Evelyn holds a PhD in Weather and Climate Risks from ETH Zurich. Her research revolves around systemic and cascading risks associated with natural hazards, such as critical infrastructure failures and basic services disruptions (e.g. loss of power or access to healthcare, education, or communication services). She is a developer of the open-source risk modelling platform CLIMADA and further geo-spatial tools. Currently, she works on operationalizing impact-based warnings for Switzerland at the Swiss Office for Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), and on a joint research project between IDMC and UNU on global displacement risk.