Dr YoungHwa Cha is a research associate at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She is currently working on the multi-hazard interactions and cascading impacts work package of the MEDiate (‘Multi-hazard and risk-informed system for enhanced local and regional disaster risk management’) project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme of the European Commission.

 

She is an interdisciplinary researcher in climate change adaptation governance, interfacing between science, policy, and practice. Her expertise lies in adaptation policy, climate risk, and collaborative vulnerability modeling, where she collaborates with international, national, and local partners such as UNEP, Historic Environment Scotland, universities, government ministries and local authorities in Scotland, South Korea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. She have effectively communicated with a broad range of stakeholders while working at the University of Edinburgh (3 years) and the Korean Adaptation Centre for Climate Change (3 years).