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Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Sustainable Urban and Rural Development'

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Interests: geomechanics; mechanics of multiphase porous media; fundamental behaviors of geomaterials; computational geomechanics; wave analysis; geohazards (landslide, earthquake, and climate change); permafrost; renewable geothermal energy; non-destructive-testing techniques; soil-structure;interaction; bio-inspired solutions toward sustainable and smart geotechnics; sustainable infrastructure
Shiley School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203, USA
Interests: stormwater; water quality; green infrastructure; urban development
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1. Center for Social and Economic Research, Ural Institute of Management RANEPA, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2. Department of Economic Theory, Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of RAS Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Interests: smart city economics; shared economy; inter-firm interactions; institutional modeling
Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: chemistry of groundwater; landfill leachate; soil and water contamination; environmental biodegradation; carbon isotope
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: climate research; food systems; bioeconomy; sustainable development; urban systems and transitions
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, 1 Nicolae Bălcescu str., 010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: land degradation; desertification; climate change; environmental pollution; environmental disturbances; environmental impact assessment; sustainable land management
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra, Italy
Interests: digital platforms; distribution grids; smart grids; power system analysis; renewable energies; electricity markets and sustainable development; energy efficiency; agent-based modeling

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Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: environmental science and technology; wastewater treatment and management; constructed wetlands; atomic force microscopy
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Department of Land Management and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
Interests: sustainable development; land use changes; numerical taxonomy; spatial analysis; geoinformation; evaluation of rural areas; cultural heritage of small homelands
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Föra Forest Technologies S.L.L., Universidad de Valladolid, Campus de Soria, 42004 Soria, Spain
Interests: big data; remote sensing; forest decision support systems; computing; artificial intelligence; forest sustainability; forest inventory; forest monitoring
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Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Interests: smart-city analytics and operations

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Swiss Federak Institute of technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable timber construction; digital fabrication; construction with bio-based materials; structural engineering; numerical simulations; digital architecture and parametric modeling; digitization of the workplace

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Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
Interests: energy efficient buildings; sustainable construction; construction safety; building information technology
School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: construction procurement
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: power system planning; power plant scheduling optimization; enhanced geothermal systems; ORC geothermal plants; peer to peer electricity trading; energy storage systems; micro and smart grids; low carbon strategies

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Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK
Interests: liveable city; social sustianablity; urban form and quality of life; Sustainable urbanism; compact cities; urban form of rapidly growing cities in transitional countries; urban morphology; self-organised systems and informal settlements; and socio-spatial and cultural dimensions of cities; urban complexity; resarch methods

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French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) | INRAE , Territoires et Infrastructures, Cestas, France
Interests: environmental valuation; choice experiment; landscape preservation; water governance; rural tourism

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Department of Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: industrialized construction; sustainability in the built environment
Department of geography and urban planning, University of Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France
Interests: urban overheating and thermal comfort; impacts on health; climate change; management of climate extremes in cities; adaptation and mitigation of thermal extremes; urban climate measurements and modeling
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Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Av. Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: building information modelling; construction technology; circular construction; sustainable construction and building utilization through better information access, management and flow through BIM and IoT

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: indoor environmental quality in classrooms and offices; thermal comfort; acoustics of worship places; environmental noise analysis; thermal and acoustical properties of material; circular economy; waste material; sustainable building component; energy saving; lighting
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MED | University of Évora, Mitra Pole, Apartado 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: mediterranean systems; food systems; rural development; social capital; social innovation; agricultural landscapes
Civil Engineering, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY 13502, USA
Interests: urban stormwater; green infrastructure; low-impact development (LID); combined sewer overflow (CSO); water quality; risk assessment
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamic, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: sustainable construction and retrofit; life-cycle assessment of buildings and building components; sustainability assessment and certification systems of buildings; life-cycle costing; streamlined environmental and cost LCA approaches
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CESAM, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: green Infrastructures; air quality modelling; CFD modelling; thermal comfort; urban microclimate; climate change
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Atmospheric Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: meteorology; WRF; numerical weather prediction; precipitation; climate variability; environment; weather forecast; extreme weather; meteorological and environmental sustainability of human being on climate variability, especially urban-climate
Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Interests: public transport; mobility; transportation planning; transport modeling; traffic engineering; urbanism; transport; logit; urban planning

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: electrical engineering; power systems; energy efficiency (electricity); renewable energies; electricity markets; life cycle cost analysis; data analytics

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Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy assessment; sustainable development; built environment; fashion; food; waste; higher education; systems thinking

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Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, University of Bergamo, viale Marconi, 5, 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Interests: smart home and building automation; smart city; energy; sustainable and intelligent transport; sustainable efficiency for the EU
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