Shaikh Fairul Edros’ research focuses on assessing social–ecological regime shift risks to inform and support financial decision-making.

Shaikh is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre contributing to the Mistra Finance to Revive Biodiversity (FinBio) project. His research aims to develop an open-access, interactive Regime Shift Explorer that maps the risk of social-ecological regime shifts across the world’s ecosystems. His research will integrate insights from the Regime Shift Database with global spatial data on ecological and socio-economic drivers to identify where critical thresholds and abrupt system changes may occur. By working closely with FinBio’s impact partners such as the Natural Capital Alliance, he will help design tools that support financial decision-making.

Shaikh completed his PhD at the Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His thesis, titled Assessing new towns for sustainable and nature-positive futures: a case of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, examined the social–ecological dynamics of private, newly built urban townships. His research integrated spatial analyses, social surveys, and interdisciplinary approaches to understand how urbanisation shapes environmental risk, ecosystem service access, and social inequalities.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Shaikh worked as a research assistant with the Natural Capital Singapore project, where he conducted ecosystem service valuation using methods such as choice experiments, social surveys, and participatory mapping. After completing his PhD, he joined the Resilient and Inclusive Cities Lab at Nanyang Technological University as a research fellow. In this role, he contributed to the development of tools to communicate nature-related impacts and dependencies to Southeast Asian businesses, supporting more informed sustainability and decision-making practices.