Dr Jonas JOERIN

Director of Future Resilient Systems

Dr Jonas Joerin is the Director of the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme hosted by the Singapore-ETH Centre and funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore.

Jonas holds a PhD from Kyoto University, master’s degree from the University of Manchester (UK) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Zurich. His academic background is in geography, environmental management and disaster management. His research interests are in understanding human-environmental processes, with a particular focus on analysing the resilience of individuals in the context of hazards.

Jonas is active in contributing to the research fields of community and social resilience as well as food system resilience and has done extensive field work in several countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.