- International guests
Professors
Miriam Garcia Garcia
Ph.D in Architecture, a landscape architect and urban designer
She is a Ph.D in Architecture, a landscape architect, a town planner and urban designer, and principal of LANDLAB, based in Barcelona. She has been visiting professor at The University of Pennsylvania (US), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (CO) and the Polytechnic University of Milan (IT), as well as in several Spanish universities. Currently she is the Director of the Landscape Architecture Degree at the University Camilo José Cela in Madrid, and professor at the Master in Landscape Architecture Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Calalunya and the Master in Urban Planning and Regional Studies of the National Institute of Public Administration, and is author of several publications. Her practice focuses on urban design and regional planning from the perspective of landscape and resilience, with projects awarded both nationally and internationally like the First Prize in the XII Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism. Her professional expertise so far is a combination of the skills acquired while working in a regional government institution coupled with research and private practice. Her current motivation is to expand and share this knowledge to address pressing ecological and social challenges affecting fragile areas exposed to the most emblematic condition of the Anthropocene: global warming.
Taken from landlab.es
David Gouverneur
University of Pennsylvania - Associate Professor of Practice
His professional practice focuses on urban plans and projects for historic districts, the rehabilitation of areas affected by extraordinary natural events, new centralities and mixed use districts, improvement of existing informal settlements and planning ahead for emergent informal occupation, tourism/recreational areas, and the rehabilitation of cultural landscapes.
His work engages different actors involved in important issues affecting the urban arena, particularly addressing social inequalities, environmental problems and cultural erosion.
His research focuses on the notion of Informal Armatures, an alternative method to address the rampant urbanization in developing countries. Informal Armatures may prove to be a powerful tool to foster the sustainable growth of informal settlements, as the dominant form of territorial occupation in the developing world. The ideas are condensed in his most recent publication, Planning and design for New Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-constructed city, Routledge, 2015.
He frequently offers cross-disciplinary design studio courses addressing, social, environmental, cultural and economic issues in developing countries, mainly in Latin-America and Africa. Field trips to the selected sites include working sessions/charrettes with local planning authorities, politicians, community leaders and universities. The products of such studios are frequently shared with the host cities to induce further discussion and changes in local policies.
Adapted from www.design.upenn.edu
Miriam Garcia Garcia
Ph.D in Architecture, a landscape architect and urban designer
She is a Ph.D in Architecture, a landscape architect, a town planner and urban designer, and principal of LANDLAB, based in Barcelona. She has been visiting professor at The University of Pennsylvania (US), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (CO) and the Polytechnic University of Milan (IT), as well as in several Spanish universities. Currently she is the Director of the Landscape Architecture Degree at the University Camilo José Cela in Madrid, and professor at the Master in Landscape Architecture Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Calalunya and the Master in Urban Planning and Regional Studies of the National Institute of Public Administration, and is author of several publications. Her practice focuses on urban design and regional planning from the perspective of landscape and resilience, with projects awarded both nationally and internationally like the First Prize in the XII Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism. Her professional expertise so far is a combination of the skills acquired while working in a regional government institution coupled with research and private practice. Her current motivation is to expand and share this knowledge to address pressing ecological and social challenges affecting fragile areas exposed to the most emblematic condition of the Anthropocene: global warming.
Taken from landlab.es
David Gouverneur
University of Pennsylvania - Associate Professor of Practice
His professional practice focuses on urban plans and projects for historic districts, the rehabilitation of areas affected by extraordinary natural events, new centralities and mixed use districts, improvement of existing informal settlements and planning ahead for emergent informal occupation, tourism/recreational areas, and the rehabilitation of cultural landscapes.
His work engages different actors involved in important issues affecting the urban arena, particularly addressing social inequalities, environmental problems and cultural erosion.
His research focuses on the notion of Informal Armatures, an alternative method to address the rampant urbanization in developing countries. Informal Armatures may prove to be a powerful tool to foster the sustainable growth of informal settlements, as the dominant form of territorial occupation in the developing world. The ideas are condensed in his most recent publication, Planning and design for New Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-constructed city, Routledge, 2015.
He frequently offers cross-disciplinary design studio courses addressing, social, environmental, cultural and economic issues in developing countries, mainly in Latin-America and Africa. Field trips to the selected sites include working sessions/charrettes with local planning authorities, politicians, community leaders and universities. The products of such studios are frequently shared with the host cities to induce further discussion and changes in local policies.
