Andrea Saltelli

Andrea Saltelli 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. He has worked at the European Commission, leading between 2005 and 2015 a unit of econometrics and applied statistics. From November 2016 till June 2020 adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) - University of Bergen (UIB). He is presently visiting researcher at UIB-SVT Bergen (NO), and Academic Counsellor at the UPF - Barcelona School of Management. His most recent papers have tackled sensitivity analysis and auditing, the rational of evidence-based policy, the crisis of science and the post-truth discussion, sociology of quantification, composite indicators, rating & rankings and the politics of modelling, see https://www.andreasaltelli.eu/Articles. Andrea gives courses in sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and ethics of quantification.