Keynote Speakers

Matthias Garschagen

Matthias Garschagen holds the chair in human geography and heads the Teaching and Research Unit for Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). He further is a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change, particularly in cities. Prof. Garschagen served as a Lead Author in the IPCC’s Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere (SROCC), the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and is part of the core writing team of the Synthesis Report (SYR). For a number of years, he has been the scientific lead of the World Risk Report. He is an associate editor of the international journals Climate and Development and Urban Climate as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Extreme Events.