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Ms. Dr. rer. nat da Costa was born in Baucau, East Timor, Indonesia (before the Civil War & Referendum 1999 - former refuge kid of East Timor in West Timor, Indonesia). She earned her academic titles Dr. rer. nat, M.Sc in Geography, B.Ed in Europe and in Indonesia. Currently, she is working as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Guest-Researcher) at the Institute for Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Geo Science, University of Münster (Heisenberg Str. 2, 48149 Münster, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0251) 8391140048, with the E-mail information, sherly.dacosta@uni-muenster.de and the Official Web, https://www.uni-muenster.de/OekologischePlanung/en/team/team.html; her blog as a community leader can be seen here: leader and founder for community assets safety for flood hazard program (https://resudenviindonesia.wordpress.com/, and academic website, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2944-4700 Dr. rer. nat Apolonia Diana Sherly da Costa's Short Bio: Ms. Apolonia Diana Sherly da Costa graduated in Social Geography, Flood Risk Management, and Climate Resilience Justice and she obtains four postdoctoral experiences in West Europe and South Europe (1University of Graz, Austria, Junior Guest Researcher 2University of Aveiro, Portugal, Junior Guest Researcher 3Centre for Geography Study and Spatial Planning, University of Porto, Portugal, Junior Guest Researcher and Teacher and 4the Collaborative and International Institutional Multi-partnership Postdoctoral Seniorship Project, Guest Researcher towards Long-Term ERC Position (under Process and Consideration Term), (Professur Forschung Stage) at the Institute for Landscape Ecology of Geo Science Faculty, University of Münster, Department of Southeast Asia’s Studies of University of Bonn, and Technische Hochschule University of Applied Science, Köln. She received her PhD (cumlaude) at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for the Dissertation Project, Building Community Resilience for River Flood Disaster in Female Land and Border Land with Timor Leste (Malaka and Belu Regencies), West Timor Island, Indonesia. Before graduating her PhD, she worked as a Researcher Staff at the Risk, Safety, and Resilience Program of the Community Association for Disaster Management (Perkumpulan Masyarakat Penanganan Bencana – PMPB), West Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia) and delegated the NGO for the 1st time for the Republic of Indonesia in the Young Scientist Program, held by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analyses, Laxenburg Austria by winning the Grant of Ministry of Research and Technology, Republic of Indonesia. Since November 2018 she is a University Teacher and networking's coordinator (contract temporary) with Ph.D at the Graduate Executive Master Program in Environment and Urban Studies, Faculty of Science and Environmental Technology, Soegijapranata Catholic University Indonesia. Her research expertise lies on interdisciplinary social science for disaster management and resilience law and policies, ad disaster and resilience justice studies, and her teaching topics cover social science and natural science i.e., ecology and environmental problems, philosophy of urban spaces, instrument for community participation, and energy and climate changes, and more.

Grants / projects publications, presentations and foreign grant/programme achiever: >200 publications (published and ongoing for five years after PhD), >20 peer-reviewed, >15 conferences, sessions organised, >50 presentations >50 Awards, Prize, Appreciations, Delegations, and Scholarship Achieved from the KAAD Germany, DAAD Germany, OeAD Austria, Fundacao Oriente Competition Portugal, DIKTI Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia, Ministry of Research and Technology, Republic of Indonesia, Graduate Woman in Science Minnesota USA, Austrian Institute of Technology Grant, President Obama’s Program Grant from Department of State USA, and more,-