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| Name | Country | Interests |
| Mat Aini | Malaysia | Man-made disasters; public inquiry process; disaster preparedness and response. |
| Nasser Al-Asiry | Saudi Arabia | organizational response to disasters; methods of disasters research; collective behavior |
| David Alexander | Italy | Emergency Planning and Management |
| Lynne Alice | New Zealand | Kosovo crisis |
| Alex Altshuler | Israel | |
| Mohamad Alzaghal | Jordan | I hold another master degree in Systems Engineering with focus on emergency communication disaster response; my thesis titled: analysis of Jordan’s Proposed Emergency Communication Interoperability Plan (JECIP) for Disaster Response. |
| Nina Blom Andersen | Denmark | Disaster/social crisis communication, risk communication, warnings, post- disaster communication. |
| Talip Arbel | Israel | Research Project Coordinator: Modern Catastrophes; Humanitarian action and Globalization processes |
| Ali Ardalan | Iran | Disaster Risk Reduction, Community Based Disaster Risk Management, and Disaster Epidemiology. |
| Ana Arzoumanian | Argentina | Genocide. Diaspora and armenian genocide |
| Tibor Assheuer | Austria | Handling climate change in developing countries. |
| Golrokh Atighechian | Iran | Community-based disaster management, Disaster management and risk reduction, Disaster risk assessment, Pre-hospital and hospital disaster planning, Incident management system, and ICS. |
| Javad Babaie | Iran | Disaster metrics, Floods, and Flash floods. |
| Balgovind Baboo | India | 1.Man-made disaster:development induced displacement and rehabilitation of affected population. 2.Droughts (both natural and man-made) |
| Murat Balamir | Turkey | |
| Suniti Bandaranaike | Australia | Tsunami and resettlement issues in Sri Lanka. |
| Berna Baradan | Social effects of homelessness caused by natural disasters | |
| Christian Barbero | Bolivia | |
| Allen Barton | USA | |
| Zohra Ismail Beben | USA | Disaster, Risk, Natural Resource Use, Central Asia, Tajikistan |
| Robert Beckett | Saudi Arabia | Technological disasters: response planning and mitigation; cultural differences in the perception and response to emergencies and disasters;effective organisational preparation for disaster management; conflict management. |
| Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara | Brazil | |
| Christine Bevc | USA | |
| Sohinee Bhattacharya | UK | |
| Armar Biswas | India | Social Crises in India |
| Karyn Bosomworth | Australia | Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and public policy. |
| Chadd Briggs | USA | Post-conflict environmental health; Balkans Region. |
| Dee Britton | USA | Memory and disasters; mass violence. |
| Philip Buckle | Australia | resilience and vulnerability assessment; disaster recovery; community development; community capability building; disasters and development; links between social life; environment; infrastructure; economic life and politics |
| Setio Budi | Indonesia | Crisis management; crisis communication in corporations and disaster management |
| Christian Carson | Australia | Social and moral construction of preparedness and response to catastrophic disaster. Social scaffolding used by communities recovering from disasters. Provision of effective warning of rapid onset disasters. |
| Kit W.G. Carson | Australia | Recovery program evaluation; disasters and white-collar crime; disaster analysis and sociological theory |
| Laura Centemeri | Italy | |
| Patrick Chaskiel | France | Industrial hazards |
| Pardhasaradhi Chelikani | India | I am interested in post disaster psychotherapy and PTSD. I work as a ER physician. |
| Yung-Fang Chen | UK | Flood management, training exercises for emergency response, serious games, risk communication and perception. |
| Edward Cherrie | Scotland | Response to emergencies/major incidents; close work with Police FLO’s and drawing up of joint emergency training programs. He is responsible for social work emergency planning and the Lanarhsire Major Incident Support. |
| Sorin Cheval | Romania | climatic risk perception |
| Tracey Coates | UK | How constructions of local community; when lived out in specific spatial contexts; shape local collective responses to flooding. I am looking at both residents and flood professionals discourses of community and how these (and their interaction) can affect social responses to flooding. |
