Peter SammondsPeter Sammonds is Professor of Geophysics and Climate Risks. He was the founding Director and Head of Department of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He works at the interface of natural and social sciences. His research and knowledg exchange is on natural hazard risks, disasters and recovery. He has worked on earthquake mechanics, volcanoes and ice physics in the Arctic. He currently works on research council, British Academy and Royal Society-funded projects on Increasing Resilience to Environmental Hazards in Border Conflict Zones and Resilience Futures for the Rohingya Refugees. He has advised the UK research councils on the increasing resilience to natural hazards programme; been a member of EEFIT Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation teams, contributing to inter-disciplinary reports on disasters, taken up widely by government for policy advice; and been a Commissioner on the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, 2017-18, whose report has been influential. He is currently the Gender and Intersectionality Ambassador for the UKRI network+ GRRIPP project led by the IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster. Read More Read Less
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