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.