We are a community of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners dedicated to advancing knowledge about life on a hotter planet.
Co-founder
Febe De Geest
Febe is a postdoctoral research fellow in human geography studying the social and cultural aspects of extreme heat.
Human Geography
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Nick Rahier
Nick is an environmental anthropologist at Ghent University and KU Leuven in Belgium. His research explores the intersections of health, pollution, and environmental change in Kenya.
Anthropology
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Hebe Nicholson
Hebe examines the societal impacts of current extreme heat in Pakistan, and the potential consequences of future unprecedented heat events.
Human Geography
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Divyani Vyas
Divyanshi is an environmental planner and researcher, specialising in extreme heat, migration, and climate adaptation across diverse urban and mountain landscapes in India.
Urban Planning
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Swati Surampally
Swati is a Senior Research Associate at IIHS whose work examines how urban communities navigate climate risks through equitable and sustainable adaptation strategies.
Urban Planning
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Emma Ramsey
Emma is a Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University whose work centres on urban heat stress and climate adaptation in Southeast Asian cities.
Physical Geography
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Camelia Biswas
Camellia is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, studying how heat is embodied, acclimatised, and narrated as an everyday climate disaster within the more-than-human contexts in Cambodia.
Anthropology
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Pratik Mishra
Pratik is a labour geographer - anthropologist specialising in the political economy of heat, with a focus on how debt bondage, migration, and social reproduction shape occupational heat stress among informal brick kiln workers in India.
Human Geography
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Jenix Justine
Jenix is a PhD student in Geography at King’s College London researching the limits of human heat-health adaptation, building on earlier work analysing wet-bulb temperature extremes in India.
Physical Geography
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Joshua Sim Dao Wei
Joshua is a Senior Research Fellow at NUS who brings together history, physiology, and ethnography to study how heat shapes health, belief, and household practices in Singapore.
Historical Geography
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Zakia Sultana
Zakia is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University whose research examines how individuals and communities - particularly in informal urban contexts - adapt to rising heat stress.