Sanne Soleymani

• Collect and validate catastrophe exposure data from clients • Perform analyses using existing catastrophe risk model "AIR" • Participate in actuarial pricing activities • Assist in sensitivity and stress testing and in performing impact analyses

Detailed analysis of natural catastrophe (nat cat) model outputs for the Specialty Lines • Data quality management and data preparation • Ad-hoc reporting of natural catastrophes and their potential financial impact • Portfolio optimisation

Recalculate original insurance tariffs for hail insurance in Canada • Further improve the existing methodology which was based upon kriging • Further improve the existing R-code towards a user friendly and easier to handle tool

Research on the possibilities and limitations of Remote Sensing (soil spectroscopy) for large-scale soil mapping in a temperate climate • Analyses of remote sensing data (airborne and satellite) • Application of several (spatial) statistical methods • Development of methods to reduce the effect of soil moisture and soil surface roughness • Development of methods to combine data of multiple years in one image to increase the reflectance information on bare soil, upscaling to the Swiss Plateau and Europe

Consultancy focusing on rural areas in the topics soil, hydrology, nature, and spatial planning • Soil fieldwork • Creating and digitising of field data and soil maps • Contest landscape architecture and spatial planning (EO Wijers Veenkolonien 2011-2012)

Thesis: Research on the possibilities and limitations of Remote Sensing (soil spectroscopy) for large-scale soil mapping in a temperate climate

Thesis: Research on the importance of the variability in soil properties for the modelling of hydrological characteristics in a complex landscape in a study area in the Rocky Mountains (USA) • Internship: Aequator Groen & Ruimte bv, Wageningen NL • Minor: Geo Information Science

Thesis: Research on the influence of land use and land cover changes on soil redistribution in the past, in the present and in future scenarios in a study area in Spain

Thesis: Literature study about the differences and the similarities between the policies of different countries for open spaces in the metropolitan landscape