Christophe Viavattene

Christophe Viavattene is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Middlesex University, specializing in flood risk management and urban resilience. He has spent 17 years at the Flood Hazard Research Centre, leading interdisciplinary research across economic and physical sciences in water and flood risk.

• Research Focus: Flood vulnerability (coastal, urban, fluvial), GIS tools (INDRA model), Multi-Coloured Manual (MCM) methodology, mental health impacts of flooding, groundwater flood risk in arid regions, and air quality risk assessment.
• Teaching: Programme Leader for the MSc Sustainability and Environmental Management, teaching problem-based sustainability, GIS, and environmental monitoring.
• Key Collaborations: EU FP7 RISC-KIT, EU CONHAZ, Environment Agency UK projects.
• Recent Publications: Bayesian flood models, coastal hotspots analysis, and groundwater flood damage methodologies.

His work bridges academic research with practical applications, including flood storage compensation frameworks and vulnerability indicator libraries.