Spring school on climate change and natural hazard risk at IUSS Pavia
I attended the NEXT-GEN Spring School at IUSS Pavia, bringing together PhD students and researchers working across earthquakes, floods, droughts, and climate adaptation. The clearest takeaway: meaningful multi-hazard risk assessment and mitigation cannot be done within a single discipline.
Apr 28, 2026
Vancouver built up fast — now its older towers face an earthquake reckoning
Carlos Molina Hutt and I wrote about Vancouver’s seismically vulnerable 1960s-70s concrete towers for The Conversation — who bears the risk, who should pay for retrofits, and what cities like Los Angeles have tried.
Feb 25, 2026
Starting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at UCL
I joined the DE|RISC lab at UCL to start a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Carmine Galasso. The project focuses on resilience enhancement through multi-hazard recovery analysis of earthquake and flood-affected infrastructure.
Jan 6, 2026
Peeling the layers of earthquake risk — talks at IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore
I gave a talk at IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore on how earthquake risk models function less as precise predictions and more as heuristics for policy — which makes how modelers communicate uncertainty and limitations just as important as the models themselves.
Oct 10, 2025
Virtual talk on performance-based earthquake engineering at Universidad del Bío-Bío
I gave a virtual seminar on the many faces of performance-based earthquake engineering for Professor Marco Gallegos’ class at the Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile.
Apr 21, 2025
Awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on resilience enhancement through multi-hazard recovery analysis of earthquake and flood-affected infrastructure. I’ll be joining Professor Carmine Galasso at UCL in January 2026.
Feb 10, 2025
Talk on seismic risk and policy at IIT Roorkee
I gave a seminar on seismic risk models and their role in shaping risk reduction policies at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee.
Dec 6, 2024
Panel discussion on livelihood and disaster risk at Eastern Himalaya Naturenomics, Guwahati
I joined a panel on livelihood and sustainable development at the 12th Eastern Himalaya Naturenomics Forum in Guwahati, organized by Balipara Foundation. I drew on the exposure-hazard-vulnerability framework to argue that reducing risk for agro-based communities in one of the world’s most climate-exposed regions requires simultaneous action on all three fronts — not just hazard mitigation alone.
Nov 27, 2024