People

Moderators:


			
						
				   
						 						 
							
							   Andreia Ribeiro
							   Postdoctoral researcher - Department of Compound Environmental Risks (CER), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany							
 
							
								Climate-related impacts and compound-event-oriented frameworks, with focus on fire and agricultural drought risks in a changing climate.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Dirk Eilander
							   Assistant Professor - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam							
 
							
								Dirk Eilander is an expert in compound flood risk modeling. His work focuses on improving flood risk management anywhere globally in co-creation with stakeholders, through development of models, methods, and datasets. He obtained his PhD degree at the Vrije Universiteit on large-scale compound flood risk modeling in coastal deltas. Currently, he combines his work as hydrologist and lead-developer of HydroMT at Deltares with an assistant professorship position at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Dirk is the main developer of two scientific open-source software packages and has (co-) authored 20 peer-reviewed papers.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Anaïs Couasnon
							   PhD researcher - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam							
 
							
								Anaïs’ PhD research is part of a VIDI project that aims to understand and model compound risk of river and coastal floods in global deltas and estuaries, under the supervision of Dr. Philip Ward and Dr. Hessel Winsemius. Anaïs will use statistical methods and models to assess the probability and impacts of coastal-river compound floods at the global scale.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Colin Raymond
							   Research Scientist -- UCLA							
 
							
								Colin’s research centers on better understanding how weather systems interact with geographical features to produce climate extremes (especially of heat, humidity, and precipitation) at local and regional scales, with particular focus on the role of hazard interactions.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Pauline Rivoire
							   Post-Doc - University of Lausanne							
 
							
								Hydro-meteorological drivers of forest damage.

Precipitation extremes and precipitation dataset assessment.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Louise Brett
							   							
 
							
								My research interests focus on integrating lived experiences into compound event and multi-hazard research and using this research to inform management strategies.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Cassandra Rogers
							   							
 
							
								
Climate Scientist – Bureau of Meteorology
Cassandra studies heat extremes and compound events, including heatwaves and humid-heat, with the aim of better understanding how these events have changed over the recent past and how they will change in the future – particularly in Australia. Her recent research has examined concurrently occurring heatwaves and humid-heat extremes.

Contributors:


			
						
				   
						 						 
							
							   Emanuele Bevacqua
							    Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany							
 
							
								
Trained as a physicist, Emanuele’s group is studying climate and weather extreme events in a changing climate. Their research focuses on advancing our understanding of compound weather and climate extreme events, which are combinations of climatic drivers or hazards that cause most of the societal and environmental impacts. 



 
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Philip Ward
							   Associate Professor - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam							
 
							
								Philip was awarded in 2017 a NWO VIDI grant to investigate compound risk of river and coastal floods in global deltas and estuaries.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Jakob Zscheischler
							   Deparment Head at UFZ							
 
							
								Jakob leads the Department of Compound Environmental Risks at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (CER) at UFZ and develops new methods to study compound events.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Hessel Winsemius
							   Post-Doc - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam							
 
							
								Hessel’s main work at the Vrije Universiteit focusses on use of hydrological and hydraulic models in understanding of flood risk at continental scale. He works in a VIDI project on the socioeconomic impacts of compound river and coastal floods.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Antonia Sebastian
							   Assistant Professor - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill							
 
							
								Antonia’s research focuses on delineating flood hazards in urbanizing coastal watersheds and the effects of rapidly evolving coastal boundary conditions on the severity of compound floods. Her current research is associated with the the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is joint appointed in the Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program (E3P).
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Karin van der Wiel
							   Post-Doc - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute							
 
							
								Karin’s research at KNMI is focused on climate induced impacts. She is investigates how multiple meteorological drivers may interact, compound and result in a single societal impact.
							
 
						 
					  
				   
				
							
				   
						 						 
							
							   Nina Ridder
							   Post-Doc - Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut							
 
							
								Nina’s main work is associated to the NWO project Impacted by Compounding Weather Extremes (ICOWEX). In this project, she has investigated coincidences of storm surges along the Dutch coast with heavy precipitation and/or high river discharge events using a broad range of impact models and data sources.