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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Apr 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Apr 15, 2025

Plenary Speakers

Prof. D.B Arcelo
University of Almeria , Spain
Title: Environmental Proteomics and Metabolomics in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Insights into Public Health and Industrial Activity Signatures
D.B ARCELO-ShortCV- Honorary Adjunct Professor, email: damiab@ual.es,Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, 04120, Almeria, Spain, Full Research Professor IDAEA-CSIC,Barcelona, Spain since 1999-january 2024, now retired. Awarded as Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Ioannina, Greece, in 2014 and by the University of Lleida, June 2021 and Almeria , Spain in May 2022. Honorary and Guest Professor at ZAFU, Hangzhou, China in 2019 till March 2022 , Foreign Expert of East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China, 2021-2024 and High-level expert from Shanghai University, China, 2023-2025. From January 2022 till December 2026 he has been appointed Adjunct Professor in Sustainability Cluster, School of Engineering at the UPES, Dehradun, India . D Barceló has received the following awards: 2023. Prize of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Society of Chemistry (EuChemS) Euroanalysis,Geneva , King Hamad Prize for Agricultural Development in the category of Best Agricultural Research & Studies , Bahrein , Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) , Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC and Member of the Academie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris; 2012 Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden and Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia and in 2007 Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature from Generalitat of Valencia, Spain . He has supervised > 67 PhD students, since 1992 – to date . He has been Instructor of short courses at PITTCON, SETAC NA, AP and ExTech conferences since early 2000. D Barceló expertise is on analysis, fate , risk and removal of emerging contaminants, nanomaterials and microplastics from water as well as sewage epidemiology of drugs and proteins using advanced mass spectrometric techniques. Hirsch-Index of 186 / 149 and total number of citations over 155.000 / 104.400 (sources Google Scholar / Scopus) and more than 1700 publications . Research.com ranked in 2024 D Barcelo as 4th and 43rd environmental scientist and chemist, respectively in the world. He has been involved in editorial activities in the following Elsevier journals as co-Editor in chief and editor from 1990 to date: STOTEN, GREEAC, TRAC, Methods X, CSCEE, and COESH. He is also Editor-in-chief of the book series Wilson + Wilson Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry from Elsevier since 1997- today and co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry book series from Springer since 2007-today and Advances In Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection) since 2016-today .From 1993 to date he has been editor and co-editor of 40 books on environmental chemistry.
Prof. Shu Tao
Peking University, China
Title: Will update soon
Shu Tao is a chair professor of Peking University and South University of Science and Technology. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Science and a member of National Steering Committee on Environmental Protection. He serves as Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology. His current research interests include global emission inventories of various air pollutants, atmospheric transport and population exposure modeling, household air quality, and indoor air pollution. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals, with total citation over 30,000 and H-index (Web of Science) of 102.
Prof. Joerg Feldmann
University of Graz, Austria
Title: Will be updated soon
Jörg Feldmann is professor for environmental analytical chemistry and head of the Institute for Chemistry at the University Graz, Austria after leading for 23 years TESLA at University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is an expert in developing novel methodologies for environmental and biological applications using plasma spectrochemistry and was awarded the RSC Interdisciplinary Medal in 2016 and the European Plasma Spectrochemistry in 2015. He has written more than 350 peer-reviewed papers (h-index 76) mainly using NTS approaches for arsenic, mercury and lately fluorine with the focus on PFAS and supervised successfully more than 50 PhD students. He has worked on arsenic speciation in the soil/plant environment, he studied why whales beaching happens in the context of mercury and selenium biochemistry and recently he developed novel analytical platforms for the determination of PFAs and other fluorinated compounds in diverse environments and materials.
Prof. Josefino C Comiso
NASA/GSFC, USA
Title: Abrupt Changes in the Pattern of the Global Sea Ice Cover
Josefino Comiso has been Senior Scientist (currently Emeritus) at the Earth Sciences Division of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. His research led to new insights into climate and environmental changes including the rapid decline of the Arctic perennial sea ice cover, amplified warming in the Arctic, enhanced sea surface temperature that has led to super-hurricanes and changing extent of coastal polynyas and associated bottom water formation. He was the chief scientist of many NASA aircraft missions including one that went over a nuclear submarine in the Arctic that validated the ability to observe ice thickness from space. He served as a coordinating lead author of the IPCC-2014/WG1/AR5 report and is the author or co-author of 8 scholarly books, 25 book chapters and more than 150 ISI journal articles that have been cited 44,000 times. He has been the recipient of several NASA and international awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement in Science Medal, NASA/GSFC Career Achievement Award and the PORSEC Outstanding Scientist Medal.
