Nurfashareena Muhammad

Dr Nurfashareena Muhamad is a Research Fellow in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM). Her expertise is in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Geographical Information System. Her research interest covers optimizing the use of geospatial technology in decision support systems to facilitate knowledge-based decision making for land use planning and development to reduce the risk of disasters at local level. She is Geospatialist (Gs.) registered with the Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Malaysia. She is currently a Leader for the Special Topic Group on Young Professionals in DRR and Climate Science of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (ANCST). She is a co-leader of U-INSPIRE Malaysia @ UKM, a platform for Malaysian youth and young professionals to accelerate implementation of DRR through Science, Engineering, Technology and Innovation (SETI) and a member of the U-INSPIRE Alliance, a regional platform to coordinate Asian youth and young professionals’ involvement in SETI for DRR in the global level. Her complete resume can be found here. Nurfashareena is a member of GEO DRR Working Group, supporting subgroup 1, particularly Task 1.3.