The Aon Foundation's Disaster Chair at Tecnun expands its activities.

The Chair Aon Foundation's Catastrophe at Tecnun hasrenewed its agreement of collaboration with the goal to work on a model for prediction, intervention and recovery of natural disasters through Artificial Intelligence tools. The signature, which represents an extension of the activities of the Chair of the Aon Foundation at Tecnun, has been sealed by the director of the School, Raúl Antón, and the director General of the Aon Foundation, Pedro Tomey. "The goal of this new line of research is to improve the resilience of systems through advanced Artificial Intelligence techniques," explains the director of the Chair Leire Labaka.

It should be noted that the research will be developed in the framework of the doctoral dissertation of Matheus Puime, directed by the professors of the department of Industrial Organization Engineering Leire Labaka and Josune Hernantes.

As PhD student Matheus Puime explains, the main goal of his work is to understand the influence of different variables on the economic losses generated as a result of a catastrophe. "This approach will be applied taking into account the climatic changes that will occur in Spain in the coming years," he says.  

Puime also notes that the research will provide a model that estimates the potential economic losses that may be suffered following a natural disaster, as well as recommendations on actions and measures to be implemented to increase resilience and reduce costs.  

For his part, Pedro Tomey, director General Manager of the Aon Foundation, points out that "it is essential to have disaster prediction, intervention and recovery models that enable risk managers to improve disaster preparedness, prevent future impacts and mitigate damage as far as possible".