Ponentes

Lecturers

Lauro Rossi

Lauro Rossi is a Programme Director at CIMA Research Foundation. Lauro is an environmental engineer with more than 15 years of relevant experience in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) at national and international level, disaster risk assessment, Early Warning System (EWS), flood risk management. As EWS Program Director, Lauro coordinates CIMA innovation activities, development and implementation of Early Warning System in different contexts. He is also the development coordinator of the “RASOR” platform for rapid multi-hazard risk assessment. Leader of international DRR projects, he has an extensive experience managing governance processes, building consensus and partnership with governments to implement country scale projects. He is also responsible for CIMA activities in Latin America and Caribbean. Lauro is a member of the Board of Directors of Acrotec Foundation, an in-house organization that support CIMA in ICT development. Research activity on early warning system and risk assessment.

Montserrat Marín

Montserrat Marín Ferrer joined the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in 2002 as PhD Student coming from the Department of Ionizing Radiation Physics (Autonomous University of Bellaterra, Barcelona), where she worked as associated lecturer. Her PhD project consisted in the development of a Neutron Detector for Nuclear Safeguards activities. She was appointed Technical Manager of the Illicit Trafficking Radiation Assessment Program (ITRAP+10), a program initiated by the European Union and the United States, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that highlighted the importance of nuclear security and promoted systems and measures for the prevention of, detection of, and response to nuclear or other radioactive materials out of regulatory control. Montserrat has worked in the field of Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response before being nominated Coordinator of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC). At the DRMKC she is currently dealing with actions meant to provide Scientific support for the efficient and coherent implementation of different policies and agreements in the context of Disaster Risk Reduction, such as European Union of Civil Protection Mechanism, the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Sendai Agreement for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Pieter Vermaut

Pieter Michiel Vermaut turned 18 during the year the attacks on the Twin Towers took place. These attacks shook the world and swayed the career choices of many, including his. In April 2002 he joined the (Belgian) armed forces. This experience had a profound effect on him. He applied the lessons learnt to accomplish multiple goals in career, sports and life. In February 2008 Pieter Michiel made the transition from the armed forces (as a sergeant) to a special unit for the federal department of Justice of Belgium. There he worked in small but highly specialised teams for the safety and security during multiple high level events. During this period his interest in ‘how teams work’ and ‘how to strengthen and empower people’ grew further and he started searching for thorough and well founded answers. He graduated as a Bachelor in Social Work and went on to specialise in the wellbeing of workers. This led him to the specialised training as ‘prevention advisor level 1, psychosocial aspects of work’ - an academic training at KU Leuven. In 2016 Pieter Michiel became head of the internal service of prevention and protection of wellbeing  and he became a lecturer at VIVES Kortrijk. In 2017 he started working for the local council of the Belgian commune of Aalter where he took on the role of crisis coordinator combined with the role of prevention advisor. In 2018 he started the post graduate training in crisis management at the University of Antwerp. In future he hopes to strengthen his knowledge and coach and support experts and students of safety & security in their role and mission with the necessary care for their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their colleagues.​

Zeljko Dobrovic

Dr. Zeljko Dobrovic is Head of Crisis Management Study (Masters Program) at the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica. His area of expertise includes following: strategic planning and organizational performance measurement, business processes analysis and simulation. He was involved in the development of a methodology, based upon extended SWOT and BSC methodologies, that has been used for different organizations in assessing their readiness for different goals and for different purposes. This specific methodology might be used in assessing the ability of crisis management organizations to deal with different crisis (natural or anthropogenic).

Marina Crnko

Marina Crnko is lecturer at the Crisis Management Study (Masters Program) at the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica. Her expertise is in man made threats and risks related to weapons of mass destruction.

Jeroen Neuvel

Jeroen Neuvel is senior lecturer and researcher at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He has a PhD in land use planning and completed his thesis: Geographical Dimensions of Risk Management in 2009. This thesis included case studies on land use planning for flood risk management and land use planning near activities with hazardous materials.
He combines his job at Saxion with a job as researcher at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment. There, he is involved in research on land use planning near activities with hazardous materials and projects on risk perception and communication related to activities with hazardous materials. In addition he is vice-chair of the CONRIS network.

Pierre Kockerols

Pierre Kockerols is Mining Engineer and Engineer in Nuclear Technology.

He worked for 15 years in the private nuclear sector, at the nuclear power plant design office of FRAMATOME in France, later as nuclear inspector for AVN in Belgium and as safety manager for the nuclear fuel fabrication plant BELGONUCLEAIRE.

In 2001 he joined the 'Joint Research Centre' of the European Commission, for its nuclear sites in Belgium and Italy. Since 2014 he is based in Brussels and involved in the coordination of decommissioning, radiation protection and emergency preparedness files for the European Commission