I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA) Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland. My work focuses on mountain hazard assessment and disaster risk reduction (DRR), particularly in countries of the Hindu Kush–Himalaya (HKH) region, where I have been active for the past seven years. My research interests include climate change impacts, multi-hazard modelling and assessment, glacier dynamics, glacial lake outburst floods (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, the Alps, Iceland, and Greenland.
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.
Regional-scale hazard and risk analysis and modeling within the HKH, encompassing countries such as China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bhutan.
How do natural hazards impact human society? How does human society respond to natural hazards?
Assessment of risks to hydropower systems in High Mountain Asia from climate-driven glacier instabilities and other mountain hazards, and development of strategies for climate-resilient energy infrastructure.