Adapted from www.design.upenn.edu
- Partner universities guests
Philippe Blanc
Universidad Católica de Chile - Assistance Professor
Architect and Doctor in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He studied photography with Luis Poirot. His photography work focuses on architecture and portrait with analog plate camera. He currently teaches Design Studio III in the undergraduate program and electives on history and theory at the Doctoral program and the Urban Studies program. His photographs have been exhibited in places such as the
Sala Vitra and most recently at the Corporación Cultural de las Condes.
His professional work is a sensible approach with special emphasis on the constructive formulation of architecture. He also seeks to incorporate wood construction as an argument and ordering system in architecture.
His work as a professor aims to understand ephemeral architecture as a laboratory, a place for experimentation and the birthplace of ideas, as well as mayor pieces of architecture.
Translated from arquitectura.uc.cl
Roberto Giordano
Politécnico de Torino - Associate professor
Associate professor in Architectural Technology, from march 2015. Post-doc research associate (from 2006 to 2011).
PhD – Doctorate in Environmental Architecture Sciences and Technologies, XV Cycle, Politecnico di Milano.
Master of science in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino.
Coordination of research projects aimed at designing and prototyping new building materials and systems based both on low cost approach and on environmental friendly approach. Cooperation at studies focused on Living Wall Systems (vegetation and algae based building systems). Co-founder of a start-up – Growing Green – at the Innovative Enterprise Incubator, spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino, aimed at implementing Living Wall Systems in the construction sector.
Justyna Karakiewicz
Melbourne University Professor
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
Dr Karakiewicz’s expertise lies primarily in high-density urbanism in which she completed her doctoral thesis at RMIT. She has exhibited work in Royal Academy (London), New York, Kyoto, Barcelona and some twenty other venues. Her numerous successes in international competitions include First Prizes in: Gateway to Mecca (1979); Crystal Palace Solar Housing Competition (1981: built); Dunkerque Waterfront (1992: partially built); Swansea Working Men’s Club (1995: built); awarded Prize for a drawing of a Work of Architecture awarded at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2005); Honorable Mention and prize in Asia Front Village 39th Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition sponsored by Shinkenchikusha Co., Ltd., Prize (2004 ); and Honorable Mention in Modern Saudi House Design Competition (2004). She has been leader for the past two years of the Linear City research project examining density in Hong Kong.
Adaptado de findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au
Hugo Mondragón
Universidad Católica de Chile - Associate Professor
Hugo Mondragon is an Associate Professor at the Escuela de Arquitectura at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he works as a teacher and researcher. He graduated as an architect at the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in 1990. He received his Master in Theory and History of Art in 2002 and his Doctoral degree in Architecture and Urban Studies in 2010, both from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
He currently teaches History of Modern Architecture focusing on Latin America. He also teaches Final Studio which focuses on the reuse of abandoned historical preservation structures.
Philippe Blanc
Universidad Católica de Chile - Assistance Professor
Architect and Doctor in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He studied photography with Luis Poirot. His photography work focuses on architecture and portrait with analog plate camera. He currently teaches Design Studio III in the undergraduate program and electives on history and theory at the Doctoral program and the Urban Studies program. His photographs have been exhibited in places such as the
Sala Vitra and most recently at the Corporación Cultural de las Condes.
His professional work is a sensible approach with special emphasis on the constructive formulation of architecture. He also seeks to incorporate wood construction as an argument and ordering system in architecture.
His work as a professor aims to understand ephemeral architecture as a laboratory, a place for experimentation and the birthplace of ideas, as well as mayor pieces of architecture.
Translated from arquitectura.uc.cl
Roberto Giordano
Politécnico de Torino - Associate professor
Associate professor in Architectural Technology, from march 2015. Post-doc research associate (from 2006 to 2011).
PhD – Doctorate in Environmental Architecture Sciences and Technologies, XV Cycle, Politecnico di Milano.
Master of science in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino.
Coordination of research projects aimed at designing and prototyping new building materials and systems based both on low cost approach and on environmental friendly approach. Cooperation at studies focused on Living Wall Systems (vegetation and algae based building systems). Co-founder of a start-up – Growing Green – at the Innovative Enterprise Incubator, spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino, aimed at implementing Living Wall Systems in the construction sector.
