Susila Bhagavathula

Susila is a Ph.D. student at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her research interests revolve around the intersection of sustainability, emergency management, resilience, and governance. For her doctoral research, she explores sustainable heat governance. She is part of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience working group, with Dr. Katja Brundiers from the Transformational Sustainability Science group as her doctoral research co-chair.

M.Sc., Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich (CH), 2017-2021
B.Sc., Geoecology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (DE), 2013-2017

Teaching and Research Assistant, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University (US), 2023-current
Project manager, e-mobil BW GmbH, Stuttgart (DE),2021-2023

Bhagavathula, S. (2024, September 9-11). Qualifications needed for a global sustainability workforce [Session presentation]. Inaugural Conference National Sustainability Society. Seattle, WA, US.
Bhagavathula, S., Brundiers, K., Stauffacher, M., & Kay, B. (2021). Fostering collaboration in city governments’ sustainability, emergency management, and resilience work through competency-based capacity building. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 63, 102408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102408
Übernickel, K., Pizarro-Araya, J., Bhagavathula, S., Paulino, L., & Ehlers, T. A. (2021). Reviews and syntheses: Composition and characteristics of burrowing animals along a climate and ecological gradient, Chile. Biogeosciences, 18(20), 5573–5594. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5573-2021