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BAPTISTA, Maria Ana
Department of Civil Engineering, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
University of Lisbon
mabaptista@dec.isel.pt
She is a Professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and a researcher at IDL, University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Science Foundation. From 2007 till 2011- Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Coordination group of the North East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas tsunami warning system. From 2009 till 2013 Member of the Jury of European Union Contest for Young Scientists. She was awarded the Tsunami Society International Award in 2010. Scientific Interests tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural hazards http://idl.ul.pt/baptista.htm.
COROMINAS, Jordi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech
jordi.corominas@upc.edu
His research is focused on natural hazards, and particularly on slope stability analysis, landslide hazard and risk assessment. He has participated in more than 20 research projects funded by both National and European Research Agencies. Author of more than 150 papers in peer-review journals, books and conference proceedings. Organizer and co-chairman of the 8 Spanish symposia on landslides. Core member of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) for Natural Slopes and Landslides of the IAEG, ISRM and ISSMGE (2010-2014); President of the European Centre for Geomorphological Hazards of the Council of Europe (2009-2014).
DELGADO, José
Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio
Universidad de Alicante
José Delgado is a Professor of Geology Applied to Engineering and member of the Commission for the Degree in Geology of the University of Alicante, Spain. His research deals with geological hazards, with special interest on seismic-induced landslides and seismic ground response.
He is co-author of about 120 scientific papers and has participated in more than 20 research projects funded by both National and International Research Agencies.
PAUL HICKS
CO-FOUNDER @
BROOKMAYER & SMITH
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Jean Malet
CO-FOUNDER @
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Lessons From a Business Pioneer
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CO-FOUNDER @
HARVEY GROUP
Lessons From a Business Pioneer
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CO-FOUNDER @
HARVEY GROUP
Lessons From a Business Pioneer
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FERREIRA, Teresa
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
Teresa Ferreira is currently Assistant Professor of the Geosciences Department at the University of the Azores and Head of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores (CIVISA) since 2008. She is graduated in Geology by the University of Lisbon (1985) and PhD in Geology (Volcanology) by the University of the Azores (2000). She is a researcher in the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment (CVARG). Her research activities are focused in the study and monitoring of active volcanoes and other geological hazards. She is coordinator of the Neotectonics and Crustal Deformation scientific unit of CVARG and of the Seismology and Geodesy operational scientific unit of CIVISA.
GARCIA, Ricardo
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning
University of Lisbon
rgarcia@campus.ul.pt
Ricardo Garcia is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) - University of Lisbon and researcher in the group of Environmental Hazards and Risk Assessment and Management (RISKam) of the Centre for Geographical Studies. Has a PhD in Physical Geography and his research is focused on natural hazards and risks assessment (modelling and validation) and their appliance to spatial planning and Civil Protection. Member of the European Centre on Urban Risks (CERU). He is the author of several book chapters and papers in national and international journals.
GASPAR, João Luís
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
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GLADE, Thomas
Department of Geography and Regional Research
University of Vienna
Thomas Glade is a Full professor of Physical Geography, Head of the Geomorphic Systems and Risk Research group at the University of Vienna, Austria, focuses within his research on geomorphic processes and on natural hazard and risks. Involved in many national and international research projects funded by research councils, private entities and governmental bodies. Authoring in more than 180 publications. Involved in national and international committees and Editor in Chief of Natural Hazards President of European Centre for Geomorphological Hazards (CERG).
JABOYEDOFF, Michel
Risk-group - ISTE - Institute of Earth Sciences
Faculté des Géosciences et de l'Environnement, University of Lausanne
Michel Jaboyedoff is a geologist and has a degree in physics and a PhD degree in clay mineralogy. During his PhD, he started doing research on natural hazards, especially on rockfall. Since 2005, he is a full professor at the University of Lausanne, focusing his research on natural hazards (mainly landslides) and related risks. He participated at part of several European Projects FP7 (Mountain Risks, Safeland, CHANGES). He also organizing since several years sessions related to landslides and risks within EGU.
