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Dr. Judith A. Cherni

Imperial College London, UK

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Dr Judith Alazraque Cherni is a fellow of the UK Royal Geographical Society. In the last couple of decades, her teaching and post-graduate supervision at Imperial College London have focused on energy supply and demand modelling, environmental protection, sustainable livelihoods, and renewable technologies. Her specialisms progressed from studies on environmental science, international development, and economics and policy. Currently holding an honorary senior research fellow position at Imperial and undertaking further interdisciplinary studies on natural resources to enable clean water access. Have led and coordinated national and international research projects on climate and the environment, technology, and poverty reduction in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A member of the UK Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transformation roster of experts as per the COP21 Paris Agreement. As research leader in the field, is recipient of prizes and honours, e.g., 2020 Universities of Paris Award for best PhD thesis in science; 2019 Cuban Academy of Sciences first prize for scientific innovation, visibility, and socio-economic impact; and the Best Paper of the 2019 XIV International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER) competition. Provides expert advice to governments in the process of adopting CO2 mitigation policies and energy transition.

Prof. Biagio F. Giannetti

Paulista University, Brazil

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Prof. Biagio F. Giannetti holds a Masters and DSc degree from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 1992, he began his career at Paulista University (UNIP) as an Associate Professor and is now a Full Professor at the university. At UNIP, he has coordinated engineering degree courses and currently serves as a Professor in the Graduate Program in Production Engineering (Masters, Doctorate, and Postdoctoral levels) and leads research activities at the Production and Environment Laboratory (LaProMA). Since 2005, Prof. Biagio has been registered as a Research Group Leader in the Research Groups Directory of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Since 2016, he has been a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University (BNU, National High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program). Prof. Biagio is also a visiting professor at Sonora University (UNISON, Mexico) and the University of Florence (UNIFI, Italy). He has published more than 300 academic works - including books, papers, and conferences - on production and environment. His H-Index on Scopus is 37, and his i10 index on Google Scholar is 115. Prof. Biagio is an Honorary Board Member of the Journal of Cleaner Production, an Associate Editor of the scientific journal Frontiers in Energy Research, President of the International Society for the Advancement of Energy Research, and Global Center Director and founder of the Advances in Cleaner Production Network.

Prof. Wei Wu

Nanjing Medical University, China

Title: Environmental Toxicology and Human Reproductive Health

Dr. Wei Wu serves as Deputy Dean of the School of International Education, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, Professor and Associate Department Chair of the Department of Toxicology at Nanjing Medical University, China, where he received his Ph.D. in Toxicology in 2012. He was a guest researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) between 2017 and 2018. He is the PI of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and the Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of the Ministry of Education. He is a member of different national and international societies in the fields of human reproduction and toxicology, and has received awards from many national societies for the originality and quality of his projects. He has a wide range of teaching and consulting experience, including in toxicology. His research interests include the application of new media technology in teaching, epigenetic mechanisms of transgenerational effects of male infertility induced by endocrine disrupting chemicals, environmental exposure and male reproductive health, genetic and epigenetic risk factors of male infertility and abnormal fetal growth. Prof. Wu has published 92 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals including Environmental Pollution, EBioMedicine, Environment International, Environmental Health, Clinical Epigenetics, Toxicological Sciences, Human Reproduction, and Molecular Human Reproduction. The H-index is 29. He has edited nine books and collaborated on ten books, 18 patents, and in the organization of three international conferences. He is a reviewer of 106 journals. Prof. Wu serves as the Editor-in-Chief of international scientific journals International Journal of Sexual Health and Reproductive Health Care, Research International Journal of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Executive Editor of Annals of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Associate Editor of the JSM Invitro Fertilization, and editor of many other journals including Scientific Reports and Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine.

Dr. Santosh Kumar Sahu

Title: Renewable Energy and Carbon Productivity in India

Dr Santosh Kumar Sahu is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and an Associate Faculty at the School of Sustainability at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Dr Sahu earlier worked at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai. His research interests include energy economics, institutional economics and applied industrial economics. He has been consistently publishing in applied and theoretical academic peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Lina I. Shbeeb

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Lina I. Shbeeb Professor in civil engineering .She was born in Nablus, Palestine, in 1962. She received a B.Sc. degree in civil engineering from the University of Jordan (1985) and an M.Sc. in traffic and highway engineering from the University of Jordan (1993). She had a Ph.D. in traffic planning and engineering from Lund University, Sweden (2000). She is a senior traffic and transport engineer with over 38 years of experience in traffic and transportation engineering, serving in public and private sectors, including 23 years in academia. She served as minister of transport (2013-2015) in the Jordan government as a dean of engineering at Al-Ahlyya Amman University (2017-2018 and Dean of basic and social sciences at Hussein Technical University (2019-2022). Research interests include traffic safety, traffic analysis and operation, pavement management, public transport planning and operation, transportation economics, and intelligent transportation systems. An active member in professional institutes. She is the co-founder and the CEO of Enrich, a business consultant.

