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Research Work
My academic research interests center around computational techniques for regional disaster and climate risk modeling, post-disaster macroeconomic impact analysis, equitable metrics for household disaster consequenes, and application of machine learning techniques in risk quantification. I have conducted numerous risk assessments in Europe and Central Asia and helped governments integrate risk information into strategic decision-making and investment planning.
PhD Thesis
Title: Towards seismic resilience - a comprehensive approach to modeling earthquake consequences from regional hazard to household well-being (link).
Research Publications
Martin, A., Markhvida, M., Hallegatte, S., & Walsh, B. (2020). Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on household consumption and poverty. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 1-27.
Markhvida, M., Walsh, B., Hallegatte, S., & Baker, J. (2020). Quantification of disaster impacts through household well-being losses. Nature Sustainability, 1-10.
Markhvida, M., Cremen, G., Grujic, O., Ceferino, L., & Baker, J. (2020). Methods for evaluation and treatment of epistemic uncertainty in portfolio losses due to earthquakes. In Proceedings of 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE).
Markhvida, M., & Baker, J. (2018). Unification of seismic performance estimation and real estate investment analysis to model post-earthquake building repair decisions. Earthquake Spectra, 34(4), 1787-1808
Markhvida, M., Ceferino, L., & Baker, J. (2018). Modeling spatially correlated spectral accelerations at multiple periods using principal component analysis and geostatistics. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 47(5), 1107-1123.
Markhvida, M., Ceferino, L., & Baker, J. (2017). Effect of ground motion correlation on regional seismic loss estimation: application to Lima, Peru using a cross-correlated principal component analysis model. In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR12).
World Bank Publications
Economics for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: Investment in Disaster Risk Management in Europe Makes Economic Sense. (2021). World Bank, Washington, DC.
Economics for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: Financial Risk and Opportunities to Build Resilience in Europe. (2021). World Bank, Washington, DC.
Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings: Europe and Central Asia Region.(2020). World Bank, Washington, DC.