Magali Dreyfus is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) with the Sustainable Urban Futures programme. Her current research focuses on how cities mainstream measures to adapt to climate change into the provision of essential services. Prior to her fellowship at UNU-IAS, Dreyfus worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria as a research scholar. Her research explored the development of adaptation policies to climate change in the Europe Union and in its member states.