Prof.  Emily Ying Yang Chan

• 1. Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• 2. Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response, Hong Kong, China.
• 3. GX Foundation, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: public health; global health; disaster and humanitarian medicine; climate change and planetary health; health needs, policy and programme evaluation; humanitarian medicine; health systems of belt and road countries.

Prof.  Saini Yang

• 1. Joint International Research Laboratory of Catastrophe Simulation and Systemic Risk Governance, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China.
• 2. School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519807, China.
• 3. Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Beijing 100094, China.

Research Interests: risk assessment and emergency management.

Prof.  Chong Xu

National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China, Beijing 100085, China.

Research Interests: natural hazards; rainfall-triggered landslides; earthquake-triggered landslides; landslide susceptibility and hazard evaluation; landslide inventory; geological hazards; disaster chains.

Prof.  Sudip Mitra

School of Agro and Rural Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India.

Research Interests: climate smart agriculture; disaster risk reduction in agroecosystems; biochar; bio-fertilizers development; crop production and productivity; converting agricultural wastes in to useful products; natural resources management through watershed based approaches.

Prof.  Md. Shamsuzzoha

Department of Emergency Management, Faculty of Environmental Science and Disaster Management (ESDM), Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Dumki, Patuakhali-8660, Bangladesh.

Research Interests: agricultural geography; bioresource engineering; climate extremes; climate change adaptation; disaster management; disaster risk reduction; disaster science; damage, loss and needs assessment; emergency management; emergency response management; environmental sciences; environmental studies; geography; GIS and satellite remote sensing; humanitarian standards; sustainable development.

Assoc. Prof.  Ailsa Holloway

Disaster Risk Management and Development, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.

Research Interests: natural hazards; ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation; public health; disaster and emergency management.

Assoc. Prof.  Bingwei Tian

Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chengdu 610207, China

Research Interests: disaster education; international disaster risk reduction collaboration; disaster preparedness; community-based disaster resilience; disaster mapping; GIS and remote sensing applications in disaster management.

Assoc. Prof.  Indrajit Pal

Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand

Research Interests: disaster risk governance and policy; Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and resilience research; GIS / RS in disaster risk management; climate change adaptation; community based disaster risk management; critical infrastructure risk; disaster risk science and education; systemic and cascading risk; public health risk assessment.

Dr.  Ayse Yildiz

School of Business, Institute for Environmental Futures, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.

Research Interests: climate and disaster risk management; community-based disaster resilience; disaster preparedness; risk perception; child-centred disaster risk reduction.

Assoc. Prof.  Iftekhar Ahmed

School of Architecture and Built Environment, College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.

Research Interests: post-disaster housing; disaster risk reduction; climate change adaptation and urbanisation in the Asia–Pacific region.

Dr.  Basanta Raj Adhikari

Department of Civil Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk 44700, Nepal.

Research Interests: tectonic and slope-related hazards; climate change; landslide early warning systems; multi-hazard risk assessment; community-based disaster risk reduction; nature-based solutions.

Dr.  Jiwnath Ghimire

Department of Urban Planning and Development, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.

Research Interests: environmental planning; disaster management; social aspects of climate change.

Dr.  Shiba Subedi

Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Lalitpur 44700, Nepal.

Research Interests: seismology; geophysics.

Assoc. Prof.  Nausheen Mazhar

Department of Geography, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore 44444, Pakistan.

Research Interests: desertification and droughts; sustainable land management; sedimentation in reservoirs; disaster risk reduction techniques.

Dr.  Pankaj Chauhan

Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun 248001, India.

Research Interests: glaciology; hydrometeorology; natural Hazards; climate change; machine learning & IoT; information technology; remote sensing & GIS.

Dr.  Shobha Poudel

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 20123 Milano, Italy.

Research Interests: trans-disciplinary research in climate change adaptation; hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment; climate smart agriculture; agricultural economy; disaster risk reduction; nature-based solutions; climate risk communication; investment analysis and public policy process.

Assoc. Prof.  Shiva Ji

Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana 502284, India.

Research Interests: architecture & design; design for sustainability; digital heritage; sustainability assessment; LCA; architecture theory innovation by system design; new age products/services; climate change; design innovation; virtual reality and augmented reality; tangible and intangible heritage; industrial design.