Born on the 10th May 1994 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Richard MIND’JE is a researcher. He completed his bachelor’s degree (2016) in Emergency and disaster management at the University of Lay Adventists of Kigali (UNILAK) in Rwanda before joining the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he also completed his master's program (2020) in environmental sciences in the area of natural hazards and risk analysis. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at XIEG, CAS. His current research area converges with hydro-meteorological-induced hazards integrating geospatial analysis and catchment hydrology. Richard has published several articles as both lead and co-author in different international journals and has acted as a reviewer for several journals. The latter has given him opportunities to win different awards such as the Outstanding and Excellent International Scholar Award of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences over two consecutive years (2019 and 2020), and the Excellent International Student award of XIEG (2020).