| Ludvina Colbeau-Justin | France | disaster management, risk perception, natural hazards, coping strategies |
| Grant Coultman-Smith | Australia | Emergency management; municipal emergency response; consultation to industry on emergency and risk management; special interest in disaster psychology (victims and emergency workers); personal and social recovery from disaster or trauma. |
| Colin Cremin | New Zealand | |
| Wayne Crosby | Canada | |
| Erna Danielsson | Sweden | |
| Debra J. Davidson | Canada | |
| Serdar Degirmencioglu | Turkey | Community response to disasters; post-disaster volunteering; post-traumatic growth. |
| Will den Hoonaard | Canada | |
| Daniel de Vries | Netherlands | Flooding, History & Memory, and Temporal Vulnerability. |
| Aliou Dia | Senegal | Floods. |
| Wolf Dombrowsky | Germany | |
| Jochen Dreher | Germany | |
| Swarup Dulta | India | Disaster management and man-made hazards. |
| Eelco Dykstra | Finland | information; Communication; Coordination; System Management |
| Russel Dynes | USA | |
| Servet Ebrinc | Turkey | stress workers earthquakes or disasters; stress and adjustment disorders raw recruits soldie |
| Peter Erwood | Canada | |
| David Evans | Wales | Planning statutory social care and counseling services; multi-agency training for social care; welfare and counseling services |
| Anne Eyre | Disaster Management and Studies; Disaster action groups; post-trauma stress; UK disasters; religion and disasters; psycho-social support following disasters. | |
| Adi Fahrudin | Malaysia | 1.Disaster social work; 2.Crisis intervention; 3.Psychological distress; 4.Traumatic stress (PTSD) aftermath of disaster; 5.Disaster mental health |
| Robert Fink | Yellowstone Nationalpark; Japan Earthquakes | |
| Henry Fischer | USA | |
| Courtney Flint | USA | Community response to risk and disaster; community risk perception; and public participation in natural resource management-risk mitigation-disaster preparedness. |
| Maureen Fordham | UK | Gender; race and class. Vulnerability in disasters. Participatory approaches in disaster planning and management. Environmental justice. |
| Joanna Forester | USA | Disaster behavioral health, disaster preparedness and response for persons with functional and access needs. |
| Ibirinde Francis | Nigeria | Poverty related disaster and ethnic crisis management awareness. |
| Bibhuti Gadnayak | India | Disaster Management in Crises Conditions. |
| Fernando Gamboa | Mexico | Social construction of risk. Climate perception. Adaptability and resilience. |
| G. P. Ganapathy | India | Disaster Mitigation and Management, Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
| Elke Geenen | Germany | Disaster theory; rapid social change; vulnerability and resilience; earthquakes; strangers and minorities in disasters; risk awareness; technology assessment; gender and class relations in disasters; religious and magic beliefs in disasters; links between culture and disaster; disaster culture |
| Dimitrios Geomilas | Greece | Poverty and public administration. |
| Fauza Binti Abdul Ghaffar | Malaysia | |
| Trude Gjernes | Norway | |
| Gordon Gow | Canada | |
| Lotta Granbom | Sweden | The Tsunami Impact in Thailand on the “Sea Nomads” Urak Lawoi’s Social and Cultural Lifestyle. |
| Lina Gregersdotter | Sweden | |
| Jelena Grujić | Serbia | Sociology of Conflict, Transition Processes, Social Pathology, and Criminology. |
| Kailash Gupta | USA | Disaster Management Research. |
| Yelta Gurter | Australia | Crisis management; disaster recovery; community resilience; capacity building; NGOs. |
| Christine Hagar | USA | information needs and information seeking in crises; disaster health related information; roles for libraries in crisis preparedness and recovery, and education and training programs in crisis information management |
| Alireza Hajiuni | Iran | Natural disasters, complex emergencies, and nuclear emergencies. |
| Erica Hallebone | Australia | |
| Tim Harries | UK | Social and psychological factors underlying household responses to flood-risk. |
| Klaus Hartmann | Germany | |
| Linda Haynes | USA | Education/preparedness/response in collegiate education; current focus on learn and serve models. |
| Thea Hilhorst | Netherlands | |
