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SUMMARY:CIS - "Get to know your neighbors" Seminar series - Prof. Gabriele
  Manoli
DTSTART:20221219T151500
DTEND:20221219T161500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gabriele Manoli\nTitle: On trees and cities\n\nAbstract:
   Trees and\, more in general\, vegetation regulate the exchanges of wate
 r\, carbon\, and energy at the land surface modulating a variety of biotic
  and abiotic processes occurring within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuu
 m. Cities\, on the other hand\, disrupt such natural dynamics and modify t
 he mass and energy budgets at the land surface with impacts on local clima
 te and people's wellbeing. Yet\, the urbanization process exhibits strikin
 g similarities with plants and other biological systems which have also ev
 olved to distribute resources in time and space. In this talk I will revie
 w recent work on modelling soil-plant processes as well as urban growth dy
 namics\, hinting at the existence of "naturally intelligent" systems in th
 e ecological and social domains.\n\nShort Bio: Gabriele Manoli received a 
 PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences in 2014 from the Unive
 rsity of Padova (Italy). From 2014 to 2016\, he was a Postdoctoral Associa
 te at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University (USA) and\
 , from 2016 to 2019\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Env
 ironmental Engineering at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 2019 he joined Univ
 ersity College London (UK) as a lecturer in Environmental Engineering and 
 since September 2022 he is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at EPFL wher
 e he leads the Laboratory of Urban and Environmental Systems (URBES). His 
 research focuses on soil-plant-atmosphere processes in natural and built e
 nvironments\, urban climate\, and the structure and dynamics of cities.\n\
 n \nThe CIS seminar will take place In hybrid mode: Room INF 328 and by Z
 oom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67122636897\n\n\n\nPlease connect to your zoom 
 account using your "@epfl.ch" address\, as this live event is only open to
  the EPFL community\nMonday\, September 26th\, 2022 from 3:15 to 4:15 pm\n
 NB: Video recordings of the seminars will be made available on our website
  and published on our social media pages
LOCATION:INF 328 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INF%20328 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/67122636897
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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