Every year disasters cause enormous economic and societal losses. Engineers have a key role in helping society mitigate these losses. My group will tackle this problem from an engineering perspective that integrates concepts from planning, data sciences, and social sciences to understand disaster impacts holistically. My group’s goal is to advance the state of knowledge in disaster risk and recovery and subsequently distill that knowledge down to decisions that foster distributive justice after disasters. If you are passionate about using your engineering skills to help society, my research group at the University of Waterloo is seeking candidates for funded M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions.

Candidates selected for interviews will be contacted around the middle of November.

Research areas

  • Regional risk assessment.

  • Modelling societal impacts of disasters.

  • Simulation-informed disaster risk reduction strategies.

  • Machine learning and optimization.

  • Wicked problems.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree (for M.Sc. candidates) and/or Master’s (for Ph.D. candidates) degree in Systems or Civil engineering or a related area.

  • Meet the admission requirements listed here.

  • Passion for natural hazards engineering and computational simulations & modelling.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience and/or coursework in natural hazards engineering, community resilience, or risk assessments.

  • Experience in computational modelling & simulation.

Interested? Check the application pages below.