Sudha Arlikatti

Sudha Arlikatti is a professor and research head in the Amrita School for Sustainable Development at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a research-focused multi-disciplinary university in India. There she mentors doctoral students in a unique, fully-funded PhD program called Education for Life (E4Life). The program allows students to co-design sustainable, village-specific solutions to societal problems alongside community members through the Amrita Live-in-Labs® learning program.

Arlikatti’s research interests include natural hazards risk communication and protective action decision-making in multi-ethnic communities; disaster sheltering and housing recovery; and individual and organizational resiliency for sustainable development. She has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Texas Department of State Health Services, the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, and intramural university grants. Her work has been published in notable journals on disasters, environmental planning, and public policy. 

Arlikatti has degrees in architecture from Pune University, in city planning from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and in urban and regional science from Texas A&M University. She has more than 12 years of practitioner experience as an architectural/planning consultant in India and Omanand 19 years of teaching and research experience in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates. She is also past vice president of the Research Committee on Disasters for the International Sociological Association.