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Pandora is a Research Fellow at CRED. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Aegean, Greece and a Master’s degree in Statistics with a major in Biometrics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her interests include epidemiology of infectious diseases and longitudinal data analysis.

Joana Lima is a Research Fellow at CRED. She trained as a doctor and obtained a Master's Degree in Global Health. Joana has experience in field research in Africa and Asia and is currently working on issues of humanitarian aid financing and effectiveness.

Florian Vogt is research fellow at CRED working on epidemiological patterns of health consequences in civil conflict. He holds a medical degree (MD) from Hamburg University, Faculty of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Relations from Dresden University, School of International Studies.

Chiara Altare is a reasearch fellow at CRED working on the human impact of conflict on health, with special focus on malnutrition in complex emergencies. She has a degree in Development Economics from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. Since 2007, she has been working in academic and consultancy organisations focusing on humanitarian assistance.

Olivia D’Aoust is a Research Fellow at CRED. She holds a Master's in Economics from the University of Louvain (UCL) and is currently enrolled in a Master's in Demography at the UCL. During her studies, she worked on the impact of epidemics on economic behaviours  and is particularly interested in econometrics, public health and development economics.

Peter has been involved in research activities at CRED since 2010. He studied political science and economics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and Université Paris XII and holds a Master's in Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain. Peter is currently Research Assistant at the University of Namur (Centre de Recherche en Economie du Développement) and working on health and nutrition in complex emergencies.

Debarati Guha-Sapir is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at University of Louvain School of Public Health, in Brussels, Belgium. She holds an Adjunct Professorship at Tulane University Medical Centre (New Orleans) for Health and Humanitarian Aid. Trained in Calcutta University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Louvain she holds a Ph.D in epidemiology.

Alexander F. Díaz is a Technical Computer Engineer at CRED. He has a technical computer degree from CECEP Foundation of Cali in Colombia and a background in Management and Business Administration from the Free University of Cali. Before joining CRED, Alex worked in the insurance sector and in a private energy company in Colombia as developer and as IT manager of the financial department, respectively. He also worked for ITC services in Spain as a developer in B2B and in Belgium as a developer of B2B software and in marketing.

A Research Fellow at CRED, Olivier Degomme obtained a medical degree from the University of Ghent, an MPH from the University of Louvain (UCL) and is currently a PhD candidate at the UCL. He has been working at CRED since 2003 where he did research on excess mortality, particularly in Iraq and Darfur. He worked together with the WHO on the 2005 Mortality Survey in Darfur and with UNHCR in an analysis of data collection systems in refugee settings. His special interests are public health and epidemiology in complex emergencies.