Sirous Yasseri is a professor emeritus at Brunel University London. He earned a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 1968; a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Structural Engineering from the University of Southampton in 1974; a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Financial Mathematics from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University in 2003; and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1977. He has over forty years of experience in the design of onshore and offshore facilities, pipelines, and quantitative methods; risk- and reliability-based design; multivariable decision-making; probabilistic risk analysis; reliability analysis; risk mitigation; fire and explosion risk assessment and design; design target setting (design philosophies and design briefs); reliability-based life extension of aging pipelines and structures; general safety and structural engineering; research; QRA; earthquake-resistant design; and specialized nonlinear dynamic analysis and safety cases.