I am on the 2026 job market.
I think about how urban and urbanising regions can grow under big transitions. I use a combination of theoretical, empirical and modelling methods to think about this.
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As an urban planner and architect, I study the systemic evolution of cities under the pressure of climate change. My doctoral work at TU Delft focuses on Urban Planning Under Climate Uncertainty, specifically examining the integration of short-term actions with long-term climate commitments.
My methodology leverages:
- Systems Thinking: Analyzing cities as interconnected, dynamic evolving organisms.
- Foresight & Scenario Planning: Developing strategies that remain robust across multiple climate futures.
- Data Equity: Investigating how disparities in geospatial knowledge impact the resilience of developing regions.
By bridging the gap between high-level policy and on-the-ground spatial planning, I aim to create frameworks that allow cities to thrive despite environmental volatility.
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Professionally, I have provided knowledge support on urban development, resilient infrastructure, disaster risk reduction, and public health to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction + Resilience, National Disaster Management Authority of India, and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy . I received the C40 Women4Climate mentorship and the TU Delft Global Fellowship.
Updates:
- ︎I will be at the ESRI User Conference 2025 - See you in San Diego!
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︎I will be speaking at the Cesium Developer Summit on trends in the Open Geospatial Market.
- ︎I will be speaking at the Harvard Conference on the Geography of Digital Twins.
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︎I will be at the USGIF GEOINT Conference 2025 - See you in St Louis!
- ︎I won the 2024:
Allianz Climate Risk Award.eeeeS S. SS See
- Talk: “Rise-Up: Integrating Resilience into Urban Planning for managing Uncertainty”. AMS Scientific Conference 2024, Amsterdam.
- Publication : Krishnan, S., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2024. TIMEWISE: Temporal Dynamics for Urban Resilience-theoretical insights and empirical reflections from Amsterdam and Mumbai. npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1), p.4.
- Publication: Krishnan, S., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2023. RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty-empirical insights and theoretical reflections from case studies in Amsterdam and Mumbai. Cities, 141, p.104464.
- Talk: June 2023:”Land-use models and Urban resilience.” The International Conference on Resilient Systems, Mexico City.
- Media: Story of Science at TU Delft: “ The Future Ground: Planning Cities for an Uncertain Future.”
- Publication: “ With overcrowding, weather and age, curbing bridge collapses in India is complex but not impossible.” Scroll, Nov 2022.
- Talk: Urban risk and Planning for Mumbai. DRI Technical Conference, New Delhi, Oct 2022.
- Talk: “An integrated framework for incorporating climate risk into urban land-use change modeling“. ESREL 2022, Dublin.
- Workshop: Jun 2022: Organised a training event at World Urban Forum: “Resilience for All”. Katowice, Poland.
- Publication:
Krishnan, S., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2021. Planning support systems for long-term climate resilience: a critical review. Urban Informatics and Future Cities, pp.465-498.