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Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Sustainable Urban and Rural Development'

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Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
Interests: energy efficient buildings; sustainable construction; construction safety; building information technology
School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: construction procurement
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: power system planning; power plant scheduling optimization; enhanced geothermal systems; ORC geothermal plants; peer to peer electricity trading; energy storage systems; micro and smart grids; low carbon strategies

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Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK
Interests: liveable city; social sustianablity; urban form and quality of life; Sustainable urbanism; compact cities; urban form of rapidly growing cities in transitional countries; urban morphology; self-organised systems and informal settlements; and socio-spatial and cultural dimensions of cities; urban complexity; resarch methods

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French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) | INRAE , Territoires et Infrastructures, Cestas, France
Interests: environmental valuation; choice experiment; landscape preservation; water governance; rural tourism

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Department of Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: industrialized construction; sustainability in the built environment
Department of geography and urban planning, University of Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France
Interests: urban overheating and thermal comfort; impacts on health; climate change; management of climate extremes in cities; adaptation and mitigation of thermal extremes; urban climate measurements and modeling
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Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Av. Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: building information modelling; construction technology; circular construction; sustainable construction and building utilization through better information access, management and flow through BIM and IoT

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: indoor environmental quality in classrooms and offices; thermal comfort; acoustics of worship places; environmental noise analysis; thermal and acoustical properties of material; circular economy; waste material; sustainable building component; energy saving; lighting
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MED | University of Évora, Mitra Pole, Apartado 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: mediterranean systems; food systems; rural development; social capital; social innovation; agricultural landscapes
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA
Interests: water quality; infrastructure; public health; risk assessment; source water protection; fecal contamination; microbial source tracking
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamic, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: sustainable construction and retrofit; life-cycle assessment of buildings and building components; sustainability assessment and certification systems of buildings; life-cycle costing; streamlined environmental and cost LCA approaches
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CESAM, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: green Infrastructures; air quality modelling; CFD modelling; thermal comfort; urban microclimate; climate change
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Atmospheric Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: meteorology; WRF; numerical weather prediction; precipitation; climate variability; environment; weather forecast; extreme weather; meteorological and environmental sustainability of human being on climate variability, especially urban-climate
Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Interests: public transport; mobility; transportation planning; transport modeling; traffic engineering; urbanism; transport; logit; urban planning

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos, 41092, Spain
Interests: electrical engineering; power systems; energy efficiency (electricity); renewable energies; electricity markets; life cycle cost analysis; data analytics
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Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy assessment; sustainable development; built environment; fashion; food; waste; higher education; systems thinking

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Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, University of Bergamo, viale Marconi, 5, 24044 Dalmine, Italy
Interests: smart home and building automation; smart city; energy; sustainable and intelligent transport; sustainable efficiency for the EU
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Engineering Department, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: advanced geomechanics; multiphysical testing of geomaterials for nuclear waste repositories; unsaturated soil behaviour; soil stabilization; soil microstructure characterization; landslide modelling and mitigation
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Climatology, Hydrology, Natural Hazards and Landscape Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Interests: climate change; desertification and drought; disasters management; urbanization
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Department of Civil and Building Engineering, and Architecture, UnivPM Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: urban planning; urban design; urban regeneration; GIS science; collaborative planning
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Department of Architectural Technology, School of Architecture of Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Diagonal 649, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: sustainable architecture and urban space; energy sustainability

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École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP), 75019 Paris, France
Interests: life cycle assessment; building and district; ecodesign
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Responsible Risk Resilience Centre, Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Interests: land use planning; environmental planning; GIS; ecosystem service; resilience
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Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
Interests: climate change adaptation; critical infrastructure; disaster risk reduction; sustainable urban and regional development
Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: modelling landscape perceptions, processes and characteristics; design of data structures to support spatio-temporal modelling tasks; spatial statistics; spatial data infrastructures; citizen science; GeoDesign

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Institute of Concrete Science and Technology (ICITECH), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain
Interests: building construction technologies; building-performance; multi-criteria analysis; digital fabrication
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Research Institute of Text Analysis and Applications, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: historic landscape studies - theory; methods and case studies
Department of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Interests: water-energy nexus; CAPMIX mixing entropy battery; advanced electrochemical techniques; charging/discharging mechanisms; capacitive deionization

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy
Interests: enabling building technologies; adaptive building component; sustainable building design; history of construction; building refurbishment
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