Leonard Schliesser
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
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Dr Leonard Schliesser is a Senior Researcher in the Resilience and Crisis Management Team at the Centre for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. His research focuses primarily on the protection of critical infrastructure, civil defence, and low-probability, high-impact events, such as blackouts.
Most recently, he has been conducting comparative research on civil defence shelters, evacuations, and their design. His latest project is a strategic comparison of approaches to managing mass-casualty incidents.
Leonard holds an M.Sc. in Risk and a PhD in Human Geography from Durham, UK. In his PhD thesis, he investigated how uncertainties are managed within the German/European electricity grid to ensure security of supply. Using an ethnographically informed STS approach, he positions standards and standardisation, predictions and training as security techniques within the electricity grid.
His work in policy consultancy is enriched and complemented by his long-standing and diverse voluntary involvement as a reservist, as a civil defence expert volunteer and in security research.