Tshilidzi Cloudia Manyanya

Tshilidzi Manyanya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AFRIVERSE Project, where he investigates the links between climate change, extreme weather events, and societal impacts. His research focuses on fire occurrences and emergency vehicle callouts, seeking to understand how anthropogenic climate change may influence the frequency and severity of such events, using reanalysis datasets and climate models. With an educational background in Environmental Science and Bioscience Engineering, Tshilidzi’s expertise spans urban heat islands, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and environmental modelling. During his doctoral studies at KU Leuven, his research focused on Local Climate Zones (LCZs) and their observed impacts on land surface and air temperature dynamics.
 

Beyond teaching and tutoring across different levels of learning, Tshilidzi has contributed to the supervision of research students and to peer-reviewed publications in journals including Weather and Climate Extremes (Elsevier), Remote Sensing, Climate, and Water (MDPI). Professionally, he has experience in environmental consulting (including environmental authorisations and GIS mapping), teaching, and applied research, using data-driven modelling and spatial analysis to support climate adaptation strategies and disaster risk reduction in vulnerable communities.