Dr Astrid Vachette is a lecturer and discipline lead in Emergency Management at the Australian Graduate School in Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University. She holds a Bachelor and Masters from France in international disaster management, and completed her doctoral thesis at the Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, on integrated disaster resilience in Vanuatu. She also optimised a COVID-gap-year and completed a graduate diploma in Psychology at the University of New England, to better integrate mental health considerations into her teaching and research. Astrid is a volunteer with New South Wales Rural Fire Services and trained crisis supporter.

She is an interdisciplinary social scientist exploring the drivers and challenges of resilience within the social ecology of human development. Her current research includes: sustainability in disaster management, community organizing, networks of climate and disaster knowledge systems, relational climate justice, climate victimology, and Nature-based Solutions for floods.