About me

This page was created out of the desire not to simplify complexity, but to make it comprehensible through structured clarity. It serves as a strategic interface for all those who understand resilience not as a fixed state, but as a shared operational challenge.

My passion is to develop strategic concepts and modules for complex crisis scenarios – with a particular focus on anticipatory decision-making logic, semantic depth and operational feasibility. My approaches combine Earth Observation, system architecture and context-sensitive steering to enable adaptive solutions for multi-hazard contexts. The result is scalable models that are both scientifically interoperable and practically applicable.

As a certified Graduate Disaster Manager, Strategic Coach, Author, Marketing- and Social-Media-PR Manager and interdisciplinary bridge-builder, I work at the intersection of operational logic, communication architecture and societal foresight. I successfully completed my graduate degree as a Disaster Manager with distinction, and finalized my certification as a Marketing Manager with excellence – including a thesis on ‘Personalized Medicine – a Societal Responsibility’. For almost 20 months now, I have also been actively engaged as a member of Professor Eric Chan’s PK Community at NUS Singapore. My goal is to connect systems, people and perspectives – especially in regions shaped by recurring extreme weather events, complex damage patterns and legacy burdens. In places where crises intensify across time and space, anticipatory steering, resilient decision-making logic and coordinated operational architecture are essential.

This work also encompasses the development of strategic concepts that account for cascading effects – such as health-related follow-on events, disrupted care infrastructures and conditions that facilitate the spread of disease. These interconnected risks require integrated approaches that are both technically sound and context-sensitive.

As an active member and Co-Chair of the IEEE GRSS Disaster Management & Early Warning Working Group, I contribute to the development of international standards for multi-hazard contexts – including emerging frameworks for conflict-sensitive geospatial operations. A spirit of collegiality and teamwork enables us to advance valuable work and concepts. I am proud and grateful to be part of this outstanding team.

An Example of My Approach

My most recent book project is entitled “EO / GIS Layer – Architecture of Zoonosis Prevention and Resilience.” It addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: zoonoses – a challenge that demands enormous and multifaceted considerations worldwide.

Instead of following the usual path, I open up avenues that reach deeper. I move mentally through the living worlds of adobe and clay houses – in Argentina (Salta, Jujuy), Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, the United States (New Mexico, Arizona), Morocco, Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and North-India. These adobe and clay structures serve as symbolic entry points into the layered realities of zoonotic risk – not as isolated sources. The same tensions unfold in urban settings: in fragmented infrastructures, displaced habitats, and overlooked contact zones within cities. Moving on to current outbreaks, e.g., in Spain, across disease phenomena and governance structures. In doing so, images emerge that intertwine with governance, health topics, disaster and risk management, and modern infrastructures: power lines, solar parks, industrial facilities, road and rail networks, urban wastelands …

Thus a field of tension arises between tradition and modernity, between rituals and technical density, between the animal world and human expansion. In this space, I ask myself how animals cope with such superimpositions, how they carve pathways toward us humans, and where the invisible weak points lie that we have so far overlooked.

All these impressions condense into strategic considerations:

• How can EO and GIS layers, which have so far been classified too softly, be transformed into hard, standardized facts?
• What role can citizen communities and citizen science play in this?
• And why is this subject still so underestimated?

And countless other urgent questions …

This contribution was authored by Birgit Bortoluzzi, strategic architect and certified Graduate Disaster Manager. The content reflects original interdisciplinary synthesis developed within the framework of the Geo-Resilience Initiative.