Principal investigator: Anna Kidová – Institute of Geography Slovak Academy of Sciences (IG SAS); Department of Physical Geography, Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Her research focuses on fluvial geomorphology, where she examines the behaviour and response of river systems to extreme floods, ongoing processes and causes of morphological changes in the river channel, and issues related to their management.
Co-members of IG SAS research team:
RNDr. Ľubomír Solín, CSc: flood risk assessment and management analysis, integrated approach to flood risk assessment and management. Responsibility: WP1,3,5
Mgr. Lukáš Michaleje, PhD: flood risk management, assessment of susceptibility to flooding and susceptibility of vulnerable groups to damage caused by floods, he will deal with the spatial analysis within issues related to flood risk assesment. Responsibility: WP1,3
RNDr. Anton Michálek, CSc: social geography, various forms of inequality, poverty and the phenomena of social pathology, regional disparities, the problem of marginal regions. Responsibility: WP1,2,5
PhD students/ young researcher responsibility during project implementation: Mgr. Peter Labaš, PhD. (analyses of morphological changes based on historical maps and orthophoto images, flood regime analyses using hydrological data, field data acquisition); Mgr. Marián Jančovič (assurance of LiDAR data processing, DEM derivations, and morphometric parameters analyses); MS Akhtar Zeb Khan (channel evolution, field data acquisition).
Members of the Center of Social and Psychological Sciences research team:
Mgr. Richard Filčák, MSc., PhD: environmental, economic and social policies, environmental justice, access to resources, decarbonisation strategies, financing, evaluation and social and territorial exclusion leading to the exposure to environmental risks and vulnerability of the people. Responsibility: WP1,2,4
Mgr. Zuzana Poláčková, PhD: employability, marginalized Roma communities social inclusion, social economy. Responsibility: WP2,5 Mgr. Klára Kohoutová, PhD: Roma history of the 20th century, sites of memory and oral history, ethic motive in public space. Responsibility: WP2,5 Mgr.
Ondrej Ficeri, PhD: Roma history of the 20th century, access to the public services in the past, archive sources analysis. Responsibility: WP2,5
Members of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology research team:
Mgr. Ing. Daniel Škobla, PhD: social ethnicity, inequalities, environmental justice and social inclusion, Roma integration strategy. His position in the project will be that of principal researcher for the field work component, focused on identifying the living conditions and situation of Roma households and interethnic relations at the local level. Responsibility: WP4,5
Mgr. Tomáš Hrustič, PhD: political participation of Roma, religion and religious conversion of Roma, poverty and social change. his role in the project will be participation at the field work oriented for the mapping of living conditions and households’ strategies in selected regions. Responsibility: WP4,5
Mgr. Tatiana Podolinská, PhD: stationary ethnographic research on religiosity in Mexico and Guatemala. Her role in the project will be participation in the field work and conducting in-depth interviews with members of the Roma households and other actors at the local level. Responsibility: WP4,5