People

Areas of Expertise: Volcanic risk; volcanism; disaster risk reduction

Associated projects: www.imaginingrisk.com

Amy Donovan is Professor of Environmental Geography at the University of Cambridge. She works on interdisciplinary disaster risk, focussing on the use of scientific knowledge in decision-making on active volcanoes, and on how scientific knowledge interacts with other forms of knowledge in these contexts. She became a COMET Associate in 2024.

Amy completed her PhD in 2010 at the University of Cambridge, and held postdoctoral positions in Cambridge and Sheffield. She then held a lectureship at King’s College London from 2015 to 2018, before returning to Cambridge. She is PI of the ERC IMAGINE project and collaborates closely with volcano observatories around the world. She is currently co-chair of the UK Alliance for Disaster Research

Email: [email protected]

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3596-5294