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

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Urban Planning & Urban Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: tendencies in urbanism; urban transformations; sustainable housing; urban planning and urban design
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Business Administration and Finance, Coral Estate, Rif St. Marie La Puerta Business Center, Global Humanistic University, Curacao, The Netherlands
Interests: energy, environmental and climate change issues related to economics and public policy; climate change mitigation; low-carbon urban development; carbon prices; environmental impact assessment; renewable sources of energy; climate change and health modelling; agricultural sustainability; econometrics modelling related to sustainable energy; sustainable development; economic policy analysis; environmental sciences related to agriculture and land-use; macroeconomics; economics of immigration; labour economics
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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: fatigue and fracture behavior of asphalt materials; asphalt binder rheology and chemistry; mechanical behavior of viscoelastic materials; computational modeling of flexible pavements and materials; sustainable solutions to pavement construction problems; design and construction practices for flexible pavements
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Department of Architectural Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
Interests: sustainable construction operation plan; sustainable operation; construction simulation; eco-friendly operation; construction performance; decision making
Institute of Structural Economics and Management, Brno University of Technology, Veveri 95, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: construction management; project management; life-cycle management in construction; procurement; cost estimation all these topics with focus on construction/civil engineering
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Department of Public Policy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Interests: housing policy; public housing; urban studies
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Interests: climate change mitigation; low-carbon urban development; urban economics; carbon prices; environmental impact assessment (EIA) and related fields

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Pertouli forest, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
Interests: forest and environmental policy; social network analysis; landscape sociology; spatial planning; rural development

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Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: GIS; PPGIS; spatial analysis; spatial modeling; urban studies; physical activity; walkability; data anonymization
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Department of Construction Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
Interests: building energy efficiency; high performance building; building indoor air quality; building thermal comfort; combined simulation of building energy; indoor air quality and moisture
Department of Water Engineering and Applied Geology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 92-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: catchment hydrology; floods and droughts in rural and urban catchments; water pollution; sediment and nutrients transport in rivers; reservoir siltation

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Stellenbosch University Water Institute, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa
Interests: water security; water risk management; integrated water resources management; catchment hydrology; wetlands; climate change impact; adaptation and mitigation
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Integrated Planning and Industrial Building - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Interests: green construction; data-driven design; information modelling and decision support; integrated and adaptive systems; ecological architecture; urban horticulture; multi-functionality

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468, USA
Interests: remote sensing; LiDAR; land use/land cover analysis; GIS; geoVisualization; database design/development; GPS; precision agriculture; environmental modeling
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Interests: urban infrastructure; sustainable cities; megacities; megaregions; urban engineering; greenhouse gas emissions; sustainable development; complex systems; urban prosperity; climate change mitigation; mitigation abatement economics
Department of Energy and Power Systems, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: power system planning; capacity expansion models; generation adequacy analysis; electrical system dimensioning; electricity trading in microgrids
Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10135 Turin, Italy
Interests: plant abiotic stress; plant mineral nutrition; fe homeostasis; genes involved iron homeostasis; fe toxicity; fe and s interplay; magnetic field or geomagnetic field; plant microbe-interaction

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Department of Civil And Industrial Buildings, Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI, 700050 Iași, Romania
Interests: civil engineering; materials engineering and mechanical engineering
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Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor; 2000 Maribor, Slovenia Department of Biology Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: geoinformatics; landscape ecology; spatiall modelling; geography

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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
Interests: durability and sustainability of concrete materials; green materials for construction; repair and rehabilitation of existing concrete structures; supplementary cementitious materials (aka pozzolan); geopolymer and alkali-activated materials; polymer-based concrete
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Split, Matice hrvatske 15, 21000 Split, Croatia
Interests: project management; decision support; urban infrastructure; planning; transportation
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Construction Research Center, National Research Council Canada, Government of Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, M-20, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
Interests: sustainable design and construction; construction 4.0; automation in construction; building information modeling (BIM); life cycle assessment (LCA); embodied carbon in construction; life cycle cost (LCC); green building rating systems; climate change
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Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: urban microclimate; urban morphology; urban energy building models; extreme weather conditions; digital design process

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Department of Architectural Engineering, Ewha Womans University, 52, Ewhayeodae-Gil, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea
Interests: building information model; building performance simulation; DfMA; off-site construction
Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, B214 Gjøvik, Norway
Interests: aquaculture; other marine technology; building materials; Industrial and product design; construction technology; Mathematic modelling and numerical methods; offshore technology
Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: urban economics; housing policy; land use and transportation; urban spatial big data analysis; happiness

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School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK
Interests: environmental history; landscape history; animal studies

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Chair of Construction Management in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Cracow, Poland
Interests: construction management; technology of construction works; construction cost analyses; construction cost management; applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in construction management; building information modelling (BIM)
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School of Spatial Planning and Development (Eng.), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: geoscience; computer science; remote sensing; geographic information systems
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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK
Interests: urban design; informality; informal settlement; street vending; informal trading; informal transport; urban morphology; urban form; morphogenesis; slum upgrading; informal urbanism; typology; street life; public space; urban village; place; urban life; global south
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