Director of the THINKlab, University of Salford.
Professor Terrence Fernando has a broad background in conducting multi-disciplinary research programmes involving a large number of research teams in areas such as urban simulation, virtual building construction, collaborative engineering workspaces and disaster risk reduction. Prof. Fernando was awarded a grant by the World Bank’s CARE programme to pilot the MOBILISE platform in the Kalutara District in Sri Lanka to develop a community-centric multi-hazard early warning platform (https://kalutara.mobilise-srilanka.org). Due to the success of this project, the World Bank appointed the University of Salford as a consultant to develop a “Prototype Impact-based Multi-hazard Forecasting and Early Warning System for Anticipatory Action” and a roadmap for implementing this prototype in Sri Lanka within the Climate Resilience Multi-Phase Program (CresMPA). The work is now underway to scale up the outcome of this project to initially scale up within the Kalutara District with the view to scaling up across other districts in Sri Lanka.