Subham is currently a Joint Berlin-Jerusalem Post-Doctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Brigitta Schuett) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eran Feitelson) working on comparative study of water sensitive catchment management between Israel and Germany for mitigating flood risks in the costal urban areas.
Subham pursued his PhD on Urban Water Security at the Freie University of Berlin, for which he was awarded the DAAD full scholarship. His PhD project explores the dimensions and issues for quantitative assessment of urban water security in Kolkata. He holds 3 Masters of Science degrees in Ecohydrology (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany), GIS for Catchment Dynamics and Management (University of Leeds, UK) and Remote Sensing and GIS (University of Burdwan, India).
Subham has held several research positions both in academic positions and in advisory/management roles for the Governments of England, Scotland, and India. In the latter context, Subham's expertise in GIS and Mapping Techniques has been applied to research under the Rural Payment Agency for DEFRA (2010-2011), in contribution to various rivers projects for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (2011) and as a Project Supervisor for Coastal Regulatory Zones under the Ministry of Environment and Forest for the Government of India (2014). His academic roles have seen him engaged both as a research associate and within a teaching capacity, with responsibility for master’s Students both at the Capital Normal University, Beijing (2014-2016), China, and the University of Kiel (2013), Germany.
Subham has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarships in acknowledgement of his academic excellence throughout his career. In addition to the current Joint Berlin-Jerusalem Post-Doctoral Fellowship and the DAAD scholarship which supports his PhD, Subham was awarded a full Research Scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council to pursue his work in China (2014-2016), and the UNESCO-Erasmus Mundus Full Scholarship to support his MSc Studies at the University of Kiel (2011-2013). He is also a recipient of GeoX Network’s research travel grant (2018) to conduct survey in Kolkata, as a part of his PhD. Additionally, he has recently received Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) workshop grant (2019-2020) to conduct workshops in the UK, India, and Bangladesh. He has several publications in reputed journals and has frequently presented at conferences and roundtables in his areas of specialism.
Adi Ben-Nun is a GIS specialist who takes a wide view of the whole system. He is the technical manager of the GIS center at the Hebrew University where he teaches, and supports research projects. In the private sector he has served as a CTO in several startups mainly focused on Spatial Big Data applications.
Lecturer in The Following courses:
49800 - Gis - Applications in Planning 40834 - Raster Workshop 40393 - Workshop in Geoinformatics
Justin B. Hollander, PhD, is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University (USA). He has written ten books and over 50 refereed journal articles on a range of topics related to the planning and design of human settlements. Prof. Hollander is regularly called upon as an expert for a variety of media sources on urban planning and design issues, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, and USA Today. He was recently inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and hosts the Apple podcast “Cognitive Urbanism”.
Since February 2024, Anselm Vogler is PhD Fellow at IFSH and Research Fellow at the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, he was research associate at IFSH and worked in the DFG cluster of excellency Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) at University Hamburg. Anselm Vogler works on environmental peace and conflict research. Currently, he is researching the relevance of water for conflict and cooperation within the Middle East.
Dr. Rosentraub has been studying and writing about the economics of sports teams, events, and facilities and the linkage between sports, cultural centers, and urban revitalization and economic development for more than 30 years.
He has written or co-authored five different books and more than 100 academic articles and book chapters on different aspects of sports, tourism, amenities, and economic development.
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