Justyna Karakiewicz
Melbourne University Professor
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
Dr Karakiewicz’s expertise lies primarily in high-density urbanism in which she completed her doctoral thesis at RMIT. She has exhibited work in Royal Academy (London), New York, Kyoto, Barcelona and some twenty other venues. Her numerous successes in international competitions include First Prizes in: Gateway to Mecca (1979); Crystal Palace Solar Housing Competition (1981: built); Dunkerque Waterfront (1992: partially built); Swansea Working Men’s Club (1995: built); awarded Prize for a drawing of a Work of Architecture awarded at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2005); Honorable Mention and prize in Asia Front Village 39th Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition sponsored by Shinkenchikusha Co., Ltd., Prize (2004 ); and Honorable Mention in Modern Saudi House Design Competition (2004). She has been leader for the past two years of the Linear City research project examining density in Hong Kong.
Adaptado de findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au
Hugo Mondragón
Universidad Católica de Chile - Associate Professor
Hugo Mondragon is an Associate Professor at the Escuela de Arquitectura at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he works as a teacher and researcher. He graduated as an architect at the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in 1990. He received his Master in Theory and History of Art in 2002 and his Doctoral degree in Architecture and Urban Studies in 2010, both from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
He currently teaches History of Modern Architecture focusing on Latin America. He also teaches Final Studio which focuses on the reuse of abandoned historical preservation structures.
Philippe Blanc
Universidad Católica de Chile - Assistance Professor
Architect and Doctor in Architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He studied photography with Luis Poirot. His photography work focuses on architecture and portrait with analog plate camera. He currently teaches Design Studio III in the undergraduate program and electives on history and theory at the Doctoral program and the Urban Studies program. His photographs have been exhibited in places such as the
Sala Vitra and most recently at the Corporación Cultural de las Condes.
His professional work is a sensible approach with special emphasis on the constructive formulation of architecture. He also seeks to incorporate wood construction as an argument and ordering system in architecture.
His work as a professor aims to understand ephemeral architecture as a laboratory, a place for experimentation and the birthplace of ideas, as well as mayor pieces of architecture.
Translated from arquitectura.uc.cl
Roberto Giordano
Politécnico de Torino - Associate professor
Associate professor in Architectural Technology, from march 2015. Post-doc research associate (from 2006 to 2011).
PhD – Doctorate in Environmental Architecture Sciences and Technologies, XV Cycle, Politecnico di Milano.
Master of science in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino.
Coordination of research projects aimed at designing and prototyping new building materials and systems based both on low cost approach and on environmental friendly approach. Cooperation at studies focused on Living Wall Systems (vegetation and algae based building systems). Co-founder of a start-up – Growing Green – at the Innovative Enterprise Incubator, spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino, aimed at implementing Living Wall Systems in the construction sector.
Justyna Karakiewicz
Melbourne University Professor
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
Dr Karakiewicz’s expertise lies primarily in high-density urbanism in which she completed her doctoral thesis at RMIT. She has exhibited work in Royal Academy (London), New York, Kyoto, Barcelona and some twenty other venues. Her numerous successes in international competitions include First Prizes in: Gateway to Mecca (1979); Crystal Palace Solar Housing Competition (1981: built); Dunkerque Waterfront (1992: partially built); Swansea Working Men’s Club (1995: built); awarded Prize for a drawing of a Work of Architecture awarded at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2005); Honorable Mention and prize in Asia Front Village 39th Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition sponsored by Shinkenchikusha Co., Ltd., Prize (2004 ); and Honorable Mention in Modern Saudi House Design Competition (2004). She has been leader for the past two years of the Linear City research project examining density in Hong Kong.
Adaptado de findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au
Hugo Mondragón
Universidad Católica de Chile - Associate Professor
Hugo Mondragon is an Associate Professor at the Escuela de Arquitectura at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he works as a teacher and researcher. He graduated as an architect at the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in 1990. He received his Master in Theory and History of Art in 2002 and his Doctoral degree in Architecture and Urban Studies in 2010, both from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
He currently teaches History of Modern Architecture focusing on Latin America. He also teaches Final Studio which focuses on the reuse of abandoned historical preservation structures.
- Uniandes professors
Daniel Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Emeritus professor
dbs@danielbermudezarquitecto.com
Architect from the Universidad de los Andes. Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad de los Andes, currently is part of the team that leads the graduation term and is a member of the research group in Architecture, City and Education (ACE). He has actively participated the development of the University Campus and the architecture curriculum, highlighting his participation in the group of professors who led the curriculum reform between 1995 and 1996. Partner architect in the firm Daniel Bermudez y Cia. Ltda, with extensive experience in urban design and architectural projects and awarded numerous national and international awards.
Carolina Blanco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
B.A. Arquitecta, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Master of Engineering, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Ph.D. in Architecture and Structural Design, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Lorenzo Castro
Universidad de los Andes
Architect from the Universidad Javeriana. Extensive experience in urban and architectural design. His projects have won numerous awards at national and international level, for example: the International Ideas Competition Can City, in partnership with OMA N.Y., along with architects Shohei Shigematsu and Julio Gomez; Urban rehabilitation Rim of the Medellin Botanical Garden, in association with architect Ana Elvira Velez; the Residential Complex Niquía; Water Park in Bucaramanga, in association with J. C Santamaria. As director of the Professional Public Space Workshop (1998-2001), accompanied Mayor Enrique Peñalosa in the development of urban projects in a more balanced and equitable city plan for Bogota (Parks planning, cycle routes and public squares). Since 1990 he teaches at several universities and is currently a professor in the Universidad de los Andes.
Daniel Nadal
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
Doctor arquitecto, master en arquitectura.
Miguel Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Christiaan Nieman
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Magíster en Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2014.
Ingeniero de Diseño Industrial, de la Universidad de la Haya, Holanda, 1999.
Claudio Rossi
Universidad de los Andes - Associate professor Architecture Departament
Doctorado en Arquitectura, Universidad del Zulia, 2013. Venezuela.
Magíster en Diseño Urbano, Universidad Metropolitana, 1999. Venezuela.
Arquitecto, Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, 1997. Venezuela.
Daniel Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Emeritus professor
dbs@danielbermudezarquitecto.com
Architect from the Universidad de los Andes. Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad de los Andes, currently is part of the team that leads the graduation term and is a member of the research group in Architecture, City and Education (ACE). He has actively participated the development of the University Campus and the architecture curriculum, highlighting his participation in the group of professors who led the curriculum reform between 1995 and 1996. Partner architect in the firm Daniel Bermudez y Cia. Ltda, with extensive experience in urban design and architectural projects and awarded numerous national and international awards.
Carolina Blanco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
B.A. Arquitecta, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Master of Engineering, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Ph.D. in Architecture and Structural Design, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Lorenzo Castro
Universidad de los Andes
Architect from the Universidad Javeriana. Extensive experience in urban and architectural design. His projects have won numerous awards at national and international level, for example: the International Ideas Competition Can City, in partnership with OMA N.Y., along with architects Shohei Shigematsu and Julio Gomez; Urban rehabilitation Rim of the Medellin Botanical Garden, in association with architect Ana Elvira Velez; the Residential Complex Niquía; Water Park in Bucaramanga, in association with J. C Santamaria. As director of the Professional Public Space Workshop (1998-2001), accompanied Mayor Enrique Peñalosa in the development of urban projects in a more balanced and equitable city plan for Bogota (Parks planning, cycle routes and public squares). Since 1990 he teaches at several universities and is currently a professor in the Universidad de los Andes.
Daniel Nadal
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
Doctor arquitecto, master en arquitectura.
Miguel Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Christiaan Nieman
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Magíster en Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2014.
Ingeniero de Diseño Industrial, de la Universidad de la Haya, Holanda, 1999.
Claudio Rossi
Universidad de los Andes - Associate professor Architecture Departament
Doctorado en Arquitectura, Universidad del Zulia, 2013. Venezuela.
Magíster en Diseño Urbano, Universidad Metropolitana, 1999. Venezuela.
Arquitecto, Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, 1997. Venezuela.
Daniel Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Emeritus professor
dbs@danielbermudezarquitecto.com
Architect from the Universidad de los Andes. Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad de los Andes, currently is part of the team that leads the graduation term and is a member of the research group in Architecture, City and Education (ACE). He has actively participated the development of the University Campus and the architecture curriculum, highlighting his participation in the group of professors who led the curriculum reform between 1995 and 1996. Partner architect in the firm Daniel Bermudez y Cia. Ltda, with extensive experience in urban design and architectural projects and awarded numerous national and international awards.
Carolina Blanco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
B.A. Arquitecta, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Master of Engineering, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Ph.D. in Architecture and Structural Design, Universidad de Hokkaido.
Lorenzo Castro
Universidad de los Andes
Architect from the Universidad Javeriana. Extensive experience in urban and architectural design. His projects have won numerous awards at national and international level, for example: the International Ideas Competition Can City, in partnership with OMA N.Y., along with architects Shohei Shigematsu and Julio Gomez; Urban rehabilitation Rim of the Medellin Botanical Garden, in association with architect Ana Elvira Velez; the Residential Complex Niquía; Water Park in Bucaramanga, in association with J. C Santamaria. As director of the Professional Public Space Workshop (1998-2001), accompanied Mayor Enrique Peñalosa in the development of urban projects in a more balanced and equitable city plan for Bogota (Parks planning, cycle routes and public squares). Since 1990 he teaches at several universities and is currently a professor in the Universidad de los Andes.
