Expertise
Disaster risk management, floods and drought, satellite-based monitoring and early warning, emergency response, climate risk insurance, Big Data, climate and food security
Giriraj Amarnath
Principal Researcher – Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience
Colombo - Sri Lanka
Before IWMI
Giriraj previously worked at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to understand disaster risks for mountain ecosystems (2008-2011), and was a Research Associate at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2006-2008). In 2003, he received a PhD in applied remote sensing and landscape ecology from the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In 2005, he worked as a postdoc at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, on fire ecology and species niche modeling, and was a faculty member at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, teaching remote sensing for global change ecology.
Languages
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi