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Sina Khatami

HS&HK Foundation Professor of environmental security and geopolitics • Editor of the Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences special issue (https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/special_issue1254.html) • Senior Advisor at Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2023-24) • Panelist at International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Science for Solutions decade (2023-) • Emergent Climate Risk Lab (ECRL) at Cornell University (2022-) • Senior think-tanker at Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (a joint by Swedish defence and geosciences, 2022-23) • Secretary of Hydro Uncertainty Tech Committee at American Geophysical Union (2020-) • Early Career Scientists Representative at European Geosciences Union (2020-22) • Researcher at Bolin Centre for Climate Research (2019-21) • Councillor at Academic Board of University of Melbourne (2016-19) • Secretary and Co-chair of Young Hydrological Society (2018-2020) • Qualified Company Director by Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD, 2017-18) • Ambassador of University of Melbourne (2015-19) • Australia's International PhD Researcher of the Year 2016 • President of University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association (2016-17) • Sweden's Best Master Thesis of the Year 2013 in Environmental Sciences by Rambøll • Lecturer at Institute of Biology and Aquatic Ecology (LundUni, 2012-14) • Researcher at Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES, 2010-14) • Researcher at Techno-Economic Road Safety Research Center (2008-10) • Project Manager/Estimator at AlumGlass (https://alumglass.com , 2006-2008) • TA at Department of Pure Mathematics at FUM (2005-10) • Drafter at SSS Building & Construction Co (2000-05) ••• PhD (UniMelb, with Leadership Distinction) • MSc (LundUni, with Academic Distinction) • BSc (FUM, with Athletic Distinction).

Midnight stutters of an environmentalist, an open letter to the people and places of the planet

We are in a state of environmental crisis. As someone who knows something about this, i’m really worried about the rising food crisis (due to ongoing wars in regions of russia-ukraine and israel-palestine), and waves of environmental refugees. In this strip of lands, soil is getting ruined daily. Every bomb ruins a patch of soil including moisture, microorganisms, roots, plants, … . Imagine how mu ...[Read More]

Inter-journal Special Issue “Drought, Society and Ecosystems”

Inter-journal Special Issue “Drought, Society and Ecosystems”

Are you a scientist, researcher, student, practitioner, or stakeholder with an interest in the complex phenomenon of drought and its impacts on societies and ecosystems? If so, we have exciting news for you! The IAHS Panta Rhei scientific decade (2013-2023) working group “Drought in the Anthropocene” (DitA) is advertising an inter-journal special issue entitled “Drought, Society and Ecosystems” to ...[Read More]

The Young Hydrologic Society Stands Against Racism

In reaction to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Tayloy and too many others, we, early career scientists of the Young Hydrologic Society, are taking a stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. We pledge to take actionable steps to amplify the voices of Black hydrologists in particular, and our Researchers of Colour colleagues in general, while fighting racial disc ...[Read More]

Chatting about science and hydrology at EGU GA 2020

Chatting about science and hydrology at EGU GA 2020

We all woke up that Monday morning 4 May 2020 (at home rather than in Vienna) with mixed feelings about what to expect from this year’s exceptional EGU GA: Sharing Geoscience Online. For some of us, it was the first time we were entering a chat room and, for many, the first time we were going to chat about our scientific work online. If you were an author, a convener or a curious attendee, that mo ...[Read More]