Currently Director of Research for the School of Construction Management and Engineering; Chairman of: Natural Ventilation Group and Intelligent Buildings Group for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. Vice-President of CIBSE from May 2007 and Board Member for British Council of Offices.He Has received many research grants awarded by EPSRC, DTI, Royal Academy of Engineering, Industry and EU. Published over 200 papers on various aspects of his research and education projects.

Research interests include intelligent buildings; design of workplaces; logistic support analysis; individual environmental control; indoor quality and alternative approaches to heating, ventilating and airconditioning of buildings; environmental design for human needs; environmental issues for the construction industry.

Born 1956, initially trained as a technician, he studied philosophy and history (doctorate 1992, habilitation 1997), was scientific assistant for philosophy in Basel und Luzern, SNF-research fellow, lecturer at the universities of St. Gallen, Fribourg, Innsbruck, Maribor, and from 1998-2005 head of the interfaculty teaching program People Society Environment at the University of Basel; since 2006 he has been in charge of the Sustainability Research Group and responsible for the social sciences within the tri-faculty Master in Sustainable Development at the University of Basel; among others he is currently head of trinational Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research (give link), head of the SCCER-CREST work package 2 on change of behavior and member of the SCCER-CREST board.

Among his research interests are theoretical foundations for sustainable development including its normative basis as well as approaches to human-nature-interrelations, empirical research on governance of sustainable development in general and of change of individual behavior in particular, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding individual behavior in the energy sector; the role of quality of life issues within sustainability transformation in the North and the South, and epistemology and methodology of inter- und transdisciplinary research.

Jaroslaw Krzywanski is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. He received the M.Sc. degree from Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Thermal Machinery, Poland and Ph.D. degree from Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Poland. Last two years he obtained a D.Sc. degree (Doctor Habilitatus). He has published more than 100 refereed works, including papers, a monograph, conference proceedings and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals. He has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals.

He is interested in modeling of energy devices and processes, including solid fuels combustion, gas emissions and hydrogen production from biomass combustion and gasification. He uses both programmed and AI methods to predict pollutants emissions from biomass co-combustion in large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed (FB) systems as well as the hydrogen concentration in syngas during the H2 production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in FB units.

As an applied environmental anthropologist, the majority of my research projects focus on the dynamics of human populations and environmental change, specifically climate change in most cases. A project I recently completedin several coastal communities in Belize, addresses the ways in which households respond to climate-related shocks. The research involveddetermining levels of vulnerability and devising a Resilience Index to examine specific responses and coping strategies to climate-related disturbances. In 2014, I conducted research in the western interior region of Belize to determine awareness and level of understanding of climate change on the part of those working in the tourism industry. I continue to interview farmers in West Texas to document their farming systems and to examine their understanding of climate change along with their perceptions of risk relative to impacts on their wheat and corn production. I began this research in 2014 and will continue through 2019.

My current research centers on human responses to climate and other environmental changes.

Paulo J. C. Favas is a Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal. He holds the B.Sc. degree in Biology and Geology (UTAD), the M.Sc. degree in Geosciences (University of Coimbra, Portugal), and the Ph.D. degree in Geology (UTAD). His research interests range from Biogeochemistry to Environmental Geochemistry. He specializes in pollutant behavior in soil-plant and water-plant interfaces, and works in the areas of hazardous metal(loid)s, phytoremediation of contaminated sites, and abandoned mine site reclamation. He serves as editor for Annals of Agricultural Science journal and as reviewer for several other scientific journals. Within the environmental science subjects, he is the author or co-author of about 50 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, book chapters, and proceedings (Web of Science and Scopus indexed), and more than 140 papers in conference proceedings. He has received four awards for scientific and academic merit.

His research interests range from Biogeochemistry to Environmental Geochemistry.

Panin Alexander - senior lecturer of the Department of Microbiology of the Military Medical Academy. Specialist in medical support for the preparation of expeditions to the polar zones. Participant 50 and 56 Russian Antarctic expeditions. I monitor the sanitary status of the objects of Russia in Antarctica. In a team of like-minded people, psychophiles – bacteria and micromycetes, living at low temperatures under extreme polar conditions, types of microorganisms of medical significance, are exploring. He has published more than 20 scientific articles in well-known journals, where observations on aspects of global warming are objectified. Microbiological monitoring is most informative in extreme zones of polar deserts as predictors of global warming and epidemiological risks of the emergence of infectious diseases of humans and animals. Studying symbiosis in cyanobacterial mats and in the polar microbiota. This allows us to objectify the risks of global climate disasters.

