Members
Our assembled team of researchers brings together the strengths in hazard research (flood, wind, tornadoes, hailstorms, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfire) as well as the strengths in academic fields that cut cross these hazards, including structure/infrastructure and resilience engineering, remote sensing and geographical information system (GIS), big data science, statistical/computational techniques, and actuarial/financial risk assessments. A list of qualified research team members available at Western demonstrates commitments to hazard and risk research.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
![Greg Kopp Greg Kopp](../img/Kopp.jpg)
Greg Kopp
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Extreme wind storms, tornadoes and hurricanes. building aerodynamics, wind effects on building component
![Greg Kopp Reza Najafi](../img/Reza-Najafi_2.jpg)
Reza Najafi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Flood hazards, climate change impact, concurrent and compound events
![Girma Bitsuamlak Bitsuamlak.jpg](../img/Bitsuamlak.jpg)
Girma Bitsuamlak
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Multi-scale, multi-physics experimental and computational modelling of wind effects on built- environment
![Wenxing Zhou Wenxing Zhou](../img/Zhou.jpg)
Wenxing Zhou
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Resilience, reliability and risk of underground infrastructure systems, and Bayesian analysis![Wenxing Zhou Ashraf El Damatty](../img/eldamatty-.jpg)
Ashraf El Damatty
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Structural Engineering, Wind-Related Structural Problems, Structural Optimization, Shell Structures, Fluid-Structure![Tim Newson Tim Newson](../img/Newson.jpg)
Tim Newson
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering![Abouzar Sadrekarimi Abouzar Sadrekarimi](../img/Sadrekarimi.jpg)
Abouzar Sadrekarimi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Site characterization, geotechnical earthquake engineering, landslides, and liquefaction analysis![Miller.jpg](../img/Miller.jpg)
Craig Miller
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Extreme wind, surface wind field models, modelling of risk due to both tropical and extra-tropical cyclones![Bing Li Bing Li](../img/BingLi.png)
Bing Li
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Micro-earthquake monitoring and fracture imaging in rocks at the field scale of mining, civil, and energy applications![Ayan Sadhu Ayan Sadhu](../img/Sadhu.jpg)
Ayan Sadhu
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Infrastructure monitoring and disaster mitigation![Kelly Yili Tang Kelly Yili Tang](../img/Kelly Yili Tang.jpg)
Kelly Yili Tang
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Analysis, modeling, and optimization of the transportation system, travel behavior and transport economics, data mining, and decision analytics (statistical model, machine learning/deep learning)![Jin Wang Jin Wang](https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/wang_j/img/jin-wang_115x163.jpg)
Jin Wang
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Experimental simulations of boundary-layer winds and tornadoes, bluff-body aerodynamics, wind effects on structures, and risk assessment of multi-hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floodingDepartment of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
![Horia Hangan Mita Ray.jpg](../img/Mita Ray.jpg)
Mita Ray
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: advanced treatment technologies for water and waste treatment, environmental modelling
Department of Earth Sciences
![Katsu Goda Katsu Goda](../img/Katsu Goda.jpg)
Katsu Goda
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment - Earth Sciences and Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Earthquake and tsunami hazards and risks and natural disaster risk financing
Sheri Molnar
Assistant Professor - Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Numerical and in situ field- based methodologies to characterize geo-hazards and mapping
![Robert Shcherbakov Robert Shcherbakov](../img/Shcherbakov.jpg)
Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor - Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Statistical seismology and earthquake rupture dynamics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
![Horia Hangan Yanping Li.jpg](../img/Yanping Li.png)
Yanping Li
Physics and Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate modeling, climate change adaptation, and hydrometeorology
Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences
![Marcos Escobar-Anel Rogemar Mamon](../img/RogemarMamon150.jpg)
Rogemar Mamon
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantitative finance and stochastic processes to financial modelling
![Marcos Escobar-Anel Marcos Escobar-Anel](../img/marcos-escobar-anel150-200.jpg)
Marcos Escobar-Anel
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Stochastic processes, financial mathematics, and statistics
![Jiandong Ren Jiandong Ren](../img/JiandongRen150.jpg)
Jiandong Ren
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Insurance, actuarial science, and risk management
![Marcos Escobar-Anel Matt Davidson](../img/MattDavison150.jpg)
Matt Davidson
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics, Particularly Commodity Finance Mathematics and Data Science
![Marcos Escobar-Anel Cristian Bravo Roman](../img/bravoroman1.jpg)
Cristian Bravo Roman
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Credit Scoring and Credit Risk, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
![Marcos Escobar-Anel Shu Li](../img/Shu-Li1.jpg)
Shu Li
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Risk theory, ruin theory, stochastic processes, and optimal strategies for risk management
![Douglas Woolford Camila de Souza](../img/camila-de-souza-150x200.jpg)
Camila de Souza
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Statistical modelling, clustering, hierarchical mixture models, mixed effect models, hidden Markov models
Department of Geography and Environment
![James Voogt James Voogt](../img/voogt_james.jpg)
James Voogt
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Thermal remote sensing of urban areas, Application of thermal remote sensing to the study of surface climates
![Jinfei Wang Jinfei Wang](../img/wang_jinfei.jpg)
Jinfei Wang
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Remote sensing and GIS and their applications to urban environment analysis
![Jinfei Wang Isaac Luginaah](../img/luginaah_isaac.jpg)
Isaac Luginaah
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Environment and health, population health and GIS applications in health
![Jinfei Wang Gordon McBean](../img/mcbean_gordon.jpg)
Gordon McBean
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate change science and policy and natural hazards prediction and mitigation