Dr. Peter Salamon is a scientific project manager at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission where he is coordinating the Copernicus Emergency Management Service and its components the European and Global Flood Awareness Systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Environmental Geoscience from the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen (Germany) and a Ph.D. in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). During his research activities and professional career, he has gained experience in policy support in the area of disaster risk management at European and global level. His technical background is in hydrology, numerical modeling, hazard and risk mapping, climate change impacts, uncertainty assessment and operational flood forecasting. He is author and co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Peter Salamon
Coordinator of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service
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European Commission, Joint Research Center