Abhishek Gaur

Canada

An Associate Research Officer in the Construction Research Centre of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) where responsible for developing climate data, maps, and tools to support the design and research of buildings in Canada. And also leading NRC’s efforts on the mapping of wildfires in the wildland urban interface (WUI) areas of Canada.

C H Raymond Ooi

Malaysia

Prof Raymond Ooi is a quantum physicist, has 25 years of research experience, produced more than 120 publications in WoS (mainly Q1 journals) on a range of topics in quantum optics, nonlinear optics, plasmonics and laser interactions. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM). In 2013, he won the Malaysian Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) Science & Technology Award. Raymond Ooi obtained his Dr.rer.nat (PhD) from Universitaet Konstanz, Germany. He spent 3 years as a postdoc at Texas A&M University and was a regular Visiting Scientist at Princeton University and Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik. He conducted research at KAIST and taught at Korea University before joining Universiti Malaya, and initiated "Quantum and Laser Science" research lab equipped with femtosecond laser optics facility under the High Impact Research grant.

Raymond is the Principal Investigator for quantum communication research programme funded by MOHE, has 2 patents and has been invited/plenary speaker at more than 30 international conferences. In 2018 he initiated and chaired the first international conference on Quantum and Nonlinear Optics(QNO2018) that was attended by pioneers in the field and secured three international funds to run the conference. He served as a Judge for MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific”. Currently he is the Editorial Board member for the prestigious journals; the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A and the New Journal of Physics, and has written several articles in the media, connecting science to recent topics like green energy and climate change.

Mohammad Arif Kamal

India

Dr. Mohammad Arif Kamal is an Architect having 20 years of Teaching, Research and Professional experience in the field of Architecture, Building Technology and Interior Design, He did his Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.) with Honors from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2000, and secured a Master of Architecture (M. Arch.) on an
MHRD GATE Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, in 2002 and Ph.D. in ‘Energy Responsiveness in Traditional Residential Buildings of Lucknow’ on MHRD Fellowship, from IIT, Roorkee in 2007. His major fields of interest are Environmental Design, Sustainable Architecture, Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Climate
Responsive Architecture, Traditional Architecture etc. Dr. Kamal is presently working as an Associate Professor at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has published 5 books and edited 4 Special Topic Volumes related to Sustainable Building Materials, published by Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland. He has published around 120 research papers
in International Journals and Conferences. Dr. Kamal has an h-index of 14 and i10 index of 25.....with around 1133 Citations (Highest Number of Publications and Highest Number of Citations in Architecture in India). Dr. Kamal is an Editorial Board Member of many International Journals and Conferences related to the Field of Architecture and
Building Construction Engineering. He is a lifetime member of the Council of Architecture, India, and an Associate member of the Indian Institute of Architects, India. He is also a panel member of many International Research Organizations and Professional Bodies.

Mohammad Reza Najafi

Canada

Najafi leads the Hydroclimate Extremes and Climate Change Lab (HydroClimEX Lab) at Western University. Our interdisciplinary research program focuses on addressing the challenges associated with nonstationary hydroclimatic extremes, particularly floods and droughts. Drawing on expertise from diverse fields such as engineering, climate change science, hydrology, hydraulics, risk assessment, data analytics, and statistics, HydroClimEx investigates the complex interrelationships between hazards and infrastructure systems in a changing climate. Our work contributes to the development of robust risk and resilience frameworks, supporting the sustainability of both the natural and built environment. Najafi currently serves as an associate editor of the Water Resources Research Journal (AGU) and Weather and Climate Extremes. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Multihazard Risk and Resilience (CMRR) at Western, bringing together over 20 faculty members across three faculties. CMRR offers a collaborative Specialization in Hazards, Risks, and Resilience, holds annual workshops on multihazard risk and resilience, and closely collaborates with researchers and stakeholders to address critical national and international issues associated with natural hazards and risks.