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

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Department of Engineering, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Interests: building renovation; sustainable renovation; sustainability building design; sustainable built environment; building information modeling; integrated design
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Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Interests: smart buildings; smart communities; smart grids; microgrids; renewable energy sources; V2G; demand response; demand side management; advanced power forecasting and optimisation techniques; energy economics

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College of Architecture, Myongji University, Seoul 120-728, Republic of Korea
Interests: urban design and spatial analysis

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, 38334 Volos, Greece
Interests: city logistics; micro- and macro- simulation of transportation networks; ITS and transportation planning
Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Interests: energy security; resource use; energy economics; post-carbon transition; clean fuel and energy technologies; Energy-Water-Food Nexus; scenario generation tools; LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning); WEAP (Water Evaluation Planning System); Foreseer (Land-Water-Energy-Food)
Department of Physical and Computational Mechanics, National Research Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Interests: wildland fire; WUI fires; infrared thermography; fire retardants; firebrands; fire safety engineering; peat fires
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Natural Resources Institute, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich, Chatham, UK
Interests: climate change mitigation and adaptation; environmental equity and justice; land based commodities; payments for ecosystem services (inc REDD+); natural resource management/conflict; sustainable development across scales

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School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4215, Australia
Interests: thermal comfort; indoor environmental quality; energy benchmark; energy and the built environment; building performance assessment; green buildings
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College of Social Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
Interests: social dimentions of climate change; climate justice; multilevel climate governance; urban governance and regeneration; community resilience; climate adaptation; environmental policy; disaster risk reduction
School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Interests: regression modeling; urban planning; built environment; urban development; logistic regression
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
Interests: structural engineering; construction materials; structural reliability; structural dynamics; structural testing and evaluation
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OJEong Resilience Institute, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
Interests: heavy metals; soil; remediation; heavy metal pollution; environmental pollution; phytoremediation; environmental remediation; hazardous waste management; environmental risk assessment; toxicity
Department of Urban Design and Planning, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Republic of Korea
Interests: climate-responsive urban design and planning; microclimate and thermal comfort; urban heat island; walkability and livability; suburbanization
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Department of Protection and Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea
Interests: protective engineering; protection and safety; structural health monitoring
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: urban disaster

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Department of Safety Engineering, College of Science and Technology, Dongguk University, Gyeongju 38066, Korea
Interests: built environment; human behaviour in fire; urban disaster prevention; UAV (drone) utilization; spatial informatics; risk assessment; fire and evacuation simulation; performance based design
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United Nations University - Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), Dresden, Germany
Interests: wicked problems; public policy; environmental governance; water management; sustainable development; citizen science

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Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: civil engineering; construction management; project scheduling; optimization; mathematical programming; mixed-integer nonlinear programming
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Business School, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia
Interests: networking; entrepreneurial ecosystems; innovation; entrepreneurial capacity building; cross-cultural management

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Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Development, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany
Interests: sustainable urban and regional transition; regional planning; climate change mitigation and adaptation; governance of sustainability transition; transition theory/planning theory

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Faculty of Geoengineering, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: land management; land consolidation; countryside and climate change; cadastral data; rural development; countryside valuation; the phenomenon of shrinkage in countryside
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Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: mobility/mobilities; planning; cycling; urban and transport justice

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Institute of Forest Resource Management and Rural Development, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
Interests: sustainability; spatial analysis; landscape ecology; land use

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Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada
Interests: building energy modeling and simulation; cogeneration; district energy; entropy generation minimization analysis; energy performance improvement; energy system modelling and simulation; heat transfer; renewable energy; sustainable energy
Institute of Applied Management Sciences, University of Pannonia Nagykanizsa Campus, Zrínyi Miklós str. 18, H-8800 Nagykanizsa, Hungary
Interests: circular economy; eco-innovation; renewable energy sources; climate change; rural development; urban development
Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Jana Heweliusza 10, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: building physics; hygrothermal behaviour of materials; airtightness of building enclosure; thermal insulations; natural materials; simulations
1. Balkan Energy AG, 4656 Starrkirch-Wil, Switzerland
2. Zurich Soft Robotics GmbH, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: sustainable architecture; sustainable design; integrated sustainable design processes and concepts; multi-objective design optimization; multi-criteria decision making methods, integration of solar systems into built environment; solar thermal systems; photovoltaics; BIPV; sustainable renovation of existing buildings; urban farming systems; carbon-neutral city; social sustainability; environmental psychology; user-oriented design
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Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Interests: economic geography; transport & logistics; urban geography; energy; sustainable development; international development; disaster management; emergency planning

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Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15701 Athens, Greece
Interests: biogeography; biodiversity; extinction risk; island biodiversity; island biogeography; conservation biogeography; conservation biology; conservation ecology; plant diversity; species distribution modelling; plant systematics; climate change
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Department of Landscape Water Conservation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 29 Praha 6 - Dejvice, Czech Republic
Interests: water erosion processes on agricultural land; application and development of regional soil erosion and sediment transport models; SfM-MVS photogrammetry and UAV based monitoring of soil erosion; silting of reservoirs and eutrophication; applied geoinformatics and remote sensing in landscape planning
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