He Xiaogang
Xiaogang He is a Princeton-trained Ph.D. Hydrologist with experience in economics, machine learning, and environmental policy. His research interests focus on the fundamental understanding of how climate change, variability, and human interventions affect drought and flood risk across scales, and how to implement an integrative framework (e.g., hydrological modeling, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, nexus approaches) […]
Paul Slovic
Dr Paul Slovic studies judgment and decision processes with an emphasis on decision making under conditions of risk. His work examines fundamental issues such as the influence of affect on judgments and decisions. He also studies the factors that underlie perceptions of risk and attempts to assess the importance of these perceptions for the management […]
Leonard Lee
Leonard Lee is Director and Lloyd’s Register Foundation Professor of Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR), and Professor of Marketing at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2014, he was an Associate Professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School where he spent the first […]
Olivia Jensen
Dr Olivia Jensen is a social scientist specialising in water and environmental policy with a focus on urban Asia. She joined IPUR in 2018 as Lead Scientist overseeing the Institute’s work related to Environment and Climate and was appointed Deputy Director in 2023. Before joining IPUR, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute […]
Yiyun Shou
Dr Yiyun Shou joined IPUR in 2022 as Lead Scientist in the domain of Health and Lifestyle. She also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Before joining IPUR, Dr Shou was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australia National University and was a recipient of […]
Carolyn Lo
Dr Carolyn Lo is a postdoctoral research fellow holding a joint appointment with IPUR and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS. With a background in consumer psychology, her research takes a behavioural science lens intersecting areas in healthcare, risk perception, and consumer judgment and decision-making. Carolyn’s current projects include conceptualising and measuring […]
Tra Thi Trinh
Dr Tra Thi Trinh joined IPUR in 2022 as a Research Fellow in the Environment and Climate pillar. Her research interest lies in environmental economics, behavioural economics and development economics using applied econometrics. Her focus areas during her PhD involved climate and migration. Dr Tra’s current projects at IPUR including analysis of the World Risk […]
Chia-Wen Wang
Dr Chia-Wen Wang joined IPUR in 2023 as a Research Fellow in the Health and Lifestyle research pillar. She also holds a joint appointment as a Research Fellow at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS. Before joining IPUR, Dr Wang was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Taiwan University. […]
Ravneet Bawa
Ravneet Bawa is a fifth year PhD Candidate in Marketing at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her dissertation examines how consumers navigate digital hyperchoice – platform environments like online video, online dating and online gaming where vast assortments interact with fluid decision making. Her research proposes that consumers use a dual mindset approach of Sampling and […]
Jared Ng
Jared oversees the communication strategies at the Institute and the platforms central to promoting the messages of IPUR including social media management. He helps the Institute develop material that are align with its mission and also serves as a content writer for all IPUR distribution channels. His focus includes creating informative content, press releases, articles, […]