ACADEMIC DIRECTORY
A Distinguished Network of Scholars and Experts
UrbanWaterSECURITY is supported by a distinguished Academic Team that includes experts from prestigious universities, research centres and organisations across the world. Together with its Chairs, Director and Honorary Members, this international network ensures scientific excellence, thematic breadth and long-term academic credibility across the Academy’s editions.
General Chair of UWS
Provides strategic leadership and international positioning, ensuring coherence across the Academy, Symposium activities and the wider UWS mission. The General Chair also serves as President of the Academic Team.
Director of the Academy
Provides academic stewardship of the UWS Academy
Chairs of the Academy
Support scientific steering and thematic curation, contributing to topic selection and multidisciplinary integration. Listed below are the Chairs who have served in one or more Academy editions.
Academic Team Honorary Members
Distinguished experts who have contributed to teaching and programme development in one or more Academy editions.
Honorary Academic MEMBER
Gerasimos Lyberatos
National Technical University of Athens / Greece
Honorary Academic MEMBER
Rodolfo M. A. Napoli
Founder of SEED at University of Salerno / Italy
Honorary Academic MEMBER
Johannes Vrouwenvelder
King Abdullah University of Science & Tech / Saudi Arabia
† IN MEMORIAM: We gratefully remember the lasting contribution of colleagues who helped shape the Academy.
Academic Team Members
Globally renowned experts driving forward the boundaries of water science, lending their distinguished expertise to the Academy across one or multiple editions.
Cyprus University of Technology / Cyprus
Technical University of Crete / Greece
University of the Philippines Diliman / Philippines
University of Brescia / Italy
Opole University of Technology / Poland
University of Salerno / Italy
University of Salerno / Italy
Webuild S.p.A. / Italy
National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos / Greece
Inha University / South Korea
Pusan National University / South Korea
Springer Nature / Germany
University of Washington / USA
Tamkang University / Taiwan
City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong
University of Salerno / Italy
ICATALIST / Spain
University of Florence / Italy
University of Palermo / Italy
Valladolid University / Spain
National University of Singapore / Rep. of Singapore
Seoul National University of Science & Tech / South Korea
National Technical University of Athens / Greece
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
University of Naples Federico II / Italy
Alfieri Pollice
National Research Council / Italy
Water Research Institute / Italy
University of Girona / Spain
Paolo Roccaro
University of Catania / Italy
Shaista Shafiq
University of Faisalabad / Pakistan
Jaroslav Slobodnik
Environmental Institute / Slovakia
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Greece
University of Palermo / Italy
Federico Vagliasindi
University of Catania / Italy
Jean Venables
Venables Consultancy / UK
University of Ferrara / Italy
Beijing Normal University / China
Cranfield University / UK
Columbia University / USA
Giuseppina Oliva
University of Salerno / Italy
Stefano Cairone
University of Salerno / Italy
Laura Clarizia
University of Naples Federico II / Italy
Polytechnic of Torino / Italy
Tiziano Zarra
University of Salerno / Italy
Open University of Cyprus / Cyprus
María Eugenia Suárez-Ojeda
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Spain
Vincenzo Calvanese
Archaeological Park of Pompeii / Italy
University of Naples Federico II / Italy
University of Salerno / Italy
Sfax University / Tunisia
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Archaeological Park of Pompeii / Italy
Peter Jarvis
Cranfield University / United Kingdom
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