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Co-Chairs
Marleen De Ruiter
Marleen de Ruiter is an Assistant Professor at the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and she is co-chair of the RiskKAN network.
In her current research, she focuses on consecutive disasters, improving modelling capabilities of multi-hazard risk and assessing the impacts of adaptation measures on Disaster Risk Reduction. As a Veni Laureate from the Dutch Research Council’s Talent Scheme (NWO), she works on the global consecutive occurrence of consecutive disasters followed by water-borne disease outbreaks using a Dynamic Bayesian Network approach.
Simron Singh
Simron J. Singh is a Professor and University Research Chair (URC) in the Faculty of Environment. Using the analogy that islands function like living organisms, he conducts socio-metabolic research to evaluate how small island economies utilize (or metabolize) materials, energy, water, and infrastructure. He investigates why and how these consumption patterns (or island metabolism) may accumulate “socio-metabolic risk” over time that increase their susceptibility to the challenges of climate change.
He is the founder and lead of the research program “Metabolism of Islands”, the Executive Secretary of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), chairs the inaugural board of Island Industrial Ecology within ISIE, and co-chairs Risk-KAN, a global research and action network of Future Earth, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), the World Weather Research Program (WWRP), and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
Kai Kornhuber
Kai Kornhuber is a senior research scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where he leads the theme Extreme Weather and Climate Dynamics. Within this theme he is advancing the understanding and modeling of high impact and compound extreme weather events to provide robust estimates of complex and cascading climate risks under present conditions and future climate scenarios.
He also works as adjunct professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School. As part of this role, he teaches complex climate risks at Columbia University in New York and serves as an adjunct assistant research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
