Disaster Risk | preetish kakoty

Published an article in The Conversation

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I co-authored an article with Carlos Molina Hutt on the complexities of risk reduction for older tall buildings in Vancouver in The Conversation. You can read the article here.

Joined University College London to start Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I started my Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship on a project titled “Resilience Enhancement through Multi-Hazard Recovery Analysis of Earthquake and Flood-Affected Infrastructure”. I will be part of the DE|RISC lab at University College London working with Professor Carmine Galasso.

Delivered a talk on "Peeling the Layers of Earthquake Risk - Hazards, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Tolerability".

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a presentation titled “Peeling the Layers of Earthquake Risk: Hazards, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Tolerability” at IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore during October, 2025. The presentation focused on how risk models often serve as heiristics to guide risk–reduction policy decisions, which makes it especially critical that risk modelers play a larger role in interpreting and communicating results. That responsibility includes clearly explaining model limitations and the challenges of keeping models up to date as knowledge evolves. Ultimately, what constitutes an acceptable or tolerable level of risk is a personal choice that differs for each stakeholder.

The presentation included material that is part of Earthquake Risk Tolerance for Building Codes funded by Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake.

Delivered a talk virtually in the Department of Civi and Environmental Engineering at the Universidad del Bio Bio in Chile

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a talk virtually titled “The Many Faces of Performance Based Earthquake Engineering” during a class seminar for Professor Marco Gallegos at the Departmento De Ingeneria Civil y Ambiental at the Universidad del Bio Bio in Chile.

Received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am honored to have received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship for a proposal titled “Resilience Enhancement through Multi-Hazard Recovery Analysis of Earthquake and Flood-Affected Infrastructure”. I will move to University College London in January 2026 to start this project with Professor Carmine Galasso.

Preetish Kakoty delivered a talk in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I delivered a talk titled “Seismic Risk Models and Their Role in Shaping Risk Reduction Policies” during a department seminar at the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Participated in a panel discussion during 12th Eastern Himalaya Naturenomics in Guwahati, India

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I participated in a panel discussion on “Livelihood and Sustainable Development Models: In The Context of Eastern Himalaya” during the 12th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics™ Forum organized by Balipara Foundation in Guwhati, Assam. I shared the risk framework of exposure, hazard, and vulnerability to emphasize on the need for efforts in all the three dimensions to collectively reduce risk for the communities relying on agro-based livelihood in one of the world’s most impacted region due to the changing climate.