Farinaz Motlagh
Farinaz Motlagh holds an M.Sc. degree in the field of Integrated Water Resources Management with focus on the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) from the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT), Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She has spent her third semester as an exchange student at the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Amman, Jordan, to learn about the challenges of scarce freshwater resources management within a dry region in practice. Farinaz holds a B.Sc. degree from the Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, in the field of Industrial Economics.
Through her internship experience at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Tehran, Iran, Farinaz had the opportunity to learn more about the importance of disaster risk preparedness/management. In the past year, she has worked as a research assistant as part of the Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) team at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany. PARI contributes to sustainable agricultural growth and food and nutrition security in Africa and India as part of the One World – No Hunger initiative.
Farinaz is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program titled Marine Sciences at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, United States. her research interest is to study the impacts of climate-related disasters in the coastal regions and communities vulnerable to disasters.
email: farinaz.motlagh@stonybrook.edu
Megan Gallagher
Megan Gallagher studies Environmental Humanities with a minor in Ecosystems and Human Impact as an undergraduate student at Stony Brook University. Interested in working with the public as well as having a passion for the environment, Megan participated in a field study in the Rocky Mountains and holds a position as a Senior Hydroponic Farm Technician at the Freight Farm on Stony Brook’s West campus. She also conducted research on former Suffolk County planner Dr. Lee Koppelman, which led to the production of a documentary that is available for viewing on the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) website. Currently, she is working as a Research Assistant through the University under the leadership of Dr. Sara Hamideh. The core of this work focuses on the building of resilience in communities across the United States where they will be able to better mitigate the impacts of natural disasters through informational tools and resources developed by this research.
Payel Sen
Payel Sen a fourth year PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science in Stony Brook University New York. Payel is primarily interested in understanding and analyzing human behavior, be it participation in elections, community engagement, protests, or donation to a cause. In her dissertation, she examines people’s motivations for collective action, specifically in diverse goal-oriented movements like climate change protests. In Dr. Hamideh’s research group, Payel has examined the impact of social vulnerability in post-disaster recovery. In her research, she uses quantitative methods like experimental survey designs, time series, and qualitative interview analysis to analyze primary and secondary data.
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Email: sen.payel@stonybrook.edu