Global Warming and Climate Disasters

Karel Charvat graduated in theoretical cybernetics. He is a ember of ISPA, RDA, Club of Ossiach, CAGI, and CSITA. He was in period 2005 - 2007 President of European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture Food and Environment (EFITA). He is currently representatiove of HSRS in OGC Agriculture DWG. He has long time expereince in ICT for Agriculture and Precision Farming. Now he is one from promotors of Open and Big Data in Agriculture in Europe. He has expertise in project management of research project. Participation in projects as project manager and senior researcher: Wirelessinfo, Premathmod, EMIRES, REGEO, Rural Wins, Armonia, a Bard, EPRI Start, [email protected], AMI4For, Voice, Naturnet Redime, Mobildat, SpravaDat, Navlog, [email protected], Humboldt, WINSOC, Study for DG AGRI Broadband in Rural Development, Plan4all, Habitats, Plan4business, SmartOpenData, FOODIE, SDI4Apps, AgriXchange, FOODIE, SDI4Apps, OTN, EUXDAT, Polivisu. Currently he is part of project management team of project Data Driven Bioeconomy – DataBio.

Agriculture Food and Environment Science

Yue Tian-Xiang is a Professor State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System, Head of Department for Ecological and Environmental Informatics, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chair of Geo-informatics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been working as a leading professor at State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 1986, he has innovatively been developing the high accuracy and speed method (HASM) for surface modelling to give solutions to error problem, slow-computational-speed problem and multi-resolution problem which long troubled surface modelling. He has been successfully applied to simulating surfaces of elevation, soil properties, and changes of biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate change and driving forces of the changes as well as analysing ecosystem responses to climatic change. In all these applications, HASM produced more accurate results than the classical methods. In 2016,a Fundamental Theorem of Earth Surface Modelling (FTESM) is created on the basis of development of HASM and its applications in last30 years.

Ecology, Environmental Science, Climate Change

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, Madrid; Master of Psychopathology and Health, UNED; Master of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, University of Valencia. He is also a Diploma in Psychological Intervention in Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Consultant, Expert in Human Resources and Criminology. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) and creator of SINIF Awards, for Innovation and Technological Research, Prevention and Management Development on Forest Fires.Member of: Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress, Spanish Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

Prof. Lingai Luo is the first class research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Thermocinétique de Nantes (LTN), France. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in thermal engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and her Ph.D. degree in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. Her previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor at INPL, Associate Professor at University of Nancy I, and later at INPL. From 2003 until 2012 she was a Full Professor at University of Savoie, France.

Her research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering, including combustion in fluidized bed, energy balance analysis of industries, solar refrigeration machines, adsorption and absorption processes, thermoelectric heat pumps or energy for buildings.

Since 1989 He has been involved in teaching and organising a range of courses, many of an innovative nature and the first of their kind in the UK. The intellectual range of these courses has been very wide and they were also highly interdisciplinary. For some of these courses his role has been that of an administrator and supervisor of teaching methods and academic standards although still requiring a good knowledge of the taught material. He has therefore been the Course Director of a number of courses: BSc Occupational Health Nursing, Diploma in Hearing Therapy, Diploma and MSc Occupational Safety and Health and Certificate, Diploma and MSc Water and Environmental Management. He has been the Admissions Officer and Examinations Officer for all of these courses for which He has been Course Director.

Water and Environmental Management

Azime Tezer works at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Urban and Regional Planning Department. Her researches focus on ecological urban planning policies, tools and techniques for urban natural hazard mitigation, integration of ecosystem services into spatial planning, eco-sensitive watershed management modeling, climate change and urban planning interaction. After 1999 Marmara Earthquakes she joined to ITU-US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “ACHIEVE - Train the Trainer Education Program” in between 2000-2001. During 2001-2006 she participated FEMA Training Courses in US and JICA Urban Hazard Mitigation Courses in Kobe and Tokyo. After these training programs, she took part in disaster reduction planning; public awareness raising and technical-administrative-community representatives’ capacity development projects at national and provincial levels in Turkey. Finally, she represented TUPOB (Association of Turkish Planning Schools) and ITU at the “COP23 Planners for Climate Action” in Bonn.

Her researches focus on ecological urban planning policies, tools and techniques for urban natural hazard mitigation, integration of ecosystem services into spatial planning, eco-sensitive watershed management modeling, climate change and urban planning interaction.

