FOR APAC Science Pitch
Monday, 12th of December 2022, 3:45 – 4:45 PM
HS 330, 3rd floor, Sigmund Haffner-Gasse 18
Speaker: Univ.-Prof. John Dunlop, Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, FOR APAC Board Member
Topic: „MorphoPhysics – Physical Explorations into Growth and Form“
FOR APAC Science Pitch
Monday, 23 January 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
HS 888, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18
Speaker: Xinyue HU, MSc., Department of Geology and Geography
Topic: „Urban Woodland: Development, Management, and Benefits for Residents
Urban growth has the biggest impact on worldwide development. However, severe challenges such as climate change and urban biodiversity loss, based on rapid urbanization and growing urban population, have affected both the lives of residents and urban nature. Urban woodland, a kind of urban nature, which provides a variety of ecosystem services and plays a vital role in urban green infrastructure. This talk will provide an overview of urban woodland research issues, classify and analyze the main sub-topics and methods, and also highlight the potential prospects of urban woodland study. Furthermore, we will also explore how urban dwellers can profit actually and potentially from urban woodland and how to make effective management strategies of urban woodland.
FOR APAC Research Colloquium Session
Join us for the third FOR APAC Research Colloquium Talk!
Friday, 21 April 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
HS 888, 3rd floor, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18
Online: Webex Link
Speaker: Dr. Shahnawaz SHAHNAWAZ (Department of Geoinformatics, PLUS)
Topic: “Geospatial Applications of Satellite Generated Atmospheric and Climatic Datasets”

The presentation describes the importance of studying climate change, global warming, air pollution, glacial melt etc. and highlights spatial and temporal gaps in the data required for advanced analyses.
Further, it introduces selected satellite systems deployed for generated atmospheric and climatic datasets at regional and global scales and demonstrates their geospatial applications through some case studies.
FOR APAC Research Colloquium Session
Friday, 2 June 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
HS 888, 3rd floor, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18
Online: Webex Link
Speaker: Dr. Alexander JOST (FOR APAC Deputy Director, Department of History, PLUS)
Topic: “China and the Polar Regions – Images and Perceptions in History”
No Chinese territory lies north or south of the polar circles, and only since the last decades of the 20th century have Chinese researchers become active in the Arctic and Antarctic. Until then, for Chinese the poles of the Earth and their surroundings were a realm of imagination, estimation, or – at best – of believing the words of others. Understanding these phenomena and their changes throughout history is the topic of this talk.
FOR APAC Research Colloquium Session
Friday, 20 October 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
HS 387, ground-floor, Rudolfskai 42, 5020 Salzburg
Online: Webex LINK
Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Kyoko SHINOZAKI, PhD (FOR APAC Deputy Director, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, PLUS)
Topic: „Migration/Mobility and Gender in Asia Pacific: Research Agenda“
In her talk, Prof. Kyoko Shinozaki will discuss her main fields of research in migration/mobility studies and studies of sustainability, and why critical transdisciplinary ways of thinking and studying are necessary to understand the complexity of trans/local research agenda in our globalized setting.