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

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Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Street Vladimir Prelog 3, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Interests: BIM; civil engineering; construction process modelling, simulation and optimization; construction project planning and scheduling; quality management; project management
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Interests: modeling and control of energy systems; model predictive control; domain-aware deep learning; constrained optimization
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School of Architecture, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
Interests: sustainable environmental design; health and wellbeing in the built environment; lighting design; light pollution; low carbon architecture

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Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Interests: heat-recovery technologies; renewable thermal technologies; radiant heating; drain-water installations; water and sewage installations; balneology; balneotechnology; thermal comfort
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Institute of Life-Earth-Environment (ILEE), Department of Geography, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
Interests: urbanization; environment; development climate change adaptation critical human geography

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Institute of Geography of the Romanian Academy, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, 023993 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: land-use/land cover change; climate change impacts; natural and technological hazards; protected areas

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Faculty of Civil Engineering, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, 700050 Iași, Romania
Interests: sustainable construction; building physics; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency in buildings

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Department of Construction, School of Technology, University of Extremadura, Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Cáceres, Spain
Interests: water footprint; carbon footprint; catchment hydrology; urban hydrology; Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems; hydrologic modelling; water resources management; water scarcity

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Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznań, Poland
Interests: risk analysis in construction project; life cycle cost modelling of buildings with consideration of the risk; reliability, risk management, and contingency of construction processes; quantification of the risk in life cycle cost; construction delays causing risks on time and cost—case study, critical review; disturbance analysis and their impact on delays in construction process, projects, industry investment/construction risk modeling
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Department of Geography, Umeå Universitet, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
Interests: repopulating rural areas; lifestyle-related urban-rural mobilities; European rural tourism

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Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, The Technion, Haifa 320000, Israel
Interests: urban diversity; vertical urbanism; social sustainability
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI 53818, USA
Interests: green building; sustainable construction; high performance buildings

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Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Interests: development planning; natural resource economics; urban economics & governance; digital futures

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Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable construction; life cycle assessment; bamboo; timber; circular economy; bio-economy; post-disaster reconstruction; sustainable real estate
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GIR Termotecnia, Departamento de Ingeniería Energética y Fluidomecánica, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo del Cauce nº 59, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: sustainable renovation of buildings; neighborhood regeneration; circular economy; decarbonization of construction sector; sustainable construction; eco-efficient constructive solutions; resource efficiency in architecture; engineering and urbanism
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IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 55100 Lucca, LU, Italy
Interests: low carbon infrastructures; urban development; energy policy; urban metabolism; renewable energy sources
Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81100 Caserta, CE, Italy
Interests: building; structural engineering; structural analysis; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; nonlinear analysis; civil engineering; materials finite element analysis; dynamic analysis; modal analysis; FE analysis

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Laboratory for Analysis and Modelling of Decision Support Systems, Paris Dauphine University, 75016 Paris, France
Interests: urban planning; aiding decision tools and methods; policy analytics; spatial multicriteria evaluation

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Department of Earth Sciences - World Centre of Excellence, University of Firenze, 50121 Firenze, Italy; Italian Military Geographic Institute, 50121 Firenze, Italy
Interests: InSAR; GNSS; landslide; subsidence; PSInSAR; seismic hazard
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Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Interests: sustainable and resilient cities and regions; urban and regional development and innovation; urban policy and governance; environmental economic geography

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Heat Engines and Machines, and Fluids, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, Vigo, Spain
Interests: renewable energies: biomass combustion, thermal and chemical characterization; building energy efficiency: thermal simulation, calibration tools, thermal modeling

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Department of Applied Economic Analysis, University of Alicante, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain
Interests: economic history; urban planning; management of water resources; local development
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CERIS—Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: sanitary engineering; urban drainage systems; urban resilience; modeling and integrated management; monitoring and warning systems; water and wastewater treatment; water reuse.
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Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: sustainability; urban planning; nature-based solutions; stakeholder engagement; health and well-being and sustainable tourism
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Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: communication; demography; emotion; cognition and human development; human geography; ICT; psychology; urban and regional planning
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Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: landscape management; forest management; recreation and tourism; non-wood forest products; environmental protection
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Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: spatial and urban planning; urban design; planning of small settlements; ruralism and rural architecture; urban regulations; morphological models; settlement culture
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Department of Property, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: house prices; hedonic modelling; property markets; sea-level rise; earthquakes; seismic retrofitting; urban regeneration

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School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, University, New York, NY 11794, USA
Interests: urban resilience; climate change adaptation; community-based planning; disaster recovery

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Department of Economics, University of Foggia, Via da Zara, 11, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: food waste and loss; rural development and landscape; food innovation and health; food systems management and safety
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