Lina Aburas is a PhD candidate in International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the climate-insecurity nexus in Nigeria, where she critically examines the intricate dynamics of the climate-insecurity patters in the country, with a particular focus on how knowledge about the nexus is constructed, mobilised, and translated into policy. She critiques dominant framings of climate insecurity and examines whose knowledge is legitimised in environmental and security policy processes.

Alongside her academic work, Lina brings years of professional experience with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in conflict-affected areas in the Middle East, West Africa, and Eastern Europe, where she worked in various supervisory positions focusing on Protection activities of the ICRC. She brings her field experience in her academic research, and her work in hard-to-reach areas, often rendered inaccessible other than for humanitarian workers.

During her PhD Lina has worked on research projects on post-disaster spaces, civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, and resource nationalism and critical minerals in the DRC and Tanzania, and her research interests encompass climate change and (in)security, human security, disasters, extractivism, humanitarian action, and policy engagement.