Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Cvetković (Visiting Professor) is a member of Safety and Disaster Studies (SDS) working group at the Montan University of Leoben. Founder and President of Scientific-Professional Society for Disaster Risk Management, director of International Institute for Disaster Research and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Management. Employed at the Department of Disaster Management and Environmental Security, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, where he teaches the subject Disaster Risk Management.
National and international awards and recognitions:
Educational background:
MSc. Aleksandra Semenova, PhD student and University Assistant in Disaster Studies (SDS-) working group at the Chair of Thermal Process Technology, Montanuniversität Leoben.
Key areas of research and teaching: process and plant safety with focus on fire and explosion protection.
Educational background:
- Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering (Saint Petersburg Mining University) with a focus on the operation and maintenance of transport and storage facilities for oil, gas, and refined products.
- International MSc in Engineering Geoecology (Montanuniversität Leoben, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, and Saint Petersburg Mining University) with a focus on the processing of mining waste.
Harald Raupenstrauch (Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn.), studied process engineering at Graz University of Technology, Professor and Head of the Chair of Thermal Processing Technology and Head of the Department of Environmental and Energy Process Engineering at Leoben University of Mining and Metallurgy, Head of the PANK university course and the associated Master's course in Safety and Disaster Management, several visiting professorships in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. Recognised expert with numerous publications in the field of thermoprocess technology and process and plant safety.
Julia Graf, research assistant and PhD student in the Safety and Disaster Studies (SDS) working group at the Montan University of Leoben.
Research focus: Scientific project management for RisKILM, PhD student for risk and climate communication at the Montan University of Leoben, qualitative and quantitative social science research, environmental psychology
Educational background:
Environmental systems science with a focus on economics (BSc, Karl-Franzens University of Graz)
Psychology at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (BSc, Karl-Franzens University of Graz)
Environmental Systems Sciences - Sustainability and Innovation Management with a focus on environmental psychology (MSc, Karl-Franzens University of Graz)
Dr. Renate Renner, Senior Scientist and Head of Safety and Disaster Studies (SDS-)working group at the University of Leoben. Study coordinator for the regular Master's program “Safety and Disaster Management”.
Key areas of research and teaching: “Interdisciplinary safety and disaster research”: Crisis resilience, risk and crisis communication, interdisciplinarity in risk management, qualitative social research, with a special consideration of sociological, socio-psychological and depth-psychological approaches.
Educational background:
- Sociology (Karl-Franzens-University Graz and Nord University, Norway)
- Social and economic sciences (PhD) University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna and Wageningen University (Netherlands), within the framework of the doctoral program `Sustainable Development`, with a special focus on inter- and transdisciplinary research
- Mediation (Karl-Franzens-University Graz)
- Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Medical University of Graz, Karl-Franzens-University Graz and ÖGAP, Vienna)
Membership:
- Austrian Society for Analytical Psychology ÖGAP
- Disaster Competence Network Austria
- Austrian Society for Sociology
- Styrian Regional Association for Psychotherapy
