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2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop
GEOSS: Supporting Science for the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Bonn, Germany, August 28—31, 2012

 

Juan Carlos Villagrán de León

Juan Carlos Villagrán de León (Guatemala, Guatemala) is an experimental physicist. After completing a post-doctoral programme at this University of Texas in Austin in spectroscopy and surface science, he returned to Guatemala where he joined Francisco Marroquin University and led a research programme supporting government institutions including Guatemala's National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Reduction (CONRED); the National Permanent Committee on Contingencies of Honduras (COPECO) and the Central American Coordination Centre for Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC). Between 1997 and 2003 he designed and implemented a variety of community-based early warning systems targeting floods in small basins throughout Central America and alert systems in active volcanoes of the region and developed methodologies for vulnerability and risk assessment related to several natural hazards.

In the fall of 2004 he accepted the post of Academic Officer at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, where he continued his work on early warning and risk management; and in February 2009 he joined the UN-SPIDER programme, where he has been promoting the use of space-based information to support efforts targeting disaster-risk reduction and emergency response.

Juan Carlos has authored, co-authored, and edited more than 70 publications including books, journal papers, research reports, lecture notes, as well as many articles for the media in several languages.


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