Valeria holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science from UvA and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Physics from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Valeria has been teaching university courses on Modelling and Simulation, Scientific Computing, Complex System Simulation, Scientific Data Processing, The Finite Element Method, and other courses in the field of computational science. She is an expert in simulation of multiscale complex systems, data-driven modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence, decision support and early warning systems, high performance parallel and distributed computing on Grids and Clouds, problem solving environments and ICT.