Natalie van der Wal

0000-0002-0010-8447

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Research Fellow (Psychology; Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified; Decision making; Information and computing sciences; Applied computing not elsewhere classified; Modelling and simulation)

Leeds, UK

Natalie van der Wal is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Decision Research, Leeds University Business School. Her mission is to improve safety by preventing risky crowd behaviours during emergency situations. She is specialised in the computational modelling and evidence-based emergency communication research. Her current project ‘EVACUATION’ aims to improve speed and survival in emergency evacuations, through the combined insights from agent-based computer modelling, risk communication/decision research, and an advisory board of emergency responders. In her previous EU H2020 project ‘IMPACT’, she determined the role of culture on emergency prevention and management. Previously she worked as an Assistant Professor at the dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, NL, a Senior Research Fellow at the Socio-Technical Centre of the Leeds University Business School, UK, and as a Researcher at CAMS Forcevision, Royal Dutch Navy, NL.

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