Valeria Simoncini (born 1966)[1] is an Italian researcher in numerical analysis who works as a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Bologna.
[3] She is the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.
[2] With Antonio Navarra, she is the author of the book A Guide to Empirical Orthogonal Functions for Climate Data Analysis (Springer, 2010).
Simoncini was a second-place winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997.
[5] In 2014 she was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to numerical linear algebra".