Werner Kunz graduated from Regensburg university and got his first professsorship in France. In 1997, he came back to Regensburg University as full professor, head of the institute and later on as the head of the local centre of sustainable chemistry. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals (current H-factor 41) and filed several patents. He was awarded several international prizes, e.g. the Rhodia prize of the European Colloid and Interface Society and the Humboldt-Gay Lussac prize of the French government.

Since 1997 Prof. Kunz is holder of the chair of physical and theoretical chemistry (“Solution Chemistry”) at Regensburg University. In his lab two other professors (Prof. H. Motschmann and Prof. D. Horinek) and three assistant professors (Dr. R. Buchner, Dr. R. Müller and Dr. R. Neueder) have permanent positions. Currently 18 PhD students, 8 undergraduate students and several postdocs and guest professors are working in the labs of the chair. From 1997-2004 Prof. Kunz was mostly involved in applied science performing numerous projects with industrial partners and running his own company (SKH GmbH). In 2004 he came back to more fundamental research, which is reflected by the increasing number of research papers and citations since then. Prof. Kunz and his group are interested in the characterization, conception and practical application of complex nano-structured liquids and their interfaces. The six currently employed professors at the chair have complementary research interests, but all in the field of solution chemistry. Together they currently are considered as the world’s leading group in this field.

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Biomass and Waste Energy and the Environment Energy Policy & Regulation Environmental Policy

Karl founded his first start-up in 1990 and sold it to Microsoft in 1995, the first of many successes he would achieve in the IT industry. 15 years as CEO of technology companies resulted in three personal trade sale exits, two trade sale exits on behalf of external investors, the leadership and preparation of two companies for IPO, and recognition as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2004. In 2006 Karl turned his attention to the cleantech industry, selling his first cleantech company to Deutsche Post DHL in 2009. He then moved to the UAE where he started Neutral Fuels, and is now expanding it across the APMEA region. Karl was awarded Innovator of the Year 2011 by LOG Magazine for his work in pioneering energy and carbon savings in the Middle East. A multi-talented polymath, Karl is equally at home in the boardroom, in hi-tech and marketing circles, in front of the cameras of broadcasters such as CNN and the BBC, and amongst a loyal staff, many of whom have chosen to work with him for 10 years and more. He has an enviable ability to make highly technical concepts easy to understand and to translate them into commercial products. Karl has an MBA from Henley Management College, a B.Eng. (Hons.) Industrial Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, and is the first Adjunct Lecturer at the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Neutral Fuels converts used cooking oil into biodiesel, significantly reducing carbon emissions and making environmental sustainability a commercial proposition.

Ajit Sapre is the Group President R&T of Reliance Industries Ltd. He got his B. Chem from ICT Mumbai, MBA from Cornell University and PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has more than 30 years of experience in the petroleum refining and petrochemicals business, technology development and management. His experience includes technical and managerial assignments in research, engineering, licensing, business, manufacturing units and corporate planning. He has strong management and technical background in refining, petrochemicals processes development, catalyst development, chemical reaction engineering, optimization technologies, computer integrated manufacturing and intellectual asset management. He has experience in upstream, downstream (refining, petrochemicals, polyester, lubes) and renewable energy sectors. He has published more than 100 technical papers, one book and has more than 35 U.S. patents to his credit.

Reaction Engineering & Catalysis Mathematical Modelling Process Scale-up/Process development Biotechnology/ Biofuels

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Molecular biology, Microbiology, Industrial biotechnology, Bio insecticides

Prof. Sudip Rakshit is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Bioenergy and Biorefining Processes and is attached to the Biorefining Research Institute and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. He completed his PhD program from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi India, were a pilot plant for the production of 100 litres of absolute of bioethanol per day was set up in 1987. He subsequently joined the Chemical Engineering faculty of IIT, Madras. In 1995, he joined the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) as a Professor in Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology. He served at the VP Research for the institute from 2005 to 2012, before moving to Canada. He has supervised more than a 100 graduate students and has more than 140 publications in international peer reviewed journals. The overall focus of Dr. Rakshit’s present research is in the area of production of bulk value added platform chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass and utilization of byproduct streams. He is involved in innovative approaches to overcome known bottlenecks of cellulosic ethanol production using metagenomic approaches, process integration and Life Cycle Analysis. He has considerable experience in several parts of world including Japan, France and several countries in South and SE Asia

