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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Sulfikar Amir
Sulfikar Amir is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and a faculty member in Sociology Programme at the School of Social Sciences NTU. His research interests primarily focus on examining institutional, political, and epistemological dimensions of scientific knowledge and technological systems. He has conducted research on technological nationalism, development and globalisation, nuclear politics, risk and disaster, design studies, city and infrastructure, and resilience.
COLLABORATORS
Alka Menon
Alka Menon is a medical sociologist at Yale University. Broadly speaking, she is interested in the relationship between the body and social identities, especially race and ethnicity, as mediated by medicine and science. Her research has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science & Medicine, and Poetics and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. She is a collaborator in the project “State Politics and Covid-19 Mitigation in Southeast Asia.”
Burhanuddin Muhtadi
Burhanuddin Muhtadi is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. He is also an executive director of the Indonesian Political Indicator (Indikator Politik Indonesia) and the Director of Public Affairs at the Indonesian Survey Institute (Lembaga Survei Indonesia, LSI). His research interests include political Islam, democracy, voting behavior, clientelism and social movement. He is a collaborator in the project “State Politics and Covid-19 Mitigation in Southeast Asia.”
Saut Sagala
Saut Sagala is an Assistant Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia. Saut has conducted intensive research and consultancy experiences on spatial planning, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. He has experiences working on cultural heritage & tourism, renewable energy policy (biomass, biogas, Solar PV, wind energy), rural energy, micro insurance, social protection, disaster financing, green financing and sustainable financing.
Rita Padawangi
Rita Padawangi is a Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. With research interests spanning over the sociology of architecture and participatory urban development, Dr. Padawangi has conducted various research projects in cities of Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia and the Philippines. Her commitment to social activism in the built environment keeps her connected with community groups and practitioners in many cities in the region.
PHD RESEARCHERS
Justyna Tasic, PhD
Justyna is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the TPM, Multi-Actor Systems Department, TU Delft, where she works on the “Multilevel Governance for Urban Resilience” project. She was a research associate at the Future Resilient Systems Programme, Singapore-ETH Centre. She has interdisciplinary background in Resilience Studies, Spatial Economy, and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on social resilience, resilience management, organizational resilience framework. Justyna has a master’s degree in Spatial Economy and was an urban statistics specialist at the statistical office in Poland.
Fredy Tantri
Fredy Tantri is a doctoral researcher at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He joined the ‘Modelling Complex Socio-Technical Infrastructure Systems’ research module of the Future Resilient Systems programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre in January 2016. His research focuses on developing agent-based simulation and network optimization for analysing the effects of structure configuration, informational relation, as well as the complex interactions on the safety and resilience of socio-technical systems.