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
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Extreme wind storms, tornadoes and hurricanes. building aerodynamics, wind effects on building component
Reza Najafi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringResearch Interests / Specializations: Flood hazards, climate change impact, concurrent and compound events
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
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Resilience, reliability and risk of underground infrastructure systems, and Bayesian analysis
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
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Geotechnical Engineering
Abouzar Sadrekarimi
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Site characterization, geotechnical earthquake engineering, landslides, and liquefaction analysis
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
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
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research Interests / Specializations: Infrastructure monitoring and disaster mitigationDepartment of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
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
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
Associate Professor - Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Statistical seismology and earthquake rupture dynamics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
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
Rogemar Mamon
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantitative finance and stochastic processes to financial modelling
Marcos Escobar-Anel
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Stochastic processes, financial mathematics, and statistics
Jiandong Ren
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Insurance, actuarial science, and risk management
Matt Davidson
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics, Particularly Commodity Finance Mathematics and Data Science
Cristian Bravo Roman
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Credit Scoring and Credit Risk, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Shu Li
Statistical & Actuarial Sciences, Faculty of ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Risk theory, ruin theory, stochastic processes, and optimal strategies for risk management
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
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
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Remote sensing and GIS and their applications to urban environment analysis
Isaac Luginaah
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Environment and health, population health and GIS applications in health
Gordon McBean
Geography and Environment, Faculty of Social ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Climate change science and policy and natural hazards prediction and mitigation