Currently, Dr. Chan is an Honorary Assistant Professor & a Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is also the Programme Coordinator of Master of Science in Environmental Management. She leads teaching courses on environmental quality management, biostatistics, research methodology and report writing, and experiential learning in environmental management. She has obtained the Professional Membership of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals Limited and Certified Membership of the Environmental Management Association of Hong Kong. Before joining to HKU, Dr. Chan was working at the headquarters of YMCA which is based in Geneva, Switzerland. She was the focal point on environmental issues for the organization and coordinating events with the United Nations.

Chan’s current fields of interest include waste management (especially electronic waste), environmental health & toxicology, and environmental education. Her PhD study was on environmental health and toxicology with a particular focus on environmental pollution in mainland China. She also holds a master’s degree with distinction in Environmental and Public Health Management from theHong Kong Baptist University and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Life Sciences from HKU.

M. A. Martin-Luengo graduated in Chemistry (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain). In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work and her phD on supported catalysts, both with the highest qualification. As a Postdoctoral Grant Holder of the CSIC she carried out research in UK and Belgium. Afterwards she was granted a Fellowship IA to work with the Scientific Engineering Research Council (SERC, UK) on fuel synthses from synthesis gas (Fischer Tropsch Processes). In 1992 she gained a permanent position of Research Scientist in the CSIC (Spain), where she has been working since. She has more than 100 publications, 120 congresses(being in several occasions Advisory and Organizing Committee Member)has several patents, an is member of the RSC, ACS and SECAT. Nowadays she carries out studies towards sustainable materials and chemical processes, preparing value added substances and materials from agriresidues, of outmost importance in less developed countries. This work has been acknowledged by the CSIC

She carries out studies on sustainable chemistry, applying the knowledge acquired during more than 30 years of career to environmental issues in the search for more sustainable materials and chemical processes.

Miguel Nuno Miranda received the degree in Energetic Engineering(University Autonomous of Lisbon)in 1998 and thePh.D. degree in Environmental Science(University of Aveiro)in 2009, Portugal. Dr. Miguel Miranda has authored more than 60 scientific works (including chapters, papers in international journals andbook of proceedings, and poster presentations) and serves as Editorial Board Member of several scientific journals as well as Organizing Committee Member in International Conferences.

His main research interests include waste management or valorization through thermochemical conversion processes (pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction), production of fuels and biofuels andsolar energy concentration (SEC) solutions towards the production of solar fuels.

She is researcher at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Her research focuses mainly on local and regional effects of global climate change, atmospheric CO2, temperature and drought stress on the ecology, physiology, mineral nutrition, reproduction of South African Mediterranean-climate plants. She also mentor students at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in plant and animal science and conservation interpretation. She is registered at the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals (SACNASP) and a certified Environmental Impact Assessment Practitioner.

Her current fields of interest include climate change effects (temperature stress) on plants and environmental health and toxicology. I

Joanes Atela is currently a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the Climate Resilient Economies Programme at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). Joanes’ main interest lies in research, and policy analysis on the socio-technical interactions between sustainable development technologies and African context – including policies, culture, livelihoods with special focus on the energy, agriculture and forestry sectors. Through quality research and policy analysis, Joanes has ably led the climate change programme at ACTS to become one of the best in the world- ranking third globally according to the 2016 ICCG think tank rankings. Joanes also coordinates the Africa Sustainability Hub- a North-South and South-South partnership bringing together leading think tanks in Africa and the UK to undertake coordinated evidence based research on pro-poor energy access and enhance research capabilities and talents among young African researchers and policy makers towards transforming Africa’s sustainability prospects. Joanes is also an Associate at the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Nairobi where he teaches and supervises MSc and PhD students on topics related to multilevel environmental policy design and implementation Joanes currently serves as a council member for the Elsevier Sustainable Development resource centre. He holds a PhD in Environment and Development from the University of Leeds, UK and MSc in Resource Management in the Tropics from the University of Bonn, Germany (First Class).

Joanes’ main interest lies in research, and policy analysis on the socio-technical interactions between sustainable development technologies and African context – including policies, culture, livelihoods with special focus on the energy, agriculture and forestry sectors.

Bernard Foing is a senior scientist and exploration officer at the European Space Agency (ESA), Executive Director of the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) and Professor of Space Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences. He has been the father and Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon. He serves as elected President of ESTEC Staff Association Committee since 2012 (representing 1400 ESTEC colleagues). He has worked on studies and projects of Earth and planetary missions. He conducted a number of field campaigns in Earth extreme desert environments. He is also an expert in spectroscopy conducted from ground based observatories around the world. He obtained a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques using a sounding rocket experiment (France CNRS and US New Mexico, Boulder CU, Harvard Observatory).

