
Ven Paolo Bruno VALENZUELA
Research Fellow
✉️ vpvalenzuela@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Coastal Disasters
- Socio-spatial Dimensions of Urbanization and Coastal Hazards
- Risk Perception in Cities and Settlements by the Sea
- Science and Risk Communication
- Land Reclamation and Floating Solutions as Climate Change Adaptation
- Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and Disaster Studies
Research Project(s)
- Developing a Risk Assessment and Communication Platform to Translate Climate Projections to Policy
Prerona DAS
Research Fellow
✉️ preronadas@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Politics of Infrastructure
- Smart Cities
- Frontier Urbanism
- Urban Geopolitics
Research Project(s)
- Technocratic Regionalism in Southeast Asia: The Translational Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer

PAK Hui Ying
Research Fellow
✉️ hypak@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Climate Risk Assessment
- Virtual Reality Platform for Climate Risk Communication
- Drone-based Remote Sensing
- Advanced Image Processing and Algorithm Development
- Water Resource Monitoring and Management
Research Project(s)
- Developing a Risk Assessment and Communication Platform to Translate Climate Projections to Policy

Philip KESTEL
Research Associate
✉️ pkestel@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Urban Climate and Microclimatology
- Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings
- Urban Vegetation and Climate Resilience
- Urban Air Quality Dynamics
Research Project(s)
- Cool Paints Trials in Schools to Mitigate UHI Effects

Aikeen LIM
Research Associate
✉️ aikeenlim@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Thermal Comfort
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
- Greenspace Use and Accessibility
Research Project(s)
- Cool Paints Trials in Schools to Mitigate UHI Effects

Silvia OMENETTO
Visiting Research Fellow
✉️ silviao@smu.edu.sg
Research Area(s) / Interest(s)
- Materiality of Religions in Urban Space
- Architectures for Worship and Death
- Gurdwaras in the Sikh Diaspora
- Use of Digital Humanities (e.g. GIS - Geographic Information System technology) in the Spatial Analysis of Religions
Research Project(s)
- Gurdwara Architecture in the Diaspora. Understanding the Effects on (non-)Sikhs to build an Inclusive Urban Environment.