Our research team represents academics and practitioners from across many fields who each bring unique expertise to better understand disasters. This includes engineering, medicine, law, social sciences, meteorology, information technology and the physical sciences.

We seek to generate usable knowledge that is easily applied to real world problems. We collaborate with emergency management practitioners and industry to form our research questions on "wicked" problems.

Disaster research is an emerging interdisciplinary field that we believe is best viewed through multiple lines of inquiry. We are passionate about understanding how disasters impact our world.