Marleen de Ruiter is an Assistant Professor at the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on multi-and consecutive disasters, improving modelling capabilities and understanding of multi-hazard risk dynamics and assessing the (potential adverse) impacts of Disaster Risk Reduction measures across different hazards. She coordinates the MYRIAD-EU project, and she is involved research of several MYRIAD PhDs (Judith Claassen, Julius Schlumberger, Kelley De Polt, Sophie Buijs, and Tristian Stolte). She is the science officer of the EGU multi-hazard sub-division and she co-leads the RiskKAN working group on systemic risk and early warning systems.