| Kathleen Hollingsworth | USA | Sociology of disasters particularly how language affects perception and shapes mental models (thinking). Psychosocial aspects of communities affected by terrorist threat and/or events. |
| Hannu Hänninen | Finland | Organizational and technological failures, risk regulation and work place safety. |
| Vincent Ialenti | USA/Finland | Nuclear waste management, energy security, temporality, risk governance, disaster prevention, and philosophy and theology of “eternity”. |
| Valerie Ingham | Australia | The somatic and aesthetic awareness of incident controllers in time pressured decision making, perceptions of risk and resilience in Bangladeshi and Australian communities, flooding, and the tertiary education of emergency managers. |
| Syed ul Islam | Bangladesh | Planning and preparedness for earthquake impact on multi-story buildings; urban infrastructure; earthquake mitigation and crisis management. |
| Dzulkarnaen Ismail | Malaysia | Post-disaster reconstruction and project management for reconstruction and rehabilitation works. |
| Dawn James | USA | Interests: Development of curriculum raining for nurses; assessment of current preparedness of Colorado and U.S. |
| Rohit Jigyasu | Norway | |
| Roine Johansson | Sweden | All kinds of organizational aspects of disaster and crisis management. |
| David Johnson | USA | Community vulnerability, decision support technology and applied modeling/simulation and incident management |
| Abdul Jufry | Bangladesh | Work for extreme poor. |
| Ahmad Kamal | India | Disaster management planning and bureaucratic response to disaster management |
| Naim Kapucu | USA | Decision making under uncertainty; network relationships after disasters; volunteer organizations and disaster policy. |
| Atia Ali Kazmi | Pakistan | Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction, and Development |
| Ilan Kelman | Norway | Island vulnerability; resilience; and sustainability. www.islandvulnerability.org |
| Zelimir Kesetoviâ | Serbia | Crisis communications; crisis decision making; protection of critical infrastructures |
| Avi Kirschenbaum | Israel | Organizational Analysis; Non-Conventional Disasters;Terrorism; Evacuation Processes; Risk Analysis; Community Studies; Preparedness. |
| Max Koch | Northern Ireland | Environmental disasters and social impact analysis |
| Timo Kopomaa | Finland | |
| Talip Kucukcan | Turkey | natural disasters and religion; role of religious beliefs and rituals in coping with the effects of disasters. Attribution process and religion in the face of events out of one’s control. Civil organizations and social peace. |
| Fatma Kumbetoglu | Turkey | Interests:Gender; Aftermath of Disasters |
| Margret Kusenbach | USA | Hurricanes;tornadoes; disaster preparedness (vulnerability);evacuation issues; mobile homes. |
| Kathrin Leitner | Austria | Currently engaged in a doctoral thesis (Social and Cultural Anthropology) with a special interest in catastrophe/disaster perception and resolution strategies. She is interested in the relevant literature with a focus on local knowledge/perception. |
| Marko Lesukat | Kenya | Drought cycle management; community managed disaster risk reduction; resilience and vulnerability assessment and analysis; role of the media in disaster risk reduction; slow onset disasters; disaster recovery; community development; community capability building; disasters and development;social-political influence in disaster management; environmental impact assessment; interactions between livestock grazing and ecosystem functions. |
| Jenny Lindholm | Finland | Focusing events and demands for policy change. |
| Sharon Link | Israel | Social networks; adaptation; information flows; community; preparedness |
| Hotze Lont | Netherlands | Consequences of the social; political and economic crisis in Indonesia; coping strategies; experience of the crisis; historical analysis; social transformation; winners and losers; comparative issues. |
| Xiaoli Lu | Netherlands | Evacuation; decision making; managing uncertainty |
| Barbara Lucini | Italy | Crisis management, risk perception, community approach, civic protection systems, civic dependence, vulnerability and resilience. |
| Graham Marsh | Australia | Teaching in the risk/crisis management field; The place of ‘the Community’ in the development of risk management and community recovery strategies; vulnerability & resilience and disasters; The sociology of disasters |
