Titles

• Scenario Modeling Postdoctoral Fellow, Emeritus, Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network, Urban Systems Lab, The New School

Biography

Rocio Carrero is an environmental scientist with expertise in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, scenarios and spatial modeling. Since 2016, she has concentrated her efforts in developing and testing experimental models to assess how urban communities build resilience. Dr Carrero has worked with the EU ECHO, The World Bank, the Red Cross and the IADB, as well as governments and NGOs in over a dozen countries. She holds a PhD in Geosciences from the University Pablo de Olavide of Seville, Spain. Prior to joining the The New School, she was a postdoc at the University College London (UCL) leading urban resilience projects with Dr Michele Acuto at the City Leadership Lab. Dr Carrero is now the UREx SRN's Scenarios Modeling Postdoctoral Fellow at The New School in New York City, New York.