Bioenergy, Biorefining Processes, Biomass, Bioethanol

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Photosynthesis, especially the biochemical processes of photosynthesis and its response to environmental stresses, both applied (algal bio-fuel) and basic (basic photosynthesis)

Run-Cang Sun, ligniocellulosic chemist, graduated from chemistry department, North-western University, Xian, China in 1982. Then he worked at North-western Forestry College until Sep. 1991. Between Oct. 1991 and Feb. 1993, he studied at Lund University, Sweden as a visiting scholar. From Mar. 1993 to Sep. 1996, Mr. Sun studied at The BioComposites Centre, University of Wales, Bangor, UK as a full time research PhD student. Since Oct. 1996, he worked at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK as a senior research scientist until end of 2007. He was awarded a distinguished Professor at State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 2000 by China Higher Education Committee, and was selected as the director of State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering in Aug. 2008 (2008.8-2015.5). In addition, Prof. Sun has also being working at the Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry as a director since Aug. 2006. He was a Dean at the College of Materials Science and Technology between Oct. 2011 and Sep. 2015, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. Since 1993, he has being focused on the fractional isolation, structural characterization, and chemical modification of hemicelluloses, lignin, and cellulose from lignocelluloses for biomaterials, biofuels, and chemicals. He has published 726 SCI papers in peer reviewed international journals in English and 223 papers in international conferences (41 plenary or keynote reports, 25 invited reports, 46 oral presentations) as well as 127 papers in Chinese, which have been totally cited over 20,000 citations by others as of January 23, 2017

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Impact assessment of new ethanol production technologies on the land and water availability: field and watershed scale simulations in order to evaluate new technologies in ethanol production and possible impacts on land and water resources availability. Sugarcane expansion impact assessment on water availability: Use of agro-hydrological models in field and watershed scales on the impact assessment of new sugarcane areas;

Muhammad Usman, Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Government of Pakistan who retired from service after a spotless career of about 35 years with senior level experience on research and development of integrated agricultural industries with regard to livestock and dairy development, poultry, aquaculture and apiculture, sustainable agricultural production system, fruits and vegetable, seed production, biofuels, biomass and bioenergy. Usman is basically an agricultural scientist with specialization of agricultural/ chemistry working as plant breeder with regard to the yield and quality of various agricultural crops, released several varieties, presented and published research papers on crops and renewable energy in the different conferences like Geneva. Usman established “Prominent Agro Based Industries SDN BHD” in Malaysia and “Foundation for Rural Development in Pakistan”, with primarily aims to work on integrated agricultural project for Rural Development through improvement in agriculture for rehabilitation of affected area.

Integrated Agricultural project, biofuels, bioenergy, oil fats, lipids, monitoring, evaluation and management of agricultural research system in Pakistan

Abdeen Mustafa Omer (BSc, MSc, PhD) is an Associate Researcher at Energy Research Institute (ERI). He obtained both his PhD degree in the Built Environment and Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Technologies from the University of Nottingham. He is qualified Mechanical Engineer with a proven track record within the water industry and renewable energy technologies. He has been graduated from University of El Menoufia, Egypt, BSc in Mechanical Engineering. His previous experience involved being a member of the research team at the National Council for Research/Energy Research Institute in Sudan and working director of research and development for National Water Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Sudan. He has been listed in the book WHO’S WHO in the World 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 100 review articles, 5 books and 100 chapters in books.

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Molecular and Microbial Genetics , Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology

Michael Boot received his MSc. and PhD. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Both degrees were obtained in the field of Combustion Technology. In 2009, Michael co-founded Progression-Industry BV to commercialize various automotive technologies in the domains of waste energy recovery and biofuels. From January 2011, Michael became a part-time assistant professor and innovation manager at his alma mater in the Combustion Technology research group. In 2012, Michael co-founded Progression Capital as an investment vehicle geared towards young, automotive oriented startups.

