Fabrice has been with UNU-EHS since September 2004 and heads the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services Section. He served as Director ad interim of the Institute from August 2009 to May 2011. At UNU-EHS, he is responsible for carrying out research on and developing concepts and projects dealing with the environmental dimension of vulnerability, with the resilience of social-ecological systems to external shocks, with water pollution and human and ecosystem exposure to such pollution, and land degradation processes particularly in the context of climate change. He supervises MSc and PhD scholars and is involved in capacity development activities both in academia and in training seminars and workshops. He is the lead editor of the PEDRR book entitle “the role of ecosystems in disaster risk reduction” published by UNU-Press. For the period 2013-2015, Fabrice will be based in Jakarta, Indonesia where he will work, among other things, on the subject of ecosystems and DRR.