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STUDENTS BOARD
AHMED, BAYES
Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL)
bayes.ahmed.13@ucl.ac.uk
PhD student from UCL IRDR working on developing landslide early system, addressing community vulnerability and measuring landslide hazard assessment in the Chittagong Hill Districts of Bangladesh.
PhD student at the Departmant of Geotechnics, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade. During her doctoral studies she worked a little bit on field survey and mapping of landslides, and also remediation of few landslides.
Currently she is on the project ''The Application of GNSS and LIDAR Technology for Infrastructure Facilities and Terrain Stability Monitoring''.
Her research is focused in the field of Engineering Geology, in particular the assessment of landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk, application of GIS in Geotechnics and landslide monitoring.
BAUMANN, ANDREAS B.G.
ESA/ESRIN (European Space Agency, Italy)
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Andreas.Baumann@esa.int
He graduated in Summer 2015 from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) where he studied Geomatic Engineering with specialisation in remote sensing. His Master thesis focused on «Single Tree Detection in forested area based on airborne LiDAR» and since December 2015 he is, as part of the Swiss NTP, at ESRIN in Frascati (Italy). He is currently working on the Geohazards Exploitation Platform where he implements an algorithm to detect landslides.
PhD focused on the occurrence of Large-Scale Mass-Wasting (LSMW) in the evolution of Azores (Pico and Faial islands), and analytical/ analogue modelling of fluid overpressure/ cohesion impact on LSMW. Participated in monitoring work (GPS/ microseismic networks) in Pico and Faial islands. Currently studying gravitational failure in volcanic islands, through numerical modelling.
After graduating Cambridge with BA Hons. (Cantab.) in Geography, he worked at JBA Consulting assessing property level flood protection measures. he has volunteered for two expeditions to Mount Etna with the Open University, and he now studies for a PhD at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Post-doctoral researcher in the Engineering Geology group at the University of Milan (Italy).
She spends 1 year at the University of Newcastle (NSW, AUS) working on rockfall hazard assessment in open pit coal mines.
Her current research focuses on landslide hazard, risk management and civil protection in an Italian Alpine valley.
GORDO, CRISTINA
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon, Portugal
cristinagordo@campus.ul.pt
Master’s degree student of GIS and spatial modelling at the IGOT – University of Lisbon, developing the dissertation “Susceptibility assessment to rupture and propagation of landslides in the basin of Ribeira Grande, S. Miguel, Azores”. She has a bachelor in geography specialization in GIS and her main research interests are natural hazards and risk assessment, landslides susceptibility, cartography and GIS, territorial modelling, spatial analysis and Geocomputation.
HAMMOUDA, MARIAM BEN
Institute of Earth Sciences- ISTE- Risk-group - University of Lausanne National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS)
Geological engineer and a 2nd year PhD student in Geosciences working on Landslides and Rockfalls assessment and mitigation, monitoring, geotechnical and geological engineering.​
Ryan has worked several years as a geotechnical engineer working on bridge foundations, tunnelling projects and rockfall hazard assessments along highways. His current research, which is currently being conducted at the University of Lausanne, includes the monitoring of rock slopes along transportation corridors using modern remote sensing technologies. ​
She is on the second year of her PhD studies on the Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade and her interest of research is Engineering Geology, with accent on assessment of landslide susceptibility/hazard, landslide modeling, landslide monitoring, GIS, Remote Sensing, LIDAR application in Engineering Geology etc.
She is the PhD project which performs application of GNSS and LIDAR technology for infrastructure facilities and terrain stability monitoring.
Geologist, Master in geological hazards by the University of Barcelona (2015). He started a PhD thesis project about mass movement studies using seismic data, infrasound data and modelling programs (specifically snow avalanches). He is interested in mass movements and its monitoring. He consider a deeper knowledge and a good spreading of this information about mass movements crucial for improving its prediction, prevention and mitigation of the risk.
He has a graduation in Physical Geography and Planning (University of Lisbon, 2003), a Master in Geography, Climate and Society (2008) and a PhD in Geography (2015), about the Climate and Spatial Planning in Funchal (Madeira Island).
Since May 2013 he is the head of Fluvial Hydraulic Services, with competences in hazard/risk and disaster management.
He is a researcher of the center for Geographical Studies of the Lisbon University, in the Climate Change and Environmental Systems (ZEPHYRUS) research group.
Graduated in Nature Management and Conservation. MsD in Environment Engineering.
Ph.D. student on Interdisciplinary Landscape Management, working on landslide susceptibility assessment on the west area of Terceira Island, in the Azores archipelago, in different climate change scenarios.
