Jon Coaffee, Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Director of Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities and Co-Lead of the Sustainable Cities GRP
T: +44 (0)24 765 73291| email: j.coaffee@warwick.ac.uk | Twitter: @ResCitiesLab
Professor Coaffee's research focuses upon the interplay of physical and socio-political aspects of urban resilience and he has also published widely, especially on the impact of terrorism and other security concerns on the functioning of urban areas. During this research he has worked closely with a range of private and governmental stakeholders to ensure his research has real world impact. This work has been published in multiple disciplinary areas such as political science, geography, town planning, sociology and civil engineering. Most notably he published Terrorism Risk and the City (2003), The Everyday Resilience of the City (2008), Terrorism Risk and the Global City: Towards Urban Resilience (2009), Sustaining and Securing the Olympic City (2011) and Urban Resilience: Planning for Risk, Crisis and Uncertainty (2016). His work has been supported by a significant number of EU and UK Research Council grants. Jon is also an Exchange Professor at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) . Full profile

Nicolas Whybrow, Professor of Urban Performance Studies, School of Theatre & Performance and Cultural & Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick
T: +44 (0)24 765 24925 | n.whybrow@warwick.ac.uk | Twitter: @SensingTheCity
Nicolas Whybrow is Professor of Urban Performance Studies in the School of Theatre & Performance and Cultural & Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. His most recent books are Art and the City (2011) and the edited volume Performing Cities (2014), and he is currently writing a book on the way contemporary European art biennials connect with the cities in which they take place. He is the principal investigator in a 3-year UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research project entitled Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place which commenced in April 2017 and will undertake a series of site-specific studies of urban rhythms, atmospheres, textures, practices and patterns of behaviour. Full profile

Professor Ormandy's research interests centre around the relationship between housing and health, including aassessment of housing conditions and standards, and the formulation of housing standards. He is a member of the WHO working group on developing healthy housing guidelines and has also been involved in housing standards projects in the USA and New Zealand. In the UK he has advised the Building Research Establishment on the real cost of poor housing and overheating in dwellings. He was responsible to the UK government for the projects to develop the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), which was adopted as the statutory method for assessing housing conditions in England and Wales in 2006, which were later adopted by the US Department for Housing and Urban Development unchanged. He has worked extensively for the WHO. He has a background in public health and has worked in local authorities. Full profile

João Porto de Albuquerque ihas an interdisciplinary background in computational, social and geographical sciences and conducts research in the fields of Urban Analytics and Sociospatial Data Science. His current research interests include digital participation, urbanisation in the global South, disaster resilience, and sustainable development. He is Alumnus Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and since 2014 acts as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Geography of Heidelberg University (Germany). He previously held a post at the Institute of Mathematical and Computing Sciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, with he still maintains an honorary affiliation. He has secured research grants in excess of £7m (£1m as a PI) from diverse funding bodies such as the ESRC, EPSRC, GCRF, NIHR, LUBW/Environment Agency of the State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany), CAPES and FAPESP (Brazil). He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Association for Information Systems, where he currently serves as President of the Special Interest Group on Organisational Research (SIGOSRA).

Weisi is an innovative researcher and engineering professional, with over 10 years experience in both academia and industry. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with MEng (2005), MA, Ph.D. degrees (2011). His applied research is underpinned by fundamental breakthroughs in network science, communication theory, and signal processing. He has won numerous international awards and is PI to £1.7m funding to host institution, has published over 100 papers, holds an IET Innovation Award and been twice a runner-up in the Bell Labs Prize.

In his private life, his experiences include working in UNHCR refugee camps in Africa, being part of the victorious Cambridge Varsity archery team (2002), solo climbed two of the highest sub-continent peaks, and served as badminton captains at Cambridge and Sheffield. He has also completed the full London (2007) and full Sahara (2010) marathons. Full profile

Dr Martin Kunc, Associate Professor of Operational Research and Management Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Martin moved to the University of Southampton in January 2019
Research Interests:
Strategic modelling; Managerial capabilities: analysis and development; Behavioural strategic decision making; System Dynamics; The evolution of industries: from clusters to competitive environments; Role of Universities in Regional Development; Analysis of industry dynamics in Wine, Tourism, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and Energy Industries. Full profile