Space Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables

Vladimir Babeshko has completed his HD (Doctor of Mechanics) in 1974 from Russian Academy of Sciences. During many years he is a chief of Scientific-Research Center for Forecasting and Preventing Geo Ecological and Technologic Disasters Kuban State University and Southern Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has 20 patents, published 7 monographs and more than 500 papers in reputed journals such as Russian Academy of Sciences and many others. He is the author of the Theory of the Block Element Method, has discovered the “Starting Earthquake”, and has gotten the mathematical explanations of the some Weather and Climate Change.

Mathematics, Mechanics and Seismology

Christopher Bryant completed his PhD at the age of 24 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo, from 1970-1990 and then in Géographie, Université de Montréal,from 1990-2014. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montréal and Guelph. He has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewd journals, over 30 books and over 150 chapters in books and has made several hundred presentations at conferences. See his Research Gate profile.

Territorial dynamics, Peri-urban agriculture, Urban Agriculture, Conservation of agricultural land, Local and community development, Development, Adapting to change and climate variability

Gualtiero A.N. Valeri borned in Padua, year 1960. Live in Switzerland and in Ecuador. Studied industrial chemistry and chemical engineering in Padua. Consultant in the applied sciences, R&D. Professor of Industrial Chemistry at St. Rita University of Rome. Member of Tiberina Pontificial Academy. Vicepresident of scientific committeè of Meditarranean Parliament. President of Montevenda Engineering International Association. “J. Benveniste” award for the Biophysic, year 2011. Special award for the diffusion of scientific culture from Center “Culturambiente” of Rome and the from “Centre for Peace” of Vatican City, year 2013. “Hyppocrates” award for the Medicine year 2015.

Biometeorology and Climate Change

Baike Xi received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University in 1999 under the guidance of Dr. Dennis Lamb. Her B. S. degree was from Beijing University, P. R. China. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a postgraduate research associate at the University of Utah. While there she was involved with the NASA TRMM project and validated the satellite measured precipitation by using aircraft in-situ and ground based measurements during TEFLUN-A, TEFLUN-B/CAMEX3, LBA, KWAJEX, and CEMEX4. She is currently an associate research professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota.

Cloud Microphysics retrieval from ground base measurements, atmospheric Radioative transfer, cloud and radiation parameterizations in climate model, ground and satellite remote sensing of clouds and radiation, heterogeneous reaction in clouds

Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, is Prof. in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.He also holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford, UK. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group in Salford. Prof. Scholz has shown individual excellence evidenced by world-leading publications, postgraduate supervision and research impact. His main research areas in terms of publication output are as follow: treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands (ICW), sustainable flood retention basins (SFRB), permeable pavement systems, decision support systems, ponds and capillary suction time. About 47% and 45% of his research is in water resources management and wastewater treatment, respectively. The remaining 7% are in capillary processes and water treatment.

Sustainability and Water Resources Engineering

Liming Zhou is an Associate Professor with the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at University at Albany, State University of New York. He has a strong publication record in the fields of land-surface remote sensing, land-atmosphere/climate interactions, and land surface/climate modeling (e.g., author or coauthor of 3 book chapters including the IPCC AR4 Report and ~80 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nature). His peer-refereed publications since 2000 have a total citation of >9500 times (h-index: 36) according to Google Scholar and >5500 times (h-index: 33) according to Web of Science as of March 16, 2017. Prof. Zhou has been active in professional service activities as a NSF program director (2008-2011) and as a reviewer for major highly regarded geophysical journals including Nature and for NSF and NASA proposals. Before coming to US, he was a weather forecaster (1994-1998) at National Meteorological Center in China.

Land-atmosphere/climate interaction, land-surface remote sensing, remote sensing of vegetation dynamics, land-surface modeling, climate modeling, and applications of various remote sensed products in weather, climate, and environmental sciences

Lei Shen is currently a professor and director of Key Lab for Resources Use and Environmental Restoration (RUER), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was the consultant of the World Economic Forum in Minerals and Metals Council in 2010 and the World Bank in 2006, and the academic committee of Word Mine Ministry Forum in 2008. He was granted the “Excellent Scientist by China Society of Natural Resources in 2012 and 2013”. More recent his expertise is focused on energy policy and mineral economics, involving the areas of regulatory systems surrounding resource extraction, energy intensive industry, cement manufacturing and regional development planning in China, resources-based city transformation and sustainable development, and energy and mineral security and multi-lateral resource cooperation. He also has particular experience in policy for small-scale mining in China.

