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Professor Bruce Malamud

Professor Bruce Malamud

Visiting Professor

Research interests

  • Geography

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

See Bruce's research profile

    Research

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    Physical & Environmental Geography research group

    Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.

    desert drought
    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 Web Banner
    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.

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    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

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    Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)

    CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.

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    Climate researchers at King’s

    King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

    Events

    25SepDesert and drought

    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.

    20NovDesert and drought

    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.

      Research

      earth-banner
      Physical & Environmental Geography research group

      Researching the interactions between the Earth’s hydrological, geomorphological, atmospheric and ecological processes at different geographical scales.

      desert drought
      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 Web Banner
      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.

      flood
      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

      cnes herox
      Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES)

      CNES acts as an international hub for cross-disciplinary research in non-equilibrium science.

      climate change hero
      Climate researchers at King’s

      King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

      Events

      25SepDesert and drought

      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.

      20NovDesert and drought

      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.