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.

Augustine Quek is the Program Manager of the E2S2-CREATE program. He has held various positions from Post-doctoral Researcher to faculty position. His research has dealt with converting various solid wastes streams into useful materials which include converting waste rubber tyres into wastewater treatment adsorbents, hydrothermal treatment of horticultural wastes and utilizing incineration bottom ash (IBA) for land reclamation.

converting various solid wastes streams into useful materials,converting waste rubber tyres into wastewater treatment adsorbents,hydrothermal treatment of horticultural wastes and utilizing incineration bottom ash (IBA) for land reclamation.

Biography Pr. Lingai LUO received her Ph.D. degree (1991) in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. She worked as associate professor at University of Nancy I and at INPL, France. From 2003 until 2012 she was a full professor at University of Savoie, France. She is now senior research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratory of Thermal Science an Energy, Nantes (LTEN), France. Pr. Luo is the author of 2 books and over 100 journal articles. She is Head of a research group of LTEN “Transfers in Fluids et Energy Systems", and was the head of laboratory of design optimization and environmental engineering (LOCIE) of CNRS and University of Savoie She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering and is the head of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is also an invited professor at 5 Chinese universities/institutions, and Leuphana University at Lüneburg, Germany. Shi is Subject Editor for the topic “Energy and Buildings” of Elsevier journal "Energy" , and Member of Editorial Board of "Renewable Energy", and Associate editor of "Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering" and of Frontiers in Built Environment.

Transfers in Fluids et Energy Systems, design optimization, environmental engineering and Process Engineering

Mohamed El Zarka has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Alexandria University, Egypt and postdoctoral studies from Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. He is the senior advisor of the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI). He is the former Egypt’s Focal Point, Basel Convention 1993-1999 & 2015. He supervised several National Projects and conducted several workshops and training courses regionally and internationally in collaboration with UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP and WHO.

Waste Management, Sustainability and recycling.

Prof. Ameer Al-Haddad has been teaching chemical engineering courses for past 30 years in Kuwait University, Kuwait. He is actively involved in various research feilds mainly environmental engineering, land and water pollution, chemical warfare and polymer kinetics. He has puplished more than 40 papers in various research journals

environmental engineering, land and water pollution, chemical warfare and polymer kinetics.

Professor Tao Wu has over 20 years of RD&D experience on the efficient conversion and utilization of fossil fuels/biomass, waste recycling and the development of novel materials for environmental applications. His research programmes cover a wide range from blue-sky research to proof of concept and patent development leading to commercialisation. To date, Professor Wu has completed over 40 research projects funded by various funding bodies and has developed technologies that benefit the society through commercialisation. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, is currently leading the Municipal Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Conversion Technologies at UNNC.

utilization of fossil fuels/biomass,waste recycling,development of novel materials for environmental applications.

Lutfor Rahman obtained an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship to do his PhD(1969) at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Late Professor J W Linnett FRS. He was awarded a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in 1974 to pursue postdoctoral research in the UK. He was also a senior DAAD fellow. Dr. Rahman has been a full professor since 1980. In addition to academic jobs he has held administrative positions like Chairman of a Department, Dean of a Faculty, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of a University. Basically a physical chemist, Professor Rahman’s research interests include Kinetics, Catalysis and Environmental Chemistry.

Research interests are Kinetics, Catalysis and Environmental Chemistry.

Dr. K. Alagusundaram is a Deputy Director General (Agricultural Engineering) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan-II Pusa, New Delhi – 110 012

crop processing and food processing

Dr. Yau had practiced building surveying in the Buildings Department and then worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the University of Hong Kong before joining City University of Hong Kong in August 2007. From September 2010 to December 2016, he oversaw the BSocSc (Policy Studies and Administration), BSocSc (Administration and Public Management) and MA (Housing Studies) programmes in the capacity of programme director successively. Over the years, he won different awards, including Emerald 2016 Literati Award, American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Reviewer Award, Li Ka Shing Prize 2007 and Hong Kong Institute of Architects Annual Awards 2006 (Architectural Research).

