Stefan PETICA

CURRICULUM VITAE

Qualifications

• 2003 - "DOKTOR DER PHILOSOPHIE"- (sociology) - University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1989 - Post- Graduate Degree "Master" in Safety and Major technological Risk - Ecole Centrale de Paris.
• 1977 - Post- Graduate Degree in Ergonomics and Organization - Academy of Social Sciences, Bucharest.
• 1973 - Master's degree in Psychology - University of Bucharest.

Professional activities / Main areas of interest

• Senior Researcher- INRETS (French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research)- - Groupe d'Analyse du Risque routier et de sa Gouvernance (GARIG) since 1989

• Staff management (recruiting, skills, training)
• Ergonomics
• Human factors analysis in accidental events of the nuclear power plants and industrial disasters
• Safety and Risk Assessment
• Human reliability
• Psycho-Sociology in traffic safety
• Impact & Safety aspects of ITS technologies
• Psycho-Sociological model of Safety behaviors
• User needs and social acceptability of traffic technologies implementation (change of behaviors, safety aspects, side effects, workload.)
• Politics of Scientific co-operation with the Eastern countries
• Risk assessment of hazardous goods transport
• Behavior in hazardous situations, prevention of the internal conflict
• Quality of Life in mobility & traffic planning
• International surveys and workshops organization, etc.

International cooperation / Memberships

• Member in the "Traffic Safety Group" of the PROMETHEUS PRO-GEN (1990-1994);
• Expert in - Task Force "Ergonomics and Safety"- in TCT - CEMT (European
• Conference of Ministers of Transport) 2 years;
• Founder member of EUROPSY -T (European Association of Psychology applied to
• Transportation), General Secretary(3 years)
• Member of "New York Academy of Science", U.S.A. (since 1997)
• Leader of WP3&WP4 in SAVE-consortium (4 PCRD) with the research projects on :- "User needs and public acceptance" & "Impact on Traffic Safety".
• Leader of WP 3 in HOTEL project consortium (5 PCRD)- (2 years)

Recent publications

• PETICA S.: "Safety Implications of In-Vehicle Devices-Risk Assessment of In-Car Radiotelephone use" Second world Congress in ITS, Yokohama, Japan, 1995.
• PETICA S., BEKIARIS E. (Ed) et al.: "Driver needs and public acceptance of emergency control aids". Deliverable n° 3.1, SAVE, Commission of the European Communities - R&D Program Telematics Systems in the Area of Transport, 302p August 1996.
• BEKIARIS A, PETICA S.: "Impact of SAVE system to Traffic Safety" Del.4.1, SAVE, Commission of the European Communities, 190 p. Dec.1998
• PETICA S., RISSER R.: "Prospective safety Assessment of Drivers and Vehicle Monitoring Systems - Towards a Societal Acceptability", ITS Congress, Toronto, Nov.1999
• PETICA S.: "User's acceptance and Societal Acceptability -Safety implication of in-vehicle devices", in Traffic Psychology Today, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/London/Massachusetts, 2001
• PETICA S. "Safety Impact and Social Acceptability of In - Vehicle Traffic Technologies - Artifacts and Incidences of "Monitoring" Systems Development." -Thesis in Sociology Vienna University (Austria), 517 pg.2003

Last updated: 2005-06-21