Dr KT Tan is the Technical Director at Viridian Solar – a UK company based in Cambridge with their renowned innovative Clearline Fusion. He has been devoting his professional life for over a decade to developing products and technologies for the renewable sector. He started to work with solar thermal well before the PV became a mainstream renewable solution. He specializes in solar PV new technologies with a particular interest in roof-integrated systems, advanced cell technologies and innovative mounting solutions. He travels around the globe regularly to meet PV manufacturers, and inspect their latest facilities.

Energy,Photovoltaics,Solarenergy

Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina, Canada. He holds BSC from Peking University (China), MSc from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and PhD from McMaster University (Canada). Since the 1990s, Huang has led over 150 environment-related research projects, produced over 900 peer-refereed international journal papers (with an SCI-based H-index of 60 in Science Citation Index under Thomson Reuters' Web of Science), and supervised over 100 Master/PhD students. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the President of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. He also acts (or acted) as editor-in-chief for 2 international journals and editorial board member for over 10 journals, and was conference chair or keynote speaker at over 40 international events. He has also served the United Nations Development Programme as Chief Scientist for its Program of Rural Water Resources Management and Drinking Water Safety.

Waste management, site remediation, and risk assessment, Simulation and optimization of hydrological and environmental systems, Modeling of energy and environmental management systems, Climate modeling, impact assessment, and adaptation planning

Dr KT Tan is the Technical Director at Viridian Solar – a UK company based in Cambridge with their renowned innovative Clearline Fusion. He has been devoting his professional life for over a decade to developing products and technologies for the renewable sector. He started to work with solar thermal well before the PV became a mainstream renewable solution. He specializes in solar PV new technologies with a particular interest in roof-integrated systems, advanced cell technologies and innovative mounting solutions. He travels around the globe regularly to meet PV manufacturers, and inspect their latest facilities.

Energy,Photovoltaics,Solarenergy

Dr. Chihpin Huang is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Jiaotong, Taiwan. He is also a Vice President and chief executive of Jiaotong University. He completed BS (Eng) in Environmental Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in 1981, M.Sc. in Environmental engineering at National Cheng Kung University in 1983 and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA, 1990. He is very well expertise in Tap water treatment technology, Industrial wastewater treatment and recovery technology and Sludge treatment and reuse. Chihpin Huang born in June 27, 1959. He serves as the Chair of Editorial Committee of Taiwan Water Association; and a member of the National Committee of Republic of China in International Water Association (IWA). Huang's publication has been extensive. In his twenty-two years of research career, he is the co-author of over 130 refereed papers in archival journal.

Tap water treatment technology, Sludge treatment and reuse, Industrial wastewater treatment and recovery technology

Prof. Hai GUO completed his Ph.D. study in Air Quality in Australia and conducted his postdoctoral research in USA, Hong Kong and Australia. He is currently the Professor in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. GUO’s major research interests include atmospheric chemistry, ozone formation mechanisms, source apportionment, secondary organic aerosols, acidic ultrafine particles and new particle formation. Prof. GUO is an investigator of more than 48 highly competitive external research projects with grants over 60 million Hong Kong dollars. He has published over 210 papers in high-quality international journals and conference proceedings with ~6000 citations. His current h-index is 41. He is an editor of Atmosphere (Air session), and an editorial Board member of Atmospheric Environment, and Aerosol and Air Quality Research. He is an executive member of Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management.

Atmospheric Chemistry,Ozone formation mechanisms

Dr. R.K.Trivedy former Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Pune, Pune (Maharashtra),India is presently Director in a National level Environmental services company. Dr. Trivedy has also held the positions of Director, Environmental Sciences and Climatology and Dean in an upcoming International University near Mumbai ,National Business Manager, Environmental Services, Intertek, a multinational company with offices in 110 countries and Associate Professor and Head, Department of Pollution Studies, Y.C.College(Shivaji University). He did Ph. D. from Rajasthan University, Jaipur in 1980. Dr. Trivedy has 36 years of experience in the field of fresh water ecology, aquatic weed ecology and management biomonitoring of water pollution ,wastewater treatment and climate change research.

Wastewater treatment,Climate Change

Hefa Cheng is a tenured associate professor in environmental science at Collee of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2006. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow and a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University between 2006 and 2009. He joined the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry as a research professor, supported by the Outstanding Oversea Talent (“One Hundred Talents”) program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. In 2015, he moved to the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University as a tenured associate professor. He is the author/co-author of over 100 journal papers including in Nat. Clim. Change, Nat. Commun., Environ. Sci. Technol., Wat. Res., and contributors of two book chapters. He received the SCOPE-Zhongyu Young Scientist Award from the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) in 2012, and Hou Defeng Award from the Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry in 2014. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and Environmental Chemistry (China). His research focuses on understanding the mechanism of organic pollutant degradation on natural minerals, developing mineral-based treatment for destruction of organic pollutants, as well as on developing novel approaches for apportioning the sources of heavy metal pollution in surface soils.

Pollution Control

Associate Professor Dr. Chavalit Ratanatamskul is The Director of Research Unit on Waste Treatment, Faculty of Engineering and The Deputy Director of Technopreneurship and Innovation Management Program, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received Ph.D. and Master degree of Engineering in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and B.Eng. degree in environmental engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1991. His major research interests arefocused on anaerobic digestion, waste management and water reuse. He has published research works in international journals and proceedings more than 60 publications. Moreover, he is presently The Chairman of Project Committee and The Vice Chairman of Environmental Engineering Committee at The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) under the King’s Patronage.

Waste Treatment,Water reuse

Dr.Srinivas Srimath holds a Doctorate and environmental professional with over 25 years of work experience in air, dust and odour consultancy. Previous experience in noise and water quality management.

Air Quality,Environmental Impact assessment,Air quality modelling

Gordon Huang is currently working as a professor in Environmental systems engineering at University of Regina, Canada. He is also a Canada Research Chair and Fellow at Canadian Academy of Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. at McMaster University, Canada

Waste management, site remediation, and risk assessment, Simulation and optimization of hydrological and environmental systems, Modeling of energy and environmental management systems, Climate modeling, impact assessment, and adaptation planning

Hassan Mahmud is currently working as a professor in department of Environmental Science and Management at North South University, Canada. He is also an ex-chairman at the same university. He Completed his Phd in Chemical/Environmental Engineering University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and completed his M.A.Sc in Civil Engineering at University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Pollution Control, Waste Management and Environmental Management

Ron Thring is currently working as a professor in Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering at University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He is also Chairperson for Chemistry, Environmental Science & Environmental Engineering Programs at the same University. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of Sherbrooke in 1990. He Completed his MSc in Chemical Engineeering at University of Saskatchewan in 1984.

-Chemicals, fuels, and biosolids from natural resources - Reaction engineering principles and catalysis applied to pulp and paper, polymer, oil and gas processes - Plastics and rubber characterization and processing - Environmental Engineering (soil remediation, green house gases control, waste & wastewater treatment) - Value-added processing and product development - Mass transfer with chemical reaction - Mixing of Floating Solids - Biodegradable Materials (production, characterization and applications)

Associate Professor Daud Hassan joined the University of Western Sydney in 2009 with considerable teaching, research and community service experience. Daud taught at five different universities in Australia and Overseas, including University of Technology Sydney and Victoria University, Melbourne. Daud holds a PhD in the Law of the Sea. He has built up a formidable international reputation in the field of ocean governance. The international stature of Daud's work has been recognised by Visiting Professorships at various universities in Asia and Europe. His research work addresses global and regional environmental issues that are of international significance. . His research spans many countries and jurisdictions including Australia, Bangladesh, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway and Switzerland.

Pollution Control, Law.

Meltem Sarioglu Cebeci has completed her PhD at the age of 28 years from Leeds University Faculty of Engineering Department of. Public Health Eng., England. She is the director of Environmental Engineering Department in Cumhuriyet Unıversity Sivas-TURKEY. She has published more than 20 papers in international journals and has been working as a lecturer at Cumhuriyet University

