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Stochastic Wildfire Projections for Assessing Tail Risk of Extreme Fire Events in Lower Austria DR. JO, Hyun-woo International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis Hyun-Woo Jo is a research scholar at the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. He earned his B.S. in Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering and his Ph.D. in Environmental Planning and Landscape Architecture from Korea University in 2018 and 2023, respectively. His research interests include application of remote sensing and deep learning techniques in agriculture and forestry domains, especially by combining domain specific knowledge with machine-learnable architecture. His interest in this area encouraged Jo to participate in joint projects with the European consortiums related to EU-Horizon2020: the Horizon2020 EOPEN (Nov.2017-Oct.2020) and Horizon2020 CALLISTO (Jan.2021-Dec.2023). As part of the EOPEN project, he developed a neural network model for rice paddy detection, the algorithms of which can be operated on a cloud-based platform of EOPEN. As part of the CALLISTO project, he performed joint research with the National Observatory of Athens in Greece on AI-based farmland monitoring. The research was followed by applying the model tested in South Korea to European regions through transfer learning. The results were presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems on Climate Change and AI. He is currently working on wildfire modeling at IIASA.

Linking Climate, Carbon Neutrality, and Air Quality Impacts through Multi-Scale Integrated Assessment Modeling PROF. WOO, Jung Hun Department Of Environmental Management, Graduate School Of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Dr. Jung Hun Woo is a professor in the Department of Environmental Management and the associate dean for academic affairs at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies (GSES), Seoul National University. He is a leading expert in air quality and climate change, with a focus on emission inventory development, air quality modeling, and climate–air quality Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to support policy decision-making. He serves as a deliberative member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PACST) and is a member of the Korea Academy of Environmental Science (KAES). Dr. Woo has contributed internationally as a national delegate to the NorthEast Asia Clean Air Partnership (NEACAP), United Nations and as a lead author of the 2027 IPCC Guidelines for National SLCFs Inventories, as well as the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC GHGs Guidelines. He has led emissions research for NASA’s KORUS-AQ and ASIA-AQ missions and has published over 174 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 51). His honors include the Ministry of Environment Award for Best Research and Development in Climate and Air Quality (2023), the President's Commendation for Outstanding Contributions to Air Quality Improvement (2020), and NASA Group Achievement Awards for the KORUS-AQ mission (2017) and the ARCTAS mission (2009).

Elaboration of the thermoelectric MnSiy silicide alloys by Binder jetting coupled with SPS PROF. THIMONT, Yohann Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier Yohann THIMONT is Associate Professor (HDR) at the TOULOUSE University since 2013 and lead his researches at the CIRIMAT Laboratory. He defended its PhD These devoted to the deposition and the characterization of YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting thin films and superlattices at the CRISMAT laboratory in Caen (France) in 2009. He developed a knowledge for the transparent conducting oxides during its Post-doctoral fellowship at the LRCS lab (France). He has occupied a contractual associate Professor position for two years at the CRISMAT lab where he pursued researches on Superconductors materials then he held a Research Engineer function in 2013 where he developed his expertise about the thermoelectric materials. Thermoelectricity is very interesting for heat lost conversion into electricity which is clearly in agreement with the global environmental politics. His research topic now concerns thermoelectric materials in bulk and thin films for the conversion of fatal heat into electricity. He remains also implicated in the elaboration and characterization of others class of materials as transparent conducting materials and gas sensors oxides deposited by sputtering techniques. He has a large expertise in elementary, structural, microstructural and transport properties of materials (bulk and thin films). He also developed an expertise for the modelization of the electrical and thermal transport properties by finites elements approach. By this way, he demonstrated that the geometries of thermoelectric parts play an important role for the thermoelectric conversion efficiencies. As result, a large interest for the using of Additive Manufacturing technique for the elaboration of new thermoelectric materials started. To this day, he published 50 articles, one Book Chapter and was invited in six Conferences in international congress. Five of his noticeable articles focused in thermoelectricity researches are reported: 1. Y. Thimont*, A. Mortagne-Coderch, G. Chevallier, B. Duployer, A. Galodé, F. Gascoin, D. Berthebaud, L. Presmanes, “Elaboration of p-type Ge doped MnSiy (1.73 < y < 1.77) thermoelectric legs with complex shapes by binder jetting additive manufacturing technique”, ACTA MATERIALIA 282 120466 (2024) 2. Y. Thimont, S. LeBlanc*, “The impact of thermoelectric leg geometries on thermal resistance and power output”, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 126, 095101 (2019) 3. P. Darnige, Y. Thimont, L. Presmanes, A. Barnabé*, “Insights on stability, transport, and thermoelectric properties of transparent p-type copper iodide thin films”, JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CHEMISTRY C 11, 630-644, (2022) 4. I. Sinnarasa, Y. Thimont*, L. Presmanes, A. Barnabé, P. Tailhades, “Thermoelectric and Transport Properties of Delafossite CuCrO2:Mg Thin Films Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering”, NANOMATERIALS 7, 157 (2017) 5. Y. Thimont*, L. Presmanes, V. Baylac, P. Tailhades, D. Berthebaud, F. Gascoin, “Thermoelectric Higher Manganese Silicide: Synthetized, Sintered and Shaped Simultaneously by Selective Laser Sintering /Melting Additive Manufacturing Technique”, MATERIALS LETTERS MLBLUE 214 (2018)

Future opportunity spaces for green and digital transitions and climate resilience in the Czech industrial regions DR. JOLLY, Suyash University Of Ostrava Dr Suyash Jolly is a Senior Researcher and Eminent Research Personality in the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development at the University of Ostrava, Czechia. With over a decade of post-PhD experience, he studies the political economy of decarbonisation, regional transformation and multi-level governance, the development of regional green industrial paths, and just transitions across European, Nordic, Indian, and North American regions. He is currently working on the long-term transformation of the Moravian–Silesian post-coal transition within REFRESH (EU Just Transition Fund) and is the coordinator of the recently submitted Horizon Europe Twinning project application LEGIT (Leadership and Governance for Green and Just Regional Transitions in Europe), aiming at analysing the role of regional leadership in green regional industrial transformation. Previously, he has worked extensively on green industrial transformation in the Nordic regions and energy transitions in India. He has recently contributed to the OECD–European Commission flagship project "Regional Development Policy for Industrial Transition: A Transatlantic Perspective," and prepared a strategic paper titled "Driving the Energy and Climate Transition: A Regional Perspective."

Energy Vulnerability in Czechia: Micro-scale Mapping as a Tool for Effective Policy Targeting DR. MACHáčEK, Jan University of Ostrava Jan Macháček is an academic at the Faculty of Science of the University of Ostrava, where he works at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development and serves as Vice Dean for Development and Internationalization. In his professional work, he focuses on demography, tourism, and the environmental aspects of industrial activity, especially issues related to rare minerals. At present, he is concentrating on the energy transition of the Ostrava metropolitan area.