Energy policy and mineral economics, involving the areas of regulatory systems surrounding resource extraction, energy intensive industry

Xiaojun Yuan is a Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA. She has engaged in studies of variability of the Antarctic atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system and its role in global climate since 1995. Her research has progressed from the identification of polar-global linkages, expanded to an ENSO-Antarctic Dipole teleconnection mechanism study, and finally resulted in an Antarctic sea ice forecast. At the same time, she has utilized space-born scatterometer observations and developed a series of studies focused on air-sea interactions on synoptic time scales, ranging from cyclone-sea ice interaction, high wind evaluations to satellite enhanced cyclone statistics in the Southern Ocean.

cyclone statistics and climate variability

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Renewable, Sustainable and Low-carbon energy technologies

Alvina Reihan is an Associate Professor of the Environmental Engineering Department, Tallinn University of Technology. She received her PhD degfee in civil engineering from the Tallinn University of Technology. She has more than 20 peer-reviewedarticles. Her main interests include climate change impact on surface water resources and water quality, river run off modelling, water balance, water resources estimation and management, scenarios for water management and renewable resources. She coordinates several projects connected to climate change impact on water ecosystems and other environment issues.She is an editorial board member of the Euro - Asian Journal of Sustainable Energy Development Policy.She is a member of UNESCO Estonian Advisory Commission and Estonian State Water Commission.

Climate Change impact on surface water resources and Water quality, River run off modelling, Water balance, Water resources estimation and Management, Scenarios for water management and Renewable resources

Gordon Huang is a Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Regina; Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering; President of International Society for Environmental Information Sciences; Canada Research Chair Tier 1 of Energy and Environment; Executive Director of Institute for Energy; Environment and Sustainability Communities and Editor-in-Chief of J. of Environmental Informatics. Gordon Huang was featured as one of the University of Regina's Canada Research Chairs. Dr. Huang's research focuses on developing complex models to understand and plan for climate change.

Waste management, site remediation, and risk assessment, Simulation and optimization of hydrological and environmental systems, Modeling of energy and environmental management systems, Climate modeling, impact assessment, and adaptation planning

Guoqian Chen is a Professor, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Enginnering, Peking University, Beijing, China completed his education from Huazhong Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China. He is a recipient of the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers Award, and among the Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureates. He is an editorial board for dozens of international journals. He has more than 100 international publications in reputed prestigious journals.

Numerical Simulation and Systems Modelling, Systems Ecology Bio-fuels and ecological engineering Renewable Energy and Resources

Edwin Hon-Wan Chan studied Architecture in England and then learnt Law at London University and Hong Kong University. He obtained his PhD degree from King’s College, London University. He is a Chartered Architect (Authorized Person), Chartered Surveyor and also a Barrister-at-Law called to the UK and Hong Kong Bars. Before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he had worked in industry for over 10 years with practical experience in property development and building control in the UK and Hong Kong. He is currently involved with teaching research and consultancy on urban studies, urban community planning, urban renewal, etc. He has published over 100 international journal papers, and serves as an editorial board member of research journals. He also serves committee members of a number of government committees and professional bodies.

Urban Renewal and Heritage conservation
Green buildings/cities promotion

Daniele De Wrachien is currently Retired Professor of Agricultural Hydraulics at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the State University of Milan and Member of the Board of Director of the Wessex Institute of Technology ( WIT ), Southampton,UK. He graduated from the State University of Milan as geologist and obtained his PhD in Advanced Engineering Geology. He performed his duties as, Director of the Institute of Agricultural Hydraulics (2000-2006) ,Director of Computer Centre of the Faculty of Agriculture,(1992-95), Tutor of MPhil and PhD students of the Faculty of Agriculture, External Examiner to MPhil and PhD students,Visiting Professor at the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT). Daniele received the following Honours and Awards: Award for Truthful Support and Help in Organizing and Improving Scientific Level of the Symposia "Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering", Croatian Agricultural Engineering Society, Award in Recognition of Services to the European Society of Agricultural Engineers, Award for outstanding contribution to Engineering Sciences,WIT, Award for the Best Performing Working Body, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.

