Mikhail Sirenko

Mikhail is a computational scientist dedicated to making human settlements more livable and resilient. At the Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center (PDPC), he works on quantifying how floods affect people and urban healthcare systems at the city scale and designing interventions that could reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience. Alongside his PDPC role, Mikhail is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the TU Delft’s Centre for Social Complexity and Climate Change and a Disaster Resilience Analyst with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). His broader research interests spans the computational modelling of cities, refugee camps and informal settlements under extreme heat, floods and infectious disease outbreaks, always with an emphasis on community and individual behaviour. By working across academia, government and international organisations, he works to advance data-driven, equitable policies for both current and future urban challenges.