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Chemical engineering, Environmental Bio technology for air pollution control, Novel waste treatment methods for heavy metal pollution control and photo oxidation technologies.

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Bioprocess Design and Optimization, Bioprocess Facility Design and Regulatory, Fermentation Kinetics and Modelling, Bioseparation and Purification, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Biosensor Development Biopolymer and Bioceramic, Bioenergy (Bioethanol, Biodisel, BioHydrogen and Biomethane) Production Safety Health and Environment (SHE) Management in Bioprocess

Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) in 2000 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering / College of Engineering at Mosul University, Iraq. Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained his DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Mechanical Engineering (Internal Combustion Engine and Alternative Fuels) in 2014 from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. After finishing his PhD., he worked as a senior lecturer at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering-University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. While working as a senior lecturer, he supervised many PhD and Master Students. He has published many technical papers in very reputable journals and international conferences in the area of internal combustion engine, energy efficiency, engine performance, exhaust emissions and alternative green fuels. In addition, Dr. Obed Majeed Ali worked as a lecturer at the Technical Institute of Hawija-Foundation of Technical Education, Iraq from year 2003 to 2012, and currently lecturer at the Northern Technical University, Iraq. His present research interests are Biofuel, combustion and emissions of SparkIgnition (SI) and Compressed-Ignition (CI) engines, combustion strategies, fuel injection strategies, alternative future green fuels, fuel spray behaviour, modelling air flow and thermal stress analysis on Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). Dr. Obed Majeed Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of UK and also registered with American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), USA and the Iraqi Engineers Society, Iraq.

Renewable Energy, Internal Combustion Engines, Biofuel, Statistical Analysis, Fluidized Bed.

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Bioprocessing Microbial enzymes Bioactive compounds

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My research focuses on soil and crop management practices that improve efficiency, profitability, and soil environmental quality. I am interested in soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling, soil carbon sequestration, soil-plant relations, and greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions, soil organic matter - microbial community interactions, and their relationships with nutrient cycling and other ecosystem services. I enjoyed working on integrated cropping systems research that emphasizes soil conservation and improve crop yields.

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Water resources management Water use conservation and efficiency Optimization of agricultural water Use Environmental management Solid waste management Waste to Energy

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 125 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.

Energy, Power and Electrical Engineering, Climate and Sustainable Water Resource Management, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Groundwater Hydrology, Sustainable Development and Environmental Assessment, Statistical Hydrology and Hydro-geology and Artificial Neural Network & Genetic Algorithm,Flood Modelling,Geochemistry, Geo science, Natural Hazards,Mathematics,Discover Statistical Analysis Research, Numerical Analysis, Hydrologic and Water Resource Modeling and Simulation.

Dr. Lew Christopher holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology. He has more than 25 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass. He has worked as industrial research scientist and held faculty positions in departments of biotechnology, chemical and biological engineering, and environmental engineering in South Africa and USA. Currently he serves as Director of the Biorefining Research Institute leading an interdisciplinary team of faculty and researchers from several science and engineering departments at Lakehead University in Canada. His research mission is to add value to the global Bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach to the development of renewable bioenergy technologies. Dr. Christopher is a member of the editorial board of several international biotechnology journals, advisory boards, and professional societies. He has made over 400 scientific contributions to the field of Biomass Biorefining including 8 patents, 4 books, and over 50 invited lectures delivered in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

His research mission is to add value to the global Bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach to the development of renewable bioenergy technologies. Dr. Christopher is a member of the editorial board of several international biotechnology journals, advisory boards, and professional societies.