Prof. Zhimin Ao
Beijing Normal University, China
Title: Will Update
Prof. Zhimin Ao, is a Professor at the Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University, he is Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), his research interests are surface/interface behaviors in environmental pollution control. He has authored over 220 SCI-indexed papers in prestigious journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Matter, Advanced Functional Materials, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, ACS Catalysis, and Water Research. His work includes 35+ ESI Highly Cited Papers with over 18,000 citations with an H-index of 73. Prof. Ao has led in 10+ major research programs, including 3 NSFC projects, 1 National Key R&D Program sub-project, and 1 Guangdong Provincial Key Science and Technology Project. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology, and Senior Editorial Board Member of Chinese Chemical Letters. His honors include the IAAM Outstanding Researcher Award and the Chinese Chemical Letters "Environmental Chemistry Young Scientist" Award.
Prof. Benjamin K. Sovacool
Title: The sociotechnical dynamics and risks of negative emissions, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering
Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University in the United States, where he is the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability. He is also Professor of Energy Policy at the Bennett Institute for Innovation & Policy Acceleration at the University of Sussex Business School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow in the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea). He was formerly Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School in the United Kingdom, and Director of the Center for Energy Technologies and University Distinguished Professor of Business & Social Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark. Professor Sovacool works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, energy justice, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, the ethics and morality of energy decisions, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. His research has been endorsed by U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, and the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, among others. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), published in 2022, and he serves on the Board on Environmental Change and Society for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. He has played a leadership role in winning collaborative research grants and endowments worth more than $48 million in directly managed funds on proposals and projects worth more than $259 million, including those from the Peter Bennett Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program of Denmark, the Danish Council for Independent Research, the European Commission and the European Research Council. In the United Kingdom, he has served as a Principal Investigator on projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is the recipient of multiple national and international awards and honors, including the “Distinguished Graduate Alumni Achievement Award” from his Alma Mater Virginia Tech, the “Spirit Award” for the embodiment of “kindness, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and courage, within the context of teaching and learning” by the University of Sussex, the 2019 USERN Prize for his work on “Social Justice in an Era of Climate Change and Energy Scarcity,” and the “Dedication to Justice Award” given by the American Bar Association. With much coverage of his work in the international news media, he is one of the most highly cited global researchers on issues bearing on controversies in energy policy and climate change. His research has been ranked in the world’s top 1% of social scientists according to citations of his publications in 2019, 2020, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Ms. Jin In
For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL)
Title: Doing Power Differently: Harness Gender Empowerment to Achieve Climate Justice and Accelerate Sustainability
Ms. Jin In wants the world to awaken to the collective power of empowered girls to fight the climate crisis, autocracy, and insecurity—a powerful force for change. And she has data and real-life stories to show it! Ms. In is the author of “Girl Power: Sustainability, Empowerment, and Justice”—the first book in Cambridge University Press Sustainability series showcasing scholarship that investigates persistent, multi-scale challenges to global sustainability and strategies to address them. In Girl Power, she unveils the first-ever global data concretizing what empowerment is and how it changes the world.

Ms. In has been called to service—working with Democratic and Republican administrations, White House National Security Council, Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security, UN Agencies, NATO, and grassroots organizations in 145 countries. Included in her list of “firsts” was serving as the inaugural girls’ health fellow in the first federal office dedicated to gender equity and policy, the Office on Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She created the first federal health program for youth, by youth, winning awards from the White House as well as the private sector. She founded a nonprofit organization For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL) and until recently, she was the first Assistant Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Boston University.

With a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. In has also studied medicine, global affairs, and theology. She is a member of the US Civil Society Working Group on Women Peace and Security and the inaugural cohort of the Council on Foreign Relations Education Ambassador Program. She also serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.