Dr Warren C. Jochem PhD in Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016

Research Fellow

Dr Warren C. (“Chris”) Jochem is a Research Fellow in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton.

Chris Jochem received a BA in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and an MA and PhD in Geography and a Graduate Certificate in Demography from the University of Colorado Boulder (USA). His work focuses on the geographic patterns of human health and disease, particularly how social, economic, and political contexts shape human-environment interactions. While at the University of Colorado his research combined fieldwork and statistical modelling to examine the social and spatial patterns of exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water and the impacts on respiratory health in rural Bangladesh. At the University of Southampton, Chris is now part of the WorldPop project and his primary focus is on developing and applying quantitative spatial methods for high resolution predictive mapping of population distributions and demographics.

Work History

2016 – Present: Research Fellow, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK

2010 – 2016: Research Assistant, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

2007 – 2010: Research Associate, Geographic Information Science and Technology Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA