Chilean group

Name Summary
Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini Civil engineer, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) and member of the Natural Resources PhD Programme at UFRO and the Territorial Management of Natural Resources at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago). His post-doctoral research focused on developing innovative optimisation tools to calibrate a fully-distributed model at pan-European scale, as a fundamental piece of the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS).
Ivo Fustos Toribio Geophysicist, Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO). His doctoral research focused on the integration of numerical models and satellite-based data to develop better conceptual models into landslides at mid-latitude in collaboration with international partners like the European Space Agency and Centre National d'Études Spatiales.
Pilar Barría Sandoval Civil engineer, Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Forestry Science of the Universidad de Chile. Her research has been focused on: (1) quantification of uncertainties in modeled based runoff projections under climate change scenarios; (2) assessment of flood vulnerability and risk; (3) Impacts of climate change in water availability in Central Chilean catchments.
Camila Alvarez Garretón : Civil engineer, Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2). Her main research lines are: (1) modelling of hydrological processes in Andean catchments; (2) development of large-sample catchment datasets.
Mauricio Galleguillos Torres Agricultural engineer, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources at the Faculty of Agronomy Sciences of the University of Chile. His research has been focusing on: (1) development of remote sensing techniques to retrieve biophysical parameters and identifying land cover change; (2) ecosystem assessment based on remote sensing and diverse modelling techniques, including statistical and process-based methods; (3) field instrumentation to validate remote sensing estimates and results of hydrological models; (4) implementation of process-based hydrological models such as SWAT and HYDRUS-1D
Daniela Manuschevich Vizcarra Biologist. PhD in Natural Resource Policy. Full-time Professor at the University of Chile . Her research interest is to understand the dynamics of socio-environmental systems from a transdisciplinary perspective. Her research has been focused on: 1) on land use change; 2) modelling of ecosystem services; and 3) understanding socio-ecological transformations in rural communities in South-central Chile.
Juan Pablo Boisier Physicist, PhD in meteorology and climatology, Full-time researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2). His main research lines are: (1) past and future climate impacts driven by anthropogenic forcings with a focus on South America; (2) climate modelling; (3) comparison between climate model outputs; and 4) development of benchmarking tools based on terrestrial and satellite observations.

Chinese group

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Yangbo Chen Full professor at the School of Geography and Planning at the Sun Yat-sen University, and the Director of Water Disaster Management and Informatics Laboratory. He is the President of the International Commission on Remote Sensing (ICRS) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), and the Chairman of the IAHS working group on Modeling Hydrological Processes and Changes. His research is focusing on the hydrological model development and its application in flood simulation and forecasting, Land use/cover estimation based on remote sensing images and its application on assessing its impact on hydrological responses. Dr. Chen developed the Liuxihe model, a physically based distributed hydrological model that is widely used in China’s catchment flood forecasting, including the large scale and small scale catchment and reservoir.
Zishen Chen Full professor at the School of Geography and Planning at the Sun Yat-sen University, and a senior scholar in water sciences in China. While initially working on terrain dynamics of sandy coast and multi-scale coastal evolution, his recent studies are more focusing on probability distribution, risk analysis and recurrence level of multivariate hydrological and climate extremes.
Yaodong Du Professor at the Climate Center of Guangdong Province and the chief expert on climate change of Guangdong Province. He is a team member of the report compiling on China’s National Strategy of Adapting to Climate, and the National Assessment Report of Climate Change. He is the executive head of the compiling team of the Report of Action Adapting to Climate Change of Guangdong Province. He has long been working on the climate change projection and adaptation, and policy making strategies, particularly in the Pearl River area. He and his team have investigated the evidence of climate change in the past 60 years in the Pearl River area, and projected climate change in the 21 st century with RegCM model under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios.
Wei Sun Associate professor at the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University. He is a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2011-2012). His research is mainly about hydrological model and hydrological processes simulation and forecasting. His research is funded by many agencies such as Alberta Environment and Parks, NSERC Strategic and Discovery Grants, Canadian Foundation of Innovation, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Dr. Sun has developed and applied a set of innovative simulation, optimization, forecasting and control models to water resources and environmental management. His achievements in scientific research mainly include: multiple model combination methods for operational river ice forecasting in Alberta, simulation-optimization- based Three Gorges Reservoir management models for ecological operations, and inexact programming methods under uncertainty for environmental and energy management
Yan Duan Associate research fellow at the School of Geography and Planning at the Sun Yat-sen University. Her research is focused on the Land use/cover type classification algorithm based on satellite remote sensing images.
Lisheng Tang Senior engineer at the Climate Center of Guangdong Province. His research is mainly focusing on the climate change evidence, projection and adaptation action in the Pearl River region. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator of several research project about evidence of climate change in the Pearl River region, its projection in the 21st century, the impact of climate change on urban and catchment flooding, and the adaptation policies
Ming Zhong Lecturer professor at the School of Geography and Planning of Sun Yat-Sen University. Her research interests include flood modeling (urban floods and catchment floods), water resources management and hydroinformatics. She has developed and applied a set of innovative simulation, optimization, and assessment models for water resources and environmental management. Such as cloud based information diffusion assessment model under small samples for flash floods in North Guangdong, an integrated approach of association rule mining and Mann-Kendall (MK) test to investigate the causal factors of flash floods, and an advanced index framework integrating Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) for measuring community resilience to urban flooding.