Dr. Weilan Shao holds a Master degree in Plant Disease and a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology. She has participated in the field of the thermophilic degradation and fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass since her PhD study (1990-1993) in the University of Georgia, USA. Dr. Shao has worked as a distinguished professor in Jiangnan University, Nanjing normal University and Jiangsu University in China. Her research mission is to develop feasible and economic effective approaches for renewable bioenergy processing by using molecular biotechnology. Dr. Shao and her group have discovered a series of novel lignocellulases, the key aldehyde dehydrogenase for ethanol formation, the repressor/operator system coupling glycolysis and fermentation pathways, and the regulation mechanism of thermophilic ethanol fermentation. Dr Shao also invents new techniques for industrial enzyme production and modification, which include pHsh gene expression system (US patent), in situ gene random mutagenesis (CN patent; US patent), high production of thermostable laccase (CN patent), soluble expression of aggregation-pron enzymes, and gfa selection marker for the bio-safety of gene transfer in microbes.

Her current research is mainly focused on the metabolic engineering of extreme thermophiles for cellulosic ethanol fermentation, the development of novel gene expression and evolution techniques for an efficient industrial enzyme production, and the exploration and construction of highly active and thermostable enzymes for the biodegradation of lignocelluloses.

Dr. Rintu Banerjee is an professor at Agricultural & Food Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her Research Areas maily focuses on Food Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Enzymology & its Biotechnological applications, Protein Chemistry. She has achieved many Awards & Honours. She has done many International and National publications in the Journals. She has gone through scientific research areas and some scientific projects too.

Her Research Areas maily focuses on Food Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Enzymology & its Biotechnological applications, Protein Chemistry.

With a masters degree as an Agricultural Biologist and as a trained farmer Michael Köttner is professionally involved in Biogas and Bioenergy Technology for more than 25 years. His portfolio ranges from professional services as a scientist and farmer in USA and South Africa, adult education, to being a founding member and CEO (1992 – 2000) in Europes biggest biogas association, the German Biogas Association with almost 5000 members today. Since 2000 he is consultant, senior expert, as well as managing director of the International Biogas and Bioenergy Center of Competence (IBBK Fachgruppe Biogas GmbH) and Vice-President of the German Biogas and Bioenergy Society, GERBIO/FnBB e.V.. The main focus of his work is consulting and training work in the field of industrial and small scale decentralized biogas technology with manure, plant oil for energy production, wood gas (gasification, pyrolysis) and ecological sanitation in a regional, national and international context.

The main focus of his work is consulting and training work in the field of industrial and small scale decentralized biogas technology with manure, plant oil for energy production, wood gas (gasification, pyrolysis) and ecological sanitation in a regional, national and international context.

Yulin Deng received his Ph.D. at Manchester University, United Kingdom in 1992. After he worked as a postdoc research fellow at McMaster University in Canada, he was appointed as an assistant professor at Institute of Paper Science and technology (IPST) in 1995, and promoted to associate professor in 1998. He was moved to Georgia institute of Technology in 2003, and promoted as a full professor in 2008. Dr. Deng is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science, and hold a James C. Barber Faculty Fellow position at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received AIChE Chase Award in 2013. He is a member of ACS, AIChE and TAPPI. He is also an associate editor of 2 journals, and serves as the editorial board member for another 5 journals. He published more than 250 peer reviewed papers covering the areas of bioenergy, biomass, biofuel, fuel cell, nanosceince and nanotechnology, and nanoelectronics.

Bioenergy, biomass, biofuel, fuel cell, nanosceince and nanotechnology, and nanoelectronics.

Doctoral degree of Moscow State university. He worked as Senior researcher Armenian Institute of Agriculture and Technological Institute of Amino Acids of USSR, director of Armenian Institute of Biotechnology, director of Yerevan Vitamin plant and deputy director of Nairit Chloroprene Rubber plant. Sole founder of Research & Industry Centre of Photosynthesizing Organisms, Feed Additives & Physiologically Active Compounds; Expert of EU Horizon 2020, ERA.NET and International Cooperation programs and Council of Chemistry and Petrochemistry of CIS countries. Academic Member of the Greece ATINER Academia, Member of American Chemical Society and Society of Chemical Industry (USA), Member of Editorial Boards of the journals: “Journal of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering" (USA), SM Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering" (USA) and “Modern Management Forum” (Singapore). Laureate of “The International Presidents Award for Iconic Achievement” and “Top 100 Professionals” (IBC, England), "The Albert Einstein Award for Excellence" (Top 50 Geniuses of World, ABI, USA), Marquis Who's Who “2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award” (USA), awards of the Armenia and former USSR

System biology, Environmental Science. Its environmental building recommendations of the “THEORY OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE USE OF MICROALGAE IN BIO AND INDUSTRIAL CYCLES. NEW DESIGN AND BUILDING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM” (Amazon) aimed towards new environmental policies and development of Live Conserve Industry and management changing decisions with the promotion of solutions for large-scale mitigation GHG emission, waste, generating of O2 and manufacturing of advanced biofuel as well as value-added products. It is a principal step from the non-efficient protection of the environment to its cultivation which opens an important shift towards a new design and building of a biological system.

Dr. Janzhong Sun, is a Director of Biofuels Institute of Jiangsu University, China. He is also an Distinguished Professor, Graduate faculty for Ph.D. students. He has served his role as Vice dean, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, China. Also an Adjunct professor, Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, USA. Also Vice president, China Energy Association, P. R. China. Also Standing executive committee, China Energy and Environmental Technology Association.

1. Nature-inspired Technology for Biomass Conversion Interested in biomimetic/nature-inspired technologies from wood-feeding animals (e.g. termites, cow) or other biological conversion systems for efficient biomass conversion towards high value-added biorefinery products; exploring valuable extremophile bacteria and gut symbionts identified from wood-feeding animals for efficient biomass conversion, novel biomass pretreatment technology, and the breakthrough technology in bioreactor designs with biomimetic processing. 2. Grassy Energy Crops and Cultivation Technology Interested in cultivar development (cross breeding/polyploidy breeding) for energy crops, such as Miscanthus, Pennisetum Purpureum and hybrid Pennisetum; Genetic transformation of grassy energy plants with exogenous thermophilic lignocellulosic enzyme genes; Key techniques of high-value added products from agricultural residues; Development of salt-resistant grassy energy crops and their resistance mechanism; Plant endophytes and their industrial applications as microbial fertilizers. 3. Gene Engineering/Enzymatic Engineering Interested in screening novel gene sequences for biomass degradation; Cloning and sequence optimization of thermophilic lignocellulose enzyme genes and their high-efficiency expression; Non-rational design and in situ directed evolution technology and its applications in high-throughput screening of mutant genes; Refining pHsh-heat shock expression system and its application; Developing biological safety high-density fermentation technology for high enzymes production. 4. Environmental Bio-electrochemistry Interested in the mechanism of extracellular electron transfer and its manipulation, microbial fuel cell and its energy harvesting technology from organic pollutants, and biodegradation of emerging new pollutants, bio-sensing environmental monitoring. 5. Bio-based Materials and Fiber Composites Interested in developing advanced functional bio-based materials, including eco-friendly lignocellulose/polymer composites, thermal insulation lignocellulose composite foams, cellulose-based materials for energy storage, anti-bacteria, and adsorption, lignocellulose hydrogels, functional nano-lignocellulose particles, 3D printing materials developed from biomass and other advanced bio-based materials.

Dr. Nhuan (John) Nghiem holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales and a PhD also in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University. He has more than 30 years of experience in industrial and government research laboratories. His past and current research activities focused on development of commercially feasible bioprocesses for production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. While at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) he was a member of the team consisting of researchers from several U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories and an industrial partner that developed and patented the technology for biological production of succinic acid by genetically engineered Escherichia coli strains in a two-stage fermentation process. The technology won one of the R&D 100 awards in 1997. He currently is a Lead Scientist in the Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research Unit at the Eastern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, where he is leading the effort to convert all components of the sorghum plant to fuels and industrial chemicals.

Dr. Nghiem’s current interests include pretreatment and subsequent conversion of lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks to fuels and chemicals, and capture and use of fermentation-derived carbon dioxide as feedstock in bioconversion processes.

Degree in Engineering and PhD in Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino. Full Professor of Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino. In 1999 he was the founder of the Materials and Microsystems Labs (CHI-LAB) of Politecnico di Torino. He is Director of the Lab with a Research Staff working in the field of micro-technologies and nano-science (http://www.polito.it/micronanotech). Since 2003 he is Coordinator, for the Polytechnic of Turin, of the International Master of Science in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems (POLITO, INP Grenoble, EPF Losanne: http://www.master-nanotech.com/). Since 2005 he is Coordinator of the National MIUR Excellence Laboratory “LATEMAR” funded by FIRB 2003 call (http://www.latemar.polito.it/). From March 2011 to May 2016 he was Director of the Center for Space Human Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (http://shr.iit.it ). From May 2016 he is Senior Scientist and P.I. of “Advanced Materials Lab” at Italian Institute of Technology (https://www.iit.it/lines/advanced-materials)

- Nanotechnologies applied to biological systems (in particular sensors, lab on chip and organ on chip) - Graphene and 2D materials for energy, bioenergy and environment (solar cells, supercapacitors, microbial fuel cells) - Nanomaterials for microelectronics - Nanomaterials and nanostructures for CO2 trapping and reduction - Multifunctional nanocomposites for 3D printing

Arthur Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. In 2014, he assumed a Governor’s Chair for Biorefining based in University of Tennessee’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries and serves in the US Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Biosciences Division, at ORNL. His research program is directed at understanding and exploiting innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for nature’s premiere renewable biopolymers for biofuels, biopower, and bio-based materials and chemicals. He is the recipient of the 2014 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award, ACS Affordable Green Chemistry award and 2017 Green Process Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Green Chemistry, Green Process Engineering

Mr. Muhammad Usman, Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Government of Pakistan who retired from service after a spotless career of about 35 years with senior level experience on research and development of integrated agricultural production, industries and bioenergy on a sustainable way. Mr. Usman is basically an agricultural scientist with specialization of agricultural, food and biochemistry working on the yield and quality of various products and published several research papers. Mr. Usman is consider as the senior most scientist in the world, always participated in the international conferences as a keynote speech, renowned speaker, organizing committee member as well as moderator of the conferences around the world. Mr. Usman established “Prominent Agro Based Industries, Agro Based Industries and Consultancy SDN BHD” in Malaysia and “Foundation for Rural Development in Pakistan”, with primarily aims to work on integrated agricultural project for Rural Development through improvement in agriculture and consultancy services to the formers at Malaysia.

integrated agricultural production, industries and bioenergy on a sustainable way

Abdelkrim ABOURRICHE is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at National School of Applied Sciences in Safi, Morocco. Abourriche’s specialist areas are the development of original natural resources such as Moroccan oil shale. He also worked as Project Manager entitled: Solvent Extraction of organic matter of oil shale. Study and Promotion of the oils produced. This project is funded by Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. In 2008 he took on the role of Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at National School of Applied Sciences Safi. He is the author of over 30 publications in international journals and conference proceedings refereed and a hundred oral presentations or by posters. He is the member of scientific and organizing committees of several national and international conferences

Extraction of oil shale, Carbone fibres, microporous and mesoporous materials

Dr. Miguel Nuno Miranda received the degree in Energetic Engineering (University Autonomous of Lisbon) in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science (University of Aveiro) in 2009, Portugal. Dr. Miguel Miranda has authored more than 60 scientific works (including chapters, papers in international journals and book of proceedings, and poster presentations) and serves as Editorial Board Member of several scientific journals as well as Organizing Committee Member in International Conferences. His main research interests include waste management through thermochemical conversion processes (pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction), production of fuels and biofuels and solar energy concentration (SEC) solutions towards the production of solar fuels.

His main research interests include waste management through thermochemical conversion processes (pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction), production of fuels and biofuels and solar energy concentration (SEC) solutions towards the production of solar fuels.