Domestic waste management, waste recycling, built environment,Administration and Public Management,building surveying etc

Dr. Zuotai Zhang is currently a profession in Southern University of Science and Technology of China. He gained his PhD from Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). He then spent two years as a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. Dr. Zhang’s research interest mainly focuses on understanding the issues of thermodynamics and kinetics of high temperature reactions, which are relevant for recycling valuable elements from metallurgical slags, waste heat recovery from hot slags, reusing the energy or municipal solid wastes such as fly ash, coal gangue, sludge et.al, and these are thought to bridge the gap between fundamental research and industrial application. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers and around 30 conference papers, and applied 23 patents. Dr. Zhang also serves as board of review members for Sci. Reports, Metall. Mater. Trans B and E, AIST Trans and J. Innovative Engineering, and serves as Vice-Chair of Asian Coal Ash Association and Solid Waste Subcommittee of Chinese Ceramic Society of China.

understanding the issues of thermodynamics and kinetics of high temperature reactions, recycling valuable elements from metallurgical slags, waste heat recovery from hot slags, reusing the energy or municipal solid wastes such as fly ash, coal gangue, sludge et.al.

Prof. Dr Miklas Scholz holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford, United Kingdom. He is also a Professor in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, Sweden. His main research areas in terms of publication output are treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands, sustainable flood retention basins, permeable pavement systems, decision support systems, ponds, climate change and capillary suction time. He has published three books and 200 journal articles. Prof. Scholz has total citations of more than 3730 (above 2719 citations since 2011), resulting in an h-index of 31 and an i10-Index of 89 (3 December 2016).

treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands, sustainable flood retention basins, permeable pavement systems, decision support systems, ponds, climate change and capillary suction time.

Dr. An received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 journal papers. His research interests include renewable energy conversion and storage technologies, such as fuel cells and flow batteries.

renewable energy,conversion and storage technologies,fuel cells and flow batteries.

Dr. Hamidi Abdul Aziz is a professor in environmental engineering in the School of Civil Engineering and the Head of the Solid Waste Management Cluster, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Professor Aziz received his PhD degree in civil engineering (environmental engineering) from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1992. He is the Editor-in-chief of IJSRES, and the Managing Editor of IJEWM and IJEE. Professor Aziz's research focuses on alleviating problems associated with water pollution issues from industrial wastewater discharges and from solid waste management via landfilling, such as landfill leachate. Advanced oxidation processes is one of his research focuses.

Water pollution issues from industrial wastewater discharges,solid waste management via landfilling, such as landfill leachate. Advanced oxidation processes,etc.

Dr. Padma Singh is Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Girls Campus, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, INDIA. She has obtained her degree of M.Sc (gold medal) and PhD from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (MP). She has published more than 80 research papers and review articles in various national and international journals. She has been honored with National APSI award and gold medal in 2005-06 for organizing APSI national conference. She is member of various academic professional bodies like AMI, IBS, ISCA, DUBS, APSI, and was awarded FAPSI and FBS. Her major research includes antimicrobial potential interest of medicinal plant, biodeterioration, bioremediation, and biodegradation, etc.

Her major research includes antimicrobial potential interest of medicinal plant, biodeterioration, bioremediation, and biodegradation, etc.

Prof. Kunio Yoshikawa was born in 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology and an associate editor of Applied Energy. His bachelor, master and doctor degrees were awarded from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His major fields are energy conversion, waste management and environmental engineering. He has been working in Tokyo Institute of Technology for more than 38 years as a research associate, an associate professor and a professor. He has published nearly 200 journal papers with the major award of AIAA Best Paper Award, ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal, JSME Environmental Technology Achievement Award and Best Educator Award of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Waste-to-Energy

Professor Tsuyoshi Fujita is a Director of Social Environmental Systems Research Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. He is also an alliance professor of Nagoya University as well as a visiting professor of United Nations University in Japan. His research fields are eco industrial development, low carbon city, urban environment simulation system, circular economy planning and spatial LCA, where he has published around seventy journal papers. He is engaged in several national research projects to develop integrative urban technology and policy simulation system for Japanese and Asian cities and regions. He is a member of the National Council of Low Carbon City Promotion of Japan. He is also engaged in academic positions such as a counselor of the International Society of Industrial Ecology, Chair of Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Systems Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering. He received a doctor of engineering degree from the University of Tokyo in 1997 as well as a MCP (Master of City Planning) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He was formerly an Associate Professor in Osaka University after working in the construction company as an urban planner for ten years.