| Piotr Matczak | Poland | natural disasters; local consequences of global change; risk analysis |
| Steven Mather | Canada | |
| Simon McCarthy | UK | Social issues of flooding including the construction of risk; expert and public risk communication and governance.Research currently focused on the UK. Research sites: www.fhrc.mdx.ac.uk and www.floodrisknet.org.uk |
| Jose Mendes | Portugal | Public Participation; Community Resilience; Prevention Public Policies |
| Hamed Mohammadi | Iran | Disasters. |
| K Monnappa | India | Disaster preparedness; disaster management and disaster relief; in depth assessment of areas (Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Tamilnadu) affected by the Indonesian tsounami. |
| Douglas Moore Jr | USA | Public health |
| Keith Morgan | ||
| Meredith Moss | USA | Disaster science |
| Meziyet Mozakoglu | Turkey | Educational problems in recovery process |
| Ricardo Gaspar Muller | Brazil | |
| Rosemary Murphy | Australia | Gender; community and small business preparedness; psychosocial approach to disaster management. |
| Alinawaz Nanjee | India | All parameters of the disaster situation |
| Farrah Naz | Pakistan | Pursuing research for a M.Phil dissertation. |
| Uri-ben Nesher | Israel | Community emergency and disaster management. |
| Lindy Newlove-Eriksson | Sweden | Research on nuclear waste with special focus on policy transfer and advocacy coalitions; research on urban power failures and industrial accidents; application of organizational; institutional and cognitive-social psychological perspectives to anthropogenic disasters. |
| Hal Newman | Canada | Emergency health services–technical assessment of response capabilities; interface with the media during disasters; healthcare systems analysis. |
| Susan Nicholls | Australia | Community recovery; community resilience; use of communication to assist recovery; government communication; risk communication. |
| Tuija Nieminen Kristofersson | Sweden | Social and psychological support given by professionals and voluntary organizations; dissertation on the discotheque fire in 1998; project on vulnerability after the Gudrun storm and tsunami within the Frame Programme for Risk and Vulnerability Analysis (www.lucram.lu.se) |
| Robinson Ocharo | Kenya | Hazard and vulnerability identification; mapping and risk reduction strategies. Community participation in disaster management. |
| Laura Olson | USA | |
| Beatrice Omari | Kenya | Pursuing a PhD degree in Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Alpaslan Ozerdem | UK | Politics of disaster management; social reconstruction after armed conflicts; settlement reconstruction after earthquakes; demobilisation and reintegration of former combatants |
| Shelley Pacholok | Canada | |
| Mehul Pandya | ||
| Vedant Pandya | India | contributing to the development of the science of disaster management. |
| Majid Parishan | Iran | Hazard Management, Participation Plans, Rural and Urban Sustainability. |
| Sanjeev Peethala | India | Sociology of disasters; gender issues; methods of disaster research; organizational response. |
| Luigi Pellizzoni | Italy | |
| Ray Pena | USA | Emergency management is my profession. I’m always looking to improve my ability to serve. |
| Slobodan Pesic | USA | Emergency and Disaster Theory, Crisis Planning, Interagency Disaster Management, Crisis Communication, International Crisis Management, Business Continuity of Operations. |
| Nicholas Petropoulos | Greece | Comparative organization of disaster services; the social and psychological consequences of disaster predictions; and education; public information and disasters. |
| Luca Pezzullo | Italy | Risk perception; risk communication; disaster mental health. |
| Bob Pokrant | Australia | Interests:Coastal development in India and Bangladesh; Fishers; understanding of and adaptations to human-induced and natural disasters; post-tsunami rehabilitation and recovery in the Indian Ocean Region. |
| Boris Porfiriev | Russia | Disaster policy; disaster and emergency management and studies; crisis policy and management; study of crises. |
| Edward H. Powley | USA | Organizational resilience, organizational change and development and social impact of crises on organizations. |
| Henry Quarantellli | USA | |
