Matthew Preisser

I earned my PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, along with master's degrees in Public Affairs and Environmental & Water Resources Engineering. I am currently a postdoc at ETH Zurich, working under the Chair of Hydrology and Water Resources Management.

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My research focus is in developing tools and methods to describe and predict the compounding impacts of hazards on society. I use remote sensing, conceptual modeling, dynamical systems, network analyses, and open source data/tools to address the intersection of hazards on vulnerable populations in near-real time from both engineering and social science viewpoints.