Sumiran is a PhD Candidate at Water Resources and Ecosystems Department in IHE-Delft. She is working as part of the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘Innovating Climate Services through Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge (ICISK)’. The aim of Sumiran's research is to understand and innovate how climate services for adaptation are designed following a human-centered socially and behaviorally informed approach; integrating the local and scientific knowledges; needs and perceptions of the citizens, decision makers and stakeholders with climate information at spatial and temporal scales relevant to them. Her research interests include understanding climate information use and adaption decision making and governance.