| Cecile Quesada | France | Currently working on the knowledge; representations and practices concerning volcanic risk and eruptions in the Pacific (Kingdom of Tonga). Also studying the interactions between local populations and the agents that promote prevention and management policies among them; and the cultural causes of the failure of most of the natural disasters prevention projects. |
| Parth Rajyaguru | India | Disaster management; search and rescue and emergency response. |
| Carmit Rapaport | Israel | Social networks; organizations |
| Sandrine Revet | France | Anthropology and sociology of “natural” disasters; humanitarian practices; catastrophes as processes and social constructions; the analysis of event in sociology and anthropology; disaster victims; strategies and organization; urgency rhetoric and practices (pensee de urgence); social violence within “natural” disasters; commemorations; memory; construction of the sense of disaster; Venezuela (Vargas); Katrina. Visit also: http://sandrinerevet.blogspot.com/. |
| Juan-Andres Rincon | Mexico | Crisis Communication as Care Giving, Crisis Committee Training and Development, and Trauma Communication. |
| Benjam¡n Rodr¡guez | Spain | Risk Communication to population; Building indicators and analyzers to measure the consequences of catastrophes; Research techniques applied to emergency situations; Public opinion pools related to nuclear energy. |
| Sverre Roeed-Larsen | Norway | Risk society; social crisis/disasters and change; injury prevention/safety promotion; accident investigation; training; crisis management and communication; security and terrorism. |
| Adam Rostis | Canada | Adam Rostis has been working for the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office (EMO) since 2003 on disaster management issues. Before joining EMO; he was a regional delegate with the International Federation of the Red Cross in Harare; Zimbabwe from 1999 to 2003. His work with the Red Cross helped develop capacity to use information technology for disaster preparedness. He is a candidate in the Doctor of Management program at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax; Nova Scotia and his research interests include disaster management and organizational behaviour. |
| Manolis Rozakis | Greece | Disaster sociology; emergency response systems; politics of risk and hazards |
| Eduardo Runte | France | Emergency preparedness; industrial safety; social phenomenology |
| Rosemarie Sackmann | Germany | |
| Usuf Sahin | Turkey | disaster planning and management |
| Dikaios Sakellariou | UK | Interaction of vulnerabilities with triggering agents. Social; cultural and political context of disasters |
| Amir Salari | Iran | Disaster Health Care Management, Disaster Evaluation and Metrics, Disaster Education and Exercise, Man Made Disasters, and Disaster Nursing. |
| Khairulmaini Salleh | Malaysia | Environmental Hazards; Risk and the Urban Poor |
| Guilherme Santana | ||
| Jose dos Santos | Portugal | As an anthropologist and sociologist; teaching Sociology in a Military Institution of Higher Education; I currently work with a group of French Colleagues (Phil.; Artif. Intell.; Law) on a Project with theoretical concerns; called “Crisis; Conflict; Transaction”. The idea is to develop a set of conceptual tools for analysing and possibly build grounded models of the social; institutional; technical; and cognitive aspects of these situations. |
| Venetia Santos | Brazil | |
| Jennifer Santos-Hernandez | USA | Vulnerability to natural hazards; risk communication; mass media and emergency management; GIS; social structure and disasters. |
| Yuriy Sayenko | Ukraine | |
| Joseph Scanlon | Canada | |
| Jon Schauble | Australia | |
| Hanna Schmuck | Germany | Comparative studies on disasters; indigenous knowledge and coping strategies; disasters in development countries; especially Bangladesh; participative approaches for crises prevention and disaster management. |
| Suman Sensarma | ||
| Naeem Shahid | Pakistan | International Security; Human and Critical Infrastructure Security; Counter-terrorism. |
| Antti Silvast | Finland | Risk governance; science and technology studies; anthropology; qualitative research methods; energy and electricity infrastructures. |
| Gary Silver | A serving member of the Disaster Management Team; National Crime and Operations Faculty (British Police) | |
| Mathieu Simard | UK | |
