Biography:

Vangelis Pitidis is an Assistant Professor of Global Sustainable Development at IGSD, focusing on the intersection of urban resilience, governance, and citizen science both in the Global North and in the Global South. His research is focused on urban resilience and its potential to transform the traditional pathways of urban governance delivery as well as in developing participatory methods for engaging local communities in disaster risk management, based on dialogical co-production methods. Vangelis has previously worked in a number of interdisciplinary projects on building resilience and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries particularly in Europe and Latin America and. His interdisciplinary background, cutting across social sciences, urban planning, human geography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has helped him undertake a number of different roles in many developmental projects, including teaching and lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is currently the lead convenor the module ES99E: Urban Resilience, Disasters and Data, a core module of the MSc in Humanitarian Engineering. Vangelis is also the ECR representative for the Sustainable Cities GRP and a member of the Resilient Cities Laboratory based at the University of Warwick.