Elinor S. Meredith is a Postdoctoral Researcher focusing on volcanic multi-hazard risk at the Water and Climate Risk Department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and the Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has a background in geography and geohazards.
Her research develops and applies datasets and tools to understand risks faced by communities living in volcanic environments. This includes spatial exposure, vulnerability, and empirical impact datasets, to quantify risk across local to global scales. She is particularly interested in multi-hazard, compound, and cascading events, and currently works on two VU-UT Alliance projects: one analysing past volcanic multi-hazard events and another assessing risks from cascading land-surface hazards. In 2026, she was awarded an NWO Veni grant for her research on impact-based volcanic multi-hazard risk.
Elinor completed her PhD at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, where she assessed lava flow impacts on the built environment using field-based and remote sensing methods, and developed lava-flow damage forecasting models. Her subsequent postdoctoral work has examined exposure to large-scale low-probability events and spatio-temporal trends in urban exposure to volcanic eruptions. She is also interested in ethical disaster research practices.
Outside of research, Elinor holds a part-time position at 510 Global, the data and digital team of the Netherlands Red Cross. She serves on the leadership teams of the IAVCEI Cities and Volcanoes Commission and the IAVCEI Volcanic Hazard and Risk Commission, and is a guest journal editor for the Journal of Applied Volcanology.
Expertise
Volcanology, volcanic risk, disaster risk assessment, impact assessment, data and geospatial analysis.
Education
2023: PhD in Volcanic Risk: Analysis of lava flow impacts for use in risk assessments. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2017: MSc in Geophysical Hazards. University College London, UK.
2016: BSc in Geography with Study Abroad. University of Bristol, UK, and McMaster University, Canada.