Pollution Control, Waste Management

Diego P. Ruiz completed his PhD in Physics from the University of Granada (Spain). He is currently Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada, where he is the director of the research lab of Physics and Environmental Acoustics. He held the PhD in Physics with honors from the University of Granada (Spain). Teaching experience. He has taught and supervised teaching undergraduate, master's and doctoral courses in Environmental Science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Telecommunications Engineering, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering degrees. Among the master course teaching, he coordinated subjects and teaching courses in the Masters of Environmental Engineering, Acoustic Engineering, Occupational Risk Prevention and Management and Integral Safety Building. Management experience: He is the coordinator of the Physics and Environmental Acoustics Research group at the University of Granada and departmental coordinator mobility programs. He is currently coordinator of the Master in Engineering Acoustics: Noise Pollution. It is worth noting the continued work in commissions for quality assurance and assessment for university bachelors and masters in national and international agencies, and the participation in research evaluation committees in national and international projects assessment agencies. Research experience: He has authored more than 140 articles in international journals (80 in JCR indexed journals) in Education, Engineering and Science topics and more than 150 publications in national and international conferences. He has been the advisor of 10 doctoral thesis with the higher marks, more than 78 or final degree / masters research projects sufficiency, and has been the main researcher of 6 research projects and member of 15 research projects. He is a member of the editorial board of scientific journals or societies such as IEEE, Elsevier, IET, and member of the scientific committee of several international and national congresses. In terms of transfer and innovation he is the director of 9 research/development contracts with companies or public institutions and collaborated in the creation of two technology-based companies at the University of Granada.

Environmental pollution and control, signal processing, pattern recognition, environmental technologies, and environmental modelling

Baghdad OUDDANE has obtained a PhD in Environmental Chemistry in 1990 and a HDR (Higher Degree by Research) in 1997 at Lille 1 University. Lecturer (1992-2003) and Full Professor at Lille University since 2003. He is the Head of the Master "Water Treatment" in Lille1 University. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed Environmental Journals and more than 120 communications in national and international conferences and co-authors of four books (two popular sciences); he is a referee in several international journals in the field of environment.

Environmental Chemistry; Water Treatment;

Pedro Vega-Marcote is a full Professor in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Coruña. Currently his research interests focus on the field of: Teacher training in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, the Ecological Footprint and reduction of emissions of Greenhouse Gases, the implementation of Agenda 21 at the University and Municipalities (A21L) and in Experimental Science Teaching.

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, the Ecological Footprint and reduction of emissions of Greenhouse Gases

Meltem SARIOGLU CEBECİ has completed her PhD at the age of 28 years from Leeds University Faculty of Engineering Department of. Public Health Eng., England. She is the director of Environmental Engineering Department in Cumhuriyet Unıversity Sivas-TURKEY. She has published more than 20 papers in international journals and has been working as a lecturer at Cumhuriyet University.

Water pollution and control, Chemical and biological methods of wastewater treatment, Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Emine MALKOC was born in Trabzon, Turkey. Between the years 1995-2010, she worked an expert in Environmental Problems Research Center, Ataturk University. She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Ataturk University where he has been a faculty member since 2010. Malkoc completed her master and Ph.D. studies at Ataturk University. Her research interests lie in the area of wastewater treatment, adsorption method in removing heavy metals and dyestuffs, advanced oxidation methods in removing in textile wastewater. In related topics, she has published more than 18 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as scientific referee of a lot repute journals. Moreover, the Malkoc's scientific works has taken more than 1500 cited.

Wastewater treatment, adsorption method in removing heavy metals and dyestuffs, advanced oxidation methods in removing in textile wastewater

Prof. Tapas Kumar Mallick received his M.Tech and PhD in solar energy engineering from Jadavpur University, India (1998) and University of Ulster, UK (2003) respectively. He has over seventeen years of research experience in solar energy technologies. He is currently the Chair in Clean Technologies (Renewables) within the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Academic Lead, Renewable Energy, University of Exeter, UK. He has published over 150 research articles and holds two patents on solar technology and has been serving Editorial board of Advances of Solar Thermal Technology Journal. Recently his group has demonstrated biomimicry of white periodic butterfly wings into concentrating solar photovoltaics. Prof. Mallick successfully supervised six PhD candidates to completion and currently primary supervisor of fourteen PhD students.

Renewable energy, Concentrating solar photovoltaics, Heat transfer, optics and electrical modelling

Dr. S. Jithender Kumar Naik, is currently working as Professor of Zoology at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He did his Master Degree in Zoology from Osmania University in 1992, M. Phil in Animal Sciences from University of Hyderabad in 1994 and awarded Ph.D in Zoology from Osmania University in 2000. He has 20 years of research and 17 years of teaching experience in the fields of Toxicology and Occupational health; Reproductive Biology; Environmental Biology; Fisheries and Limnology.

