Marine Shipping Risk Forum and is a member of the Risk Management Working Group of the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation (IALA). He also serves on the editorial boards of several leading international journals, including Risk Analysis and Safety Science,

His research has been recognized through several awards, including 全国探花's President's Research Excellence Awards for Emerging Investigators (2020) and Research Impact (2024).

Research Profile

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications

Fernandes I., Goerlandt F., Zarrin Mehr M., Brown R., Pelot R. 2026. A Discrete Event Simulation model approach for probabilistic estimates of helicopter Search and Rescue times to maritime incidents in the Canadian Arctic. Safety Science 197:107113, doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2026.107113.

Mel茅ndez E., Goerlandt F. 2026. A systems-based coordination taxonomy for managing interorganizational risk in ports. Risk Analysis 4(8): e70325. doi: 10.1111/risa.70325.

Mostaghimi K., Pelot R., Goerlandt F. 2026. Maximum Expected Time of Rescue by Canadian Coast Guard vessels to maritime incidents in the Canadian Arctic. Safety Science 203:107333, doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2026.107333.

Rodrigues L., Souza Almeida L., Goerlandt F., Pelot R. 2026. Ship availability after a megathrust earthquake and tsunami event: A case study on Canada鈥檚 West Coast. Safety Science 199:107178, doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2026.107178.

Bairami-Khankandi S., Bolbot V., BahooToroody A., Goerlandt F. 2025. A systems-theoretic approach using association rule mining and predictive Bayesian trend analysis to identify patterns in maritime accident causes. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 258:110911, doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2025.110911.

Woloszyk K., Goerlandt F., Montewka J. 2024. A framework to analyse the probability of accidental hull girder failure considering advanced corrosion degradation for risk-based ship design. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 251:110336, doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110336.

Sadeghi R., Goerlandt F. 2023. A proposed validation framework for the system theoretic process analysis (STPA) technique. Safety Science 162:106080, doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106080.

Souza Almeida L., Goerlandt F., Pelot R. 2022. Trends and gaps in the literature of road network repair and restoration in the context of disaster response operations. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 84:101398, doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101398.

Books

Chircop A., Goerlandt F., Pelot R., Aporta C. (Eds.) 2024. Area-Based Management of Shipping: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives, Springer, 369聽p.

Chircop A., Goerlandt F., Aporta C., Pelot R. (Eds.) 2020. Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation, Springer, 319聽p.