Flooding is the natural hazard that impacts more people  worldwide and is getting substantially worse with climate change and current urbanizations trends in high hazard zones. 

Dr. Anna Serra-Llobet is an environmental scientist who works at the University of California Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. Her research concerns global approaches to flood risk management at the interface between natural and social processes. She also teaches a course on fundamentals of Flood Risk Management  (LDARCH 229) and a course on Disaster Risk Resilience and Adaptation (ENVECON 7), with focus on different natural and human made hazards.

Her research interests are on the use of digital twins and new technologies for environmental planning and climate adaptation, flood risk management policies and governance, residual risk of extreme floods, environmental justice, floods after fire, and nature-based solutions.