Juan Canavera-Herrera
- PhD Research Student
About
Juan is a Colombian Civil Engineering Professional graduated with the Degree of Honour from the National University of Colombia in 2014. He is a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Alumni and currently a scholar from the Rodolfo Llinas Scholarship awarded by the city of Bogotá, Colombia and from the Cambridge Trust Scholarship. He is a PhD Research Student of Cohort 2 in the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment Centre for Doctoral Training of the Engineering Department, where he also finished a Master in Research in 2016.
PhD Research Project: Roads to adaptation: Understanding adaptation planning of urban road infrastructure.
Supervisor: Dr Kristen MacAskill
Co-supervisors: Dr Alice Moncaster and Dr Stuart Haigh
Research
- Adaptation to climate change
- Road engineering
- Climate change governance
- Disaster Risk Management
- Resilience and Sustainable Development
- Multidisciplinary research in civil engineering