Recycling

He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the ' University of Turin in 1994. In 1996 he founded, together with other shareholders, the cooperative ERICA Soc. Coop. one of the first companies in Italy to deal with waste, both in terms of technical design and communication. By ERICA Soc. Coop. holds up to 1999 as a director only to become, in that same year, President and finally, in 2014, CEO. From 1997 to 1999 he was Minister for the Environment, Agriculture and Civil Protection of the City of Alba. In 2001 he was appointed an expert evaluator for the European Commission Directorate General Research. Since December 2002, he was appointed President of AICA (International Association for Environmental Communication). In June 2003 he joined the Board of Directors of ACR + (Association Cities and Regions for Recycling and Sustainable Management of Resources) of which he was elected vice president in November 2014. In that same year the Ministry of the Environment and the Sea appointment horse vice president of the Scientific Committee for the implementation and development of the National Plan for the Prevention of Waste in office until 2017 (Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, the Ministry decree Gian Luca Galletti, n. 185 dell ' July 8, 2014)

Recycling and waste management

Fabrizio Cumo, Nuclerar Engineer , professor in Applied Applied Physic Faculty of Architetture – University of Rome "La Sapienza . Operates in the Institute of the Valorisation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of Italian CNR (ICVBC) –section of Rome . Member of the board of the CITERA center and director of the Master “BIM” Building Integrated Modelling. Leader of the some international research groups for the responsible use of energy in residential area and the use of renewable sources. Is author of more than 120 papers regarding the fields of energetic , environmental applied physic (IAQ, heat transfer and lightning) and architecture tecnologies

Recycling, Waste management, Sustainable Energy, Urbanism

Muscolo Adele graduated in Biological Sciences (MSc), and has completed her PhD in Food Science at the age of 26 years at the Policlinic Federico II University of Naples, Italy. In 1988 she started her professional carrier as Researcher at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Professor. Since 1990 she is Reviewer for Scientific International Journals and since 2008 she is Evaluator of national and international projects for European Community and Funding Research Agencies. She is Examiner of international PhD dissertation. She published more than 170 papers in international journals with IF and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of many international journals. Additionally she is Associate Editor for JFR

Agricultural Biomass, Bioenergy, soil ecosystem, Biodiesel, Soil salinity

Takashi Nakamura completed his MA Sc in Metallurgy from Kyushu University, Japan in 1974, PhD in Metallurgy in 1979 from the same university. He became Lecturer in Kyushu Institute of Technology (1977), Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1991). In 1998, he was appointed as a Professor at Institute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University and from 2001 to till date he is a Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

Recycling engineering, Metallic production engineering

Hojae Shim is currently working as an Associate Professor in department of Civil Engineering at University of Macau, China. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science Engineering, Ohio State University, USA. His research interests includes Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater, Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Bio filtration and Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater,Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Biofiltration, Biodegradation/Biotransformation

M. A. Martin-Luengo, graduated in chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain) in 1980. In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work in 1981 and PhD in 1983 on the characterization of surfaces. Then she worked with a CSIC grant in England and Belgium till 1987. From 1987 till 1991, she was awarded a fellowship IA from the UK´s Scientific Engineering Research Council and from 1992 she is permanent research staff of the CSIC.

Nowadays she carries on with her studies on sustainable issues, applying the knowledge acquired during 34 years of career to the search for the use of renewable materials, chemical processes and energies, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economic resources.

Nour-Eddine Menad has completed his PhD from National School of geology of Nancy (France) and worked as Associate Professor at Technical University of Lulea (Sweden). He is scientific expert on process development on recycling of industrial wastes. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and conferences, 4 patents and is in the board committee of Edorium Journal of Waste Management. At the moment, he is working at BRGM (Bureau de recherché Géologique et minière) on development of separation techniques applied on the urban mine to recover stratégic metals.

recycling, waste management, urban mining, geology

Enric Vazquez is Professor Emeritus in Construction Materials on the ETS Ingenieros de Caminos of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. At present in Constructing Cycle SL. Research in eco-efficient materials and wastes for his use in construction, environmental impact by leaching, road pavements, durability of concrete and bituminous mixtures. 80 papers and books published from 1967 til today.This publications include the books Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment,Vol 8,RILEM STATE OF ART REPORTS “2013” y Guia Española de Áridos Reciclados procedentes de RCD (2012),Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y GEAR. He has oriented 22 doctor thesis and 30 master th..Invited Plenary Speaker in Spain, Japan,France,Germany,Austria,Poland,Brasil,Italy,Portugal and China. Has been Chairman from the RILEM TC-217 y TC-198 URM.Member of WG of AENOR,AIPCR and CEN.In 2011 he received the Environment Award from the Catalan Government for his profesional career.

