I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA) Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland. My projects focus on mountain hazard assessment and disaster risk reduction (DRR), particularly in countries of the Hindu Kush–Himalaya (HKH) region, where I have been working for the past six years. My research interests include climate change impacts, multi-hazard modeling and assessment, glacier dynamics, GLOFs, debris flows, rock-ice avalanches, and hydropower economics and risk management. I have extensive fieldwork experience, having visited dozens of glaciers and glacial lakes in the HKH and the Alps. I can even run and jump at 5,500 metres in the cold, arid northern Tibetan Plateau.

I hold a M.Sc. in Physical Geography from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.