Keynote speakers

Valéry MASSON works as senior member at National Centre for Meteorological Research - UMR 3589 associated with CNRM -GAME (URA CNRS & Météo-France), GMME/TURBAU. He is part of Mesoscale Meteorology Department, Turbulence, Fog and Urban Climate.

So far he has supervised 18 PhD thesis, with credit of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in world renowned high impact factor journals, member of several research and scientific committees, incharge of many research groups across Europe and the world.

He was the Chief Organizer of 9^th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC9) which was held in Toulouse (France) from 20^th -24^th July 2015 in which more than 400 participants participated (http://www.meteo.fr/icuc9/).

He is the founding Editor of Urban Climate journal and is now affiliated as Associate Editor of this journal (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/urban-climate/editorial-board).

The scientific expertise of Dr. Valéry MASSON includes

• Cities and Climate Change
• Interaction between cities and climate heating, energy consumption by human activities, economic activities in cities and its impacts on modifications of weather, growing cities and technology or inhabitants way of life evolution.
• What influences the urban growth and what could be the possible city expansion?
• What are the impact of these interactions in term of urban climate, energy consumption, CO₂ budget, in-city renewable energy production, inhabitants comfort?
• Coordinator of the CAPITOUL campaign dedicated to the observation of the urban climate and aerosol-dynamics interactions over Toulouse (France).
• The development of Town Energy Balance scheme
• Development of Surface-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Models
• Development of Turbulence and Atmospheric models

Topic of presentation: How to include urban climate issues in urban planning? From urban and social data production to legal documents.

For details, please click on the web link:

https://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article241&lang=en (English version)

https://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article241&lang=fr (French version)

Prof. Dr. Cristiana Mazzoni is an Architect, Urban designer and Professor of Architecture and Urban design in the National Architectural school of Paris-Belleville. During her academic career she has been teaching as visiting professor in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, USA and China. She is the director of UMR AUSser, in the framework of the French Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and member of the Metropolitan Development Council of Strasbourg. Still 2015 she is the scientific co-director of the Chinese and French “Innovative metropolitan mobility” IMM-Chair (ENSAS-SYSTRA-CAUP/Tongji).

Topic of presentation: Advanced urban governance based on mapping: The "Livable city" as case of study.

For further details, please visit her web page at:

http://www.umrausser.cnrs.fr/cristiana-mazzoni (French version)

http://www.umrausser.cnrs.fr/umr-ausser-english-version (English version)

Prof. Dr. Alain Clappier is affiliated with Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, Université de Strasbourg France. He is expert in air quality modelling and integrated assessment modelling at the European Joint Research Center in Ispra (Italy). He also remained the leader of a research group specialised in air quality modelling at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) from 1998 to 2008. His major tasks remained the development of different numerical models, the meteorological model FVM (Finite Volume Model), the air quality model TAPOM (Transport and Photochemistry Mesoscale Model), the emission model EMISENS (Emission Sensitivity). He has served as an invited professor and speaker at many of the international conferences. He has vas teaching and research experience about air quality studies in different cities, Milan (Italia), Madrid (Spain), Grenoble (France), Strasbourg (France), Los Angeles (USA), Mexico, Bogota (Colombia), Ho Chi Min (Vietnam).

Topic of presentation: What is expected in a near future?