DORA FOTI is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Polytechnic of Bari. She has given courses in Structural Engineering, Elements of Earthquake Engineering, Design of Bridges for Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering. She has given lectures and seminars in numerous training courses as well as at universities and research institutes both in Italy and outside Italy. She is the author of over 150 scientific publications in the field of Structural Engineering and Materials, where she developed mainly the issues related to the seismic behavior of structures, dynamic identification of historical masonry buildings and innovative composite materials. She is coordinator of several national and international scientific projects.

developing the themes of passive protection of structures, gruond-structure interaction effects, fiber-reinforced structures, identification of existing structures.

Bulent ICGEN received his MSc. and PhD. in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University (METU) of Ankara in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He conducted two-year-post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering Research Unit of University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. In 2008, he became an Associate Professor and took up a faculty position at Kirikkale University (KU) till 2012. Since then, he has been a faculty at METU in the Department of Environmental Engineering. He became a Professor in 2017. Meanwhile, as a visiting faculty, he visited Princeton University (PU) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His interests lie in the fascinating and often complex array of processes taking place in microbial environment and the behaviour of the microorganisms under different environmental conditions. He particularly enjoys looking at systems from environmental and microbial biotechnology perspective, trying to tease out the key relationships between consortiums. He likes using molecular biological methods to investigate the occurrence and distribution of bacteria in the environment in order to provide direct information on community structure for variety of environmental and industrial applications. His team focuses on microbial biotechnology, with a recent focus on environmental genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

 Environmental sustainability through bioremediation of contaminated environments  Bacterial degradation & transformation & detoxification of xenobiotic compounds  Structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in contaminated environments  Molecular genetic tools to assess the effects of microbial treatment on anthropogenic chemicals  Biomonitoring of waterborne pathogens & toxic metals & drug resistance genes as contaminants  Biomarkers & bioindicators & DNA probes & FISH for in situ microbial activity monitoring  Metabolic engineering & catabolic genes & biocatalytic applications for pollutant degradation  Biotechnological processes for aerobic & anaerobic waste treatment  Environmental genomics & metabolomics & transcriptomics & proteomics

Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari is a Ph.D. of Civil Engineering,Faculty of Civil Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran. His interested topics including 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 194 publications in Journals, Books, or as Technical Reports. Currently, he is as Faculty Member of Department of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Iran.

His interested topics including 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.

Jaroslaw Krzywanski is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. He received the M.Sc. degree from Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Thermal Machinery, Poland and Ph.D. degree from Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Poland. He has published more than 100 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings refereed papers and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals. He has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals. He is interested in modeling of energy objects and processes, including gas emissions and hydrogen production from biomass combustion and gasification, respectively. He uses both programmed and AI methods to predict pollutants emissions from biomass co-combustion in large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed (FB) systems as well as the H2 concentration in syngas during the hydrogen production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in a laboratory-scale FB systems.

He uses both programmed and AI methods to predict pollutants emissions from biomass co-combustion in large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, chemical looping combustion (CLC) of biomass in a pilot-scale fluidized bed (FB) systems as well as the H2 concentration in syngas during the hydrogen production via CaO sorption enhanced anaerobic gasification of sawdust in a laboratory-scale FB systems.

Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. My primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, I am very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters). One of our major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. Bacteria with new degradation capabilities are often selected in polluted environments and have accumulated small (mutations) and large genetic changes (transpositions, recombination, and horizontally transferred elements). His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 200 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the Research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 Post Graduate students in various disciplines of Life Science. He is an active Editorial Board Member in more than 150 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. Recently, he has been awarded as a Young Biotechnologist Medal by Biotechnological Society of Nepal”. He is Associate Editor in BMC Microbiology (Springer Nature), Advisory Board in CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), Editor in Current Pollution Reports (Springer Nature), Editor in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology (Springer Nature), Editor in Environmental Technology & Innovation-ELSEVIER, Editor in Current Microbiology-Springer Nature, Editor in Journal of Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment-Taylor & Francis, Editor in Ecotoxicology (Microbial Ecotoxicology)- Springer Nature.

General microbiology, applied microbiology, environmental microbiology, waste water microbiology, fermentation microbiology, molecualr microbiology, biochemical engineering, molecular genetics, cellular microbiology, bio-remediation, bio-degradation, environmental toxicology