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 risks. She joined IPUR in 2018 as Lead Scientist overseeing the Institute’s Environment and Climate research pillar and became Deputy Director in 2023. Before joining IPUR, she was based at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS). Olivia’s work is concerned […]
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. […]
Zach Lee
Zach is a Research Fellow at IPUR studying public perceptions and behavioural responses to coastal flood risk. Trained in economics and engineering, he examines how people respond to incentives and information in complex systems such as climate, transport, and energy. He uses surveys, behavioural experiments, and applied economic methods to analyse decision-making and the frictions […]
Weiyu Zhang
Professor Weiyu Zhang is Director of the Civic Tech Lab, currently located at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on civic engagement and Information and Communication Technologies, with an emphasis on Asia. She has led on multi-nation projects on youth engagement, online deliberation, and civic tech in […]
Alberto Salvo
Alberto’s research falls under the broad theme: “Individual Behavior, the Environment, and Socioeconomic Outcomes.” He studies how the behaviour and incentives of economic agents, such as households, workers, and firms, interact with scarce environmental resources, such as climate, urban air, and water. Some of his ongoing projects relate to households’ awareness of the climate crisis, […]