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William Becker

European Commission, Joint Research Centre,

William Becker currently works at the Joint Research Centre, which is part of the European Commission, in Ispra, Italy.  He researches in the methodology and construction of composite indicators, with a particular interest in weighting methods. He is currently working on a number of projects, including sensitivity analysis and metamodelling at low sample sizes, identification of system nonlinearities, econometric model selection, and composite indicator weighting, among others.

William Becker is a mechanical engineer by training, and his primary area of research is in the fields of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. This has involved forays into the fields of mechanical/aerospace engineering, structural dynamics, biomedical engineering, environmental/climate science and econometrics.

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