MALET, Jean-Philippe
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Strasbourg
His PhD thesis has been devoted to the study of slow-moving landslides by combining geomorphological observations, monitoring, laboratory testing and mathematical, physically-based, simulations. Since his recruitment at CNRS, he coordinated several French projects related to hillslope hydrology and landslide mechanical modeling and the EC Marie Curie Research and Training Network "Mountain-Risks". He is currently involved in the ANR CRITEX project on catchment hydrologeology and analysis of the Critical Zone. He is Director of the European Centre on Geomorphological and Seismological Hazards (CERG) and member of the Landslide Expert Group of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He was one of the initiators of the National Observatory of Landslides (OMIV). He is the author of more than 70 papers in international referred journals.
She is a Professor in Geophysics at University Paris Diderot and Researcher at IPGP and associated to the ANGE team at the Applied Mathematics laboratory Jacques-Louis Lions (JLL), UPMC-INRIA-CEREMA, France. Her Research focusses on the physical processes at work in natural flows with complex rheology on Earth and on other planets. Her work combines theoretical and numerical approaches as well as laboratory and field experiments. Recently she focused on the interactions of these processes with the solid earth and the ocean by studying the seismic and water waves generated by landslides and glaciers. She is leading the ERC project SLIDEQUAKES on seismic waves generated by landslides. She also works on the applications of this research in fields such as hazard assessment and the study of volcanic activity through gravitational flow monitoring, in conjunction with volcano observatories. She is the head of the new Master ‘Telluric Natural Hazards’ at IPGP.
MARQUES, Rui
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
Rui Marques is a Geologist and has a PhD in Geology (Geological Risk Assessment specialty). Presently, he is researcher and Executive Director on CIVISA and researcher on CVARG, where he is the Head of the Landslides and Floods Scientific Research Unit. He was member of the European Projects RETINA and FORSEIGHT and coordinator of several Regional funded Research Projects related to landslide hazard analysis, monitoring and early warning systems development. In the same expertise areas he give technical and scientific advice to the Azores Regional Government and to Regional Civil Protection Authorities for land-use and emergency plans and also in catastrophe scenarios. Since 2013, he has been an Invited Auxiliary Professor in the University of Azores to teach Slope Dynamics and Landslide Risk Assessment. He is the author of several technical-scientific reports, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals.
PACHECO, José
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
José Pacheco is a researcher at Centre of Volcanolgy and Geological Risks Assessment in the Azores University, where he is the Head of the Phisycal Volcanology and Magmatism Research Unit. His research has been dedicated to studying and monitoring active volcanoes.
The main focus of his work has been the study of eruptive history and genetic processes associated with the origin, transport and deposition of volcanic deposits. Present research is related with submarine volcanic eruptions and volcanic hazard and risk assessment. Presently, he is the director of the Geosciences Department of the University of the Azores. He is the author of several technical-scientific reports, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals.
QUEIROZ, Gabriela
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
Gabriela Queiroz is Principal Researcher at the Geosciences Department, University of the Azores, and is the director of the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment. Since 2015 is Pro-Rector for Science and Technology at the University of the Azores. Graduated in Geology by the Lisbon Faculty of Sciences (1986) and PhD in Volcanology by the University of the Azores (1998), her main research interests in the domain of volcanology are related with the study of eruptive history of volcanoes, volcano stratigraphy, explosive volcanism and caldera forming processes. In the natural hazards area main activities include seismovolcanic monitoring, volcanic/seismic hazard studies and vulnerability evaluation, preparation of emergency planning for civil protection actions and development of GIS databases for multi-risks assessment.
SOLDATI, Mauro
Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Mauro Soldati is a Professor of Geomorphology and President of the Geology Degree courses at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. His research deals with geological hazards, with special emphasis on landslides and climatic change. He is Vice-President of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) for the period 2013-2017 and member of the European Centre on Geomorphological Hazards (CERG) since its foundation. He is author or co-author of about 170 scientific papers.
