Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, USA
Research Interests: wind engineering; hurricane engineering; structural engineering; bridge engineering; nonlinear/transient aerodynamics; performance-based wind design; community resilience; climate change; computational fluid dynamics; reduced-order modeling; knowledge-enhanced machine learning
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama, USA
Research Interests: structural dynamics; disaster mitigation; structural condition assessment; machine learning
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, USA
Research Interests: dynamics, sensing and adaptive control; multi-hazards mitigation for coastal and offshore structures; hydrodynamics, fluid structure interaction between ocean waves and structures; analytical, numerical and experimental modeling of nonlinear vibrations; vibration based system identification and damage detection; energy harvesting from ambient vibrations and ocean waves; other dynamics related areas
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Research Interests: optical fiber sensor; specialty optical fiber; fiber Bragg gratings; quasi-distributed sensing; photonics waveguide; harsh environment sensing; healthcare
Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Research Interests: water resources management; systems planning and operation; hydrometeorology; hydrological modeling; climate change and land use change at the catchment scale; flood forecasting; risk assessment and mapping analysis
School of Civil Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Research Interests: hydrogeology; multi-aquifers; groundwater control; land subsidence; soil-water-structure interaction; prevention of groundwater-related disaster; numerical modeling; physical simulation
Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial Information Systems, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Research Interests: geospatial information systems, remote sensing and image processing, complex modeling/geo-computing, machine learning, soft-computing applications, natural hazards; environmental modeling; remote sensing of earth observation
School of Economics, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, China
Research Interests: petroleum geoscience; rock fracture mechanics; rock mechanics and engineering; carbon capture; storage
Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science, IUC Physics of Complex Coevolutionary Systems and Fluid Dynamical Systems, USA
Research Interests: physics of complex systems; information theory; nonlinear statistical physics; nonlinear dynamics; nonlinear statistics; fluid dynamical systems; climate dynamics; earth system dynamics; nonlinear geophysics; atmospheric physics; extreme events and natural hazards; climate–ecosystem–society interactions; climate change and sustainable development
Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Research Interests: seismic resilience; shape memory alloy; structural dynamics; machine learning
Beijing Normal University, China
Research Interests: infrastructure disaster risk and resilience assessment under climate change
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Research Interests: environmental sustainability; energy conservation in building infrastructure; condensate recovery in air handling units; vertical garden systems; vegetative roofs; stormwater management
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Research Interests: civil, building and enviromental engineering
Prof. Dr. Amithirigala Widhanelage Jayawardena
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: distributed catchment modelling using finite elements; dispersion in open channel flows; moisture transport through partially saturated porous media; secondary flows in curved channels; stochastic analysis of rainfall data; chaotic dynamics of hydrometeorological time series; moving finite elements for convective dominant transport problems; artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms in hydrology; interill sediment delivery and rainfall kinetic energy; xinanjiang model, its modifications, and gis; basin scale hydrology coupled with atmospheric processes; red tide prediction; fuzzy logic systems; support vector machines; climate change
Mississippi State University, USA
Research Interests: ecological systems; hydraulic fracturing; landscape epidemiology; GIS; remote sensing; geospatial modeling; big data
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Research Interests: regional early warning system for forecasting rainfall-induced landslides; susceptibility to landslides and floods, at different scales, using statistical and physical models; data science and massive geospatial computing; collection and organization of historical information on natural hazards; fluvial geomorphology and sediment load of rivers; estimation of atmospheric CO2 consumption by chemical soil erosion; promotion of awareness of climate change issues through citizen science activities
School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Research Interests: reference and crop evapotranspiration; crop water and irrigation requirements; irrigation management; coping with water scarcity; drought characterization and management; performance of irrigation methods
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Research Interests: numerical methods in fluids; fluid-structure interaction; water energy converters; water filtration
1. School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China
2. Wind Engineering Research Center, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
Research Interests: structural wind engineering; wind resistant design of buildings; bluff body aerodynamics; wind-related disaster risk reduction; mitigation of wind-induced vibrations; human comfort to building vibrations
Prof. Dr. John Frederick Dewey
University College Oxford, UK
Research Interests: geology and socioeconomic/political implications of natural hazards; especially floods and landslides; deposits of tsunamis; rogue waves; and storm surges; climate science; geology and tectonic evolution of the Appalachians and Caledonides; geology of arc-continent collision; relative plate motion across continental plate boundaries and small-scale structural evolution
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China
Research Interests: remote sensing of environment; hydrology modelling and data assimilation; climate change and environment response; deep learning in water resources management
Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Matherials, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Research Interests: coastal, river and urban flood risk mapping, planning, management and sustainable mitigation strategies; coastal erosion risk mapping, planning, management and sustainable mitigation strategies; coastal and river morphodynamics; shoreline changes; natural hazards such as flash floods, sea storms, tsunamis
Wuhan Institute of Rock Mass and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research Interests: civil structural health monitoring; underground space detection; rock mass structure detection; disaster monitoring and assessment; geotechnical engineering; borehole survey; rock mass visualization
Section of Seismology and Tectonophysics, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy
Research Interests: hydrothermal system; tectonics; geology; seismics; volcano monitoring
Department of Architecture, Shinshu University, Japan
Research Interests: conservation of historical structures; seismic assessment; masonry buildings; numerical analysis; life-cycle assessment; material characterisation tests; shaking-table tests; townscape analysis; disaster risk reduction
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy
Research Interests: landslide mechanisms; solid-fluid transition; landslide dynamics; regional slope stability; slope erosion; geosynthetics reinforcement; laboratory testing; constitutive modeling; unsaturated soils
Prof. Dr. Amadeo Benavent-Climent
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: earthquake engineering; health monitoring; passive control; energy-balance methods
School of Science, Engineering and Environment, The University of Salford, UK
Research Interests: treatment wetlands; integrated constructed wetlands; sustainable flood retention basins; permeable pavement systems; decision support systems; ponds and capillary suction time
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, North Dakota State University, USA
Research Interests: resilience engineering; complex system modeling; design optimization; predictive analytics; failure analysis and recovery
School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia
Research Interests: statistical models of damage and fracture; mechanics of thin films, coatings and nanostructured materials; nonlinear dynamics in advanced materials; multiscale modelling and numerical simulations; natural hazard risk analysis and prediction
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering & Management, Wuhan University, China
Research Interests: flash flooding; urban flooding; river flooding; dam/dike-break flooding; barrier lake outburst flooding; Glacier lake outburst flooding; debris flows; landslide induced waves
Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, University of Hawaii, USA
Research Interests: disaster robotics; computational intelligence; communication networks; scheduling; optimization algorithms
Research Institute of Energy Structures – branch of the JSC “Hydroproject Institute”, Russia
Research Interests: climate change resilience of infrastructures; critical infrastructure protection (risk analysis, design of physical protection, vulnerability assessment); disaster management with emphasis on climate hazards and extreme events; climate change analysis and provision of climate services
Department of Engineering & Engineering Technology, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
Research Interests: nanotechnology for environmental remediation; advanced oxidation technology; fate and transport of emerging contaminants; ecotoxicological impact of metal oxide nanoparticles; novel nano-catalysts for wastewater treatment; disinfection chemistry; applications of membrane technology for water reuse
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Memphis, USA
Research Interests: ground motion prediction; site effects; site characterization; probabilistic seismic hazard analyses; strong ground motions and their impact on structures
Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Research Interests: civil engineering; earthquake engineering; seismic assessment; seismic strengthening; seismic retrofitting
Department of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Patras, Greece
Research Interests: geoinformatics on wildland fires; natural disasters and landscape ecology; applied multivariate methods, geostatistics and point pattern analysis with special emphasis on spatio-temporal analysis of wildland fire ignition points; positional uncertainty and data modeling
Prof. Dr. Filippo Santucci de Magistris
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Molise, Italy
Research Interests: stress–strain–time behaviour of soil: measurement and modelling; soil improvement by addition and compaction; seismic zonation and vibration insulation; soil liquefaction; behaviour of geotechnical structures under seismic loading
Laboratory for Earthquake Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Research Interests: structural reliability, risk and hazard assessment lifelines and infrastructure; finite element methods in structural analysis and design; earthquake engineering; structural design and assessment to the Eurocodes; smart materials; structural optimization and machine learning methods in structural engineering
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Italy
Research Interests: seismic geotechnical hazard; ground response analysis; landslides induced by earthquakes; liquefaction; disaster management; environmental geotechnics and climate change
Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece
Research Interests: earthquake geology – paleoseismology; geology of Greece; hazard analysis and secondary effects of earthquakes; monitoring of landslides with the use of UAV and LiDAR
Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Research Interests: architectural engineering; seismic design; vulnerability assessment at territorial scale
Prof. Dr. David Michael Simpson
Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, USA
Research Interests: community resilience; urban planning and hazards; emergency management; technology and hazards; animals and disasters
JSC "Hydroproject Institute", Russia
Research Interests: rockslides and rock avalanches; active faults; paleoseismology; seismic hazard assessment