People

Max Van Wyk de Vries

Assistant Professor in Natural Hazards; Director of CoMHaz

I work broadly on multihazard, in particular on landslides, volcanoes, and cryospheric hazards; integrating remote sensing, numerical modelling, and fieldwork to understand the interactions between these multiple hazards.

Louie Bell

PhD student

Louie is a PhD candidate using satellite imagery to investigate the connections between glacier retreat, landslides and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), a potentially devastating hazard to deglaciating mountain regions of the world. By conducting a global assessment of these distinctly multihazard events, Louie intends to feed new knowledge of GLOF mechanics into hazard management programmes in GLOF-prone regions of the world.

Joshua Nicholas

PhD student

Joshua is a PhD candidate researching the influence of trust on multi-hazard resilience in Dominica, a small island developing state in the Caribbean. Coming from an engineering background, Joshua intends for his research to be accessible to both a science and social science audience while contributing towards policy development and emergency management. 

Lisa Augustina

PhD student

I am a PhD student researching landslide forecasting in Indonesia, focusing on rainfall-triggered events. My work will involve evaluating threshold-based forecasting models and exploring alternatives using remote sensing and field data to improve landslide prediction.

Emma Greenough

PhD student

I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford researching infrastructure resilience to earthquake and landslide risk in central Asia.

I will integrate results from remote sensing analysis into both qualitative and quantitative multi-hazard risk assessments.

Nandu Krishnan

PhD sudent

Nandu is a PhD student working on high-mountain hazards, with a focus on understanding snow and ice avalanche impacts in the Himalayas.

Lorenzo Nava

PDRA in Multihazard Remote Sensing

Multihazard analysis, focusing on landslide investigation through machine intelligence. I integrate advanced AI techniques with remote sensing data to improve hazard prediction and disaster response.

Kamini Sharma

PhD student

A geology enthusiast working in the field of geohazards, presently Landslides. I like Geo-data processing and creating useful tools for people. Working on rainfall-landslide interactions across India.

Yingbo Dong

Visiting PhD student

Yingbo is a visiting PhD student from Padua University, Italy. She is working on signal processing for understanding different geophysical processes, in particular separating landslides, volcanic signals, and tectonics in Icelandic InSAR.

Sankalp Kapur

MPhil student

Sankalp is an Earth Sciences masters students working on new approaches to detect deep-seated landslides in LiDAR data. This project involves a close collaboration with the British Geological Survey.

Ye Chen

Visiting PhD student

I am a PhD student from TJU, Shanghai investigating glacier-related long-runout landslides in Tibet.

My research interests lie in understanding the interactions between the landslides and geological environments.

I am engaged in the numerical modeling the scope of long-runout landslides and the assessment of their potential risks.

Julie Morin

PDRA in Geography

I am a geographer with transdisciplinary expertise in disaster risk reduction and crisis management, especially in volcanic environments. 

One of my main interests is understanding how scientific and local knowledge can be combined and communicated to improve the understanding and mitigation of hazards and risks.

You ?

See https://www.comhaz.com/opportunities

Reka Ungar

Undergraduate researcher

Over summer I studied glaciated volcanic areas, and the associated potential risk created when lahars form during eruptions. I mostly focused on exposure, investigating the number of people that could be affected, and used QGIS to extract population data for areas around the volcanoes that were in the path of potential lahars.

(previous member)

Arthur Hill

MPhil student

I am a MPhil student at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the polar regions.

My research interests include studying the response of peripheral ice caps of the subantarctic to changing atmospheric and oceanic conditions. I am also interested in glacier flow seasonality and the response of glaciers to supraglacial landslides.

(previous member)

Ben Clarke

PDRA

I am a Research Fellow from NTU Singapore investigating probabilistic volcanic hazard and risk across Southeast Asia. Working with a team from academia and insurance, I am developing novel approaches to estimate the full risk-spectrum of eruptive multi-hazards from 40 of the region’s most concerning volcanoes.

Ayushi Pandey

Visiting PhD student

Ayushi visited to explore new approaches to computing high-mountain lake depth from data, including exploring historical archives and changes in sea-ice duration computed from SAR and optical data.

You ?

See https://www.comhaz.com/opportunities