Flood control and mitigation measures, Desertification and environmental impact of climate change

Tijian Wang is a professor and vice director of School of Atmospheric Science of Nanjing University, committee member of IGAC-China, Deputy Secretary-General of Atmospheric Environmental Society of Chinese Environmental Science Society and vice director of Atmospheric Composition Society Chinese of Meteorological Society. More than 200 papers have been published in the domestic and international professional journals.

Atmospheric environment and chemistry modeling, air pollution and climate change, atmospheric deposition and air-soil exchange

Pierluigi Siano (M’09–SM'14) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is an Associate Professor (with accreditation for Full Professor) of Electrical Energy Engineering with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno.. He has co-authored more than 270 papers including more than 140 international journal papers. He is Editor of Intelligent Industrial Systems, Springer, an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, member of the editorial board of more than thirty International Journals.

His research activities are centered on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart distribution systems and on planning and management of power systems.

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, Madrid; Master of Psychopathology and Health, UNED; Master of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, University of Valencia. He is also a Diploma in Psychological Intervention in Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Consultant, Expert in Human Resources and Criminology. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) and creator of SINIF Awards, for Innovation and Technological Research, Prevention and Management Development on Forest Fires.Member of: Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress, Spanish Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

Chavalit Ratanatamskul is The Director of Research Unit on Waste Treatment, Faculty of Engineering and The Vice Director of Technopreneurship and Innovation Management Program, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received Ph.D. and Master degree of Engineering in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and B.Eng. degree in environmental engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1991. His major research interests are focused on anaerobic digestion, waste management and water reuse. He has published research works in international journals and proceedings more than 80 publications. Moreover, he is presently The Chairman of Project Committee and The Vice Chairman of Environmental Engineering Committee at The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) under the King’s Patronage.

Water Environment and Anaerobic Digestion

Moktar Hamdi attended the University Provence (France), where he took a Engineer degree in industrial and applied microbiology and He subsequently obtained a PhD degree in microbiology, followed by a post-doctoral period at INSA Toulouse (France) In 1999, Moktar Hamdi joined National Institute of Applied Sciences and technology as an associate professor being promoted in 2004 to full Professor in Biological Engineering, where he was Head of Department of biological and Chemical Engineering from 2003 to 2008, and Head of doctoral school from 2009 to 2012). Professor Moktar Hamdi is also director of research laboratory in Microbial ecology and technology in the university of Carthage since 2004. Dr. Hamdi has published over 180 papers, over 10 patents and some chapters in several books. He is a scientific advisory boards and he has served on many editorial boards of many indexed scientific journals.

Biological Engineering, Applied Microbiology AND Chemical Engineering

Ildefons Pla is Emeritus from Universitat de Lleida, Spain. His research areas are Conservation and degradation of soil and water; Management of soil and water in soils vine; Methodology and models for assessing physical and hydrological soil and Modeling processes and salinization of soils under irrigation sodification

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Nils-Axel (”Nikas”) Mörner took his Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in 1969. He was head of a personal institute at Stockholm University and the Swedish National Council on Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics (P&G) from 1991 up to his retirement in 2005. He has written many hundreds of research papers and several books. He is a global traveller and has undertaking field studies in 59 different countries. Several students have taken their doctoral degree at the P&G institute, which became an international centre for global sea level change, paleoclimate, paleoseismics, neotectonics, paleomagnetism, Earth rotation, planetary-solar-terrestrial interaction, etc. He was president of the INQUA Neotectonics Commission (1981-1989) and president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Dynamics (1999-2003). In 2008, he was awarded the Golden Condrite of Merit (from Algarve University) “for his irreverence and contribution to our understanding of sea level change”. Among his books one may note; Earth Rheology, Isostasy and Eystasy (Wiley, 1984), Climate Change on a Yearly to Millennial Basis (Reidel, 1984), Paleoseismicity of Sweden: a noval paradigm (P&G-print, 2003), The Greatest Lie Ever Told (P&G-print, 2007), The Tsunami Threat: Research & Technology (InTech, 2011), Geochronology: Methods and Case Studies (InTech, 2014), Planetary Influence on the Sun and the Earth, and a Modern Book-Burning (Nova, 2015).