Toxicology and Occupational health; Reproductive Biology; Environmental Biology; Fisheries and Limnology

: Dr Rao Ph.D worked as Professor of Micro biology, Parasitology, immunology and Epidemiology in many Universities in India, China, Nepal, Libya, and Philippines. Currently he is working at Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. He has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience.

Micro biology, Parasitology & Immunology

Sven Erik Jørgensen is professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He has published 370 papers of which 256 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 79 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling “Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling”, which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. He is the editorial board member of 20 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He is the president of ISEM and he has been elected member of the European Academy of Science’s, for which he is the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences. He has received the Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Science. He has in 1975 founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, The Ruder Boskovic Medal, The Prigogine Prize, The Pascal Medal, The Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen, received in 2013 the outstanding publishing achievement, “this year’s Outstanding Academic Title”.

His expertise is in hydrology, biogeography and remote sensing.He has taught courses in ecological modelling and systems ecology in 33 different countries.

Tobias Richards is a professor in energy recovery at University of Borås since 2010. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and made his postdoctoral studies at University of Maine within the college of Engineering. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and is the editor of a new book in the area of waste treatment (Resource Recovery to Approach Zero Municipal Waste). During the fall 2014 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley.

His expertise is research related to resource recovery with primary interest on thermal treatment and techniques such as pyrolysis, gasification and combustion.

Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, Ph.D. is a professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S. degree in applied physics and the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and the M.S. degree in nuclear science and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997, and 2001, respectively. His doctoral research focused on the development of SiGe power heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) for high frequency microwave applications.

Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma's energy research focuses on energy conversions with emphases on direct conversions of nuclear energy and solar energy. He is also interested in applying wireless and microwave techniques in next-generation nuclear power plants and power conversion of solar modules. He has specialized in semiconductor devices, materials and circuits for many years. Fast flexible electronics and nanophotonics are also his current intensively focused areas. He currently serves on the Executive Steering Committee for the IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems. He is elected Conference Chair of 2008 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems to be held in Orlando, FL. His inventions include PIN Diodes for Photodetection and High-Speed, High-Resolution Image Sensing, Method for Double-Sided Processing of Thin Film Transistors, High-Power-Gain, Bipolar Transistor Amplifier, and Solid-State High Frequency High Power Device.

Ana Rosu is a Graduate of the faculty of biology, University of Bucharest and scientific researcher in the field of cell biology and plant biotechnology at the Institute of Biology, Romanian Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD in Biology in 1987. She is a scientific research coordinator and is responsible for professional formation of young specialists as professor of plant biology and biotechnology of the faculty of biotechnology at University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. She has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals; 24 scientific presentations at international and national scientific events.

Her research interest lies in the field of cell biology and plant biotechnology.

Andra Pedral Sampaioin holds Phd in Industrial Engineering - Organizational Intelligence from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2008), Master in Industrial Engineering - Business Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2002), Computer Specialist at Educational Center for Education Graduate Olga Metting (1999), Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1986). He has extensive experience in the areas of Information Technology, Process Engineering, Hydrogen, Bioenergy, Energy Generated, Process Automation, Sustainable Development, Audit and Judicial Skill. Winner of the South Regional – Santander and Winner of 4th Prize Santander Science and Innovation with the project OPTIMUS: Creating a method for assessing the strategic management informed by MCDA-C; Coordinates of the APOLLO research group, developing research projects in the areas of technology, robotics, organizational strategies, clean energy and sustainable development. Creator, researcher and coordinator of the Engineering courses of the Faculty of Technology of Valença / Ba – FACTIVA. Founder of FACTIVA's Technology Center. Professor and researcher at the Federal University of Bahia – UFBA. Coordinator and researcher of the research groups: NDTA – FACTIVA: Advanced Technology Development Center Factiva; And GPAPOLLO – UFBA: Apollo Research Group – UFBA.

His research interest lies in the areas of technology, robotics, organizational strategies, clean energy and sustainable development.

André Luiz de Carvalho has completed his Ph.D in Energy and Nuclear Technologies at the age of 30 years from Federal University of Pernambuco and postdoctoral studies from Federal University of Alagoas, in Brazil. He has experience in agrometeorology, solar radiation and climate modeling and biogeochemistry and he has published some papers in journals about meteorology and climatology, including issues related to the impacts of climate changes on agriculture. -

His research interests include agrometeorology, solar radiation and climate modeling and biogeochemistry.