Professor Bruce Malamud
Visiting Professor
Research interests
- Geography
Contact details
Biography
Professor Bruce D. Malamud received a BA in physics from Reed College in 1986 and a PhD in geophysics/stratigraphy from Cornell University in 1998. He was a member of the Department of Geography from 2000 to 2022. He was Professor of Natural and Environmental Hazards.
Bruce spent two years in the US Peace Corps (1986-1988) as a high-school teacher of chemistry/physics in Niger, West Africa. He was also a past recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (1998) for which he studied natural hazards in Argentina.
He was President of the Natural Hazards Division (2007-11) of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and the Chair of the Programme Committee for the EGU General Assembly in 2010 and 2011.
In 2012, he received the EGU service award and has twice (2003/4 and 2013/14) received a King’s College London Teaching Excellence Award. Currently, he is an executive editor for the journal, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
Research
Main research interests
- Natural and environmental hazards (wildfires, earthquakes, landslides, floods tornadoes, multi-hazard interactions and heavy-metal contamination)
Research sub-themes
- Observational data: gathering, analysis, exploration and visualisation.
- Synthetic data: construction in 1-D and 2-D
- Time-series analyses and mathematical models: persistence, spectral analysis, probability distributions
- Tools from the complexity sciences: fractals, self-organised behaviour, cellular-automata models
- Comparison of models with data in the broad environmental sciences
- Communications of science to stakeholders
Further details
Research
Physical & Environmental Geography research group
Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.
Risk, Hazard & Society research group
Advancing understanding of risk and perception, as well as communication and regulation in a range of environmental, social and country contexts.
King's Water Centre
Researching water, environment and development. Our centre spans the humanities, social, and physical sciences to explore the challenges of water governance from global to local scales.
SINATRA: Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding
Advancing scientific understanding of the drivers, thresholds, and impacts of flooding from intense rainfall in Britain.
Project status: Completed
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)
CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.
Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s
King's researchers working across climate and sustainability
Events
Hear from physical and environmental geographers
Hear from academics in the Department of Geography about their research interests in physical and environmental geography.
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Reviewing and visualising interaction relationships for natural hazards
Professor Bruce Malamud (Department of Geography, King’s College London) discusses reviewing and visualising interaction relationships for natural hazards
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Research
Physical & Environmental Geography research group
Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.
Risk, Hazard & Society research group
Advancing understanding of risk and perception, as well as communication and regulation in a range of environmental, social and country contexts.
King's Water Centre
Researching water, environment and development. Our centre spans the humanities, social, and physical sciences to explore the challenges of water governance from global to local scales.
SINATRA: Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding
Advancing scientific understanding of the drivers, thresholds, and impacts of flooding from intense rainfall in Britain.
Project status: Completed
Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)
CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.
Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s
King's researchers working across climate and sustainability
Events
Hear from physical and environmental geographers
Hear from academics in the Department of Geography about their research interests in physical and environmental geography.
Please note: this event has passed.
Reviewing and visualising interaction relationships for natural hazards
Professor Bruce Malamud (Department of Geography, King’s College London) discusses reviewing and visualising interaction relationships for natural hazards
Please note: this event has passed.