Recycling and waste management

Gary Leeke is Chair in Chemcial Engineering and Head of the Bioenergy and Resource Management Centre at Cranfield University, UK. His research interests lie in the areas of recycling enabling technologies and resource efficiency. He has expertise in high pressure engineering and thermo-chemical processing, specifically in reaction engineering, separation technology, flow reactors, and their applications to polymer/composite processing and remanufacture, mixed plastic waste and the circular economy. He leads the EXHUME project in the UK investigating the deconstruction of fibre reinforced composites. Gary sits on the Composites Leadership Forum Sustainability Working Group for Composites UK

Recycling, waste management, Thermo chemical processing, sustainability, urbanism etc

Awf Al-Kassir, male, Professor Industrial Engineer, (Ph.D.) from Valladolid University in 1995, graduated (B.Sc.) from mechanical engineering department, Mosul University in 1978. He worked for University of Technology of Baghdad in 1979 and Institute of Technology of Ramady 1980-1988 after getting his (M.Sc.). From 1989-1994, he worked as a researcher and associate professor at the University of Valladolid in Spain. From 1995 up to date he worked as a professor at the University of Extremadura in Spain. He was invited professor at TUBITAK research center of Turkey during the academic year 2009-2010. Also he is the coordinator of Master Bioenergy Subject & lecturer at the Polytechnique Institute of Portalegre in Portugal, 2010-2012. Now he has published more than 150 papers and contributed more than 80 communications to congresses & other books. He participated in national research projects, he was a member of ASHRAE from 1989-1995, he was accepted for colligate in the engineering college of Spain since 1990.

Use of biomass residues for energy production Evaluation of combustion, pyrolysis and gasification processes Refrigeration and air conditioning Heat pumps & thermal comfort Design and optimization of thermal drying systems Energy saving & renewable energy Infrared thermography technique applications Heat transfer in manufacturing processes and heat exchangers design

Stéphane Bourg is Project Manager at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission in the Radiochemistry and Processes Department located in the CEA Marcoule Research Center. He is in charge of projects dealing with hydrometallurgical process simulation and life cycle assessment studies. Since 2008, he has been the Coordinator of European research projects dealing with solvent extraction process develoment (ACSEPT, SACSESS) and of research infrastructure networks (ACTINET-I3, TALISMAN). He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of PROMETIA, an international non-profit association aiming at promoting the development of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy for mining and recycling. This association, gathering academia, research and technology centers and industries, acts as a pre-consortium tank for answering industry R&D needs and fostering innovation in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Stéphane Bourg graduated as an Engineer from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris and is Doctor in Chemistry. From 1992 to 1998, he carried out research work on silicon organochemistry, applied to advanced silicon carbide material synthesis. He joined the CEA in 1999 as research engineer for developping sol-gel organo modified silica materials dedicated to liquid effluent decontamination . In the years 2000, he was involved in pyrometallurgical process development. He has been a member of expert groups regarding nuclear waste management issues (IAEA expert groups following Fukushima accident), nuclear fuel cycle research programmes (UK EPSRC), raw materials (EIP-RM working groups). He is also member of several advisory boards and international conference committees.

Nuclear waste management, Recycling, Thermal Waste recovery

Li Guangming is currently working as a professor in Tongji University, China. In 1985, East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now the East China University of Technology) Department of Chemical energy graduate, bachelor's degree in petroleum refining engineering; graduated from the school in 1988 petroleum processing, received a master's degree organic chemical disciplines; graduated from the school in 1990 the Department of Petroleum Processing PhD in organic chemical disciplines. July 1990 Tongji work played so far, worked in the Department of Chemistry (1990-1999), Higher Technical School (2000-2001) and the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (2002 - present), he served as a lecturer (1990 ), associate professor (1994) and Professor (2000).

Pollution Prevention and Control Process, Water Management system scale, waste resource management systems and pollution control technology to achieve a low-carbon pathway Process or low-carbon society.

