Mikhail Sirenko

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biography

Mikhail is a computational scientist dedicated to making human settlements more livable and resilient. At the Centre for Social Complexity of Climate Change (SC3), he co-develops climate risk labels for the Dutch housing market and seeks to understand the drivers and barriers to individual adaptation decisions at the urban scale. In parallel, he works as a Disaster Resilience Analyst with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). His broader research interests include computational modelling of cities, refugee camps and informal settlements under extreme heat, floods and infectious disease outbreaks, always with an emphasis on community and individual behaviour. By collaborating across academia, government and international organisations, he works to advance data-driven, equitable policies for both current and future urban challenges.

Skills

Resilience30%
Urban Analytics30%
Behavioral Data10%
Agent-Based Modelling30%

Chronology

2023-2024
PhD in Computational Urban Science, Delft University of Technology
2023-2024
Researcher in Data-driven Agent-Based Models, Wageningen University & Research
2019-2023
Researcher in Large-scale Simulation Models of Cities, Delft University of Technology
2017-2019
MSc in Engineering and Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology