People

Professor Qiuhua Liang

Professor Qiuhua Liang

ICIDR Director and UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction

Multi-hazard modelling, disaster risk assessment and management

Dr Tom Dijkstra

Dr Tom Dijkstra

ICIDR Co-Director and Senior Lecturer Engineering Geology

Geohazards and interactions between geohazards and communities

Dr Huili Chen

Dr Huili Chen

Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering

Remote sensing, GIS and data analytics for disaster risk reduction

Professor Ksenia Chmutina

Professor Ksenia Chmutina

Professor of Disaster Studies

Processes of urban disaster risk creation and systemic implications of sustainability and resilience in the context of neoliberalism

Dr Varuna De Silva

Dr Varuna De Silva

Senior Lecturer in Digital Technologies

Multi-agent reinforcement learning, deep generative modelling, and neuro-symbolic approaches for computer vision

Professor Neil Dixon

Professor Neil Dixon

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Climate change impacts of geotechnical infrastructure, slope stability, monitoring, geosynthetics, sustainable design

Haitao Lan

Dr Haitao Lan

Lecturer in Infrastructure Engineering

Geotechnical engineering, trenchless technology, and buried infrastructure

Dr Tim Marjoribanks

Dr Tim Marjoribanks

Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering

Numerical models and analysis methods to understand the hydrodynamics of open channel flows

Dr Asya Natapov

Dr Asya Natapov

Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design

Urban planning, spatial cognition, and complexity

Dr Alister Smith

Dr Alister Smith

Reader in Geotechnics

Geotechnical engineering, slope stability, smart infrastructure, monitoring

Alumni

  • Dr Kristine Thorkildsen Jarsve
  • Dr Syed Kabir
  • Dr Qian Li​
  • Dr Xiaodong Ming
  • Dr Xiaoli Su​
  • Dr Xilin Xia
  • Dr Jiaheng Zhao