Dr Valentina Noacco
BSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
Valentina is Chief Uncertainty Officer at Maximum Information. She brings deep knowledge in uncertainty and sensitivity analysis and is an experienced researcher specialized in transferring research to industry.
Current positions
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
My main research interest is the development of tools and workflows to transfer sensitivity analysis methods and knowledge to industrial practitioners. This knowledge transfer aims at improving the consideration of uncertainty in mathematical models used in industry.
My current project aims to transfer global sensitivity analysis methods, tools (i.e. the SAFE software toolbox) and knowledge to the (re)insurance industry and to tailor them in such a way as to facilitate their uptake in the (re)insurance sector. I am currently a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow based in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol. The aim of the project is to enable the (re)insurance sector to more efficiently capture the uncertainties and sensitivities embedded in their mathematical models, with structured approaches to validate these models and to test the impact of assumptions on the model predictions.
More info here: www.safe-insurance.uk
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8457 (CLOSED) NERC – COVID-19 grant extension allocation - Noacco
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/07/2021 to 30/09/2021
Improving the understanding and consideration of uncertainty in the (re)insurance industry
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/11/2017 to 31/10/2022
Improving the understanding and consideration of uncertainty in the (re)insurance industry
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/11/2017 to 31/10/2020
Improving the understanding and consideration of uncertainty in the (re)insurance industry
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
01/11/2017 to 31/10/2022
Publications
Recent publications
15/03/2019Drivers of interannual and intra-annual variability of dissolved organic carbon concentration in the River Thames between 1884 and 2013
Hydrological Processes
Matlab/R workflows to assess critical choices in Global Sensitivity Analysis using the SAFE toolbox
MethodsX
Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Contextualized geographically weighted principal components analysis for investigating baseline soils data on the North Wyke Farm Platform
Proceedings of the 16th International Association for Mathematical Geosciences - Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges, Processes and Strategies, IAMG 2014