Dr Marco De Angelis

Lecturer

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Personal statement

I am a Lecturer at the Centre for Intelligent Infrastructure within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am interested in computing with imprecision. A number can be imprecisely specified as an interval, a pair of moments, a probability distribution, a set of distributions, and many more. With imprecise computation we can automatically propagate the uncertainty for model verification and make rigorous inference with scarce empirical data for model calibration and validation. These methods are very useful to build trust in simulation for structural reliability and structural-health monitoring. 


I obtained a PhD in risk and uncertainty in 2015 from the University of Liverpool’s Institute for Risk and Uncertainty. I hold a Bachelor and Master of Engineering both cum laude in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Rome, Roma Tre. After the PhD, I was research associate and academic manager at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Risk and Uncertainty of the University of Liverpool for over two years. In 2018 I was appointed research associate for the EPSRC-UKRI Programme Grant on digital twins for improved dynamic design.

 

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Publications

Interval uncertainty propagation on CO2 emission calculations in road haulage
McIntosh Angus, Loayza Romero Estefania, de Angelis Marco
Proceedings of the 36th European Safety and Reliability Conference European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 2426-2433 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.3850/ESREL2026061419_esrel26-p27770-cd
Interaction effects in subinterval Sensitivity Analysis
Ochnio Dawid, de Angelis Marco
Proceedings of the 36th European Safety and Reliability Conference European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 899-906 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.3850/ESREL2026061419_esrel26-p26224-cd
A systematic evaluation of uncertainty quantification in transport carbon accounting standards
Paez Jimenez Mariana Gabriela, McIntosh Angus, de Angelis Marco
Proceedings of the 36th European Safety and Reliability Conference European Safety and Reliability Conference (2026)
https://doi.org/10.3850/ESREL2026061419_esrel26-p29001-cd
Zonotopic representation of multi-variable regression with interval dependent variables
McCann Matthew, de Angelis Marco
Proceedings of the 36th European Safety and Reliability Conference European Safety and Reliability Conference (2026)
https://doi.org/10.3850/ESREL2026061419_esrel26-p26374-cd
Assessing the Value of Information in pricing insurance against multiple hazards : the case of earthquake and liquefaction
Keith Susanna, Tubaldi Enrico, de Angelis Marco, Stripajova Svetlana, Douglas John
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Vol 135 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106052
On the computational complexity of the interval dependence problem in credal networks
de Angelis Marco, Estrada-Lugo Hector Diego, Ferson Scott, Patelli Edoardo
Digitalisation and Digital Transformation Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 113–118 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04731-1_15

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Teaching

Structural engineering theory

Computer programming

Interval computation

Probability theory

Machine learning

I currently teach third year students about statically indeterminate structures, and fourth year students about the dynamics of single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. I have been and am currently invovled in developing lecture material and in shaping the structural analysis curriculum.

 

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Research Interests

* Humane algorithms for quantitative science 

* Reproducibility and open computational science

* Uncertainty quantification for green-house gas calculations 

* Open-source digital twins for structural-health monitoring

* Automated compliance checking for engineering calculations   

* Structural calculations with rigorous uncertainty propagation  

* Valid and rigorous machine learning inference 

* Verification with computer arithmetics (intervals, units, automatic differentiation, probabilistic arithmetic, etc.)

 

Professional Activities

European Safety and Reliability Conference
Participant
15/6/2026
European Safety and Reliability Conference (Event)
Advisor
15/6/2026
BIOMATH (Journal)
Peer reviewer
5/2026
Reliability Engineering and System Safety (Journal)
Peer reviewer
1/2026
Population variance with intervals
Speaker
4/12/2025
Numbers of the Future Conference
Chair
3/12/2025

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Projects

Uncertainty Quantification in CO2 Emissions at Organisational and Product Level
Paez Jimenez, Mariana Gabriela (Post Grad Student) De Angelis, Marco (Principal Investigator) Giesekam, Jannik (Co-investigator) Shipton, Zoe (Co-investigator)
The uncertainty inherent in CO2 estimations at the organisational and product levels has received significantly less academic scrutiny than national or global inventories, yet such CO2 estimations serve as foundational data for higher-level carbon accounting. Carbon accounting often relies on practitioners whose expertise is not climate science, leading to high levels of epistemic uncertainty, methodological variation and data variability. This project addresses three critical questions: (1) How much uncertainty is inherent in these CO2 estimations? (2) Where does the uncertainty come from and how can it be mitigated? (3) How can the uncertainty be communicated to enable decisions towards net zero targets?
01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
KTP - Will Rudd Davidson (Glasgow) Limited - To embed advanced modelling and monitoring strategies for new and heritage masonry structures.
Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) De Angelis, Marco (Co-investigator) Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Hamed (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Sentenac, Phillippe (Co-investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
Reduction of Uncertainties in risk assessment of structures and infrastructures against Natural hazards (REUN)
Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) De Angelis, Marco (Co-investigator) Pytharouli, Stella (Co-investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training in data-driven uncertainty-aware multiphysics simulations
De Angelis, Marco (Principal Investigator) Kazashi, Yoshihito (Academic) Ruggeri, Michele (Academic) Bi, Sifeng (Academic) Ochnio, Dawid (Post Grad Student) McIntosh, Angus (Post Grad Student)
StrathDRUMS aims to train the next generation of interdisciplinary uncertainty quantification specialists who can design and analyse state-of-the-art computational techniques and apply them to real-world challenges. An important aspect of this CDT is the non-deterministic and data-driven modelling approach, which is crucial to overcome the limitations of classical deterministic approaches. A key skill emphasised by StrathDRUMS is the uncertainty quantification, which enables the characterisation, propagation, and quantification of the inevitable uncertainties, providing model predictions over a range of outcomes (distributional, interval, fuzzy, and hybrid) instead of a unique solution with maximum fidelity to a single experiment. Providing data-driven uncertainty-aware model predictions allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the system being studied, improving the accuracy of the predictions and enabling the automatic verification of numerical simulations.
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2029
Rigorous uncertainty-aware machine learning for CO2 forecasting
De Angelis, Marco (Principal Investigator) McCann, Matthew (Post Grad Student)
Major global emission inventories such as EDGAR, national GHG inventories, and the IPCC tiered approach provide critical baseline data for emissions monitoring. Despite some strengths, existing emission inventories are limited by static estimates that can very quickly become outdated and by over reliance on default emission factors, which may under or overestimate actual emission within changing industrial contexts. Many of these inventories lack robust uncertainty quantification methods such as Monte Carlo simulation or error propagation. This project investigates the use of rigorous probabilistic and statistical modelling tools towards a framework for both aleatory and epistemic uncertainty quantification of CO2 estimation. State-of-the-art machine learning offers new exciting possibilities for the modelling, estimation and forecasting of CO2 emissions, providing tools that can handle complex, non-linear relationships within large datasets.
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2029

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Dr Marco De Angelis
Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: marco.de-angelis@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted