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CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll, Björn Lund and Steffi Burchardt were interviewed in different media platform about the impending volcano eruption in Iceland 

CNDS Director, Giuliano Di Baldassarre was one of the invited panelists at the thematic panel on ”Natural, accidental and intentional disasters of the future: are we prepared?” that took place in Brussels, on 24-25 October 2023

CNDS offers some insights into this year's UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, with a focus on inequality

In the past few months, CNDS Fellow Björn Lund has been on the media to share his expertise on the earthquake on Morocco, as well as a landslide and a explosion in Sweden

Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS Director, together with Anastasiya Shyrokaya, CNDS PhD candidate, participated in the HEPEX workshop 2023 with their presentation "Forecasting socio-hydrological extremes"

The paper on Nature Sustainability by CNDS Fellow Elisa Savelli and colleguagues has reached more than 17,000 clicks in less than one week

CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan are co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles in Geology Today in the 12 months after publication

A new article in Nature Sustainability, cowritten by Elisa Savelli, uncovers how inequalities influence water crises and hydrological risks. 

Ashok Swain, Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and CNDS Fellow gives an interview about his involvement in social media.

CNDS Fellows Valentin Troll and Frances Deegan worked with colleagues from Cornell University (USA), and Las Palmas and Barcelona (Spain) amongst other institutions to unearth precise, microscopic clues to where magma was stored prior to and during the 2021 eruption at La Palma. The results offer scientists and government decision makers a way to better assess the risk of volcanic eruptions.

In his interview with Uppsala University, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS Director, tells us more about his expectations as a moderator and host of the Celsius-Linnaeus Lectures that will take place on 9 February 2023 in Uppsala. 

CNDS' Fellows Frederike Albrecht and Helena Hermansson, inte alia, have recently published  a chapter within the book Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries [by B. Johansson, Ø. Ihlen, J. Lindholm, & M. Blach-Ørsten (Eds.)]

This chapter analyses how Nordic health authorities and prime ministers used social media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic from the health authorities’ Twitter communication and prime ministers’ Instagram posts.

Chapter available in Diva's website.

CNDS-Fellow, Valentin Troll (Uppsala university) explained in an interview with SVT Nyheter the main causes of risk during volcanic eruptions. 

CNDS Fellow, Valentin Troll (Uppsala university), co-authored an article on the so-called "spallation bombs" resulted from the 2021 La Palma volcanic eruption with the aim of understanding in which ways these threats to human lives and infrastructure "ought to be accounted for in risk assessment, necessitating awareness of an increased hazard footprint on steep-sided volcanoes with ballistic activity" (Day, Troll et. al., 2022).

The project "Leap in Swedish freshwater monitoring for water supply risk mitigation", led by researchers from Lund University in collaboration with Stockholm University and with the contribution of CNDS Fellow, Johanna Mård, has been granted funding via Formas of around 16 mil. SEK.  

CNDS Fellow, Gabriele Messori has co-authored a paper on the attribution of climate change to some of the weather extreme events from 2021. It is shown that the extreme events the authors investigate are significantly modified in the present climate with respect to the past, because of changes in the location, persistence and/or seasonality of cyclonic/anticyclonic patterns in the sea-level pressure analogues.