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

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Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. de Elvas, s.n., 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: applied ecology; landscape ecology; cross-border cooperation; sustainable development; territorial governance and management
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Department of Architectural Constructions 1, University of Seville, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: advanced building facilities; hygrothermal comfort; IAQ; energy efficiency; daylighting and circadian stimulation; design of HVAC systems and environmental conditioning of indoor spaces

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proMetheus, Research Unit on Materials, Energy and Environment for Sustainability, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, n.º 34, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Interests: energy efficiency; indoor air quality; building refurbishment; radon mitigation; hydric efficiency; sustainability
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Department of Civil, Environmental, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: resilience of built environment to climate change; sustainable strategies and solutions for energy retrofitting; retrofitting of architectural cultural heritage; urban heat islands in the built environment; VR tools applied to architectural heritage; CityGML for architectural heritage
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Engineering Department, Universidad de la Salle, Bogotá 110211, Colombia
Interests: urban water cycle; integrated management of urban water; computational models

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Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: indigenous community development; indigenous tourism; cultural heritage management; biodiversity and visitor values; cultural landscapes; interpretation


Musaat Foundation Researcher, University of Extremadura, 06000 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: damages and construction faults, as well as anomalies derived from the building process

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Department of Construction Engineering and Engineering Projects, University of Granada, 18001 Granada, Spain
Interests: sustainable construction materials; sustainability assessment
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Amyris Bio Products Portugal, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal
Interests: yeast fermentation; citric acid production; single cell oil production; Yarrowia lipolytica; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; terpenoids production; bio valorisation of agricultural residues; fermentation

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Ricerca Sistema Energetico–RSE SpA, Via R. Rubattino 54, 20134 Milan, Italy
Interests: battery electric vehicles; environmental impacts; life cycle assessment; electricity scenarios; Italian electricity

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Research Fellow at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DEMACS), University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Interests: complex and social network analysis; artificial intelligence; anomaly detection; Internet of Things; smart city; sequences comparison
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Faculty of Economics, Universitas Mercatorum, 00186 Roma, Italy
Interests: agricultural and rural policies; inner areas; rural development; landscape planning; local food planning
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Faculty of Mining & Geoengineering, Department of Geomechanics, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, AGH University of Science & Technology, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: mining engineering; civil & environmental engineering; geotechnical engineering; rock engineering; tunnelling & underground construction; numerical methods in geoengineering; land reclamation and revitalisation; Landslides & slope stability

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Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
Interests: tourism and urban redevelopment; urban design and development; control place making strategies; public participation plan; policy evaluation

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Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: sustainable design; urban microclimate; thermal comfort; energy efficient buildings; simulations

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Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK
Interests: energy use in buildings; energy storage; renewable energy; building performance simulation; computational design
College of Agricultural SciencesOregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Interests: regional development; resource and environmental economics; land use
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Interests: landscape planning; energy landscape; ecological urbanism
Department of Integrated Engineering, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
Interests: sustainable design; biomimicry and adaptability in structural; city; regional applications
Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: urban and regional development planning; community participation and rural transformation; regional sustainable development

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Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu 30014, Taiwan
Interests: regulatory governance; SDGs; ESG; resilience; carbon emission
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Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Politehnica University of Timisoara, 300223 Timisoara, Romania
Interests: seismic vulnerability assessment; multi-scenario physics-based approach; masonry aggregates; seismic retrofitting; damage scenario; mechanical analysis; empirical methods
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Foundation CMCC, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (www.cmcc.it), Division on Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: climate change; mitigation; GHG emissions; agriculture and food; sustainable diets; land sector
Department of Urban Development, University of Taipei, Taipei 10048, Taiwan
Interests: architecture and urban design; urban planning; urban renewal; green building; wind engineering

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Department of Integrated Environmental Science, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA
Interests: remote sensing for wetlands/aquatic environmental science and limnology; Marine Biology; ecology; limnology; ecology and restoration of coastal wetland habitat and aquatic vegetation and seagrasses

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Division of Architectural & Fire Protection Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea
Interests: built environment; fire and evacuation modelling; human behaviour and cognition science in emergency; pedestrian and evacuation dynamics; crowd control; fire protection engineering; BIM/GIS/IT-based building and urban disaster prevention
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Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 40B, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Interests: HVAC systems analysis; optimization and control; energy efficiency in buildings; radiant heating/cooling; heat cost allocation in buildings; renewable energy use/integration in buildings
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Department of Heavy Duty Machines and Research Methodology, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego 11, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: mechanical engineering; construction and operation of agricultural and food machinery; Research methodology in technical; natural and health sciences; Mechanization of agriculture and horticulture; plant protection technique

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Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Management, University of Presov, Presov-Lubotice, Slovakia
Interests: economic growth; greenhouse gas emissions; decoupling; decoupling elasticity; environmental management systems; integrated management systems; sustainability of energy production and consumption; circular economy
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