Daniel Nadal
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
Doctor arquitecto, master en arquitectura.
Miguel Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Christiaan Nieman
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Magíster en Arquitectura de la Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2014.
Ingeniero de Diseño Industrial, de la Universidad de la Haya, Holanda, 1999.
Claudio Rossi
Universidad de los Andes - Associate professor Architecture Departament
Doctorado en Arquitectura, Universidad del Zulia, 2013. Venezuela.
Magíster en Diseño Urbano, Universidad Metropolitana, 1999. Venezuela.
Arquitecto, Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, 1997. Venezuela.
- Lecturers
Julián Castro
Findeter MSc Urbanism & Social Science London School of Economics
Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia with a MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. Julián has worked in both the UK and Colombia in territorial development that facilitates smart investment while providing high impact solutions. He has coordinated intermediate scale strategic projects such as master plans, zoning and partial plans. In 2013 Julián joined FINDETER the major Finance Institution for Development in Colombia where he has performed as Coordinator of multidisciplinary teams preparing the Action plans for various cities in Colombia. He has also facilitated decision and policy making for land use planning, community engagement and the strengthening of local institutions. Most recently, his work has been focused on the highly socially and spatially conflicted Colombian Pacific Region where he has led the preparation of urban technical assistance with the support of the Interamerican Development Bank and the National Government’s fund “Todos Somos PAZcífico”.
Santiago Madriñan
Ph.D. Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Ph.D. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
M.Sc. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
B.Sc. Biología, Universidad de los Andes
His research interest is on the origin and preservation of biodiversity in a systematic evolutionary context. The basis of his research are studies on flora and fauna, plant ecology, animals and their interaction, mainly but not exclusively on the Neotropical region.
Through his work, Professor Madriñan formulates hypothesis on kingship pattern of different taxonomic levels organism, framed in systematic phylogenetics. His work is a contribution to different biology fields (e.g. sistematic, paleontology, ecology, ethology, morphology, embriology, fisiology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.). His research also contributes to the study of the history and causes of evolution. He applies biota´s systematic studies to biogeographic history, conservation biology and studies on biodiversity.
Luis Fernando Sánchez
Master in Sciences por la University of Southern en Mississippi
fundacionplanetaazul@gmail.com
Marine biologist from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano university at its headquarters in Cartagena and Bogota. Master in Sciences from the University of Southern Mississippi. PhD candidate in Marine Science from the National University of Colombia CeMarin Excellence Center. Director of the Blue Planet Caribbean (FUPAC) Foundation. Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cartagena. Research Coordinator of the INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL (IEA) at the San Buenaventura University.
Marko Tosic
Universidad EAFIT - Manager of Basic-Cartagena Project
Project Manager Basic-Cartagena
Environmental scientist with a Masters in Bioresource Engineering (McGill University, Canada/Barbados). Specialist in water resources and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic environments. Works in BASIC as project manager, leader of the coastal hydrology component, and PhD student in the Erasmus Mundus Macoma program (Spain/Portugal) researching the modelling of dispersion processes of freshwater in Cartagena Bay.
Taken from www.basic-cartagena.org/investigadores
Julián Castro
Findeter MSc Urbanism & Social Science London School of Economics
Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia with a MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. Julián has worked in both the UK and Colombia in territorial development that facilitates smart investment while providing high impact solutions. He has coordinated intermediate scale strategic projects such as master plans, zoning and partial plans. In 2013 Julián joined FINDETER the major Finance Institution for Development in Colombia where he has performed as Coordinator of multidisciplinary teams preparing the Action plans for various cities in Colombia. He has also facilitated decision and policy making for land use planning, community engagement and the strengthening of local institutions. Most recently, his work has been focused on the highly socially and spatially conflicted Colombian Pacific Region where he has led the preparation of urban technical assistance with the support of the Interamerican Development Bank and the National Government’s fund “Todos Somos PAZcífico”.
Santiago Madriñan
Ph.D. Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Ph.D. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
M.Sc. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
B.Sc. Biología, Universidad de los Andes
His research interest is on the origin and preservation of biodiversity in a systematic evolutionary context. The basis of his research are studies on flora and fauna, plant ecology, animals and their interaction, mainly but not exclusively on the Neotropical region.
