Published on November 14, 2025 – Updated on November 14, 2025

Fiacre Bandaogo and Mathis Bedin joined our team to work as research assistants last month. They work on two different projects related to natural disasters.

The team is delighted to welcome Fiacre Bandaogo and Mathis Bedin as research assistants exploring natural risk and economic vulnerability. They will both contribute to two projects in line with the research conducted by the International Research Centre of Disaster Science and Sustainable Development (IRC2D), an international research program of the Université Clermont Auvergne. 

Fiacre Bandaogo assists Florent Bresson on INEG RISK, an interdisciplinary project conducted by our Department and the LAPSCO. The purpose is to analyze how income distribution affects the way communities and countries prepare for and respond to natural disasters and subsequent reconstruction. Fiacre is handling the database consolidation and the econometric analysis. Before joining our Department, he did research internships in two French economic departments, the CREM-Université de Rennes and the IRES, UCLouvain. He holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the School of Economics, UCA. 

Mathis Bedin is working with Michaël Goujon, Pascale Phelinas, and Johanna Choumert Nkolo on the economic consequences of volcanic eruptions in developing countries. This research project, conducted for several years with another UCA’s department, the LMV. He will also update and consolidate the EIVE database, which contains detailed records of all volcanic events, as well as their social and economic impacts. This database is listed by Prevention Web, a knowledge web platform of the UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction (UNDRR). Mathis will also examine other impacts, including population movements and migrations. Mathis Bedin also holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the School of Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne. During his Master, he was an intern at Northeastern University in Boston, where he studied domestic violence in the United States under the supervision of Bilge Erten, Professor of Economics. 

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