Professor Mehmet Ulubasoglu is the Director of the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disasters at Deakin University. Mehmet has been awarded several research projects as chief investigator both nationally and internationally, including the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, and Asia-Pacific Network, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. He has also held consultancy roles for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Mehmet investigates the economic resilience of individuals to natural disasters of various scales and types, to inform a sustainable natural disaster recovery model that allocates scarce disaster resources towards the most vulnerable individuals and demographic groups within the community.