Dr. Xue Yang has obtained her PhD from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and worked on Decision-oriented Operational Risk Assessment methods. Dr. Yang has also been a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU and a visiting researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. After the post doc, she has been employed as a senior safety advisor at Safetec Nodic AS, the biggest risk consultancy company in Norway. In 2021, she joined Dalian Maritime University as an associate professor. Dr. Yang’s main research interests are major accident causation theories, risk assessment and decision-making. She has published 20+ research papers (mainly on journals Safety Science, RESS and Ocean Engineering ). She was awarded Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, and the Norwegian Ship-Owners’ Association Fund etc.