Dr Natalie Van Der Wal

University of Delft

Dr. Natalie Van der Wal is an Associate Professor in System Engineering and Simulation at Delft University of Technology. Previously she worked as a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School and as an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Dr. van der Wal is an expert in agent-based modelling and simulation and cognitive and social psychology. She aims to improve evacuations with her interdisciplinary research, to ultimately save lives. Dr. Van der Wal has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in the areas of agent-based modelling, evacuation science, resilience research, health and well-being. She has won the best paper award at the International Conference of Computational Collective Intelligence 2017 for her evacuation model including socio-cultural factors, an EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2018 for evacuation research, and was Work Package Leader of EU H2020 project IMPACT from 2015-2018.