Keynote speakers:
Name
Affiliation
Specialist area
Alejandro Gonzalez Ollauri
Civil Engineering & Environmental Management – School of Computing, Engineering, and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University
Nature-based solutions, ecohydrology, environmental modelling, climate change adaptation
Ana Luiza Coelho Netto
Full Professor at Department of Geography, Institute of Geosciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Position: Head, Laboratory of Geo-Hydroecology and Risk Managemen. I am Honorary Fellow, IAG-International Association of Geomorphology.
Current Research Interest: Fire induced vegetation changes affecting hydro-mechanical soil properties and slope stability.
Anthony K. Leung
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
mechanics of rooted soils, anisotropic modelling,
pore-scale soil-root interaction, centrifuge modelling of bioengineered
slopes
Francisco Sandro R. Holanda
Full Professor at Department of Agronomic Engineering, Universidade Federal de Sergipe – Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil.
Position: Head, Laboratory of Erosion and Sedimentation-LABES.
Soil Bioengineering, erosion, natural fiber geotextiles,
sustainability
Katrin Sieron
Since 2023: Geological Survey of the LBGR (State Office for Mining, Geology and Raw Material of Brandenburg), Germany.
Before 2023: Volcanologist at the Earth Science Center at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.
volcanology, hazard assessment, interdisciplinary research, deep geology, geothermal energy
Mingfang Zhang
School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
forest hydrological processes, ecohydrological modelling, water-carbon couplings, remote sensing hydrology, forest landscape restoration and management
Paola Sangalli
President European Federation of Soil and Water Bioengineering / Associated to Sangalli Coronel y Asociados S.L, Spain SWBioengineering and landscape architecture
Soil and Water Bioengineering, Climate Change, Nature based Solutions, Soil and Water Conservation, Landscape architecture
Workshop organisers:
Zhun Mao
INRAE – UMR AMAP, France
root traits, soil-root interaction, root reinforcement, slope stability
Gerrit Meijer
University of Bath, UK
geotechnics; soil mechanics; root reinforcement; modelling; field and lab experimentation
