Birtukan Asmare

Birtukan Asmare, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) in the University of Arizona from September 2024 - August 2025. Her main research focus is gender-based climate change vulnerability and adaptation among rural households in Ethiopia. This fellowships is funded by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She is also the Climate Adaptation Research Program (CARP) scholar from 2023-2024.  

Birtukan, originally from Ethiopia, worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. She was entrusted with various roles and responsibilities, primarily focused on teaching in her area of specialization to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She holds comprehensive responsibilities, including writing funding project proposals, conducting research, providing community services, attending seminars, and presenting research findings on different platforms. 

She earned her Masters degree at Bahir Dar University in Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development. In January 2023, she finished her PhD in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria. 

She was one of the postdoctoral researchers in the 9^th edition Program for Women, Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa, funded by Mujeres for Africa. She was hosted by the Institute of the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao, Spain.