Global sea level changes, Paleoclimate, Paleoseismics, Neotectonics, Paleomagnetism, Earth rotation, Planetary-Solar-Terrestrial Interaction

Xiangrong Wang is currently the director and professor of the Centre for Urban Eco-Planning & Design, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University in Shanghai China, the director of National Centre for Virtual Simulation of Environmental Science at Fudan University,the President of Shanghai Ecological Society, the Deputy Chairman of Urban Ecological Commission of Ecological Society of China. In addition, he is the Chair of Environmental Science and Greening Division of Shanghai Municipal Construction Commission, and the editorial members of some academic journals, such as the editor-in-chief of Journal of World Forestry (Hans Press, USA), editors of Acta Ecological Sinica, Chinese Journal of Ecology, Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, etc, and reviewers of some International Journals such as Ecological Engineering, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Journal of Environmental Management.He also served as a regional vice-chair of East Asia, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication during 2004-2012 and a steering member of INTECOL Association. Prof. Wang got his Ph.D of Environmental Ecology in 1991 at East China Normal University and carried out his post-doctoral education of urban ecology and Planning at Tongji University in 1993. He was also a senior visiting scholar at the Univrsity of Liverpool, UK during 1994-1996 and a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Bard College, USA during 2004-2005.

Environmental ecology assessment and Ecological planning, Global change and Environmental policy & Sustainability, and Urban ecosystem research

Christopher Bryant completed his PhD at the age of 24 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo, from 1970-1990 and then in Géographie, Université de Montréal,from 1990-2014. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montréal and Guelph. He has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewd journals, over 30 books and over 150 chapters in books and has made several hundred presentations at conferences. See his Research Gate profile.

Territorial dynamics, Peri-urban agriculture, Urban Agriculture, Conservation of agricultural land, Local and community development, Development, Adapting to change and climate variability

Yuri Latypov has completed his Pd. Geol. At the age of 36 from Institute Geology and Geophysics and Dr. Biol. Sic at the age of 47 years from Paleontological Institute Academy of Science USSR. He is the principal officer of A,V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology. HE is Academic New York Academy of Sciences and Russian Ecological Academy. He has published more than more 170 papers in reputed journals (16 monographs, 5 in English and Vietnamese) and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute: International Journal of Biodiversity; American Journal of Climate Change; Advances in Natural Sciences; Life Science; Journal Environmental Ecology.

Climate Change, Natural Sciences, Environmental Ecology

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Isaac Moradi has completed his first PhD from Kharazmi University in Climatology and Environmental Planning and his second PhD in Radio and Space Science from Chalmers University of Technology and postdoctoral studies from ESSIC, University of Maryland. He is currently a Research Scientist at University of Maryland collaborating with NOAA and NASA on different topics including developing long-term climate data records from satellite data, data assimilation, radiative transfer modeling, and product retrieval. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Additionally, in the past he has served as convener and co-convener of many sessions at AGU Fall Meeting and EGU General Assembly.

Retrieving geophysical variables from microwave satellite data, Solar radiation resource assessment, Developing new sensor concepts especially for measuring tropospheric humidity

Jinsheng You completed his PhD12 years ago at Utah State University and postdoctoral studies at University of Nebraska – Lincoln School of Natural Resources. He is an Associate Geoscientist in University of Nebraska – Lincoln, School of Nature Resources. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute: Journal of Water Resource and Protection, and American Association of State Climatologists Journal of Service Climatology. He has reviewed articles for more than 15 journals and funding request proposals for several funding agencies such as US Geological Survey, US Department of Agriculture, and NOAA. He is interested in hydrologic and earth system modeling, monitoring climate, soil, and hydrologic system. His work contributes to the quality assurance and management of climate data, development of big data, climate analysis, systematicanalysis, crop water use, extreme event analysis, hydrologic modeling and etc.

Monitoring Climate, Climate data management, Climate analysis, Extreme event analysis, Hydrologic and Earth system modeling, Soil, and Hydrologic system

Woo-Kyun Lee finished his PhD course at the College of Forestry at Goettingen University in Germany. His research focuses mainly on forest planning, forest growth model, climate change impact assessment and adaptation. He is also an expert in GIS/RS (Geographic Information System/Remote Sensing), and spatial data analysis. He is currently a professor at the Division of Environment Science & Ecological Engineering at Korea University. He is also the Director of BK21+ Eco-Leader Education Center, Korea University. He serves as President of Korean Society of Forest Management Information, Vice President of Remote Sensing Society, Korean Society of Geospatial Information, Korean Society of Geographic Information, and Special Advisory Committee of Korean Society of Climate Change. Currently his researches are focused on Assessing Impact and Vulnerability in Environmental Sectors (especially Agriculture, Forest Ecosystem, Urban Area) in relation to Climate Change and Carbon Cycle and preparing Vulnerability Map with different spatial scale for making Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in National and Local Level. Assessing Ecosystem Services (Support, Provision, Regulation, Culture) by using GIS and Spatial Analysis and preparing Ecosystem Service Map for reasonable Decision-making in Environmental sectors.

