Recycling & Waste Management

Ajah James Uzoigwe is the Founder/President of Earth Environment and Climate Care Ambassadors (EECCA). He is also the initiator Foundation Cares for the Disabled (FCD). He is passionate about human development and has trained and empowered over 16000 women, youth and persons with disabilities for 2018-2019 skill acquisition and empowerment program powered by EECCA and FCD. He is currently working, campaigning, educating, training and empowering people towards ameliorating air quality, global warming, preservation of nature, environmental protection, and climate justice to assist UN cut greenhouse gas emission to 1.5 degree Celsius in the nearest future. He is working with over 48000 registered committed volunteers cut-across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

Environment, Climate Change

Bruna Marmett holds a B.Sc in Nutrition and a M.Sc. in Health Science. Currently, she is a Ph.D. researcher of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Her research is focused on the health effects of air pollution, environmental monitoring, exposure to air pollutants during physical exercise, oxidative stress, inflammation profile, and DNA damage. She had experience in areas of nutrition and experimental physiology, including dietary supplementation, food behavior, and cardiovascular diseases.

Oxidative Stress Biomarker, Cytotoxicity, Reactive Oxygen Species

With a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and a Masters of Public Health degree, Dr. Okatch focusses her research work on environmental health particularly lead poisoning prevention. Some of her recently completed projects include investigating spices as a potential source of lead and a randomized controlled trial to determine which of the two interventions is more effective in increasing the rate of uptake of the Lead Hazard Control funds (LHC); educating families about lead poisoning vs. assisting families in Lancaster complete the application forms for the LHC funds. She is currently conducting an evaluation study to describe the long-term effectiveness of residential lead remediation and to assess the impact of residential lead remediation on children’s cognitive development. Dr. Okatch is a member of the Lancaster Lead Coalition and serves on the Advisory Board of Head Start in Lancaster.

poisoning prevention, HIV-infected patients

Dr. Park is a professor of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering at Yonsei University in 1977 and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University in 1979. He worked as a consulting engineer in Korea and Australia for two years after serving two and a half years of military service. He received a Ph.D. in Public Health Engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1985. He worked as a research engineer at the Sanitary and Environmental Health Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley from 1985 to 1988. Since he joined University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, he has taught environmental engineering courses such as water treatment plant design, wastewater treatment plant design, biological treatment, physical/chemical treatment, hazardous waste management, solids and hazardous waste engineering, industrial water pollution control, etc. His research is in the areas of water quality management and river restoration; biological treatment; hazardous waste treatment; mass transport in the environment; fate of organic compounds in water and wastewater treatment processes; computer-aided design of water and wastewater treatment plants; and reuse of scrap vehicle tires as a contaminant sorbent. He has published one book and over 200 journal articles. He has been a consultant to many governments, institutions, utilities, and companies from all over the world.

His research is in the areas of water quality management and river restoration; biological treatment; hazardous waste treatment; mass transport in the environment; fate of organic compounds in water and wastewater treatment processes; computer-aided design of water and wastewater treatment plants; and reuse of scrap vehicle tires as a contaminant sorbent

Prof. Agamuthu is a Senior Professor at the University of Malaya (UM) and is the Founder-President of the Malaysian Society of Waste Management and Environment. He is also the Vice-President/International Advisory Board Member – Society of Solid Waste Management Experts in Asia and Pacific Islands (SWAPI) and an honorary member of the International Solid Waste Management Association (ISWA). He is the Founder-Head of the Center for Waste Management Research, UM. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Science, Malaysia and a Fellow of Institute for Global Environmental Strategy, Japan.

Hazardous waste and Waste Management

Dr Hazizan Md Akil is currently a full professor of polymer composites in the School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Professor Hazizan received his PhD degree in Composites Materials from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2002. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and a full Professor in 2012. His main research areas are on Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites, Nanocellulose from Lignocellulosic Biomass and Biocomposites. He has published several book’s chapters and more than 200 journal articles. Prof. Hazizan has a total citations of more than 4000 and an h-index of 31 and an i10-Index of 85 (Google Scholar – 8 January 2018). He is currently an editorial board member for Materials & Design journal (Elsevier), Regional Editor for the Journal of Applied Sciences (Scialert), Regional Editor for Trends in Applied Sciences Research (Scialert).

polymer composites, Material composites.

Ann T W Yu has a BSc degree in Building from University of Brighton, UK and MSc degree in Construction Management from City University of Hong Kong. She has obtained her PhD from the Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. She has started her profession as an Assistant Architect and worked for a number of different professional firms including architectural firms, quantity surveying practice as well as the Hong Kong Housing Authority. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Value Management and Construction Management by the Department of Building and Real Estate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. She has a strong track record and has published extensively on the broad theme of project management in leading construction management journals and international conference proceedings.

Waste Management and Recycling

Dr. A. K. M. Rashidul Alam is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Sciences at JU, Dhaka -1342, Bangladesh (http://www.juniv.edu/teachers/278). He acquired Ph.D. degree from Graduate School of Environmental Sciences of Hokkaido University, Japan. Since 1999, he has been conducting research on various aspects of environmental issues, especially on wastewater treatment with aquatic macrophytes (phytoremediation) and microbial remediation of xenobiotic compounds, freshwater ecology and biodiversity, marine bioinvasion, biomonitoring of pollution, climate change and indigenous adaptation practices. He is a life member of Bangladesh Botanical Society, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and one of the members of Ecological Society of Japan. His research outcomes (40 scientific papers) have been published in both home and abroad. Dr. Alam presented scientific papers in various national and international conferences and has been achieved the best speaker/presentation awards several times. Dr. A. K. M. Rashidul Alam officiated as Session Chair for the sessions of various scientific events of National and International Conferences in both home and abroad.

wastewater treatment with aquatic macrophytes (phytoremediation) and microbial remediation of xenobiotic compounds, freshwater ecology and biodiversity, marine bioinvasion, biomonitoring of pollution, climate change and indigenous adaptation practices

Dr. Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari, is a PhD of civil engineering, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering. His topics of interest include Groundwater Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Sustainable Development and Environmental Assessment, Climate and Integrated and Sustainable Water Resource Management, Water System Engineering, Water Resources Planning, Artificial Neural Network, and Genetic Algorithm. He has contributed to more than 195 publications in Journals, Books and Technical Reports. He collaborates as Editorial Board Membership in more than 45 Journals and as reviewers in more than 30 Journals. Currently, he is a Faculty Member of the Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. He is Editor-in-Chief of International journal of Rural Development, Environment and Health Research (IJREH) and Associate Editorial Board Membership of International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources (IJESNR) and Civil Engineering Research Journal (CERJ), Juniper Publishers. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Canadian University Dubai (CUD), Dubai, UAE, and American University in Dubai (AUD), UAE. On the research side, he started a research partnership in May 2017 with Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

His topics of interest include Groundwater Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Sustainable Development and Environmental Assessment, Climate and Integrated and Sustainable Water Resource Management, Water System Engineering, Water Resources Planning, Artificial Neural Network, and Genetic Algorithm.