Eliseo Clementini is Full Professor of Information Processing Systems at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. He graduated in Electronics Engineering (1990) at L’Aquila and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at INSA Lyon (France). His research focuses on modelling geographical space — especially on topological and positional relations — at the intersection of spatial databases, qualitative spatial reasoning, and cognitive approaches. Notably, he co-developed the DE-9IM model for representing topological relations between geometries — a foundational standard widely used in GIS and spatial-database systems worldwide. In more recent years, his interests have expanded to applying spatial reasoning and database modelling to new challenges, such as integrating GIS with remote sensing, data interoperability, and indoor navigation. He currently serves as Associate Editor of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI). Through his ongoing work, Eliseo continues to contribute to advances in spatial information science and foster collaboration across research and applied GIS communities.

David is a physics graduate who has worked in marine sciences for over 40 years. His PhD in Physical Oceanography (National University of Ireland) focused on breaking waves and their role in geochemical processes and that has been an enduring interest. Through his academic career at University of Southampton, University of Highlands and Islands and Heriot-Watt University, he has engaged in a wide variety of research including air–sea interaction, marine Earth Observation, regional climate change and coastal ocean modeling. In the last twenty years, based in Scotland, he has observed the climatic challenges and accelerating industrialization of the surrounding seas. That experience has motivated a broadening interest in the ocean as a system that supports climatic stability, biodiversity and multiple industries.

Dr. Roundy’s research focuses on tropical atmospheric and oceanic waves, their interactions with one another and with deep atmospheric moist convection, and how these processes influence global weather and climate. His research emphasizes the analysis of observations to understand how convectively coupled waves and intraseasonal oscillations modulate tropical cyclogenesis and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Ioannis Panagopoulos graduated from the Agricultural University of Athens and acquired a PhD in Hydrology and Non-Point Water Pollution from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). This was followed by postdoctoral research at NTUA, Iowa State University and the Inland Waters Institute of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, on agricultural water management and agricultural water pollution, management of aquatic ecosystems and development of infrastructure for the monitoring of Greece’s inland waters. Since 2022, he is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Hydraulics and Environmental Hydrology at the School of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Rajib Shaw is the professor in Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He is co-founder of a Delhi based social entrepreneur startup, Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), and is the chair of United Nations Asia Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG) for disaster risk reduction. He is IPCC CLA for Asia Chapter of Working Group 2 for 6th Assessment Report. His specialization is disaster risk governance, urban resilience, climate change adaptation and emerging technologies in disaster and climate change. He is the recipient of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award (PBSA) of 2021 in Education Sector from the President of India. He also received United Nations Sasakawa Award for disaster risk reduction as a lifetime achievement and for his contribution to global disaster resilience initiatives in 2022. He published 86 books and over 450 research papers. His scholarly influence is reflected by over 31,000 citations and an H-index of 81 on Google Scholar, underscoring his global leadership in disaster resilience and sustainability studies.

PhD in Forestry Engineering from the School of Forestry Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management, Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services, and Landscape Ecology. He has co-authored more than 50 articles in journals indexed in the Web of Science database, as well as several books, book chapters, and conference/congress papers, both national and international. He has directed and participated in various research projects and supervised six doctoral theses. I would like to highlight his research stays at various universities, most recently at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), which lasted five months.

Alexander Baklanov is a Professor in Climate and Geophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a Research Director at the Institute for Atmospheric & Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Finland. During last 10 years, he worked in the Science and Innovation department of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for urban cross-cutting and sand-and-dust-storm research activities and programs. He has also been a visiting professor in several universities across Europe and Asia. He is a member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea, Founding Editor of the Urban Climate journal, a Lead Author for IPCC SR on Climate Change and Cities, and co-chair of GEO Resilient Cities and Human Settlements WG. He has led a number of international projects on urban climate and environmental risk (e.g. ArcticRISK, NordRisk, FUMAPEX, MEGAPOLI, EnviroRISKS, EuMetChem, EnviroHIRLAM, PEEX MP, IMTECC, IUS4CRC), and he is a Member of the Board of the International Association for Urban Climate, Science Advisory Board of the WCRP CORDEX URB-RCC, EU projects CARMINE, RI-URBANS, etc. He has published about 400 scientific publications, including 15 books and about 300 peer-reviewed journal papers, h-index = 61, and has supervised 15 PhD students.

Professor Benjamin McLellan has been working at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Energy Science since 2010. His research focuses on the resources-energy nexus, particularly on the critical materials required for energy transition, including new technologies and the social, economic, and environmental implications. He is Editor-in-Chief of Resources (MDPI).