Sébastien Déon obtained his PhD degree from the University of South Brittany in 2007 on the modeling of transport through nanofiltration membranes. In 2008, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Franche-Comté where he has broadened his areas of expertise to electrokinetic characterizations of membrane materials and fouling cakes. Currently, he is Associate Professor and his skills are mainly dedicated to water treatment by membrane processes. He is also the Author or Co-author of one book, twenty four publications in international recognized journals, and twenty presentations in international conferences. His expertise in reviewing scientific papers led him to become an Associate Editor of International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology and an Editorial Board Member of several peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Recyclin, waste management, Waste water treatment

Lingai LUO received her Ph.D. degree (1991) in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. She worked as associate professor at University of Nancy I and at INPL, France. From 2003 until 2012 she was a full professor at University of Savoie, France. She is now senior research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the laboratory of thermo-kinetics, Nantes (LTN), France

Recycling and thermal waste recovery, solar systems, heat recovery

M. Sulyman was born in 1976. He got his MSc. degree in 2008 from Academy of Graduate Studies and the B.Sc. degree in 2000 from Al-Mergheb University in the field of chemical engineering in Libya. Currently he is a PhD student at Polymer Technology Department, Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. His interests of research are environmental and polymer engineering. His main research is asphalt polymer blend using polymer waste materials. Additional interest work is wastewater treatment using green adsorbents prepared from agricultural by-products/wastes

Environmental and polymer engineering, wastewater treatment, Recycling

Francois O. Méar has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Montpellier II University and postdoctoral studies from Cambridge and Tohoku University. He is assistant professor at Lille I University and specificly in the Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry Unit. FOM is working on the formulation of glass matrices for unconventional applications (e.g. containment matrices for nuclear waste, seals glass for SOFC) and on the synthesis of self-healing glassy matrices. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals, 1 patent and 2 book chapters.

Innovative glass formulation, Functional glass with phosphates, Special glasses, Physical and chemical characterization – Structural investigation

Helena Maria Vieira Monteiro Soares has completed her PhD from University of Porto, Portugal. Her main research is focused on the selective recovery of metals from wastewaters and secondary resources. She has published about 70 papers in ISI journals, coordinated several national projects and has been serving as Project Evaluator of advanced fellowships and grants from the Portuguese and other international (EU, South Africa, Chile) research agencies.

Solid Waste management and Recycling

David Elena is a Graduate of Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MS-in Physics-Chemistry of Surface and Analytic Chemistry of “Babes-Bolyai” University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He serves as a Doctor in Chemical Science, Assoc. Prof., Head of Laboratory: Carbonic Materials, Composites & Analysis Techniques, at National Research Institute of Cryogenics & Isotope Technologies-ICIT Rm.Valcea, Romania. His overall research topics approached concern to renewable energy sources; conservation of energy; energy from waste; methods and mechanisms for the reduction of pollution; methods of waste recycling and tests to determine their toxicity; development of analysis techniques with applications in energy & environment fields.

Carbonic Materials, Renewable energy, energy from waste, Recycling and waste management

Chuan Chen has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and postdoctoral studies from University of Calgary from 2013 to 2014. He is Associate Professor of HIT at present, and has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals

Recycling and waste management

Ashraf Bakkar has obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering and Corrosion from Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany, May 2005. He conducted his scientific research and development in the field of Corrosion and Electrometallurgy in Institut für Materialprüfung und Werkstofftechnik Dr. Neubert (DN) GmbH at Clausthal, Germany (2005-08). He worked as Assistant- and Associate-professor in Metallurgical and Materials Eng. Dept., Suez University, Egypt (2008-2013). He is the Head of Environmental Eng. Dept. at Umm Alqura University, Saudi Arabia. His scientific co-operation with Prof. Neubert (Director of DN) has been continued since 2001. They are currently conducting recent research on recycling of dusts evolved from different Egyptian and German steelmaking fields. He has about 35 scientific contributions published as patents, journal papers, and conference articles.

Materials Engineering, Electrometallurgy, Recycling and Waste Management

Vasilis Fthenakis is a Director, Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, USA. He also leads the National PV Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Research Center operating at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) under the auspices of the DOE since 1982. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation.

Life Cycle Analysis, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy Penetration in the Grid, Fluid Dynamics, Air Pollution Prevention and Control

Hesham Ali, Ph.D., P.E., CPM, came to FIU with over 21 years of civil engineering experience, mostly in pavement design, analysis and construction. Ali joined the CEE faculty in December of 2011 as Green Paving Professor of Practice and is working to advance the new Green Paving Initiative of Florida International University. Ali earned holds a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The City University of New York. He has spent much of his career in the transportation sector focusing on pavement evaluation, pavement engineering and consulting for various public and private employers, including a role as Highway Research Fellow for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Additionally, Ali has participated in the delivery of hundreds of roadway and airport construction projects in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Florida. Recently, Ali served as an executive at the Florida Department of Transportation, where he worked for over a decade and participated in the delivery of $3 billion of highway construction and maintenance projects.