raffic planning and engineering from Lund University, Sweden (2000). She is a senior traffic and transport engineer with over 38 years of experience in traffic and transportation engineering, serving in public and private sectors, including 23 years in academia. She served as minister of transport (2013-2015) in the Jordan government as a dean of engineering at Al-Ahlyya Amman University (2017-2018 and Dean of basic and social sciences at Hussein Technical University (2019-2022). Research interests include traffic safety, traffic analysis and operation, pavement management, public transport planning and operation, transportation economics, and intelligent transportation systems. An active member in professional institutes. She is the co-founder and the CEO of Enrich, a business consultant.

Dr. Emina Kristina Petrović

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Dr Emina Kristina Petrović is Senior Lecturer in Sustainability in Design, Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Petrović recognised for her expertise on toxicity, sustainability, and healthiness of building materials. Petrović emphasises the importance of informed building material selection for both the built and natural environment, calling for a more detailed consideration of building materials for the totality of their impacts, from ecosystem health to ethics of production. Because knowledge itself is not enough, Petrović has also contributed a new sustainability transition framework, and researches aspects of behaviour change in building industry.

Prof. Weimin Que

Peking University, China

Title: Green Safety System for Human Settlements ---from the Perspective of the Garden City Movement in England

Weimin Que, (1957- ), The Emeritus Professor of College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China. Research interesting on Historical Geography, Cultural (Urban, Industrial) Heritage and Garden City Movement etc. The winner of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013).

Prof. Peggy Gunkel-Grillon

University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Title: Determining the main routes of population exposure of environmental nickel and associated metals, a challenge in New-Caledonia

Peggy Gunkel-Grillon is a full professor of chemistry at the University of New Caledonia. She obtained her PhD in chemistry in 2001 from the University of Haute-Alsace (France). After a few years as a contract researcher at the University of Haute-Alsace and the University of Geneva (Switzerland), she has the opportunity to return to New Caledonia as an Associate Professor. Since 2018, she has been the director of the Institute of Exact and Applied Sciences. Industrial and environmental contamination by metals is a major concern in New Caledonia, where one-third of the territory is covered by an ophiolitic nappe mainly composed of ultramafic rocks and these soils, naturally enriched with metals are subjected to mining. For the conservation of the natural environment and for the study of population exposure, her work aims to meet the knowledge needs regarding the behavior of metals in this tropical island of the South Pacific.

Prof. Evina Katsou

Imperial College London, UK

Title: Driving Systemic Transformation: Circular Economy Pathways to Decarbonization

Prof. Evina Katsou is a leading expert in Water and Environmental Engineering and is Chair Professor at Imperial College London. She leads the Resilience & Sustainability group, consisting of 25 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, integrating advanced digital tools, AI, and data-driven models to pioneer sustainable and resilient solutions across water, wastewater, and other industrial sectors. With a focus on AI-based water and environmental solutions, Prof. Katsou has led over 40 R&D projects, coordinating and acting as Principal Investigator for 27 of them. These projects, such as SMART-Plant, DEEP-Purple, HYDROUSA, SAFELOOP, INBLANC, STREAMS, BLOW, C-FOOT-CTRL, INTCATCH, BL2F, i-WAYS, WATERMINING, RESILEX, SYMBIOREM, R3VOLUTION, CSSBOOST, THESEUS, BIORECER, and CRONUS, address challenges in wastewater treatment, resource recovery, renewable energy, and the development of decision-making tools across various industries. Prof. Katsou has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, contributed to 12 book chapters, and delivered more than 150 presentations at international conferences. Her work significantly advances circular economy frameworks, greenhouse gases monitoring and mitigation strategies, and sustainability and resilience methodologies. Prof. Katsou co-leads the Action Group on Intelligent and Smart Systems within the ICT4Water Cluster, chairs two working groups in Cost Actions, serves as co-chair of the IWA Small Water & Wastewater Systems Specialist Group, and is a key member of the drafting team for the new ISO standards on Circular Economy (ISO 59020). Her interdisciplinary work bridges sustainability, circularity, and resilience assessment methods, advancing pathways to net-zero emissions and supporting data-driven decision-making models across multiple sectors.

Prof. Dr. Eric D. van Hullebusch

Université Paris Cité, France

Title: Recent developments of biometallurgy technologies for the recovery of critical metals

Prof. Eric D. van Hullebusch received his PhD (Aquatic Chemistry and Microbiology) from Université de Limoges (France) in 2002. From November 2002 until October 2004, he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands) where his research focused on the optimization of anaerobic granular sludge reactors by studying the speciation, bioavailability and dosing strategies of trace metals. In 2005, he was appointed as associate professor in biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at Université Paris-Est (France). From September 2016 until August 2018, he worked at IHE Delft as chair professor in Environmental Science and Technology and head of the Pollution Prevention and Resource Recovery chair group. In September 2018, he joined Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France) as full professor in Biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems. Prof. van Hullebusch has published more than 295 peer-reviewed papers (17000+ citations, h-index 67) in the field of biogeochemistry of metals and metalloids in engineered ecosystems. His research is currently mostly focusing on the implementation of biohydrometallurgical approaches for the recovery of technology critical elements as well as polluted soils (bio)remediation with a particular focus on Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Prof. Cui Guo

The University of Hong Kong

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Dr GUO, Cui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interest mainly lies in Environmental Health, particularly in air pollution, climate change, built environments, and healthy cities. Prof. Guo has published over 70 journal articles in peer-reviewed prestigious journals, including Circulation, Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, Diabetes Care and eClinicalMedicine as first/corresponding author. Her research is mainly based on both local and global health systems to contribute scientific findings to the improvement of human health and living environment. Her research enhances the modification of air pollution guidelines and health improvement. The research findings have been reported by a series of newsletters. Prof. Guo also serves as an (youth) editor board member of a few journals, a member of ISEE and ACSP. She has obtained several competitive academic grants and is awarded the HMRF fellowship (2024). She further constantly serves as a reviewer of several top journals.

Prof. Massimiliano Fabbricino

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Title: Production of biofuel with simultaneous treatment of anaerobic digestion emissions

Massimiliano Fabbricino is full professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), where he teaches Circular Economy, Waste to Energy, and Remediation of Contaminated sites. He has been invited professor at several Universities all around the world. He got a patent for a new method aimed at controlling the concentration of trihalomethanes in an aqueduct, and a patent for a new combined method to simultaneously produce biofuels and treat the effluents of anaerobic digesters. He is author of more than 100 international scientific publications in the field of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Biotechnologies, and author of one book dedicated to the treatment of Solid Waste. Currently he coordinates the Board of Engineers of Naples Province (Environmental Section).

Dr. Yoann Bernard

International Council on Clean Transportation, Germany

Title: From Regulation to Revolution: Paving the Road to 2050 in Clean Transport Policy

Yoann Bernard is the International Partnerships Program Lead on the ICCT Europe team. He leads a team of researchers that focuses on real-world vehicle emissions, including remote sensing of exhaust emissions in support of The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative. Yoann also has expertise in the European Commission’s Real Driving Emissions (RDE) regulation for light-duty vehicles type-approval. His previous professional experience involved responsibility in testing campaigns, as a calibration engineer, and product manager for various transport applications. Yoann holds an M.Sc in Mechanical engineering from ICAM Toulouse (France) and an M.Sc in Powertrain engineering from IFP School (France).

Prof. Ana Cláudia Teodoro

Portugal

Title: Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Approaches to Monitoring the Entire Mining Life Cycle, Based on EO Data

Ana Cláudia Teodoro received the BS., MSc., PhD, and Habilitation degrees in Geospatial Engineering from the Faculty of Science, University of Porto. Since 2024, she has been a Full Professor at the University of Porto, Portugal. Her research interests include remote sensing, GIS, image processing, coastal zones, and geological applications. She has published 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Scopus) and eight book chapters. She is an associate editor and guest editor for over 15 indexed journals. She participates as a researcher in several international (H2020 and ERA-MIN) and national projects, coordinating tasks and currently coordinating one European project.

Prof. José Antonio Moreno

O2-24-AP EnviCrime, EUROPOL, The Netherlands

Title: EnviCrime in Europe: state of play, influence in other world regions and future

• Academic background: Bachelor in Criminology; Master degree in Criminology, Delinquency and Victimology; Master degree in Business Administration (in progress); University expert in Environmental Crimes.

• Last publications: o https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13194 ; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12117-024-09540-6 ; https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8944650 .

• Professional background: 1996-1999 Spanish Army, Anti-Aircraft Artillery missile-systems; Guardia Civil (law enforcement agency) 2000-Nowadays; Specialist in Environmental Crimes, Head of Territorial Unit (SEPRONA, Environmental Protection Service) 2007-2016; Europol 2016-Nowadays (founder and Team Leader of the dedicated team to fight environmental crimes in Europol; co-driver of the EMPACT EnviCrime priority).