TEVES-COSTA, Paula
Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
European Centre of Urban Risks (CERU)
Paula Teves Costa is a professor in the Department of Surveying Engineering Geophysics and Energy at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University, and researcher at the Instituto Dom Luiz. Her research areas of interest are seismic risk, seismic hazard and soil seismic behaviour. Since 2013 she is President of the European Centre for Urban Risks (CERU) where she coordinates a project on seismic and tsunami risk mitigation, with particular emphasis on the dissemination of information to the public, in order to facilitate the implementation of preventive measures, increasing the population resilience.
VIVEIROS, Fátima
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
Fátima Viveiros has a degree in Biology/Geology and a PhD in Volcanology. Her specific scientific formation is focused on hydrothermal fumaroles and soil diffuse degassing phenomena applied to volcanic areas. She is a researcher at the Centre of Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessmente, where she is the Vice-director and the Head of the Gas Geochimestry Research Unit. She has participated in surveys in different volcanoes of the world (Popocatépetl, Mexico; Mutnovski, Kamchatka; Lastarria, Chile). Recently she was awarded with the 2015 Deep Carbon Observatory Emerging Leader Award. Nowadays has a Post-Doctoral Grant from FCT to develop the project: "HAVE-CO2: CO2 Hazard Assessment in Volcanic Environments.
She is Director of Research at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. Her research is in seismology, including studies of microseismicity and mapping of fault surfaces in Iceland’s fault zones; mapping of magma migration, hydrothermal and volcanic activity in Icelandic volcanoes; studies of volcanic tremor sequences from subglacial floods, hydrothermal explosions, magma-ice interactions and eruptions; crustal wave propagation and seismic early warning. Her focus in the Bárðarbunga 2014/2015 rifting event and eruption has been on mapping details of the 48-km-long intrusion dyke and the slip surfaces of the Bárðarbunga caldera collapse as well as on analysis of the recorded tremor. She has led IMO’s participation in European and national research projects on volcanic and seismic hazard, she was one of the leaders of the FUTUREVOLC volcano supersite project and leads Iceland’s participation in the EPOS (European Plate Observing System) project.
WALLENSTEIN, Nicolau
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveillance of the Azores
Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment - University of the Azores
Nicolau Wallenstein has a PhD in Geology-Volcanology. As researcher of the Centre of Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment he has been mainly focused on Volcanostratigraphy and volcanic deposits studies in a perspective of volcanic hazard and risk assessment. Between 2000 and 2009 coordinated and was Principal Investigator in several national and European research projects in seismic studies and presently manages and operates an infrasound station (IS42) from the IMS of the CTBTO (UN) and integrates the EU research projects of the ARISE consortium. As Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores coordinates an MSc course on Volcanology and Geological Risks and a degree course on Civil Protection and Risk Management.
Rebecca Williams is a Lecturer at the University of Hull. She gained a BSc in Geology from Royal Holloway, a MS in Volcanology from the University at Buffalo and a PhD in volcanology from the University of Leicester in 2010. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, integrating many techniques such as field work, geochemical analyses and computer modelling to understand complex problems ranging from the 3D architecture of volcaniclastics, to understanding magmatic processes, to evaluating the risk faced by communities from hazardous volcanic flows. Her work focuses on understanding catastrophic flows related to volcanism, such as pyroclastic density currents and lahars. Rebecca is currently developing techniques in the laboratory to simulate catastrophic flows through analogue modelling. She is the lead PI on the Catastrophic Flows Research Cluster at the University of Hull. She was awarded
an Early Career Research Grant from the British Society for Geomorphology to design and build a bespoke flume for analogue modelling of lahars.
ZÊZERE, José Luís
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning
University of Lisbon
zezere@campus.ul.pt
José Luís Zêzere has a PhD in Physical Geography. He is Full Professor and Vice-President of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon. Researcher of the Centre for Geographical Studies, head of research group on Environmental Hazards and Risk Assessment and Management. Vice-President of the European Centre on Geomorphological Hazards - European Council. Coordinator of the following research projects: MapRisk - Methodologies for assessing landslide hazard and risk applied to municipal planning (2008-11); DISASTER - GIS database on hydro-geomorphologic disasters in Portugal: a tool for environmental management and emergency planning (2010-13). Coordinator of the Risk and Civil Protection teams within the Territorial Management Regional Plans of the West and Tagus valley and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
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