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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Andrea Saltelli (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4222-6975) has worked on physical chemistry, environmental sciences, applied statistics, impact assessment and science for policy. His main disciplinary focus is on sensitivity analysis of model output, a discipline where statistical tools are used to interpret the output from mathematical or computational models, and on sensitivity auditing, an extension of sensitivity analysis to the entire evidence-generating process in a policy context.
Andrea has worked for at the Joint Research Centre, leading for ten years the unit of econometrics and applied statistics. He enjoyed training EC staff in impact assessment methodologies, and providing methodological and technical support to many directorates of the EC. Andrea also worked on statistical indicators and on the use of multi-criteria methodologies. He is one of the co-authors the OECD-JRC official handbook for composite indicators. Between 2016 and 2020 he has been adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) - University of Bergen (UIB).

His most recent papers have tackled sensitivity analysis and auditing, the future of statistics, the rational of evidence based policy, and various critiques of problematic quantifications. Andrea gives courses in sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and ethics of quantification (see www.andreasaltelli.eu).
At present he is at Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, in Barcelona.

Experience

  • –present
    Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) , University of Bergen

Honours

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