Area of Study: Disaster response in post-conflict settings
Supervisors: Dorothea Hilhorst, Raymond Apthorpe 
Key Publications:

• S. Melis (2020). Constructing disaster response governance in post–conflict settings: Contention, collaboration and compromise. PhD Thesis. Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• S. Melis (2018). The Fragile State of Disaster Response: Understanding Aid-State-Society Relations in Post-conflict Settings. In H Brauch, Ú Oswald Spring & A Collins (Eds.), Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, 25) (pp. 67-93). Cham: Springer

More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthamelis