This topic investigates possible circular economy approaches in the frame of urban development. This involves developing process-oriented urban design approaches of space as a metabolism at different scales, interpreting the analysis of urban metabolism and of industrial processes and how their
waste (material and energy) could be understood as resourcefulness and used in urban design processes and vice-versa. The interest is at the neighbourhood scale, as an ambit to articulate regenerative design perspectives with dialogues and interventions.
Within this topic, the role of circular economy approaches related to resources such as space, water, materials and energy (including storage and conversion systems) are investigated at the neighbourhood scale, and also for decentralized housing environment solutions. Additionally, approaches ensuring efficient use of local resources (especially water and energy) and reducing the amount of waste material in the object’s life cycle are also researched. The focus of the work in recent years was set on possible approaches and technologies to re-design neighbourhoods transforming possibilities of industrial residues into new components and construction materials and in the recovery of valuable materials from the urban settings. In general, constructing knowledge on how circular economy and transition factors can spatially regenerate, redesign and restructure urbanized areas, neighbourhoods and buildings (urban mining).
The Topic Spokespersons of Topic IV are Prof. Renzo Vallebuona at KIT and Dr. Leonardo Agurto at UACh.
renzo.vallebuona_at_kit.edu
Wooden long span pedestrian Bridge in Norrköping, in collaboration with Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH, School of Architecture & Built Environment
Glue-Lam (laminated) Wooden Technologies, Earth building technologies
Prof. Renzo Vallebuona studied architecture in Darmstadt. In parallel to his studies and later as a graduate, he ran his own office in Udine, Italy, with Renza Pitton. In addition, he was chief designer of the Berlin office Stirling & Wilford Ass. Together with Walter Nägeli he was responsible for the design and execution of the major project "B. Braun Melsungen". Later he co-funded the current VAST-Architekten office in Düsseldorf.
Prof. Vallebuona has been a visiting professor at GSD at Harvard and also Unit Master at the Architectural Association AA in London for several years. He held a professorship at the TU Berlin and a visiting professorship at the ETH, Zurich for two years each. Since 2012 he has been head of the Department of Constructive Design Methodology at KIT where he teaches Methodology of Design.
T he reserach of Prof. Vallebuona mainly focuses on assessment of processes combining advanced High-Tec engineering with low key technologies. Notable projects include an experimental project for a self-sufficient Farmhouse in Spain, which is undergoing its first test phase. At KIT, currently he is working on two projects in cooperation with other Universities: A wooden/ Dibond-Aluminum composite panels laboratory building for natural-sciences in Patagonia, Chile, with EULA Institute for Environmental Research at Universidad de Concepción, and an ongoing project to build a 75m span wooden bridge for pedestrians in Norrköping in cooperation with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), the Swedish Wood-Industry and the city of Norköping.
Both in his work as an architect in the office and in teaching, his approach integrates various related disciplines from project to project, which lead to a differentiated, interdisciplinary way of working, without style obligation.
Prof. Vallebuona is a researcher in Topic IV.
A few wooden secrets, Yearbook Architecture Faculty (2019)
ICE Lab, Environmental Research Laboratory in Patagonia, Yearbook Architecture Faculty (2018)
The incompleted cloud (On perception along the axis of being and space). Proceedings of the symposium “Das Architektonische in der Architektur”(2014)
Instant Homes, on mobility, Rivista Tecnica di archittettura e ingegneria, Lugano, CH
Ruptures and Center of gravity, Transposition, ETH Zürich 1997 (first published in Studio Works, GSD Harvard University 1994)
Further projects and publications at: https://vast-architekten.com and https://fek.ieb.kit.edu/650.php
Bioclimatic Architecture
Social Housing and Energy
Building simulation
Energy Poverty
Passive solar heating and Cooling
Integration of renewable energy in architecture
Adaptive and progressive systems for social housing refurbishment
Innovative techniques and strategies in architecture and design
Refurbishment in vulnerable neighborhoods
Human Settlements and energy in Slums
Prof. Leonardo Agurto Venegas articulates his research and reflection around the interaction of society, environment and living space. Working from the perspective of the design process, methodologies and strategies he looks for the adaptability and rational use of energy in different contexts and scales. Especially attention is put to the architecture, its gaps to improve bioclimatic planning in social housing. His career naturally focusses in the local adaptation of the sustainability concept trough linking the social environment and local realities in regional contexts. Through the management of social housing projects and rehabilitation of neighborhoods he has also been exploring and combining participatory design strategies and teaching.
His Doctoral thesis on “Bioclimatic Micro-urbanism: transitional spaces and their possibilities of appropriation in environmental adaptability as a determinant factor in the creation of commons in collective dwelling”.
In research, he has worked in the Renaissance project under the CONCERTO initiative, co-funded by the European Commission. This was a research and demonstration project on the use and share of renewable energies in the field of collective housing, neighborhoods and sustainable bioclimatic rehabilitation.
He also was the director of Architecture for the House Pi project at the University of Zaragoza participating in the sustainable homes worldwide event Solar Decathlon 2012 in Madrid. Recently he finished two research projects funded by the Chilean government, one to develop a research project about bioclimatic elements for refurbishment called “Bioclimatic Prosthesis Research Project” and the other about a new software to measure sustainability and energy efficiency criteria called “URBAN-4S”.
Leonardo Agurto, Fernando Fanjul Palma, Pedro Orellana. 2021. Prótesis bioclimáticas: interfaz emancipadora para la libre adaptabilidad de los espacios transicionales Bioclimatic Prostheses: an Emancipating Interface for the Free Adaptability of Transitional Spaces. DOI - 10.5354/0719837X.2021.60897
Leonardo Agurto, Karen Allacker, Adelqui Fissore, Cristóbal Agurto. 2020. Design and experimental study of a low-cost prefab Trombe Wall to improve indoor temperatures in social housing in the Biobío Region in Chile
Leonardo Agurto, Karen Allacker, Adelqui Fissore, Cristóbal Agurto, Frank Troyer, Boris Rebolledo. 2020. Bioclimatic Prosthesis 01: Experimental dataset for a Low-cost Trombe wall to existing social housing refurbishment for an intermediate valley(Chillán) city in the south of Chile. DOI - 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105547
lorenzo.reyes_at_uach.cl
Formal stability assessment of hybrid distribution grids based on the correct modeling of the effect of synchronization of the power electronics interfaces. DFG D-A-CH Project (Joint project with Switzerland).
Microgrids, Distributed Generation, Smart Grid, Low-Scale Generation Technologies, Energy Storage Systems, Micro-Hydraulic Generation Systems, Power Systems Dynamics, Electrical Machinery, Power Electronics
Dr. Lorenzo Reyes is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Electricity and Electronics at UACh. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Chile in 2009. He then worked on the design and deployment of the first renewable-based microgrid in Latin America, the ESUSCON project. He then moved to Switzerland and got the Ph.D. in Energy degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, in 2016. After finishing his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Distributed Electrical System Laboratory (DESL), EPFL. From January 2019 he has been with UACh. His main areas of interest consider the broad penetration of renewable resources and electromobility into electrical grids.
Dr. Reyes is a researcher in Topic IV.
L. Reyes-Chamorro, A. Bernstein, N. J. Bouman, E. Scolari, A. Kettner et al. (2018): Experimental Validation of an Explicit Power-Flow Primary Control in Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2018.
L. Reyes-Chamorro, A. Bernstein, J.-Y. Le Boudec and M. Paolone (2015): A composable method for real-time control of active distribution networks with explicit power set points. Part II: Implementation and Validation, in Electric Power Systems Research, vol.125, num. August, pp. 265 - 280, 2015.
R. Palma-Behnke, C. Benavides, F. Lanas, B. Severino, L. Reyes, J. Llanos, D. Sáez (201§): A Microgrid Energy Management System Based on the Rolling Horizon Strategy. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. June 2013, pp. 996 – 1006
Further projects and publication at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kR2w7aUAAAAJ&hl=en
CONICYT AFB170007, Director of the project : ʺApoyo a Centros Científicos y Tecnológicos de Excelencia (CCTE) con Financiamiento Basalʺ (May 2016 – April 2021).
CORFO, Línea Innova Alta Tecnología, main investigator of the project : ʺDesarrollo de tecnología de producción de nanofibras de celulosa (NFC) químicamente modificadas, para aplicaciones de alto interés económico e impacto globalʺ (October 2019 – October 2023).
ANID, Fondo de Investigación Científica COVID-19, Director of the project : ʺMascarilla facial ecológica (Ecomask)ʺ (July 2020 – July 2021).
Bioeconomy, circular economy, biomaterials, biorefineries.
Alex Berg occupies the position of Executive Director of the “Unidad de Desarrollo Tecnológico” (UDT) in the University of Concepción, an R&D institute whose main goal is to strengthen the joint work between Industry and University through the development of new products and technologies and their transference to industry.
He realized postgraduate studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany, obtaining the grade of Dr. in Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) and participated in the developed a several technologies related to new processes and biobased products, some of them have reached industrial level.
More details: https://www.udt.cl/alex-berg/
Dr. Alex Berg is the institutional coordinator of IECO at the UdeC and also Topic Spokesperson of Topic II.
Mikula, K.; Soja, G.; Segura, C.; Berg, A.; Pfeifer, C.: Carbon Sequestration in Support of the “4 per 1000” Initiative Using Compost and Stable Biochar from Hazelnut Shells and Sunflower Husks. Processes 8, 764; doi:10.3390/pr8070764 
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Karschin, I.; Berg, A.; Geldermann, J.: Development of a Network-location-model for the Economic Optimization of Local Heating Systems in Urban Chile. Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft 42, 21-33 (2018).
Müller, N.; Berg, A.: Proceso de fraccionamiento del líquido pirolítico rápido de biomasa lignocelulósica o bio oil para la obtención de productos químicos. Chilean patent 66.817, April 18, 2018.
Pereira, M.; Luengo, G.; Berg, A.: Proceso para la obtención de micro y nanofibras de celulosa, MNFC. Chilean patent 56.377, July 3, 2018.
simon.gloeser-chahoud_at_kit.edu
Circular Economy, Bioeconomy, Sustainable development
Dr. Simon Glöser-Chahoud works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Industrial Production (IIP) within KIT. Before joining IIP, where he currently holds a position as the head of research group “Sustainable Value Chains”, he has worked as a project manager and research associate for Fraunhofer ISI. He holds a diploma degree in industrial engineering from TU Berlin and he has passed his external PhD studies at TU Munich and TU Clausthal during his research activities at Fraunhofer. His current research focuses on the simulation of material and product cycles as well as raw material markets, the optimization of closed-loop supply chains and the techno-economic evaluation of industrial processes at an early development stage with an emphasis on the use of bio-based renewable resources.
Dr. Simon Glöser-Chahoud is a researcher in Topic II and Topic IV.
Diehlmann, F.; Zimmer, T.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Wiens, M.; Schultmann, F. (2019): Techno-economic assessment of utilization pathways for rice straw: A simulation-optimization approach [in press]. Journal of cleaner production.
Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Hartwig, J.; Wheat, I. D.; Faulstich, M. (2017): The cobweb theorem and delays in adjusting supply in metals’ markets. System dynamics review, 32 (3-4), 279–308. doi:10.1002/sdr.1565doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.369
Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Pfaff, M.; Walz, R.; Schultmann, F. (2019): Simulating the service lifetimes and storage phases of consumer electronics in Europe with a cascade stock and flow model. Journal of cleaner production, 213, 1313–1321. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.244
Pfaff, M.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Chrubasik, L.; Walz, R. (2018): Resource efficiency in the German copper cycle: Analysis of stock and flow dynamics resulting from different efficiency measures. Resources, conservation and recycling, 139, 205–218. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.08.017
Schiel, C.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Schultmann, F. (2018): A real option application for emission control measures. Journal of business economics, 89 (3), 291–325. doi:10.1007/s11573-018-0913-9
Further projects and publication at: http://www.iip.kit.edu/86_3966.php
marion.hitzeroth_at_kit.edu
Regional economics, energy economics, methods of empirical social research in developing countries, social acceptance of renewable energies.
Dr. Marion Hitzeroth is a researcher in Topic IV.
Braun, A.C., Hitzeroth, M. (submitted): Relating polito-economic factors to the spatial expansion of the plantation industry in the coastal region of central Chile. Submitted to: Landscape Research
Jehling, M., Hitzeroth, M., Brueckner, M. (2019): Applying institutional theory to the analysis of energy transitions: From local agency to multi-scale configurations in Australia and Germany. Energy Research & Social Science, 53, 110-120.
Israel, A., Hitzeroth, M. (2018): How do micro- and small-scale enterprises respond to global competition? An example of the textile survival cluster Gamarra in Lima. International Development Planning Review, 40(2), 203-222.
Hitzeroth, M., Jehling, M., Brueckner, M. (2017): Apples and oranges? A multi-level approach explaining social acceptance of renewable energy in Germany and Australia. International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 4 (3/4), 141–165.
Further projects and publication at https://www.ifr.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_hitzeroth.php
andreas.ch.braun_at_kit.edu
IECO-Institute of Eco-Industrial Development, CUAA-DAHZ Double-Degree Master Implementation
Disaster risk management, spatial planning, regional development, eco-industrial development
Andreas Braun is a professor in regional science and spatial planning. He holds a Ph.D. in natural sciences granted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He completed studies in ecology, sociology, economy and philosophy (partly ongoing), and has comprehensive expertise in GIS and remote sensing technology. In 2015, he became professor for Risk-oriented Regional Development at the Institute of Regional Science at KIT. He has vast expertise in regional development in developing countries in Latin America and Western Africa.
His research interests are environmentally sustainable and socially compatible regional and urban development processes in developing countries. Especially in face of natural, biological and technical hazards, strategies for reducing social vulnerability and stakeholder empowerment are key constraints. Andreas is the author and editor of numerous scientific papers, book chapters and books.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Braun is the Director of IECO and Topic Speaker of Topic IV.
Braun, A.C., Hitzeroth, M. (Submitted) Relating polito-economic factors to the spatial expansion of the plantation industry in the coastal region of central Chile. Submitted to: Landscape Research
Jaque, E., Espinoza, S., Braun, A.C., Astudillo, L., Ojeda, C.G. (Submitted) Social vulnerability assessment post 2010 tsunami in Caleta Tumbes-Chile. Applying the disaster pressure and release model. Submitted to: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Braun, A.C., Stötzer, J., Kubisch, S., Keller, S. (2018) Critical Infrastructure Analysis (CRITIS) in Developing Regions–Designing an Approach to Analyse Peripheral Remoteness, Risks of Accessibility Loss, and Isolation due to Road Network Insufficiencies in Chile. GI_Forum, 6, 302-321.
Further projects and publication at: https://www.ifr.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_braun.php
sabrina.ried_at_kit.edu
Scientific Evaluation of Energy Services, Living Lab Walldorf, Bidirectional Charging Management of Electric Vehicles
Energy system modelling, electric vehicles and stationary battery storage for RES integration
Sabrina Ried works as a scientist at the KIT Chair of Energy Economics at . After graduating from KIT as Industrial Engineer, she worked in the photovoltaic industry. Her research focuses on battery storage for supporting the integration of wind farms and photovoltaic systems into energy systems and electricity markets. In current research projects, she analyses opportunities of using battery flexibility for sustainably operating electric vehicles. Sabrina got the chance to get to know Chile during her studies abroad at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile (UC) and a research visit to the UC and the Universidad de Chile in 2017.
Sabrina Ried is a researcher in Topic IV.
Ried, S.; Reuter-Oppermann, M.; Jochem, P.; Fichtner, W. (2016): Dispatch of a wind farm with a battery storage. Operations Research Proceedings 2014. Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 2-5, 2014, 473–479, Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_66 Stryja, C.; Fromm, H.; Ried, S.; Jochem, P.; Fichtner, W. (2015): On the Necessity and Nature of E-Mobility Services: Towards a Service Description Framework. Exploring Services Science, IESS 2015, 6th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, 4th – 6th February 2015 Proceedings. Ed.: H. Nóvoa, 109–122, Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14980-6_9
Ried, S.; Jochem, P.; Fichtner, W. (2015): Profitability of photovoltaic battery systems considering temporal resolution. 12th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Lisbon, Portugal, 19–22 May 2015, 1–5, IEEE, Piscataway (NJ). doi:10.1109/EEM.2015.7216632
Further projects and publication at http://www.iip.kit.edu/86_1994.php
frank.schultmann_at_kit.edu
Sustainable production and logistics, circular economy, resource efficiency, decision support, supply chain management and optimization, project management, technology assessment, construction management, and information and communication technologies
Prof. Dr. Frank Schultmann is Chair Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and Director of the KIT’s Institute for Industrial Production (IIP) and the KIT’s French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU). Professor Schultmann studied Business and Industrial Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1998 at the Faculty of Economics and Management and his Habilitation in 2003 receiving the venia legendi (teaching authority) in Management Science. Prior to his present positions, he was Professor of Industrial Management at the University of Koblenz-Landau and holder of the Chair of Business Administration, Construction Management and Economics at the University of Siegen. Professor Schultmann has been working closely with Chilean partners for more than ten years, particularly with the Universidad de Concepción and the Universidad Austral de Chile. In this context, he has successfully led several German-Chilean projects focusing on biorefineries and the bioeconomy in Chile.
Prof. Dr. Frank Schultmann is the Topic Speaker of Topic II, and a researcher in Topic IV.
Volk, R., Müller, R.; Reinhardt, R.; Schultmann, F. (2019): An Integrated Material Flows, Stakeholders and Policies Approach to Identify and Exploit Regional Resource Potentials. Ecological Economics 161, 292-320
Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Pfaff, M.; Walz, R; Schultmann, F. (2019): Simulating the service lifetimes and storage phases of consumer electronics in Europe with a cascade stock and flow model. Journal of Cleaner Production 213, 1313-1321
Diehlmann, F.; Zimmer, T.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Wiens, M.; Schultmann, F. (2019): Techno-economic assessment of utilization pathways for rice straw: A simulation-optimization approach. Journal of Cleaner Production
Schiel, C.; Glöser-Chahoud, S.; Schultmann, F. (2019): A real option application for emission control measures. Journal of Business Economics 89 (3), 291-325
Further projects and publication at http://www.iip.kit.edu/86_95.php
schumacher_at_kit.edu
Social acceptance of innovations (in particular renewable energies), stakeholder management, sustainable bioenergy value chains, empirical research methods
Dr. Kira Schumacher is managing director of the French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU) of the KIT. She holds a Ph.D. in economics granted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Her doctoral thesis investigates public acceptance of renewable energies in several countries, including Chile, through an empirical lens. She has coordinated several international projects in the area of bioenergy and sustainable mobility with research partners from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Chile. From September to December 2017 she was a visiting researcher at Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) and Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh).
Kira Schumacher is a researcher at Topic II and Topic IV.
Schumacher, K. (2019): Public acceptance of renewable energies – an empirical investigation across countries and technologies, KIT-Scientific Publishing. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000097148.
Schumacher, K.; Krones, F.; McKenna, R.; Schultmann, F. (2019): Public acceptance of renewable energies and energy autonomy: A comparative study in the French, German and Swiss Upper Rhine region. Energy policy, 126, 315–332. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.032.
Schumacher, K., Glöser-Chahoud, S., Schultmann, F. (2019): Acceptance of Bioenergy in Chile – an Empirical Analysis of Public Opinion, in: 5th Latin American Congress on Biorefinieries - From Laboratory to Industrial Practice, Concepción, Chile. January 7-9, 2019.
Further projects and publication at:http://www.iip.kit.edu/86_2027.php
philipp.staudt_at_kit.edu
Energy markets, congestion management, machine learning applications, energy data, sector coupling
Philipp Staudt is the head of the research group “Smart Grids and Energy Markets” at the chair of Information & Market Engineering of Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt. He graduated from KIT with a Master in Mathematics & Economics after his Bachelor in Industrial Engineering also at KIT. During his studies he focused on applications of statistical learning as well as electricity market design. In his research Philipp focuses on the improvement of congestion management especially in the context of the German energy market and other means to facilitate the transition to a more sustainable energy system. During his PhD he spent three months at the Universidad Católica in Santiago.
Philipp Staudt is a researcher in Topic IV.
Staudt, Philipp, et al. (2018) A decentralized approach towards resolving transmission grid congestion in Germany using vehicle-to-grid technology. Applied Energy 230: 1435-1446.
Staudt, P., et al. (2018) Predicting Redispatch in the German Electricity Market using Information Systems based on Machine Learning. In: International Conference on Information Systems 2018, San Francisco
Staudt, P., Gärttner, J., Weinhardt, C., Negrete-Pincetic, M., & Lorca, A. (2018, June). The Potential of Agent-Based Simulation for Assessing the Bilateral-Nodal Debate. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (pp. 465-467). ACM.
Further projects and publication at: https://im.iism.kit.edu/team_1502.php
franka.steiner_at_kit.edu
Assessing the sustainability performance of urban water infrastructure systems – an integrative approach based on modelling of urban water systems using Chillán, Southern Central Chile, as a case study.
Identification of the core demands in respect to sustainability assessment of the urban water-energy-nexus (internal project)
Water-Energy Nexus, Sustainable management of resources, GIS-based spatial analyses for optimization options in urban water management
Franka Steiner is a doctoral candidate at ITAS, member of the water-energy-nexus group, developing a methodological approach for sustainability assessment of urban water infrastructure systems to be used for decision-support.
Frank Steiner is currently a researcher in Topic I and in Topic IV.
Steiner, F.; Lehn, H.; Weiss, A. (2018): Sustainability Assessment of Urban Water Infrastructure Systems with Special Focus on the Urban Water-Energy Nexus. In: Schrenk, M. et al. (Eds.): REAL CORP 2018. Are “Smart Cities” the solution or part of the problem of continuous urbanisation around the globe? Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society, 2018. Wien.
Lehn, H.; Steiner, F.; Friedrich, J.; Araya Valenzuela, D. (2018): The challenge of transforming urban supply and disposal infrastructure to more resource and energy efficiency. Vortrag auf der REALCORP Conference 2018, Wien, Österreich, 04.-06.04.2018
Friedrich, J.; Steiner, F.; Weiss, A.; Lehn, H. (2017): Experience different perspectives on the urban water-energy nexus. Chair auf dem Workshop der SIWI World Water Week 2017, Stockholm, Schweden, 28.08.2017
Weiss, A.; Steiner, F.; Friedrich, J. (2017): Interdisciplinary approaches to assess and model the urban water-energy nexus. Chair auf dem Workshop "Interdisciplinary approaches to assess and model the urban water-energy nexus", Karlsruhe, 31.07.-01.08.2017
Further projects and publication at: https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_steiner_franka.php
gvaldebe_at_uach.cl
Primeros Asentamientos Urbanos en el Estrecho de Magallanes: Evaluación Arqueológica y Geofísica de Rey Don Felipe (Puerto del Hambre) (2019 – 2020). Funded by: Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Patrimony. Code: FONDART – 488221. Position: Associate researcher. Task: Geophysical surveys, Parque Rey Don Felipe, Magallanes
Búsqueda de Yacimientos Arqueológicos de la Transición Pleistoceno – Holoceno (ca. 13.800 – 11.000 años cal AP) a Cielo Abierto en Lagunas Fósiles de Chile Central: Contrastación de la Hipótesis de Adaptación Circunlacustre de Tierras Bajas (2018 – 2020). Funded by: CONICYT. Code: FONDECYT DE INICIACION 1170919. Position: Associate researcher. Task: Geophysical surveys, Laguna Tagua Tagua, Región O´Higgins
Adquisición Sistema Geofísico para Exploración Subsuperficial Tridimensional Mediante Radar de Penetración Terrestre Multicanal de Alta Definición (2018 – 2019). Funded by: CONICYT. Code: FONDEQUIP 180060. Position: Main researcher. Task: Project Direction
Morphological impacts in rivers affected by volcanic eruptions. Chaiten and Calbuco: similar disturbance but different fluvial evolution? (PIROFLUV) (2017 – 2020). Project funded by CONICYT. Code: Fondecyt 1170413. Position: Collaborator. Task: Geophysical Surveys
Proyecto PCI Intercambio Chile – Italia. Volcanic eruptions vs. human impact: a comparative analysis between natural and artificial morphological changes along gravel bed rivers in Chile and Italy. Learning from different impacts to better manage the affected riverine environments (2018 – 2020). Funded by: CONICYT. Code: PCI ITAL170004. Position: Associate researcher
MERIC: Marine Energy Research and Innovation Centre. Research Project: Technologies Development and Adaptation to Natural Hazards and Local Constraints (2015 – 2019). Funded by: CORFO. Code: 14CEI2-28228. Position: Collaborator. Task: Seismic Risk Studies
Applied geophysics in civil engineering, seismic risk assessment, vulnerability of patrimonial structures.
Dr. Galo Valdebenito is Civil Engineer and obtained his PhD in 2009 at Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Dr. Valdebenito is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering UACh. His main research áreas are: Applied Geophysics, Seismic Engineering, Patrimonial Structures.
Between 2013 to 2015, Dr. Valdebenito was the vice-dean of the College of Engineering at UACh. Currently, he is the Director of the Research Center of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards (RiNA) at Universidad Austral de Chile. Since 2002, Dr. Valdebenito is the Director of Arko Consultancy Ltd., dedicated to structural engineering, seismic vulnerability, seismic engineering, seismic instrumentation and non invasive geophysical studies. Dr. Valdebenito is also member of several international associations and collaborates as external advisor for the Chilean Government in seismic engineering.
Mazzorana, B., Picco, L., Rainato, R., Iroumé, A., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Rojas, C., Valdebenito, G., Iribarren, P., Melnick, D. (2019). Cascading Process in a Changing Environment: Disturbances on Fluvial Ecosystems in Chile and Implications for Hazard and Risk Management. Science of the Total Environment, Vo. 655, 1089 – 1103.
Moernaut, J., Van Daele, M., Fontijn, K., Heirman, K., Kempf, P., Pino, M., Valdebenito, G., Urrutia, R., Strasser, M., De Batist, M. (2018). Larger Earthquakes Recur More Periodically: New Insights in the Megathrust Earthquake Cycle From Lacustrine Turbidite Records in South-Central Chile. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 481, 9 – 19.
Valdebenito, G., Vásquez, V. (2018). Book: “Paisajes de Agua. La Turbina de La Unión”. Financed by: Fondart Regional, Convocatoria 2017. Registro Prop. Intelectual Inscripción 294.328. ISBN 978.956.393.804.3. First Edition Julio 2018.
