AXA Chair on Climate Change impacts and Coastal Risk

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AXA Chair in Climate Change impacts and Coastal Risk
Professor of Climate Change Impacts and Coastal Risk                               
Roshanka Ranasinghe
Professor of Climate Change Impacts and Coastal Risk                                                                                                                       

Contributing PhD fellows at IHE Delft

                                                                                            
 Trang Duong                           Janaka Bamunawala                  Abdi Mehvar                                
 Graduated Dec 2015                            Graduated Apr 2020                                  Graduated Jan 2019

Climate change impacts          A holistic modelling approach    Quantifying climate change
on the stability of                     for
catchment-estuary-coastal    driven environmental losses
small tidal inlets                       systems at macro time scales    in coastal areas            
In collaboration with Deltares                
In collaboration with Deltares                          In collaboration with Ministry I&M                       

PhD thesis                                   PhD thesis                                     PhD thesis       

                                                                                                    
Hieu Ngo                                    Jeewanthi Sirisena                  Panos Athanasiou
(ongoing)                                                 Graduated Dec 2020                             (ongoing)                           

An efficient modelling                 Future variations in                 Assessing coastal erosion
approach to support                   river flows and fluvial              hazards at large spatial
economically and socially          sediment supply due to           scales: insights and
acceptable flood risk                  climate change and                 uncertainties
reduction in coastal cities           human activities

In collaboration with                                 In collaboration with the                       In collaboration with EU H2020
Minstry I&M                                            Netherlands Fellowship Program        
 

PhD thesis                                     PhD thesis

Contributing Postdoctoral fellows at IHE Delft

                                                           
Dr. Chuangshou Wu                      Aysun Koroglu-Dogan               Trang Duong 
(2015-2016)                                                 (2017-2019)                                            (2017-2020) 
Assessing human and                   Development of a coastal          Numerical modelling
climate change impact                   sustainability scoring tool          of coastal sediment transport and
on fluvial sediment transport         (CoaSST)                                   climate change impacts on coasts
in Pearl River, China