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Supriya Krishnan

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supriya.urban@gmail.com





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Update: April 2026

Following my successful PhD defense on March 25th, 2026 at TU Delft, I am currently open to full-time roles or consulting engagements in Climate Policy, Urban Resilience, and Sustainability Strategy.

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2019-2026 | PhD COMPLETED

The Future Ground: Urban Planning Under Climate Uncertainty

TU Delft Resilience Lab

Traditional urban planning is often hamstrung by its own rigidity. My research bridges the gap between static land-use models and the volatile reality of climate disruptions, moving toward adaptive, systems-based planning.

By reconciling immediate infrastructure needs with long-term resilience, I developed a new framework for Resilient Urban Planning. This approach utilizes a hybrid scenario-building method—tested across India and the Netherlands—ensuring that urban resilience is an equitable, context-specific reality.

Frameworks

Models for embedding resilience within the spatio-temporal dynamics of metropolitan regions.

Hybrid Scenarios

Blending computational models with narrative foresight to explore multiple urbanization strategies.

Interdisciplinary

Tested empirical methodology combining spatial modeling with qualitative insights.

Featured 

Allianz Climate Risk Award 2024

TU Delft: Stories of Science

Publications

Krishnan, S., van Delden, H., Aydin, N.Y. and Comes, T., 2024. FutureScapes: Blending Computational Models and Scenario Narratives to Design Urban Futures. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. TIMEWISE: Temporal Dynamics for Urban Resilience. NPJ Urban Sustainability (2023) RISE-UP: Empirical insights from Amsterdam and Mumbai. City and Environment Interactions (2023) Aydin, N.Y., Krishnan, S., Yu, H. and Comes, M., 2022. An integrated framework for incorporating climate risk into urban land-use change modeling. Proc. of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022) Planning Support Systems for Long-term Climate Resilience: A Critical Review. Urban Informatics and Future Cities (2021)

Talks

  1. Riding Out the Storm. Allianz Climate Risk Award, 2024.
  2. Data-rich vs. Data-poor? Developing Regional Land-Use Models for Urban Resilience: Insights from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. International Workshop on Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asia, Harvard University, 2024.
  3. Who Plans? Knowledge Paradigms in Urban Planning and Policy Processes. 5th India Public Policy Network Conference, IIT Bombay, 2024.
  4. RISE-UP: Resilience in urban planning for climate uncertainty. Reinventing the City, Amsterdam, 2024.
  5. Risk to Resilience: Dealing with Uncertainty in Urban Planning. Global Coastal Cities Summit, Mumbai, India, 2023 (Speaker & Session Moderator).
  6. Predicting Land-use for Urban Resilience: The knowledge divide between the Global North and Global South. International Conference on Resilient Systems, Mexico, 2023. [Slides ︎]
  7. WHEN TO PLAN? Understanding temporality for urban planning for an uncertain future. Deep Uncertainty (DMDU), Mexico, 2022.
  8. Exploring Resilient and Equitable Urban Scenarios. TU Delft Summer School on Planning and Designing the Just City, 2022.
  9. Geospatial Tools for Urban Resilience. Geospatial World Forum, Netherlands, 2022.
  10. Planning for a Resilient Mumbai. Netherlands Consulate Mumbai & Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, 2021.
  11. Planning Support Systems for Long-Term Climate Resilience. CUPUM, Finland, 2021.
  12. Towards a framework for long-term climate resilience. Joint Resilience Engineering Conference, Delft, 2020.
  13. The uncertainty space in urban planning. DMDU, Delft, 2019.

Experts Consultations

RE-GROUND: Exploring resilient future land-use scenarios for the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam, 2021.

RE-GROUND: Exploring resilient future land-use scenarios for the Metropolitan Region of Amsterdam.
Strategic consultation with urban practitioners and policy experts to align computational findings with local spatial planning needs.

Core Team

Supriya Krishnan Dr. Nazli Yonca Aydin Prof. Tina Comes

Supported by Dr. Hedwig van Delden and a multidisciplinary team of student researchers including Aarthi Sundaram, Hongxuan Yu, Marya El Malki, and others.

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