Frédéric Petit is a Research Scientist specializing in critical infrastructure interdependencies and resilience at Argonne National Laboratory.

With a background in earth sciences and civil engineering, Dr. Petit has focused on risk management, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience since 2002. Frédéric leads the development of methodologies for the assessment of preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery, and overall resilience capabilities of facilities, communities, and regions. Dr. Petit is an internationally recognized expert in the area of infrastructure interdependency, and is the co-author of the standard operating procedure used by government agencies to better understand and incorporate these complex relationships into their assessment programs. Dr. Petit received his PhD from the École Polytechnique de Montreal in Civil Engineering, focusing on vulnerability analysis techniques for critical infrastructure cyber dependencies. Dr. Petit also serves as Regional Director for North America of the International Association of Critical Infrastructure Protection Professionals (IACIPP).