Former colleagues

	Bao Trinh graduated as a M. Sc. (D.E.A. Diplome d’Etude d’Approfondie) in Applied and Fundamental Statistic in 1997 at the University Paris 6 in Paris (FRANCE). After working five years for the Computer consulting company as a Analyst/programer. He started in 2003 my doctorate studies at the Institute National Research Scientific (INRS) - Water, Soil and Environment, Visionary university at Quebec city, Quebec, Canada. My thesis’s title is “Calibration meteorological forecast for using them as inputs in hydrological model”. He joined the FLOODS Action in the Land Management and Natural Hazard Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability in December 2008. His current tasks include application of flood forecasting models, statistical evaluation of forecasts, model testing in case studies, as well as research to advance our knowledge in probabilistic flood forecasting.
	Davide Bavera graduated in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering in 2003 at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). At the same university he received a Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering in 2008. During his research activities he worked also at Università degli Studi di Brescia (Italy). Then, in the framework of "AWARE" European project, he collaborated with CNR-IREA in Milano (Italy) and with WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos (CH). He was assistant teacher at Hydraulic Soil Defense course at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for some years and he supervised some degree thesis. He has experience in mountain hydrology, statistical and physical models to estimate the snow water equivalent on Alps using ground and remote sensing data, hydrological modeling of snowmelt volume forecast by SRM, snow drift phenomena, snow and glaciers fieldworks, regional analysis of low flows in alpine watersheds related to the water demand and GIS data management and analysis. He joined the Floods Action in the Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability in November 2008. His main tasks are the quantification of climate change impact on flood risk and the evaluation of costs/benefits of adapting to changes in flood hazard in Europe.
	Mauro Del Medico started his career in the IT as a free-lancing software developer working for prestigious law and economic consulting companies on the field of effective business management. A few years later he joined the staff of a major Southern Italian internet provider as a System Administrator/Web Developer. Two years later he became the IT Manager for a company group responsible for the security system. Here, since all the companies in the group were missing the proper IT infrastructure, he had the opportunity to get experience and overview of the full range of network-based system development including the design, the installations on both (hardware and software) levels, maintenance, management as well as help desk services. He designed and developed the companies LAN and WAN networks, a powerful and secure database for storing sensitive details, some intranet services written in PHP on PostgreSQL DBMS and so on. He was also responsible of managing the informatics training for the whole administrative staff, the IT related external contractors and the other IT staff members. He joined the Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (Floods and other Weather Driven Natural Hazards Action) in July 2005, where he provides informatics development and operational support.
	José I. Barredo is a geographer with experience in natural hazards and modelling of dynamic spatial processes. He has developed methods using spatial analysis techniques, GIS, multicriteria evaluation and cellular automata. He graduated in geography at the Central University of Venezuela, in 1990. In 1995 received a Ph.D. in GIS and remote sensing from University of Alcalá, Spain. Between 2001 and 2003 he carried out his postdoctoral research at the JRC’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability. Currently his research focuses on the assessment of the impacts of natural hazards, natural risks mapping, and dynamics models for land-use simulation.
	Marco Bernardini graduated in Informatic Engineering from the Universita' di Bologna in Italy. He started working as software developer in a financial company where he developed some web and dektop applications in Java. Later on he moved to Milan to work in Nielsen where he developed large web application in the field of Television Audience Measurement. He joined the Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit of the IES in September 2009. His main tasks are the maintenance and further development of the current applications and the development of the EFAS(European Flood Alert System) GUI.
	Katalin Bódis finished her studies in mathematics and geography at the University of Szeged (Hungary), integrated by studies at the University of Frankfurt (Germany) and at the Hochschule Karlsruhe (Germany). Postgraduate studies have been completed at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (surveying and geoinformatics engineering), the doctoral studies (geoinformatics) at the University of Szeged (Hungary). Working experience: 1999-2003, junior lecturer (geoinformatics, quantitative geography, curricula for geographers specialized in GIScience, tutor and dissertation supervisor), Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Szeged, Hungary, 1995-2002, system administrator (Unix and windows based LAN, operating GIS Laboratory), Geo-Departments, Faculty of Science, University of Szeged, Hungary, 1997-2004, researcher, GIS analyst, professional coordinator of projects (GIS-based environmental research projects supported by national and EU institutes and organizations). Katalin Bódis joined the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) as a GIS expert in 2003. Besides GIS modelling, analysis and support for LISFLOOD model and European Flood Alert System (EFAS), she is involved in multi-hazard, risk and damage mapping at a pan-European scale (topographic and hydrographic layers and analysis for Pan European flood hazard maps and Pan European coastal flood risk), and assessment of climate change effects on floods and water resources in Europe and Africa (data preparation, integration, spatial analysis and mapping).
	Bart Pannemans is formed as MSc Geologist (KU Leuven, Belgium) and MSc Marine Sciences (UGent, Belgium), with research topics on magmatic petrology (trondhjemites in the Norwegian Caledonides), and on marine geology (the biological-geological interaction around shelf-edge mudvolcanoes). He first worked as a network engineer for Alcatel, where he was responsible for the Internet Area (connectivity, firewalls, web servers, internet services, ...), and as a tool/database developer (design, implementation, application development, ...). Time between projects he spent travelling around the world. Since some years he has now returned to environmental sciences. First as a hydrographic surveyer conducting side scan sonar surveys on the Nord Sea and the Flemish canals. Lateron as a researcher at the Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium, the Flemish hydrological service. This included hydraulic modeling of the rivers Meuse and Demer. He also researched the possibilities to introduce a controlled reduced tide in flood control areas. Within the EFAS-team his main task is the calibration of the LISFLOOD-model.
	Francisco Escobar graduated in Geography in 1988 at the University of Alcala. In 1991 he got a Maîtrise on Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Bordeaux. He obtained his PhD on GIS in 1996 at the University of Alcala. His PhD thesis dealt with the integration of cognitive distances with GIS in order to assess Health Service usage and accessibility. From 1997 until 2001 he worked as Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne. From 2001 until 2003 he worked as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geospatial Science at the RMIT University. Since January 2003 he's Professor of Geography at the University of Alcala where he has also been Vice Dean of the Arts Faculty. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he's been invited Professor at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He's currently based at the JRC as Seconded National Expert. His areas of expertise are related to GIS development and social applications. He's also involved in a number of projects related to geographic visualization and cartography.

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