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Professor Scott Ferson PhD
Chair in Risk and Uncertainty Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Work email Scott.Ferson@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsitePersonal website
- ACADEMIAAcademia profile
Research
Uncertainty methods
Probability bounds analysis
Robust Bayes and quick Bayes
Distribution-free methods for risk analysis,
Assured or automatically verified calculations
Dependency modeling
Validation metrics and pseudo-metrics
Protecting privacy of patients, clients, and consumers during data releases
Backcalculation strategies and engineering design
Communication of risk and uncertainty
The natural language of uncertainty
Biological underpinnings of ambiguity and loss aversion and other paradoxes in decision theory
Natural frequencies and the equivalent bionomial count
Uncertainty penalties in expert elicitation
Visualization of uncertainties
Foundations of measurement and inference
Statistics when data sets include intervals or nonnegligible epistemic uncertainty
Inference in the noninformative case without untenable assumptions
Measurement uncertainty and conventions for its propagation
Unification of Bayesian and frequentist approaches
Basal uncertainties in measurement processes
Foundations of statistics
Research Grants
Informed mining: risk reduction through enhanced public and institutional risk awareness (IM AWARE)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2019 - March 2023
Development of Advanced Wings Solutions (DAWS)
INNOVATE UK (UK)
August 2020 - October 2023
To map and evaluate the socio-economic methodologies and decision support tools used in risk management agencies
FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY (UK)
October 2016 - September 2021
Living and Future Tools for Risk Assessment: An Examination of the Possibilities for Fusion
HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE (UK)
October 2016 - September 2021
Digital twins for improved dynamic design
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2018 - September 2023
Rapid Screening Mass Spectometry for Detection of Marine Toxins in Aquatic Food Sources
Q-TECHNOLOGIES LTD (UK)
September 2016 - September 2020
Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring - Risk/AM CDT
RENISHAW PLC (UK)
October 2017 - October 2021
Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring - Risk CDT studentship
RENISHAW PLC (UK)
October 2017 - September 2021
Understanding the risks associated with the design and construction of large particle accelerators
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2017 - September 2021
Uncertainty Quantification in Fusion Power Plant Design
CULHAM CENTRE FOR FUSION ENERGY (UK)
October 2018 - October 2022
CDT Student Programme
3D LIFEPRINTS UK LTD (UK)
September 2016 - August 2019
Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems - RUCAPS
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2016 - April 2022
Realistic model prediction for managing risk in nuclear decommissioning Generating realistic synthetic plant data for future scenario analysis CDT
NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LTD (UK)
October 2017 - September 2021