Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as a Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc… He published more than thirty research articles in international peer reviewed journals. He supervised, has done and examined about twenty M. Sc. and Ph. D. dissertations. He participated in several either local or international conferences on the topics of Agricultural Process Engineering. He contributed in the attendance of many meetings, workshops and training courses. He was awarded: Food Engineer of the Year Award – 2010; Excellence Award in International Scientific Publication – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; Arab Papers Published on Agriculture – 2012; Egypt 25 Foundation Award – 2012; Who's Who in the World – 2013, 2014 and 2015; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 2013; Top 100 Engineers– 2013; International Biographical Center Man of The Year– 2013; Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Engineering Achievement – 2013 and Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Educational Achievement – 2013. He served as: Editor-in-Chief; Associate Editor; Editorial Board Member; Food Expert; Reviewer, etc… in more than five hundred international peer-reviewed journals.

Agricultural Process Engineering; Postharvest Technology; Bioengineering; Food & Dairy Engineering; Agro-Industrial Waste Management; Process and Bioprocess Engineering; Thermal & Non-Thermal Process Engineering; Agricultural Production Engineering; Postharvest operations Engineering; Composting and Vermicomposting Process; Non-Conventional Forages Processing; Farm Wastes Bioconversion; By-Products Recycling Engineering.

Dr. Eng. Bayu Indrawan, researcher, technology innovator, expert on waste management and renewable energy, has been working intensively in energy and environment sector since 2003. He was invited to chair several international events, workshop, sessions and also deliver keynote speaker / invited lectures in several international conferences. He was also invited to attend several prestigious professional international program, e.g. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on 2014 by U.S. Department of State. He received a Doctoral Degree (Dr. Eng.) in Environmental Science and Technology (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) with focus on waste to energy technology supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology – Japan with fully funded scholarships. He obtained double bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Sriwijaya, Indonesia) and Economics (University of IBA, Indonesia), and also master degree in Electrical Engineering (University of Indonesia) with minor in renewable energy. As one of youngest doctoral graduates from Indonesia, he is a member of Waste-to-Energy Research & Technology Council, Japan Institute of Energy, and The International Solid Waste Association. He is the founder and director of Center of Waste Management Indonesia, the first of its kind research center in Indonesia with the intention of serving the community and all stakeholders by helping its environment to become greener and cleaner through research, development and implementation of integrated and sustainable waste management system based on technology. He also served as lecturer in University of Indonesia and Surya University, a pioneer of research based university in Indonesia. He is the technology innovator of hydrothermal waste treatment technology, the first commercial scale of integrated municipal solid waste treatment technology in Indonesia, located in Summarecon Serpong, Tangerang. He also developed and implemented pilot and commercial scale of plastic waste to oil by pyrolysis technology in Indonesia.

waste management and renewable energy

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, 200 review articles, 7 books and 150 chapters in books.

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Renewable Energy Technologies Energy Research

Professor Yogesh Chandra Sharma, Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, and a Fellow (Elected), of the Biotech. Research Society of India (FBRS). Areas of interest, Adsorption and diffusion, Water remediation, renewable energy, biodiesel production, synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production, author of four books, more than 150 research papers.

Renewable Energy and Bio-fuels Development and characterization of heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of biodiesel Synthesis and application of nanoadsorbents Synthesis of efficient activated carbons for water remediation Macrophytes for Uptake of Metallic Species from industrial effluents

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is currently the Managing Director of Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). He is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune. He is holding the following degrees in education proficiency: • Post Graduate (M.Tech) in Nuclear Technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 2006. • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from JNU in 2002, • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from JNU in 1994. In a short span with the understanding of the Biomass IPPs and biomass supply chain management, he set up the first of its kind biomass fuel aggregation and supply company Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). The company has grown from a start up to INR 18 Crores Turnover Company in 5xYears time and having closed its first round of PE investment from Zurich based Impact PE- responsAbility in 2013. This is a big force multiplier to support biomass IPPs, process industry boilers, cogeneration plants and other industry using biomass as a feedstock.

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is known in the Biomass fraternity as a dedicated and knowledgeable leader. He has been advocating the barriers faced by Biomass Project Developers at various seminars and forums and has been instrumental in impressing MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources, India) towards the cause of biomass power plants.

Layla holds a PhD degree from the University of Birmingham, UK, Colleges of Life and Environmental Sciences. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, College of Science at University of Basrah, Iraq. Previously she taught at Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture. Layla has more than 30 years of academic experience in the field of environmental chemistry and analytical chemistry. She has published many papers in reputable journals and participated in international conferences; Dioxin 2015, Sao Paulo - Brazil, POPs 2016, Birmingham - UK, and BFR 2017, York - UK.

