Meet the team

Professor Qiuhua Liang

Professor in Water Engineering and UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction

Multi-hazard modelling, disaster risk assessment and management

Dr Huili Chen

Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering

Remote sensing, GIS and data analytics for disaster risk reduction

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

Reader in Digital Technologies

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

Dr Tom Dijkstra

Reader in Engineering Geology

Geohazards and interactions between geohazards and communities

Dr Haitao Lan

Lecturer in Infrastructure Engineering

Geotechnical engineering, trenchless technology, and buried infrastructure

Dr Tim Marjoribanks

Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering

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

Dr Asya Natapov

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design

Urban planning, spatial cognition, and complexity

Dr Alister Smith

Reader in Geotechnics

Geotechnical engineering, slope stability, smart infrastructure, monitoring

Dr Yangmei Wang

Lecturer in Water Engineering

North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power

Dr Xiaoming Guo

Associate Professor in geography, Senior Engineer in Hydraulic engineering.

Henan University, China

Dr Mingzhu Wang

Assistant Professor in Construction Management

City University of Hong Kong

Dr Long Chen

Lecturer in Surveying, City University of Hong Kong.

Digital twin, computer vision, data-driven techniques and infrastructure resilience.