Committees
Organising Committee
University of Edinburgh, UK
Northumbria University, UK
Scientific Committee
Our scientific committee is composed of 39 experts from around the world that work in industry and academia, with backgrounds that span the many diverse areas of GPR research and usage.
University of West London, UK
Boise State University, USA
Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
EMC Radar Consulting, UK
University of Birmingham, UK
University of Manchester, UK
Dstl, UK
IFSTTAR, France
Sensors and Software, Canada
Fraunhofer-Institut fur Hochfrequenzphysik , Germany
Mouchel, UK
University of Oslo, Norway
Hochschule fur Technik Rapperswil, Switzerland
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany
Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
University of Connecticut, USA
IDS, Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
University of Bath, UK
CNR-IBAM, Italy
Roma Tre University, Italy
Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
University of Split, Croatia
Geophysical Survey Systems, USA
University of Birmingham, UK
Roadscanners, Norway
Universite Paris Sud, France
Tohoku University, Japan
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
CNR-IREA, Italy
Universida de Vigo, Spain
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Austria
University of Potsdam, Germany
University of Kansas, USA
Tongji University, China
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keynote Speakers
David DANIELS
David pioneered the design and development of Ground Penetrating Radar in the UK and has published over 110 technical papers and a number of books on GPR (one awarded the IEE Rayleigh Book Award) as well as contributing to a number of seminal reference books in the field, including a contribution to Skolnik’s Radar Handbook 3rd Edition. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in 2010 for his international contribution to GPR and in 2012 was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. After a career in industrial applied research, David joined the University of Manchester, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in October 2014 as a Visiting Professor, and in October 2015 became a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor. David chaired the European Radar Conference in 2016.
David's keynote presentation is titled “Better performance from GPR?”
Evert SLOB
Evert is Professor of Geophysical Electromagnetic Methods at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, The Netherlands. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mining and Petroleum Engineering, and the Doctorate Degree (cum laude) in Applied Sciences from TU Delft in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He is currently director of Education Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Between 2013-2015 Evert was the editor-in-chief for Geophysics, and the Editor in the SEG Board of Directors. He was General Chair of the 10th International Conference on GPR in 2004 and organised ten international workshops and conference sessions. He was guest editor for 13 special journal issues on GPR and hydrogeophysics. His current research interests are EM interferometry and beyond, hydrogeophysics, advanced imaging and inversion techniques, heterogeneity determination, and soil characterisation. He published over 100 international peer reviewed journal papers on these subjects.
Evert's keynote presentation is titled “Virtual Ground Penetrating Radar Technology”
Xavier DEROBERT
Xavier received the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetism from Lille University, Lille, France, in 1995, and a French Research Habilitation (DSc.) from the University of Nantes, France, in 2003. In 1987, he became a State Engineer in civil engineering and joined IFSTTAR, Nantes, as a Research Scientist. He was the Director of the "Assessment and Imaging" Laboratory from 2010 to end 2014. His research interests include the development of methodologies using radar techniques on civil infrastructures and subsurface geophysics, and particularly the electromagnetic characterization of bituminous and concrete mixing. Xavier has organized three national workshops on GPR in 2001, 2003 and 2013, co-organized the Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDTCE’09) symposium, and also International Workshop on Advanced GPR (IWAGPR) in 2013 in Nantes. He has more than 150 publications in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. He served as Guest Editor for Special Issues on NDT in Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering and in Journal of Infrastructures and Systems in 2011, in Near Surface Geophysics in 2015, and NDT&E International in 2017.
Xavier's keynote presentation is titled “Recent developments of EM NDT in the radar frequency-band for Civil Engineering materials”