Physical geographer, graduated from the Ghent University in June 2014. In December 2014. She started a PhD at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). In this PhD, framed in the RESIST project (http://resist.africamuseum.be/), she tries to understand landslide mechanisms in the Albertine Rift through remote sensing, with a focus on rainfall as a trigger factor. For the latter a collaboration with NASA is established, including a 12-month research stay at NASA.
PROVOST, FLORIANE
Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Strasbourg
f.provost@unistra.fr
PhD student in the geophysics department of the University of Strasbourg (EOST). Graduated in geophysical engineering with a specialization in applied geophysics for oil and gas exploration/production and in geodetics. In her PhD project she focused her interest on landslide hazard with geophysical surveys. She studies the geodetic and seismic signatures of slow-moving landslides. The goal of the study is to better understand the sources of the endogenous seismicity in these landslides through the detection, classification and location of the seismic events and the analysis of GPS and SAR displacement.
RAZVAN-ANDREI, GHEORGHE
University of Bucharest-Faculty of Geology and Geophysics
razvan_25_ageo@yahoo.com
He is a engineering geologist, with a M.Sc. in Environmental Geotechnics and a M.Sc. in Applied Geophysics.
His Ph.D thesis is focused on landslides affecting transport routes (roads and railways).
Bachelor Degree in Geology. Master degree in Geological Sciences and Technologies. Principal research area is Mineralogy and Volcanology (advanced petrography, mining georesources, volcanic and seismic risks). The study of inclusions was made in the Institute of Earth Sciences at Mountanuniversitat (Leoben, Austria). Currently completing the 6-month long Erasmus Traineeship in CVARG (Azores University) as a collaborator in the evaluation of the hazard and risk in volcanic settings, the acquisition and processing data in addition to the fieldworks. Started a search project on basaltic cones in Sao Miguel focusing on Serra Gorda.
Senior Researcher hosted by the European Academy of Bolzano, Italy. Previously, she was enrolled in the FP7 Marie Curie ITN focused on Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks based at the University of Strasbourg (IPGS/EOST). Her current research interests include GIS for geomorphological mapping and landslide hazard assessment, and DInSAR processing for landslide monitoring.
SILVA, RUI FAGUNDES
Centre for Information and Seismovolcanic Surveilance of the Azores (CIVISA) Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risk Assessment (CVARG)
rui.ff.silva@azores.gov.pt
Graduation in Civil Protection and Risk Management. MsD student in Volcanology and Geological Risks at University of the Azores.
Intern in the Scientific Unit of Landslides and Floods of the CIVISA. Develops several activities, including: Maintain and manage hydrometeorological monitoring networks of the Azores; maintain and manage geodetic monitoring networks (total station); monitoring the weather conditions and to assess their ability to trigger landslides; and collaborate in the development of Civil Protection Plans.
Bachelor’s Degree in Earth Sciences in 2010 at the University of Genova. He received a Master’s degree in Earth Sciences in 2013 at the University of Florence with a thesis on subsidence monitoring with PSInSAR data of the Tiber delta area, focusing especially on the relation existent between compressible soil consolidation process and registered InSAR displacements. At the moment, he is a Ph.D student of the geohazard management and monitoring of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence.
Bachelor degree in Peace- and Conflict Studies, at the University of Lund, Sweden. She started on a MsD in Global Political Studies at the University of Malmo, Sweden.
Internship in a Swedish Non-governmental-organization (NGO) in India where there was focus on marginalized groups and conflicts over natural resources.
She just finished her third year of a bachelor degree in Geology at the University of Lisbon, and hope to be able to proceed within the area of Geological Hazards.
Graduated in Geology and Master in Geological Resources and Engineering Geology from the University of Oviedo, Spain. Presently, he is pursuing PhD as part of the staff involved in the GEOCANTABRICA Project (Government of Asturias-Spain and FEDER Funds). The main goal of his PhD project is the development of a landslide database with the aim of calculating rainfall thresholds for the triggering of landslides in the NW of Spain.
Post-graduate student with a research grant at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She has achieved a Master degree in Geological Sciences and Technologies in 2015. During her study career, she has acquired experience in geomorphological field survey and mapping. Present research activity is mainly focused on management and preservation of geosites and on coastal geomorphology.
Ziade is a graduate of Notre Dame University, where she received her BS in Geographical Information System (GIS) in 2006. After graduation, she launched her career working at the Directorate of Geographic Affairs (DGA) of the Lebanese Army. A while after, she pursued an MS from the American University of Beirut (AUB) specializing in Natural Resource Management in 2009. Her research focused on the impact of forest fire and rainfall intensity on Mass movement occurrence in general and landslides in particular in Lebanon. Dr. Ziade currently teaches GIS and Remote Sensing to survey engineering students.
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