UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction

People

Core Staff

Academic Staff

 We are soon to appoint 2 more academic staff:

  • Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health - position joint with the UCL Institute for Global Health.
  • Lecturer in Statistics and Risk analyisis - position joint with the UCL Department of Statistical Sciences.

Research Staff

PhD Students

Visiting and Honorary Staff

Honorary Professors

  • Virginia Murray

Visiting Professors

  • Frank Furedi
  • Knut Hoyland
  • Dougal Goodman
  • Filippos Valianatos

Honorary Researchers

  • Dr Eleanor Bailey
  • Linda O'Halloran

Executive Board

IRDR Executive Board

Advisory Board

  • Prof David Price, Vice Provost (Chair)
  • Dr Ian Scott, UCL Grand Challenges
  • Prof Dougal Goodman, Director, Foundation for Science and Technology
  • Prof Yvonne Rydin, UCL Environment Institute and Bartlett School of Planning
  • Prof Julian Hunt, FRS and UCL CPOM
  • Geoff O'Donoghue, CAFOD
  • Tony Gilland, Institute of Ideas

IRDR Members

 The IRDR has over 240 members, which includes 55 members of UCL academic staff, 42 PhD students, over 20 UCL alumni and visiting researchers, and over 100 external members. UCL staff members of the IRDR are listed below:

Dr John Twigg Senior Research Associate Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Professor Peter Sammonds Professor of Geophysics Earth Sciences
Professor Philip Meredith Professor of Rock Physics Earth Sciences
Dr Serge Guillas Reader Statistical Science
Dr Stephen Edwards Deputy Director IRDR Earth Sciences
Dr Irene Petersen Senior Research Fellow Primary Care & Population Health
Dr. Syngjoo Choi Lecturer economics
Professor Nick Tyler Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering CEGE
Professor Bernard Buxton Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences Computer Science
Prof Yvonne Rydin Director of UCL Environment Institute Bartlett School of Planning
Dr Frank Witte departmental tutor Economics
Dr Cassidy Johnson Lecturer Development Planning Unit
Mr Nicholas Tyndale Communications Director, UCL Grand Challenges Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Research)
Mr. Vivek Viswanathan Database Administrator Management Systems
prof james croll emeritus prof of civil engng civil engng
Dr. Sudeshna Basu Post Doctoral Research Assistant Department of Earth Sciences
Dr Rosanna Smith Deputy Director of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction Earth Science
Miss Leisa Clemente Departmental Administrator Earth Sciences
Prof David Price Vice-Provost (Research)
Dr Katie Finch BEAMS Associate Research Facilitator Engineering Faculty Office
Dr Anders Johansson Research Associate Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
Mrs Katherine Anne Perkins Research Associate Gynaecological cancer
Dr. Kevan Edinborough Research Associate: Radiocarbon researcher IoA
Professor Sir Alan Wilson Professor of Urban and Regional Systems Centre for applied spatial analysis
Dr Pushpa Arabindoo Lecturer Geography
Miss Sarah Ball Research & Programme Development Manager, Institute for Global Health Institute for Global Health
Professor Hugh Montgomery UCL Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Medicine
Dr Tristan Smith Research Associate Energy Institute
Ms Marianne Knight Deputy Director Environment Institute
Professor Chris Brewin Professor of Clinical Psychology Research Department of Clinical Educational & Health Psychology
Dr Daniel Feltham Reader Earth Sciences
Dr Anasuya Aruliah Senior Lecturer Physics and Astronomy
Prof Alan Aylward Professor of Atmospheric Physics Physics and Astronomy
Dr Stephen Hall UCL Principal Tutor Chemical Engineering
Professor Eric Fraga Professor of Process Systems Engineering Chemical Engineering
Dr Jacob Sweiry SLMS Research Facilitator VP Research Office
Dr Graham Shields-Zhou Reader Earth Sciences
Professor Dave Tappin Researcher Earth Sciences
Dr Paul Densham Reader Geography
Prof Nigel Harvey Professor of Judgment and Decision Research Psychology and language sciences
Miss Abigail Antao IT support officer EISD
Miss Rebecca Wallace PhD Research Student Geography
Dr Michael Davey professorial research associate mathematics
Dr Ramanarayanan Balachandran Lecturer in Combustion Mechanical Engineering
Ms Adriana Allen Sebior Lecturer DPU
Professor Mark Maslin Professor Geography
Dr Adrian Chandler Visiting Professor ABUHC
Mr Dhiren Kataria Senior Research Fellow Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics
Dr Michel Tsamados Research associate Earth Sciences
Dr David Ishola NIHR Clinical Lecturer Infection and Population Health
Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha Research Associate UCL IRDR
Dr Tristan Robinson Teaching Fellow CEGE
Dr Ingrid Charvet Research Associate CEGE
Dr Liza Griffin Lecturer DPU
Professor Susan Michie Professor of Health Psychology Psychology