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Katarzyna Chrobak

Katarzyna Chrobak is an urban planner with practical experience, currently a Ph.D. student in architecture andspatial managementat the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Her main areas of research interests focus on application of analytic methods and decision support tools in the process of urban planning and development. She currentlyconducts research on transitions in suburban…

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Maria Gerber

Maria graduated from master’s studies in architecture in 2010, at the Technical University in Wroclaw, Poland. Her diploma project won the first price in the “Concrete Architecture Competition 2010”. In 2011 she finished master’s in industrial design at Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, where, afterwards, she worked as a designer. In 2012 Maria moved…

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Ewa Burszta-Adamiak

Ewa Burszta-Adamiak, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof.; PhD DSc in environmental engineering (Wrocław University of Science and Technology). Currently an associate professor at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy. Her main expertise is analysis of the applicability and functioning (quantity and quality assesments) of Sustainable Urban Drainage…

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Laura Gatti

Laura Gatti is an agronomist, landscape consultant and landscape designer and co-designer of the multi-award-winning ‘Bosco Verticale’ by architect Stefano Boeri, as well as Vertical Forest Nanjing, La Forêt Blanche Paris, Trudo Vertical Forest Eindhoven and more. Studio Laura Gatti, founded in 1992, specializes in horticultural and soil consultancy, tree care and management plans, with…

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Paulo Palha

Graduated in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD),Vila-Real/Portugal, Paulo Palha has always worked in the field of landscaping and nature based solutions for cities, being currently the CEO of the company “Neoturf – Espaços Verdes Lda” (www.neoturf.pt) and founder of company Landlab Lda(www.landlab.pt). With more than 400 landscape projects and…

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Zhaolong Wang

The researches of Professor Wang mainly focus on the maintenance and construction of extensive green roofs, the mechanism of hydrodynamic equilibrium in different types of green roofs, plant tolerance to environmental stresses (drought, heat, heavy metals), centipedegrass breeding for the eco-maintenance turf. Professor Wang is executive director at Turfgrass Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University. He…

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Ulrike Grau

Ulrike Grau has a master’s degree in Horticulture from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Prior to moving to Mexico, she participated in the design of experimental green roofs and the setup of plant trials in Spain and Puerto Rico. Her work included the selection, cultivation, transplantation and evaluation of plants on green roofs. In Mexico…

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Petro Lakyda

Prof. Petro Lakyda finished his Candidate of Agricultural Sciences (PhD) thesis at the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (1986) in field of Forest mensuration and forest inventory. His scientific activities on live biomass productivity of Ukrainian forests continued afterwards, resulting in defense of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences thesis at the National Agricultural University of Ukraine (1997). Currently…

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Peter Dezsenyi

Owner and CEO of Deep Forest Landscaping in Budapest. Former lecture at BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Wien), InstitutfürIngenieurbiologie und Landschaftsbau. President of the Hungarian Green Roof and Green Wall Association. Built and designed more than 200.000 m2 green roofs in Hungary. Education: MSc. Horticulturist, Szent Istvan Budapest MBA Budapest University of…

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Pavel Dostal

Ing. Pavel Dostal has been working in the Czech Green Roof Association since its founding in 2013. He participates in the Association’s projects, is a speaker, author and co-author of several articles and publications and represents the Association at national and international events. Pavel Dostal also runs a green roof installation company GreenVille.

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