[ RESILIA Partner Network ]

Together for Societal Resilience

RESILIA is supported by partners that bring together research, civil protection, technology, and education. Together they develop the foundation for the RESILIA Innovation Hub and create offerings that make crisis preparedness understandable, practical, and tangible.

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[ The Partners ]

The RESILIA Consortium

The consortium brings together partners with different focuses – from fire departments and disaster research to artificial intelligence, communication systems, psychology, simulation, and security research.

Berlin Fire Department

The Berlin Fire Department coordinates the collaborative project and brings its experience as a research-driven civil protection authority. The focus is on cross-departmental collaboration, gamified solutions for increased resilience, and transfer to practice and the public.

Dr. Rebecca Prell

Network Coordinator RESILIA, Head of the Research Department of the Berlin Fire Department

Dr. Tomas Bothe

Group Leader Research Project RESILIA

Conrad Rethfeld

Research Assistant Project RESILIA

Amélie Brand

Research Associate Project RESILIA

“Resilience means thinking beyond the operation for a modern fire department. For me, RESILIA means exactly that: taking responsibility, actively researching safety solutions, networking and sharing knowledge, and effectively collaborating when it counts.”

Dr. Rebecca Prell

Network Coordinator RESILIA, Head of the Research Department of the Berlin Fire Department

Academy for Disaster Research

The Academy for Disaster Research combines social science research with education, consulting, and evaluation. In RESILIA, it develops target-group sensitive offerings for resilience education that strengthen risk literacy and are embedded in everyday life.

Prof. Dr. Martin Voss

subproject management

Alicia Witrahm

Secretariat

Sara T. Merkes

Team management, scientific staff

Theresa Zimmermann

Team leadership, scientific employee

“The resilience labs aim to promote risk literacy with educational offerings, understood as the ability of individuals and communities to understand risks in their heterogeneity and complexity, realistically assess their own vulnerabilities and capacities, make informed decisions about acceptable risks, and independently contribute to the protection of the community.”

Prof. Dr. Martin Voss

subproject management

Dr. Katja Schulze

Research Associate

Astrid Ellen Wigidal

Research Associate

Korbinian Nida-Rümelin

Student Assistant

Tabea-Magdalena Hähnel

Student Assistant

Free University of Berlin

The Free University of Berlin brings expertise in mobile communication systems in the critical infrastructure environment. It examines technical requirements, vulnerabilities, and redundancy strategies for robust information and communication chains.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schiller

sub-project management

Marius Wawerek

Research Associate

Stefanie Bahe

Secretariat

“Technology forms the basis for a modern society. Resilience must therefore also plan for dependencies and failures in technology.”

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schiller

sub-project management

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

The DFKI develops the digital twin that connects the resilience labs and makes complex crisis situations realistically simulatable. The focus is on cognitive social simulation, serious gaming, and the evaluation of human decision-making processes.

Prof. Dr. Ingo J. Timm

Project Management

Alexander Schewerda

Administrative Management

David Kaub

Technical Lead

Ye Eun Bae

Researcher

Meinrad Dießel

Student Assistant

Max Manikowski

Student Assistant

“RESILIA allows us to interdisciplinary examine the human factor in connected labs and make it simulatable and experiential in crisis management. With RESILIA, we connect Distributed AI and Cognitive Social Simulation in an adaptive digital twin that makes crisis management an interactive serious game and has the potential for an interdisciplinary research infrastructure.”

Prof. Dr. Ingo J. Timm

Project Management

Helmut Schmidt University – Prof. Jörg Felfe's Group

The group investigates collaboration, communication, and decision-making processes between the military, emergency services, the economy, and the civilian population. The results support the development of realistic exercise scenarios for the resilience labs.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Felfe

Project management

Dr. Annabell Reiner

Project assistant

Pauline Halm

M.Sc., Project Staff Member

Sophia Schimmelpfennig

M.Sc., Project Associate

“In light of the current threat situation, it will become more important in the future to strengthen and train civil support for the armed forces as a pillar of civil defense within civil-military cooperation.”

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Felfe

Project management

Helmut Schmidt University – Chair of Hybrid Intelligence

The Chair of Hybrid Intelligence develops methods for analyzing, modeling, and simulating human behavior in security-relevant digital contexts. The focus is on AI-supported training systems, behavioral analyses, and smart digital twin components.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Ricardo Büttner

Sub-project leadership

Luca Eisentraut

Scientific Employee

Walter Köhn

Research Associate

Lukas Pasold

Research Associate

“Resilience emerges where human behavior, technological systems, and robust decision-making processes are understood together. With RESILIA, we aim to develop, evaluate, and utilize artificial intelligence at this interface to create adaptive and realistic training environments for complex crisis scenarios.”

Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Ricardo Büttner

Sub-project leadership

Moritz Winklmair

Research Assistant

[ Focus Areas ]

Expertise in the Consortium

Civil Protection and Practice

Experience from fire departments, civil protection, emergency services, administration, and operational collaboration.

Education and Risk Literacy

Concepts that convey knowledge, self-sufficiency, and crisis competence understandably and tailored to target groups.

Technology and Simulation

Digital twins, artificial intelligence, serious gaming, and communication systems for realistic trainings.

Collaboration and Organization

Research on interfaces, decision-making processes, and collective action capability in complex situations.

[ Cooperation ]

RESILIA Thrives on Exchange

The RESILIA Innovation Hub is open to perspectives from research, practice, education, administration, and civil protection. Anyone wishing to contribute their own questions, experiences, or solutions can contact the project team.

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