Juan Camilo Gomez is a Geological/ Geotechnical Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia/ Universidad de Medellín. With 3 years of experience in the real engineering projects. MSc. in Engineering Seismology from the University Grenoble Alpes (France) and IUSS (Pavia- Italy). Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Potsdam. He works at the Division of Seismic Hazards and Risk Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ. His research Research focuses on Multi-Hazard- Statistical-Exposure modeling for loss prediction over distributed infrastructure and building portfolios under multiple natural hazards and risk communication.
Anthropologist specialized in land policies, cities, and climate change in Latin America. Master in Urban Studies. Training in social and urban theory, with more than five years of professional experience addressing issues of land use planning, sustainable development, social housing policies, citizen participation, segregation, and urban coexistence. The ability for qualitative research, ethnography, and the use of geographic information systems. Skill in the management of participatory methodologies for intervention and work with social groups, ethnic communities, and local authorities. Knowledge in software applied to social research and in the formulation and management of social projects.
Fernando is a geographer with a major in Territorial Planning and Sustainable Development, Master in Regional Development and Territorial Planning (PUCE, Quito), Master in Research in Geography of developing countries (Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris), Ph.D. (c) Geography (Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris). He has worked in the administration of geographic databases and cartography; in Planning and Territorial Ordering (SENPLADES and different Ecuadorian GADs). He is a consultant at FAO; environmental modeling (EcoCiencia); teacher-researcher (PUCE and UTE). Research topics: rural spaces and productive dynamics, poverty and development, country-city relations, urban food supply networks, territorial modeling, and data visualization.
Michael Krautblatter has been conducting research into natural hazards, landslides and permafrost systems since 2004. His main research areas focus on the non-invasive quantification and monitoring of permafrost in unstable rock and soil slopes, the quantification of magnitude, frequency and interconnectivity of landslides and the anticipation of landslides based on thresholds, mechanical models and an understanding of the systems involved. Theory, field, laboratory and modelling based research is currently being performed within the framework of international projects in the Alps (i.e. the Zugspitze) and in Arctic environments. The current focus of the new TUM landslides group is the long, mid and short term anticipation of landslides in alpine regions.
Michael Krautblatter studied geography and geology in Passau, Durham and Erlangen. As a postgraduate, he conducted research at the Universities of Erlangen, Oxford and Bonn. He received his PhD (summa cum laude) for his work on permafrost in alpine rock walls and their destabilisation from the University of Bonn. He subsequently continued his academic career in Bonn where he lectured on geomorphology and environmental systems, established a “PermaSlope” research group with PhD students and set up a permafrost laboratory.
Massimiliano has been working on modeling and validation of exposure, vulnerability, and risk (loss) models in the framework of natural hazards. A particular focus of his research lines is on the collection and integration of multi-source information (for instance combining remote sensing and ground-based surveys) and the probabilistic modeling of physical and societal exposure and vulnerability models over multiple spatial and temporal scales. He explores how these research findings can be distilled in order to provide end-users and stakeholders with useful, efficient, and viable tools, in order to further improve Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies, also in the framework of multiple hazards / multiple risks early warning and rapid response. He worked as a Senior scientist at the GFZ-Potsdam, Potsdam from 2010 until 2019, and in 2020 he has been working as the research group leader of the Institute for Earth Observation of Eurac, Research (Bozano, Italy).
Hugo is a civil engineer and holds a master's degree in Computational Mechanics. Currently, he is a Research Member at the Engineering Risk Analysis (ERA) Group at the TUM for the RIESGOS Project, coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in cooperation with other 7 German research and industrial partners, as well as several research and governmental partners in South America (specifically Chile, Peru, and Ecuador). The project consists of developing multi-risk assessment methodologies and tools considering multi-hazard events with impact on critical infrastructure in the Andean region.
s a geologist and expert in environmental management working for more than 20 years as an international advisor for the German development cooperation in Latin America and Asia. His fields of expertise are environmental and natural resources management, disaster risk reduction, methodological advisory and project management. From 2006 to 2013, he was team leader in the project “Capacity Development in Local Communities”, a component of the German-Indonesian Cooperation for Tsunami Early Warning (GITEWS / PROTECTS). The project supported Indonesian partners to develop and implement tsunami risk assessments, warning chains and contingency plans. Since then he is working as a freelance consultant and trainer mainly in the fields of disaster risk management and climate change.