Forest Ecosystem, Climate Change and Carbon Cycle, Adaptation and Mitigation Measures

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Climate Change, CO2 emissions reduction,

Alexander A. Kokhanovsky graduated from the Department of Physics of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1983. He has received Ph. D. degree in optical sciences from the B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, in 1991. The PhD work has been aimed at studies of light scattering properties of aerosol media and foams. His habilitation work (Main Geobphysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011) has been devoted to the development of advanced cloud and snow remote sensing techniques based on spaceborne observations. Dr. Kokhanovsky has worked at the atmospheric optics group in the Laboratory of Light Scattering Media Optics at Institute of Physics in Minsk (1983-2004) and also he has belonged to the SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT algorithm development team (Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 2001-2013). He is currently working with aerosol and cloud remote sensing algorithms for the imaging polarimeter (3MI) to be launched in 2021 on board EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG). His research interests are directed towards studies of light propagation and scattering in terrestrial atmosphere. Dr. Kokhanovsky is the author of books Light Scattering Media Optics: Problems and Solutions (Chichester: Springer-Praxis, 1999, 2001, 2004), Polarization Optics of Random Media (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2003), Cloud Optics (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006), and Aerosol Optics (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2008). He has published more than 300 papers in the field of environmental optics, radiative transfer, and light scattering.

Directed towards studies of light propagation
Scattering in terrestrial atmosphere

Vincenzo Isabella Valenzi is the Director Biomedical Science Department, UNIMEIER, Milano, Italy and Presedent of CIFA. He has been conducting research on meteoropathy since 1980. With a group of physicists and doctors, he founded a Center for the study of biometeorology in Rome. He has conducted extensive research on Climate therapy of the thermodynamics of biological systems.

Climatology and Meteorology

Jaime Senabre (1966). Graduated in Psychology, is currently developing his PhD thesis in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the UNED. He has extensive postgraduate training, achieving a total of five Masters, including: Masters in Occupational Health, Safety and Workplace Risk by Camilo José Cela University, Madrid; Master of Psychopathology and Health, UNED; Master of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, University of Valencia. He is also a Diploma in Psychological Intervention in Emergencies and Disasters, Environmental Consultant, Expert in Human Resources and Criminology. His multidisciplinary background has led him to exercise his professional work as a wildland firefighter for 18 years and is currently Chief of the Wildland Fire Brigade. Exerts Clinical Psychology at several private centers and provides training to the various emergency services and police. Director and Chairman of the Scientific-Professional Committee of the National Symposium on Forest Fires -SINIF (2008-2014) and creator of SINIF Awards, for Innovation and Technological Research, Prevention and Management Development on Forest Fires.Member of: Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress, Spanish Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, and Spanish Association of Behavioral Psychology.

Wild Fire, Climate Change, Ecology

A. W. Jayawardena is a retired professor with over 40 years of experience in the fields of hydrology, water resources and environmental engineering in academia, government, consulting engineers and international organizations. At present, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong where he has been teaching for many years, and has in the past been a Technical Advisor to the Research and Development Centre of Nippon Koei Co. Ltd (Consulting Engineers), Japan, Research and Training Advisor to the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO, Japan, Professor in the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, a Guest Professor of Beijing Normal University, China, Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor in Tsinghua University of China. He has been the recepient of the 2013 International Award of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, has authored the book "Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling", and authored or co-authored over 175 reseach publications.

Hydrology and Water Resources

J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and internationalresearch projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

José Sánchez del Río Sáezhas been working in biotechnology with photonic biosensors for more than 4 years. He did his PhD in photonic bio-sensing and DNA mutations detection at Madrid Microelectronics Institute (IMM-CNM-CSIC). Then he worked in a private company as a patent researcher in Biometrics and novel sensors and after as a postdoc in the Face Recognition and Artificial Vision (FRAV) group of the Computer and Statistics department at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC). He has done 2 postdocs in the Nuclear Physics Department at the Matter Structure Institute (IEM-CSIC) and was specialized in high energy ions, protons and gamma radiation detection. Nowadays, he is working as a SW/HW testing engineer in the aerospace field for ALTER TECHNOLOGY.

Photonic Biosensors and Radiation detection