Further information at: https://www.rina.cl/investigador.php?s=galo-valdebenito
christof.weinhardt_at_kit.edu
Market Design, Energy Economics, Mechanism Design, Information Systems
Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt graduated in Industrial Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 1989. Then he focused his research work more on Information System at the Universities of Giessen and Bielefeld. Currently – as full professor - he is director of the Institute for Information Systems and Management (IISM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) heading the group “Information and Market Engineering” (IM). For more than 10 years he was Vice Dean of Research and from 2012-2014 Dean of the Department of Economics and Management at KIT, and from 2010-2014 member of the Strategy and Research Board of KIT. In 2006 he became member of the Advisory Group of the German Industry Association (BDI) on “Internet of Energy”.
Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt is a researcher in Topic IV.
Mengelkamp, E., Gärttner, J., Rock, K., Kessler, S., Orsini, L., & Weinhardt, C. (2018). Designing microgrid energy markets: A case study: The Brooklyn Microgrid. Applied Energy, 210, 870-880.
Block, C., Neumann, D., & Weinhardt, C. (2008, January). A market mechanism for energy allocation in micro-chp grids. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual (pp. 172-172). IEEE.
Salah, F., Henríquez, R., Wenzel, G., Olivares, D., Negrete-Pincetic, M., & Weinhardt, C. (2018). Portfolio Design of a Demand Response Aggregator with Satisficing Consumers. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Further projects and publication at https://im.iism.kit.edu/team_111.php
danny.troeger_at_kit.edu
Use of industrial residues for social housing within an urban Eco-Industrial development strategy:
Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats from San Martin, Buenos Aires Assessment on the influence of land use on soil indicators for erosion and landslide risks: a biogeomorphic approach with emphasis on exotic forestry plantations (Pinus spp.) and native secondary forests (Nothofagus pumilio) in Chilean Patagonia Natural hazards or vulnerability - what do people actually perceive?
A grounded theory on Risk perception in the Aysén-Fjord, Chilean Patagonia.
Land use change, Risk perception (Natural hazards), Urban Eco-Industrial development strategies, Circular economy (construction industry)
Institute of Technology. He has a Master's degree in Regional Science and a Master's degree in geoecology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He completed parts of his Master studies at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and conducted several field research campaigns in Patagonia (Chile). There he obtained data on the environmental impacts of land use change with a focus on forest plantations and risk perception of natural hazards. He also has several years of working experience in Germany as expert for building pollutants, decontamination and selective deconstruction. Danny Tröger is a researcher in Topic IV and Topic V.
plantation forestry on plant biodiversity: A comparison of sites in Central Chile and Chilean Patagonia. Global ecology and conservation,
10, 159–172. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2017.03.006
Multiple Umweltauswirkungen der kommerziellen Plantagenwirtschaft in Zentralchile – Zwischenbericht einer deutsch-chilenischen Lehr- und Forschungskooperation Andreas Ch. Braun, Callum C. Banfield, Pablo Jaramillo, Iris Meyer, Claudia Schmidt-Cotta, Danny Tröger, Violeta Volceski, Gunhild Hansen-Rojas und Joachim Vogt 2014. FORUM GEOÖKOL. 25 (3)
Blog post of the "Research Blog" of the "Center for Humans and Technology:
https://www.mensch-und-technik.kit.edu/oekoindustrielle-entwicklung.php
Presentations and conference papers
Presentation at the start of the project in the context of the lecture series "Coroanctivity & quot; of the Universtity UTN (Argentina): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76SQjldQBk
07/2014
Arbeitskreis Biogeographie, Karlsruhe
02/2014
Applications of Remote Sensing to Risk - Open Issues in Technology, Image Understanding and Vulnerability Research, Karlsruhe
09/2013
43 annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Potsdam
Further projects and publication at: http://www.ifr.kit.edu/mitarbeiter_5144.php
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