About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Ning Lin, PhD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University; Associated Faculty, School for Public and International Affairs; Associated Faculty, Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment; Associated Faculty, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Princeton, NJ, USA

Lin’s research areas include Natural Hazards and Risk Analysis, Wind Engineering, Coastal Engineering, and Climate Change Impact and Adaptation. Her current primary focus is tropical cyclone hazards and risk analysis. She integrates science, engineering, and policy to study tropical cyclone-related weather extremes (strong winds, heavy rainfall, storm surges, and compounding sea level rise and heatwaves), how they change with changing climate, and how their impact on society can be better mitigated.  

Advisory Editors

Charles Axelsson, PhD

Charles handles quantitative and qualitative environmental social science including hazard and disaster responses at Nature Communications. He has a BSc in Geography, an MSc in Environmental Technology, and a PhD in the Science and Management of Climate Change from Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia’s Department of Economics. His doctoral research was on urban policy adaptations to flooding under climate change, where he assessed policies and stakeholder participation. He is based in Nature’s New York office.

Joe Aslin, PhD

Joe joined Communications Earth & Environment in January 2020 and has a background in tectonics and structural geology. His doctoral research at the University of Liverpool focused on the physical and chemical processes which influence deformation in mid-crustal fault and shear zones using a combination of field and laboratory techniques. Prior to that, Joe used U-Pb geochronology to investigate the uplift and tectonic history of the central Andes during his MSci research at the University of Bristol. Joe is based in the London office.

Associate Editors

Daniel R Chavas, PhD
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University 
West Lafayette, IN, USA

My research interests are in extreme weather, climate, and risk, including under climate change. My specialties are in tropical cyclones and in severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. I combine observations, theory, and real-world and idealized modeling to understand how these phenomena work, why our climate system produces them, and how we can better predict their hazards and impacts to society.

Ciro Del Negro, MD
Etna Volcano Observatory (EVO) and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Catania, Italy

My research interests concern quantitative studies of volcanic hazards using a combination of satellite data, numerical modelling and probabilistic analysis. My main focus has been on the development of quantitative approaches to volcanic hazard modelling. Applied research includes the use of satellite remote sensing techniques for the monitoring of volcanic activity and numerical simulations of the spatial and temporal evolution of eruptive phenomena for hazard assessment and risk mitigation.

Nobuhito Mori, PhD
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

Nobuhito Mori is interested in coastal hazards based on air-sea interface physics, climate change, geophysical and environmental fluid mechanics, and nonlinear wave dynamics. He is a Professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, and has been deputy-director since 2021.

Olivia Martius, PhD
Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

I am professor at the University of Bern and an atmospheric scientist by training, working in atmospheric dynamics and weather and climate extremes. I still teach meteorology classes. In the past ten years I have closely collaborated with industry and government stakeholders and have been studying all components (hazard, vulnerability, and exposure) of weather and climate risks. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines, with statisticians, social scientists, and impact experts.

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, PhD
Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Mexico City, Mexico

My research on natural hazards, vulnerability, and disaster risks is crucial for promoting sustainable development and addressing societal needs. By involving various stakeholders in disaster risk reduction, I strive to foster integrated disaster risk research that encompasses social and political structures. Through collaboration with partners, I aim to enhance disaster risk management. One of my main goals is to bridge the gap between scientific research and policymaking.

Editorial Board Members

Jeroen Aerts, PhD
Faculty of Science, Water and Climate Risk, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paul Bates, CBE PhD FRS
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Joern Birkmann, PhD
Institute of Regional Development Planning, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Kerry Emanuel, PhD
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Adam Emmer, PhD
Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Radley M. Horton, PhD
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Alik Ismail-Zadeh, PhD
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Andrzej Kijko, PhD
Natural Hazard Centre, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Toshio Koike, MD, PhD
International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Tsukuba, Japan

Carolyn Kousky, PhD
Environmental Defense Fund, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dev Niyogi, PhD
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA

Ilan Noy, PhD
School of Economics and Finance, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Athanasios Vafeidis, PhD
Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Gabriele Villarini, PhD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Jie Yin, PhD
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Guoqing Zhang, PhD
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 

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