Anaïs Couasnon

Anaïs Couasnon is a PhD researcher at the Department of Water and Climate Risk, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, part of the Faculty of Science. Her research focuses on compound flood risk modeling, probabilistic methods, and global hazard assessment under climate change. She is supervised by Dr. Philip Ward and Dr. Hessel Winsemius as part of a VIDI project.

Education: MSc in Hydraulic Engineering (TU Delft, 2017); BSc in Civil Engineering (McGill University, 2010).

Research interests include probabilistic modeling, multivariate dependence analysis, flood risk management, and climate impacts on coastal-riverine interactions. She contributes to global datasets like COAST-RP and socio-hydrological benchmarking.

Key activities include:

• Developing frameworks for compound flood risk assessment
• Modeling extreme sea-level events and storm surges
• Collaborating on global hazard frameworks and disaster risk reduction strategies

Contributions to datasets include:

• COAST-RP dataset
• Panta Rhei socio-hydrological benchmark dataset