Speakers ****************************************************************************************** * Luc Abbadie ****************************************************************************************** Sorbonne Université [ URL "https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en"] , 4EU+ [ URL "https://4euplus.eu/4EU-1.html"] Luc Abbadie is a professor and researcher at the Sorbonne. His work focuses on the interac biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem functioning, ecological engineering, and ur defines himself as a simple professor of ecology. Luc nevertheless has years of experience teaching, and scientific management in his chosen field. His passion for ecology goes back Like all children, he was fascinated by questions of nature and science. But soon a transi in him. During his secondary studies, this simple interest in nature was transformed into to protect it. This happened at the beginning of the 1970s, a decade that began with the E nature protection. Environmental issues were then only in the infancy of their media cover the year he entered Sorbonne University to study for a DEUG in Natural and Life Sciences, Nature & Société association dedicated to environmental education. After completing his ma in natural sciences, he took the green route by enrolling, still at Sorbonne University, i ecology, in 1980, and the following year began his thesis on primary production and the ni the savannah, a subject that sent him to work in Côte d’Ivoire for two years. On his retur defended his thesis. Three years later, and following a stint teaching at secondary school CNRS recruitment process and was recruited as a researcher in ecology. “It was a miracle. CNRS at a time when ecology was still very little developed and taught. At that time, ecol came down to a simple post of a project manager (CM), then occupied by Robert Barbault, on in the field. Luc Abbadie then devoted himself fully to research on the dynamics of nitrog ecosystems. But very soon after that he joined research management structures at the CNRS. the ranks to become deputy scientific director of the CNRS Environment Ecology Institute i he took part in the creation of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, which until 2020. In 2017, the Sorbonne University Alliance launched an Environmental Transition led by a group of researchers and teachers, of which he is a member. He became its first d ****************************************************************************************** * Jan Frouz ****************************************************************************************** Charles University Environment Center [ URL "https://www.czp.cuni.cz/"] , Biology Centre C Infrastructure [ URL "https://www.bc.cas.cz/en/about-us/sections-of-biology-centre/nationa sowa/"] Jan Frouz is a professor of Environmental Science at Charles University and director of it Centre. He is the director of the SoWa (soil and water) research infrastructure at the Bio Centre of the Czech Academy of Science, which examines the question of how the interaction plants, soil and soil biota determine the gradual, successive changes of soils, and subseq ecosystems, and how we can use this knowledge in the restoration of ecosystems. Jan’s rese on understanding how soil biota (fauna and soil microflora), plants and the soil matrix in these interactions drive changes of ecosystem during succession and in response to other m such as large disturbances, manmade land-use change or global change. Further topics of re ecosystem restoration after mining and other disturbances, with particular attention on th of the soil part of ecosystem and the recovery of soil processes and functions; the role o organisms in the modification of their environment, nutrient cycling, and soil formation; microbial interactions; carbon storage in soil and SOM transformation in soil; soil and so heavily disturbed ecosystems such as arable fields, post-mining sites, etc.; and above- an interactions and their role in ecosystem development. ****************************************************************************************** * Bogdan Jaroszewicz ****************************************************************************************** University of Warsaw [ URL "https://en.uw.edu.pl/"] Bogdan Jaroszewicz is head of the Białowieża Geobotanical Station of the Faculty of Biolog University of Warsaw. He describes himself as: “...a forester by education but during my c switched my research interests several times. Starting from botany (dendrochronology) at t through entomology (ecology and taxonomy of daylight butterflies) at the PhD level to rece interactions and functioning of forest ecosystems.” Bogdan’s research activities focus on interactions, especially in forest ecosystems. These cover, inter alia: the impact of larg on vegetation, frugivory, zoochoric seed dispersal, pollination, ecology of soil seed bank interesting question is: how climate change influences range limits and distribution of sp plant-animal interactions interplay in the process of plant migrations and resulting in sh range limits. He is a member of the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI) scientifi established in 2016 and brings together scientists from 90 institutions around the world. international interdisciplinary team that has set itself the task of better understanding processes and patterns accompanying forest ecosystems. ****************************************************************************************** * Jeroen van den Bergh ****************************************************************************************** Vrije Universitate [ URL "https://vu.nl/en"] , UAB [ URL "https://www.uab.cat/web/universi barcelona-1345467954774.html"] Jeroen van den Bergh is an Endowed professor at School of Business and Economics, Spatial Vrijé. He teaches and researches the interface of economics, environmental science and inn His current interest is the application of evolutionary and innovation economics to stimul to a sustainable energy system, and the economics of climate change and policy. Since Sept been ICREA research professor at Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona and (distinguished/bijz of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam. From 1997 to 2007 he w of Environmental Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He is an elected fellow of the Tinb Research School and the Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), and was a member of the E of the Netherlands, of the advisory council of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Ag the Committee Genetic Modification (COGEM), as well as an elected member of The Board of D International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). He has been chairman of various com Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in the fields of social sciences, c and environmental sciences. He is a member of the scientific board of the Austrian Institu Research (WIFO) in Vienna, a member of the editorial board of six international journals, book series “Advances in Ecological Economics” for Edward Elgar Publishers, UK. He was awa Shell Prize 2002 for research related to sustainable development and energy. He has superv PhD theses and published more than 160 articles in international journals, as well as 16 b ****************************************************************************************** * Milan Ščasný ****************************************************************************************** Charles University SEEPIA Center [ URL "https://seepia.cz/"] , Charles University Environm "https://www.czp.cuni.cz/czp/index.php/en/"] Milan Ščasný (PhD 2006, Charles University) is Senior Research Fellow and the Head of Envi Economics and Sociology Unit at the Environment Centre and a lecturer at the Institute of at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and works with the University of Warsaw, the Prague Uni Economics and Business, and the OECD. In the past, Milan has also collaborated with the Ec at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CERGE-EI), the Center for Social and Economic Research ( and Industrial Economics (Cambridge, USA), and carried out consultation studies for ECHA, OECD, and WHO Europe. His research has focused on consumer behaviour, the valuation of non particularly of health risks, the external costs assessment, and energy and economic impac using various models (TIMES-CZ, CGE, E3ME-CZ, EE MRIO). Milan is Coordinator of the large- project (2022-2026) and Deputy Coordinator of another two (GEMCLIME 2016-2021, ECOCEP 2014 excellence in climate and energy economic modelling funded through the European Commission Research And Innovation Staff Exchange programme. He is a scientific coordinator of the GA on “Frontiers in Energy Efficiency Economics and Modelling” (2019-2023). He has been invol 30 research projects funded through European Commission RTD programmes and another 30 fina funding agencies operating in the Czech Republic. Milan has also worked with OECD on resid efficiency (EPIC Project), OECD-CIRCLE Program, and recently he is involved in OECD’s SWAC valuation project. He is a member of the Czech Government Council on Sustainable Energy an He conducts regular courses on Environmental Economics at the Institute of Economic Studie ****************************************************************************************** * Karl W. Steininger ****************************************************************************************** University of Graz [ URL "https://www.uni-graz.at/en/"] Karl W. Steininger is a Professor of Climate Economics and Sustainable Transition at the W for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz. He also serves as chair of the doctoral Department of Economics, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. Before coming to Gra a Master’s Degree from the University of Vienna, followed by a Fulbright grant for graduat the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Vien the faculty at the Technical University of Vienna and with the World Banks Environment Dep Washington, D.C. Karl’s research focuses on the economic impacts of climate change and lon carbon transition, analysing options such as adjustments in spatial planning, technologica in industry, or enhancing the supply of renewable energy, including solar. This involves t environmental and resource economics, transport economics, spatial economics, internationa public finance. His more than 100 publications on climate change, global change and intern issues have been published in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the N of Sciences (PNAS), Global Environmental Change, Environmental and Resource Economics and Economics, his books with Springer and Edward Elgar. He heads the Wegener Center’s researc of Climate and Environmental Change, and is speaker of the University of Graz’s research g and Global Change, President of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), Chair of the Mon the Paris Agreement and Transport at the national transport norming body FSV, past chairma the Climate Change Centre Austria, and past chair of the Chapter of Environmental and Reso the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik). He writes reviews for the worl in his field and is an advisor to multiple research funding organizations.