Risk Frontiers is fortunate to have a team of highly-qualified, loyal and enthusiastic people keen to work out your best solutions.
Lucinda Coates
Senior Research Consultant
Lucinda manages PerilAUS, Risk Frontiers’ comprehensive hazards database. This enables the analysis of trends in fatalities, community resilience, risk assessment and climate change adaptation.
Valentina Koschatzky
Principal Risk Scientist
As Principal, Valentina oversees the implementation our earthquake and cyclone catastrophe loss models, leading the successful delivery of complex modelling solutions to industry. Valentina holds a PhD in Fluid Mechanics.
Thomas Mortlock
Senior Risk Scientist
Thomas specialises in the development of our flood and storm surge loss models and climate change services. Thomas has a background in coastal engineering and holds a PhD in Environmental Science.
Carol Robertson
Office Manager
Carol is an experienced administrator who performs a wide range of tasks to ensure the smooth running of Risk Frontiers.
Paul Somerville
Chief Geoscientist
Paul is Risk Frontiers lead scientist for the development of earthquake and tsunami loss models for Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Paul holds a PhD in Geophysics.
Mingzhu Wang
Senior Risk Scientist
Mingzhu’s focus is the application of our spatial and machine learning technologies. Minzhu has successfully incorporated these into projects for government and a detailed bushfire loss model. She holds a PhD in Geography.
Salome Hussein
Risk Scientist
Salomé is our expert in machine vision, radar analysis, and robotic process automation (RPA). She holds a PhD in Physics and specialises in modelling hail and agriculture.
Jacob Evans
Risk Scientist
Jacob employs techniques such as machine learning and statistical analysis to understand the vulnerability of risk across Risk Frontiers catastrophe suite. Jacob holds a PhD in Physics.
Jonathan van Leeuwen
Risk Scientist
Jonathan has expertise in spatial science, statistical analysis and has completed numerous social research projects for Risk Frontiers’ stakeholders. Jonathan holds a B.Sc. in Spatial Information Science.
Matthew Timms
Risk Scientist
Matthew Timms is a research assistant at Risk Frontiers focusing on catastrophe model development and applications.
Ashley Avci
Research Associate
Ashley is a Research Associate specialising in environmental management and natural hazards, with a particular interest in policy and practice.