Christina Corbane
Christina Corbane is deputy head of the Disaster Risk Management Unit at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). Her research focuses on the application of remote sensing and Earth observation to disaster risk assessment, resilience, and environmental change. Dr. Corbane holds a PhD in remote sensing applied to earth sciences and environmental sciences from Université Montpellier II. At the JRC she coordinates interdisciplinary projects and scientific platforms that support evidence-based policy implementation for disaster risk reduction and resilience in the European Union. Her work spans satellite data analysis, risk data platforms, and risk-informed decision support tools that bridge science, policy, and practice in disaster risk management.
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Jens O. Zinn
Jens O. Zinn holds the T.R. Ashworth Professorship in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the sociology of risk and uncertainty, with particular expertise in how individuals and social groups navigate uncertain futures in everyday life. His interdisciplinary work bridges sociological theory and applied risk studies, making influential conceptual contributions to modes of reasoning, risk-taking, and changes in risk-related discourses. His research on the phenomenology of risk has advanced the understanding of trust, hope, emotions, and embodied forms of engagement with uncertainty. His current research examines socially differentiated responses to the 2022 floods in Australia’s Goulburn Valley, including issues of mobility, insurance, and housing, as well as broader questions of risk, resilience, and trust in socio-technical systems. At the Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, he convenes the study group Learning about Risk and Crisis (2024–27), focusing on societal risk communication, living and working with risk, and risk governance and regulation.
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Ragnar E. Lofstedt
Ragnar E. Lofstedt is Professor of Risk Management in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and risk management. His work spans a wide range of policy-relevant areas, including renewable energy, food safety, pharmaceutical recalls, telecommunications, biosafety, and the siting of major infrastructures such as incinerators, nuclear waste facilities, and railways. A central theme of his research is the role of trust in regulation; he argues that high public trust in regulators is closely linked to lower perceived risk. In 2011, he chaired the UK Government’s Review of Health and Safety Regulation at the request of the Department for Work and Pensions. His report, Reclaiming Health and Safety for All, was published in November 2011, with all 26 recommendations accepted by the UK Government. Professor Lofstedt is the author or editor of ten books and over 120 peer-reviewed articles. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Risk Research and edits the Routledge/Earthscan series Risk, Society and Policy. He is a former President of the Society for Risk Analysis and has received several major awards from the Society, including the Chauncey Starr Award, Outstanding Service Award, and Distinguished Educator Award.
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Magda Osman
Magda Osman is a basic and applied psychologist by training and the author of over 170 peer-reviewed academic article and two monographs. Her main areas of interest are decision-making under risk and uncertainty, folk beliefs in the unconscious, information disorders (e.g. disinformation), and examining the effectiveness of methods of behavioural change in several sectors (e.g. defence, business compliance, food industry). She takes a multidisciplinary approach working with colleagues from several disciplines (e.g. machine learning, management, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, behavioural economic, economics) to tackle core scientific measurement problems of validity and reliability. She has recently been focused on investigating improvements to science communication and the use of evidence to support risk-based policy decision-making. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Policy impact at Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, along with positions as a Research Associate of the Centre for Existential Risk, University of Cambridge and a Honorary Associate of the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy University of Cambridge.