Dr. Bingwei TIAN is currently an associate professor and dean's assistant at the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR), Sichuan University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also serves as the department chair of Urban Safety, Health, and Management. He obtained his M.sc from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, major in Geographic Information Science and Mapping, and PH.D in Engineering from Kyoto University in Japan, major in Remote Sensing Dr. TIAN pursued his postdoctoral research at West China Hospital and as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in the UK, focusing on Disaster economics. As a university professor, his research interests and teaching disciplines include Integrated disaster risk reduction, disaster resilience, experimental-based disaster education, climate risk adaptation, geographic information systems, remote sensing, mapping and emergency management. He has published more than 50 papers in various journals.Additionally he granted 6 patents, authored 1 monograph, co-authored 6 books, and co-edited 1 atlas.Since 2015, he has been working in Nepal as a visiting supervisor at Institute of Crisis Management Studies (ICMS), Tribhuvan University. For his contributions to recovery following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, he was awarded the "China-Nepal Friendship Award" by the Nepalese ambassador to China.
Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari is working as a Director
at the Centre for Disaster Studies, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University,
Nepal. He is a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a visiting
professor at Sichuan University. He has expertise in the tectonics of the Himalayas,
climate change, hill-slope movement, and human interaction, Himalayan sediment
flux generation, landslide Early Warning Systems, Multi-hazard risk assessment,
community-based disaster risk reduction, and nature-based solutions. Dr. Adhikari has
demonstrated low-cost and low-tech landslide early warning systems in the Nepal
Himalayas and published more than 60 scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Adhikari has received accolades
i.e., “Young Affiliates” (The World Academy of Sciences), “Sichuan 1000 Talents” and Young Scientist (Integrated Research on Disaster
Risk). He actively contributes to policy
documents for disaster risk reduction at national and international levels. His
detailed information can be found in his web page: http://bradhikari.com.np
Baofeng Di has been a professor and vice dean of the School of Post-disaster Reconstruction and Management at Sichuan University since 2017. He has been a teacher at the School of Architecture and Environment at Sichuan University since 2007. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) (2008-2009), a senior visiting scholar at the International Center for Mountain Research (ICIMOD) in Nepal (2011 (3 months)) and a senior visiting scholar at RWTH Aachen (2012 (3 months)). He interned at the Soil and Water Conservation Department of the Ministry of Water Resources from 2005 to 2007 and participated in the "Comprehensive Scientific Survey on Soil and Water Loss and Ecological Security in China" and daily management work. He studied for a bachelor's degree at the School of Geography and Environment of Northwest Normal University from 1997 to 2001, a master's degree at the School of Architecture and Environment of Sichuan University from 2001 to 2004, and a doctorate at the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources from 2004 to 2007. He won 1 first prize for scientific and technological progress in Sichuan Province.
