Juan Sebastián Cañavera Herrera

Juan is a civil engineer and researcher at the University of Cambridge, specialising in urban resilience and adaptation of urban infrastructure to climate change. He graduated as a PhD from the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment Centre for Doctoral Training of the Engineering Department, where he also finished a Master in Research in 2016. Using a multidisciplinary approach, his doctoral thesis analysed the governance structures behind adaptation planning of urban road networks and outlined how these structures can be improved to achieve resilient, safe, and inclusive cities. Juan graduated with the Degree of Honour as a Civil Engineer from the National University of Colombia in 2014. He is a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Alumni and a scholar from the Rodolfo Llinas Scholarship awarded by the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

His main interests are road engineering, resilience, climate change adaptation, adaptation planning, climate change governance and multidisciplinary research in civil engineering.

You can follow him on https://twitter.com/juansebacah or https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-sebasti%C3%A1n-ca%C3%B1avera-herrera-ph-d-40203025/

Joined 2018

Organisation

University of Cambridge