Prof. Yehua Dennis Wei

USA

Title: Urban Sprawl, Natural Environment, and Intergenerational Mobility

Dr. Yehua Dennis Wei, Professor, University of Utah, is an internationally renowned urban/economic geographer whose research centers on effects of global and institutional change on cities, regions, and sustainability. Dr. Wei has published five books and 250+ journal articles and book chapters. He has edited a dozen journal special issues and served as editor-in-chief of Applied Geography. His awards and honors include Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the Excellence in Research Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Regional Development and Planning (RDP) Specialty Group (SGs) of the AAG, the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Overseas) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and a role as Overseas Evaluation Expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wei chaired three AAG SGs (China Geography, Asian Geography, and RDP) and received the Distinguished Service Award from each. He also served as an advisor/panelist for the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Prof. Xuekun Fang

Zhejiang University, China

Title: Historical Emissions of Fluorinated Gases: Implications for the Ozone Layer and Climate

Fang Xuekun, a professor at the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, China, and a recipient of the National Major Youth Talent Program. From 2014 to 2019, he served as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. His research focuses on ozone layer protection, carbon neutrality, and climate change mitigation, particularly on the emission tracing and response strategies of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and greenhouse gases at global and regional scales. His work integrates atmospheric observations, model simulations, and policy analysis. He has published 68 papers in journals, including 47 as first or corresponding author, such as 2 papers in Nature, 2 in Nature Geoscience, 2 in Nature Communications, and 1 in PNAS. Fang currently serves as a member of the Scientific Expert Group on the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, vice chairman of the Environmental Planning Professional Committee of the China Environmental Science Society, and an co-author of the United Nations UNEP/WMO 2022 Ozone Assessment Report. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the China Environmental Science Society in 2021.

Prof. Yang-hsin Shih

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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Prof. Yang-hsin Shih is a Professor at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. Prof. Shih received his B.S. degree in agricultural chemistry from NTU, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering from NTU. In 2002, he conducted a visiting PhD student study in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He was an assistant professor and associate professor at the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences of National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan) since 2004. He visited MIT again in 2007 as a visiting assistant professor. He has been a NTU faculty since 2010. He also visited the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Swiss as a visiting Professor in 2013. His research and teaching interests are in the area of environmental organic chemistry, environmental nanotechnology, environmental biotechnology, soil remediation, transformation kinetics and mechanisms of organic contaminants, photoconversion/bioenergy, and innovative water/wastewater treatment technology. He received Reward for Exceptional Research Talent for Professors, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2016-2017 and 2019-2025. He is a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), editorial advisory board members of PLOS ONE and Polymers, was the Editor-in-chief of Taiwanese Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Science, and guest editors of Chemosphere and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Dr. Tham Hoang

Auburn University, USA

Title: Plastic pollution and management to support sustainability: where are we now?”.

Dr. Tham Hoang is an Associate Professor at Auburn University in the US. He has over 20 years of research experience in ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment. His research not only helps us understand the impacts of pollutants on the natural ecosystem but also has implications for development of environmental water quality criteria for environmental management to protect natural ecosystems and support sustainability. He has studied the environmental fate and effects of a variety of environmental pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging contaminants, such as microplastics. He also worked with environmental regulatory agencies and private sectors to help apply science to environmental management. One of his great efforts was to help enhance the science field of ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment to Southeast Asian countries, where environmental challenges are increasing but environmental management is still at a level that needed improvement to protect natural ecosystems for sustainable development. In the past over 15 years, he initiated and organized a series of four International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Restoration, and Management and ten training workshops for students, scientists, and environmental managers in provinces and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam. The conferences attracted hundreds of scientists and environmental managers from over 30 countries around the world. Collaborations for research and education between scientists in developed and developing countries were established from his conferences. He was invited to give seminars, lectures, and keynote presentations at universities, research institutions, and conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia over the past 15 years and will be happy to give a presentation at this important conference. His research was recognized by the scientific community via research awards given to him (i.e., Global Metals Research Award of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) and his students at regional, national, and international conferences. He also has been serving on the board committee of peer reviewed journals (Science of the Total Environment, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (Associate Editor), Earth: Environmental Sustainability (Associate Editor), and others) and professional societies, such as the President of the Midwest Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Dr. Hoang feels that doing research and services to help emolliate the negative impacts of pollutants on the natural ecosystem makes his life be more enjoyable.

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