Eurotempest

Weather risk management services.

Extreme weather creates major human and financial risks, but organisations can struggle to understand their exposure before an event occurs. Between 1970 and 2021, weather-, climate- and water-related disasters caused more than two million deaths and US$4.3 trillion in reported economic losses.

EuroTempest applies weather-modelling research from UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory to help insurers, reinsurers and other organisations quantify and manage weather risk.

EuroTempest's journey so far

2007: established by UCL Ventures, Aon and RSA as a joint venture, commercialising Mullard Space Science Laboratory weather-modelling technology and expanding its quantitative weather-risk services for insurance, reinsurance and other weather-exposed organisations.

Marina Santilli

Interim Director of Physical Sciences & Engineering

Marina has specialised in the commercialisation of computer science and AI-based inventions and deep tech venture building since joining UCL Ventures in 2007. She headed straight into industry after graduating in Physics from Imperial College, enjoying a successful career in datacomms engineering and becoming Director of new product development at Verizon.

In 2010 she designed and developed E-lucid, a platform to enable online licensing of UCL’s intellectual property. E-lucid is now used by over 30 research institutions around the world and was spun out as a commercial business in 2023.

Marina was involved in the formation of many successful UCL spinouts including Satalia, Re:infer, 3DRepo, MatrixMill, Humanloop, Stanhope AI.