Anita Bernatek-Jakiel (anita.bernatek@uj.edu.pl) is an assistant professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Her research interests focus on soil erosion, especially subsurface soil erosion. She aims to recognize the activity of soil piping in different morphoclimatic zones, to evaluate its influence on landscape evolution, including relationships with gully erosion and to understand the mechanism of this process. She is a coopted-member of the International Association of Geomorphologists, Vice-President of the Association of Polish Geomorphologists, European Geosciences Union (EGU), IAG Badlands Working Group and the European Soil Observatory Technical Working Group on Soil Erosion.
Roxana Ciurean (roxan@bgs.ac.uk) is a trained geographer with a background in Environmental Geological Engineering and Geohazards. Her main research interest lies in better understanding risks and impacts caused by natural hazards on communities and the built environment. Roxana uses qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques for assessing susceptibility, exposure, vulnerability, and loss to single and multiple interacting hazards. With her work, she hopes to contribute towards bridging the gap between science, policy, and practice in Disaster Risk Reduction and move from identifying problems to developing solutions for a more resilient and sustainable future.
Kristen Cook (gm@egu.eu) is a geomorphologist specializing in erosion processes and extreme events in mountain landscapes. She received a PhD in geology from MIT and has since worked in Taiwan, Germany, and now France, where she is a researcher with the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), based at ISTerre in Grenoble. She uses techniques including environmental seismology, UAV and Lidar surveys, and remote sensing to study processes such as glacial lake outburst floods, landslides, and sediment cascades, primarily in the Himalaya.
Martin Mergili, (martin.mergili@uni-graz.at) born in Linz, Austria, completed his master’s and doctoral studies in geography at the University of Innsbruck before working in Vienna at BOKU from 2009 and later also at the University of Vienna. In 2020 he was appointed professor of physical geography at the University of Graz, Austria. His professional focus is the development and application of GIS-based open-source simulation tools for landslides and cascading effects in changing high-mountain areas.
Mihai Niculiță, (mihai.niculita@uaic.ro) Associate Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Department of Geography is a Geographer passionate about Geomorphometry, GIS and Remote Sensing; he has expertise in Geomorphology with results regarding landslides, gullies and soil&river erosion; he is a fan of Open Source Data and supports Open Source and Publishing initiatives.