| Gyaneshwar Singh | India | DRR, CCA, Food Security, Livelihood Promotion, and Poverty Eradication and Governance. |
| Dennis Smith | UK | The dynamics of displacement, historical sociology, urban sociology, and social theory |
| Martin Soekefeld | Switzerland | Pakistan and earthquakes. |
| Jorgen Sparf | Sweden | Societal establishment of emerging risks; torrents of information and communication between significant actors. |
| Kim Spurway | Australia | Rationality, knowledge and decision; Humanitarian emergencies, conflict and post-conflict; Disaster management and policy theory. |
| Robert Stallings | USA | Sociological theory and the contribution of the study of disaster to it; social construction of risk; symbolic aspects of public policy-making regarding risk and disaster. |
| Irina Stanciugelu | Romania | |
| Pal Tamas | Hungary | |
| Arzu Taylan | Turkey | |
| Ariadna Rodríguez Teijeiro | Spain | |
| Binali Tercan | Turkey | Disaster Management, Post Disaster Relocation and Resettlement, Post Disaster Site Selection, and Rural Planning |
| Reshmi Theckethil | USA | Dynamics of decision making processes at the onset of a disaster and its implications on the built environment and social relationships |
| Matthew Thompson | Australia | Masters in Community Development (Emergency Management) with Southern Cross University, Australia. |
| Joseph Trainor | USA | Organizations and institutions; social networks. |
| Jennifer Trivedi | USA | How symbols are used during and following disasters (both those perceived as natural and man-made); as well as how people view disasters and how they are taught to them. |
| Charalambos Tsekeris | Greece | |
| John Twigg | UK | Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). |
| Susann Ullberg | Sweden | The anthropology of disaster and crisis; crises and social memory |
| Inci User | Turkey | |
| Cloe Vallette | France | |
| Andréa Vermeer | Germany | Methods of conflict regulation, intercultural mediation, democratisation processes, peace building, formation of normative orders, attitude change, persuasion in society, empirical qualitative methods |
| Sergio Visacovsky | Argentina | Economic and Social Crises: Cultural Reactions and Experiences (how people manage and give experience to economic and social crises) |
| Maria Vitkovskaya | Russia | |
| Martin Voss | Germany | Interests:Theory; development context; disasters and globalization. |
| Vera Vratusa | Serbia | Participation and self-management as prevention; mitigation; reconstruction and development strategy in social crisis and mass emergency situations. |
| Andrea Wai Yee | Hong Kong | Environment and public health; BCP; crisis management; regulatory issues; causes of crisis and disasters; corporate governance and ethics |
| Jieh-Jiuh Wang | USA | disaster management policy; resilient cities and social vulnerability. |
| Migguo Wang | China | emergency management;citizen trust;and social support. |
| Juergen Weichselgartner | USA | Natural disasters; vulnerability. |
| Peter Weiske | Australia | Complex Emergencies, Complex Political Emergencies, Disaster Management, UN consultancy – National DRR – International Cooperation, Joint Response Operations, and Future of Humanity Research. |
| Hadas Weiss | Israel / Finland | Credit/debt, value, insurance, and social security. |
| Scott Welch | USA | Military responses to disasters (first responders). History of disasters. Multi-national and and multi-organizational responses (esp. in relation to command and cooperation). |
| Dennis Wenger | USA | Analysis of organizational and community mitigation; preparedness and recovery issues. Multi-disciplinary research on disasters; including that which bridges the social science and engineering communities. |
| Andry Widyowijatnoko | Indonesia | Emergency shelter and housing; disaster relief; disaster prevention strategies; in Indonesia; especially in Aceh |
| Katherino Worboys | USA | Lessons learned (from Disasters and Crises). |
| Mohammad Yarmohammadian | Iran | Health Services and Organizations in Disaster, Disaster and Contingency Planning, Safe community and organizations. |
| Engin Yildrim | Turkey | social construction of earthquakes; politics of post disaster policies |
| Hahou Yyoussef | Morocco | earthquakes; floods |
| Ali Tolga Özden | Turkey | Disaster Risk Reduction, Building Inspection, Building Codes, and Architectural Design. |