People
Co-director
Mountain hazards, debris flows, landslides, disaster risk reduction, soil and water conservation
Underground pipeline engineering, trenchless technology, water infrastructure disaster prevention
Multi-hazard modelling, disaster risk assessment and management
Coastal engineering, storm surges, ocean waves, climate change impacts on coastal hazards
Earthquake engineering, tsunami risk assessment, structural vulnerability, multi-hazard resilience
Food risk management, coastal protection, and ecohydraulics
Deputy director
Remote sensing, GIS and data analytics for disaster risk reduction
Urban waterlogging prevention, hydrodynamic modelling, green-grey infrastructure, pipeline siltation, computational fluid dynamics, and machine learning in hydrology
Mountain meteorology, numerical weather prediction, climate change, disaster effects, and artificial intelligence
Scientific machine learning, high-dimensional physics-constrained uncertainty quantification, environmental fluid processes, digital twins, and urban flood management
Core members
Disaster resilience and recovery within the Built Environment.
Processes of urban disaster risk creation and systemic implications of sustainability and resilience in the context of neoliberalism
Visual computing and AI technologies for digital healthcare, precision agriculture, business intelligence, environment change monitoring, and contemporary transportation systems
Landslides, debris flows, disaster chains, engineering geology, mountain hazard risk
Runoff water quality modelling in urban areas, and simulation and assessment of low impact development (LID) practices
Numerical models and analysis methods to understand the hydrodynamics of open channel flows
Urban planning, spatial cognition, and complexity
Geosciences, estuarine and coastal morphodynamics, hydro-geomorphological modelling and flood risk management
Place-based participatory action research, climate and environmental education, child and youth disaster preparedness, and flood education
Architecture, urban planning, heritage studies, and disaster studies
Multi-agent reinforcement learning, deep generative modelling, and neuro-symbolic approaches for computer vision
Geotechnical engineering, slope stability, smart infrastructure, monitoring
Real-time flood forecasting, non-point source pollutants, interactive dynamics of flooding and floating debris, and flood risk assessment
Hydro-geomorphological modelling, landscape evolution models, sediment transport, flood hazard assessments
Disaster risk modelling, infrastructure resilience, cascading effects and disaster risk management
Climate change impacts and risks, human鈥揺nvironment systems, disaster risk management, climate adaptation, integrated physical geography
Fluvial geomorphology, flash floods, hydraulics, sediment transport, and river basin management
Flash floods, debris flows, watershed hydrology, runoff generation, and mountain hazards