Lars Rosén is professor in Engineering Geology at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. Lars has twenty-three years of research and consulting experience in hydrogeology and environmental engineering. Research has mainly been directed at vulnerability assessments, risk assessment and decision support methods for water protection and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. He is author and co-author of more than 30 peer reviewed scientific publications in Ground Water, AMBIO, Water Research, Environmetrics, Mathematical Geology, among other journals. Lars has authored five handbooks for Swedish Authorities. He is currently the manager of the competence centre Forum for Risk Investigation and Soil Treatment (FRIST) at Chalmers (www.frist.chalmers.se). He also works as a supervisor and specialist in risk management in the research program DRICKS (www.dricks.chalmers.se) and was one of the key authors of TECHNEAU (contract 018320 ) (www.techneau.eu).