Patrick Daly has recently started an appointment as Research Scientist (Sustainability & Resilience) in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis. His previous research and teaching appointments include the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore, and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Since completing his D.Phil. in environmental archaeology at Oxford in 2003, Daly has spent over twenty years based in Southeast Asia, conducting multi-disciplinary field research on long-term societal adaptation to natural hazards and climate change; the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster humanitarian and development assistance, and the relationship between cultural heritage, environmental change, and resilience.