Through his work, Professor Madriñan formulates hypothesis on kingship pattern of different taxonomic levels organism, framed in systematic phylogenetics. His work is a contribution to different biology fields (e.g. sistematic, paleontology, ecology, ethology, morphology, embriology, fisiology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.). His research also contributes to the study of the history and causes of evolution. He applies biota´s systematic studies to biogeographic history, conservation biology and studies on biodiversity.
Luis Fernando Sánchez
Master in Sciences por la University of Southern en Mississippi
fundacionplanetaazul@gmail.com
Marine biologist from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano university at its headquarters in Cartagena and Bogota. Master in Sciences from the University of Southern Mississippi. PhD candidate in Marine Science from the National University of Colombia CeMarin Excellence Center. Director of the Blue Planet Caribbean (FUPAC) Foundation. Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cartagena. Research Coordinator of the INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL (IEA) at the San Buenaventura University.
Marko Tosic
Universidad EAFIT - Manager of Basic-Cartagena Project
Project Manager Basic-Cartagena
Environmental scientist with a Masters in Bioresource Engineering (McGill University, Canada/Barbados). Specialist in water resources and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic environments. Works in BASIC as project manager, leader of the coastal hydrology component, and PhD student in the Erasmus Mundus Macoma program (Spain/Portugal) researching the modelling of dispersion processes of freshwater in Cartagena Bay.
Taken from www.basic-cartagena.org/investigadores
Julián Castro
Findeter MSc Urbanism & Social Science London School of Economics
Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia with a MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics. Julián has worked in both the UK and Colombia in territorial development that facilitates smart investment while providing high impact solutions. He has coordinated intermediate scale strategic projects such as master plans, zoning and partial plans. In 2013 Julián joined FINDETER the major Finance Institution for Development in Colombia where he has performed as Coordinator of multidisciplinary teams preparing the Action plans for various cities in Colombia. He has also facilitated decision and policy making for land use planning, community engagement and the strengthening of local institutions. Most recently, his work has been focused on the highly socially and spatially conflicted Colombian Pacific Region where he has led the preparation of urban technical assistance with the support of the Interamerican Development Bank and the National Government’s fund “Todos Somos PAZcífico”.
Santiago Madriñan
Ph.D. Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Ph.D. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
M.Sc. Biología, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
B.Sc. Biología, Universidad de los Andes
His research interest is on the origin and preservation of biodiversity in a systematic evolutionary context. The basis of his research are studies on flora and fauna, plant ecology, animals and their interaction, mainly but not exclusively on the Neotropical region.
Through his work, Professor Madriñan formulates hypothesis on kingship pattern of different taxonomic levels organism, framed in systematic phylogenetics. His work is a contribution to different biology fields (e.g. sistematic, paleontology, ecology, ethology, morphology, embriology, fisiology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.). His research also contributes to the study of the history and causes of evolution. He applies biota´s systematic studies to biogeographic history, conservation biology and studies on biodiversity.
Luis Fernando Sánchez
Master in Sciences por la University of Southern en Mississippi
fundacionplanetaazul@gmail.com
Marine biologist from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano university at its headquarters in Cartagena and Bogota. Master in Sciences from the University of Southern Mississippi. PhD candidate in Marine Science from the National University of Colombia CeMarin Excellence Center. Director of the Blue Planet Caribbean (FUPAC) Foundation. Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cartagena. Research Coordinator of the INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL (IEA) at the San Buenaventura University.
Marko Tosic
Universidad EAFIT - Manager of Basic-Cartagena Project
Project Manager Basic-Cartagena
Environmental scientist with a Masters in Bioresource Engineering (McGill University, Canada/Barbados). Specialist in water resources and anthropogenic impacts on aquatic environments. Works in BASIC as project manager, leader of the coastal hydrology component, and PhD student in the Erasmus Mundus Macoma program (Spain/Portugal) researching the modelling of dispersion processes of freshwater in Cartagena Bay.
Taken from www.basic-cartagena.org/investigadores
- Core team
Lucas Ariza
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
Diego Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Professor
Santiago de Francisco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Alberto Miani
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
María Elisa Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
Lucas Ariza
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
Diego Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Professor
Santiago de Francisco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Alberto Miani
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
María Elisa Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament
Lucas Ariza
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
Diego Bermúdez
Universidad de los Andes - Professor
Santiago de Francisco
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Design Departament
Alberto Miani
Universidad de los Andes - Professor Architecture Departament
María Elisa Navarro
Universidad de los Andes - Assistant professor Architecture Departament