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Dr. Olivier Walther is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Florida and an affiliated researcher at the UF Sahel Research Group. His research and teaching focus on the development of cross-border trade and the emergence of transnational political violence in West Africa. Dr. Walther’s work combines geographic information systems, social network analysis, statistical analysis and qualitative interviews. He has conducted fieldwork in Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Mali, Mauritania and Ghana.
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Based in Accra, Ghana, Foster Mensah is the Executive Director of Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS), a Geo-information Services and Research Support Centre based at the University of Ghana. He is a geo-information specialist with professional experience in land use/land cover mapping from remotely sensed imagery GPS mapping and spatial modelling.
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Dr. Changjie Chen is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) at the University of Florida. He is a planner and statistician whose research emphasis is directed at the simulation of future land-use scenarios and transportation modeling by integrating spatial analytics, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms.
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Dr. Gregory Kiker is Professor in agro-ecological modeling and decision analysis of coupled natural-human systems in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida. He has worked widely over southern, eastern and western Africa with emphasis on sustainable human/environment interactions. His simulation modeling research covers a wide variety of topics from savanna ecosystems to agro-pastoral systems, water resources, climate change, food value chains and resilient infrastructure.
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Dr. Rachata Muneepeerakul is an Associate Professor in complex system modeling at the University of Florida. His primary investigative tools are mathematical and computational models—dynamical models, complex networks, game theory, and stochastic processes. Dr. Muneepeerakul’s research focuses on systematic development of models of coupled natural-human systems. He is involved in a number of transdisciplinary research projects with topics ranging from vulnerability arising from interdependence in economic networks, resilience of water-subsidized systems, resilience of livestock trade networks, human migration and environmental changes.
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Kwadwo Owusu is an Associate Professor, University of Ghana