Recycling and Waste management

Andreas Krause has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is the Professor for wood composites and processing technology at University Hamburg. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals.

Recycling and waste management

M. A. Martin-Luengo, graduated in chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain) in 1980. In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work in 1981 and PhD in 1983 on the characterization of surfaces. Then she worked with a CSIC grant in England and Belgium till 1987. From 1987 till 1991, she was awarded a fellowship IA from the UK´s Scientific Engineering Research Council and from 1992 she is permanent research staff of the CSIC

Nowadays she carries on with her studies on sustainable issues, applying the knowledge acquired during 34 years of career to the search for the use of renewable materials, chemical processes and energies, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economic resources.

Miklas Scholz is a Fellow of IWA holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group and has published two books and approximately 150 journal papers. His main research areas are wetland systems, storm water management, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality and wastewater treatment. Prof. Scholz is Editor-in-Chief of the ISI Web of Science-listed journal Water (impact factor for 2012: 0.973). He has membership experience of over 30 editorial boards.

Wetlands, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality, storm water management and wastewater treatment.

Muscolo Adele graduated in Biological Sciences (MSc), and has completed her PhD in Food Science at the age of 26 years at the Policlinic Federico II University of Naples, Italy. In 1988 she started her professional carrier as Researcher at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Professor. Since 1990 she is Reviewer for Scientific International Journals and since 2008 she is Evaluator of national and international projects for European Community and Funding Research Agencies. She is Examiner of international PhD dissertation. She published more than 170 papers in international journals with IF and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of many international journals. Additionally she is Associate Editor for JFR

Agricultural Biomass, Bioenergy, soil ecosystem, Biodiesel, Soil salinity

Alejandro Rodríguez has completed his PhD from University of Córdoba, Spain, and started to work as lecturer in University Pablo of Olavide, Spain. He worked as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher from 2007 to 2011. He is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department in the University of Córdoba, Spain, from December 2011. His scholarly activity should be resumed as follow: books 1, book chapters 3, Journal Articles >80, proceedings & abstracts >50, invited talks 1 and supervisory roles (including present personnel): 9 PhD Students. He has also been serving as an Editorial Board Member of several journals

Recycling, Bioprocess Engineering and Fermentation Technology,Biomass Conversion,Biochemical Engineering

Jorge Manuel Calico Lopes de Brito is currently working as a professor in department of civil engineering at University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his Phd in civil engineering department in 1993. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Building Engineering and Associate Editor of European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering Editorial Board. He participated in several international conferences.

Sustainable construction (recycled aggregates in concrete and mortars),Bridge and building management systems,Buildings service life (prediction),Construction technology

Takashi Nakamura completed his MA Sc in Metallurgy from Kyushu University, Japan in 1974, PhD in Metallurgy in 1979 from the same university. He became Lecturer in Kyushu Institute of Technology (1977), Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1991). In 1998, he was appointed as a Professor at Institute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University and from 2001 to till date he is a Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

Recycling engineering, Metallic production engineering

Irene M. C. Lo is currently a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and has been joining HKUST since 1992. Prof. Lo is an elected Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She is the first Hong Kong scholar inducted into the EASA. She is an elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), and elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), She received her Ph.D. degree in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She is also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prof. Lo was the recipient of the 2004 ASCE James Croes Medal, the 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, the 2008 EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award, the 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. Prof. Lo has held 2 Patents, edited 7 technical books, and published over 260 SCI journal articles and conference papers with citation about 4500 and H-index of 35. Her research areas include remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater; magnetic nano- and microparticles for environmental pollution control; pollutant migration in soils; and waste treatment and management.

Energy, Environmental Engineering: Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Engineering: Solid/hazardous Waste Management & Recycling/reuse, Environmental Engineering: Water & Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Green Building & Sustainable Development, Infrastructure Development & Planning, Nano Technology

Hojae Shim is currently working as an Associate Professor in department of Civil Engineering at University of Macau, China. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science Engineering, Ohio State University, USA. His research interests includes Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater, Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Bio filtration and Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater,Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Biofiltration, Biodegradation/Biotransformation