About Me

A Mind Between Science and Society

My education began with the study of the atmosphere, yet it has gradually led me towards a broader question: how ought we to understand the relationship between the natural world and the societies that depend upon it? Trained in Applied Meteorology at IPB University, I learned to observe the atmosphere not merely as a system of physical processes, but as part of a world in which weather, climate, landscape, and human life remain in constant conversation.

From this foundation grew an enduring interest in climate dynamics, remote sensing, spatial ecology, and environmental change. I have worked with satellite imagery, geographic information systems, Google Earth Engine, Python, and spatial modelling—not simply for the pleasure of technical precision, but in the hope that careful observation might reveal something useful about the places we inhabit and the changes taking place within them.

Experience beyond the classroom has only strengthened this conviction. Environmental questions, I have found, seldom remain environmental questions alone. A landslide may be described through rainfall, slope, and soil; yet its consequences are also shaped by livelihood, settlement, perception, governance, and the choices available to those who live upon the land. The science may explain the hazard, but society determines, in many respects, whether that hazard becomes a disaster.

It is therefore at the meeting point of science and public life that I find my deepest intellectual interest. I remain devoted to the discipline of measurement, observation, and evidence, whilst increasingly concerned with the questions that follow them: What ought to be done? For whom? Under what uncertainties? And how might knowledge be made sufficiently clear and useful that it can inform decisions beyond the confines of the laboratory or classroom?

I do not consider this journey complete. Rather, I regard it as an education still in progress—one shaped as much by questions as by answers, and by the recognition that there remains much I do not yet understand. This archive is a modest record of that pursuit: observations gathered, ideas encountered, books remembered, questions preserved, and reflections that might otherwise disappear with the passing of time.