Viktor Roezer

Viktor Roezer is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Risk, Environment and Society at the Department of Geography at King’s College London. He has previously worked as Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work focusses on resilience and adaptation to climate-related risks. His research interests include the quantification of impacts from extreme weather and climate events and incentives for increasing pre-event resilience. He has several years of experience working in insurance related contexts including as a research partner in the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, a multi-sectoral partnership focusing on finding practical ways to support communities across the globe to strengthen their resilience to flood risk.

Viktor completed his PhD at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. He worked as a Research Associate at the Hydrology group at the German Research Centre for Geosciences and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Columbia Water Center at Columbia University. His thesis focuses on the impacts of urban flooding with a focus on the coping capacity of private households, which has won the 2017 Allianz Climate Risk Research Award. He completed his undergraduate degree in Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and holds a master’s degree in Environmental Hydrology from the Free University of Berlin. He has previously taught courses in Statistics at the Geography Department at Humboldt University in Berlin. Viktor also worked as an industry data scientist developing predictive models.