The main specialism includes analysis of trace levels of organic and inorganic pollutants in both biotic and abiotic samples. She has the particular interest in human exposure, fate and behaviour of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and emerging contaminants focusing on the main factors affecting human exposure assessments of brominated flame retardants via indoor dust ingestion. Layla is also interested in the environmental levels and human exposure of heavy metals and trace elements.

Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah obtained his BTech (Hons) degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1995. He served in several industries as quality and production engineers for nearly 4 years prior to the commencement of his study at master level in 1998. He received his MSc in the year 2000 in the field of Chemical Process Technology. Four years later, he received his doctorate degree in the field of chemical engineering, specializing in catalysis and reaction engineering. His PhD study was supported by the National Science Fellowship provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia. Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is a registered chemist with the Malaysian Institute of Chemistry and has so far published a number of research papers in refereed international and local journals. He also actively engaged in several consultancy works on environmental engineering projects with local industries. His current research areas are catalysis, wastewater engineering and renewable fuels. Presently, there are 8 post-graduate students completing their MSc or PhD thesis under his supervision. Among awards won by him are the Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Best Thesis Award 2004 and Gold Award at the Malaysian Institute of Higher Learning Research and Development Exhibition 2005. He is also actively involved in community services as the trainer for the Malaysian’s National Service Program.

Catalysis Reaction engineering Microporous and mesoporous materials Wastewater engineering Environmental engineering

Magda Constantí has completed her PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and postdoctoral studies from University of California at Los Angeles, USA. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University Rovira I Virgili, Spain. She has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering areas. She has been the principal investigator of several research projects related to microbiology applied to solve environmental issues.

Biomass bioconversion to value-added chemicals. Bioproduction of hydrogen. Molecular identification of environmental bacteria, Molecular microbiology studies of MTBE and ETBE biodegradation. Bioremediation of uranium. Biosynthesis of nanoparticles.

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

Appointed by Governor Brown February 2013, Reappointed by Governor Brown January 2016. Janea A. Scott is one of five Commissioners on the California Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is the State's primary energy policy and planning agency. Ms. Scott was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in February 2013 and reappointed in January 2016 to serve as the Commission's public member. She is the lead Commissioner on transportation and western regional planning, and in 2014 Ms. Scott led the 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. Ms. Scott serves as the chair of the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative, a public/private organization focused on accelerating the adoption of PEVs to meet California's economic, energy and environmental goals. She is also a member of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee. Prior to joining the Energy Commission, Ms. Scott worked at the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary as the Deputy Counselor for Renewable Energy and at Environmental Defense Fund in both the New York and Los Angeles offices as a senior attorney in the climate and air program. Ms. Scott was also an AmeriCorps member working at the San Francisco Urban Service Project from 1996-1997. Ms. Scott earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Law School and her M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Mustapha Benmoussa, Ph.D. is a CEO at AGT Nutraceuticals LLC and founder of Atlantic Green Technology, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Laval University in plant biotechnology and performed post-doctoral research at Indiana University and Purdue University. Dr. Benmoussa occupied different managerial and academic positions along his research and development career. He used biotechnology and processing tools in both fundamental and applied scientific research to develop solutions in nutrition and bioenergy sectors. With his 25 year of experience in plant biotechnology and food science, he developed a microalgae biorefinery technology to produce algae biofuels and high-value chemicals for food, beverages, supplement, cosmetic and energy market.

Dr. Cinzia Buratti was born in Marsciano (PG, Italy) in 1966. She received her graduation as a Civil Engineer in the year 1990, and continued her Research in Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer from the University of Perugia (Italy). She received her PhD in Applied Physics in the year 1995. She worked as an Assistant professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, 1997 ‐ 2004 under the department of Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy). Currently Dr. Cinzia Buratti is working as an Associate professor of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, from 2005, Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy).

The research interest of Dr. Cinzia Buratti is followed by - Transparent insulation materials (aerogel) foe energy saving in buildings; - Indoor thermal comfort: instrumental and adaptive approach; - Biomass and bioenergy; - Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of energy chains; - Carbon Footprint of products and processes; - Environmental impact and sustainable energy; - Heat Transfer (thermal resistance of building elements, thermal expansion of materials); - Acoustics (Environmental acoustics, measurements of sound insulation in buildings and of buildings elements); - Natural lighting; - Thermoigrometrical conditions in museums and in presence of works of art; - Water vapour evaporation measurements from free surfaces; - Thermophysical properties of fluids for absorption machines.

Tim Rials is the Associate Dean of AgResearch at the University of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture. This appointment follows 15 years as the Director of the UT Center for Renewable Carbon. Dr. Rials is a graduate of Mississippi State University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in wood science from Virginia Tech. He joined the university following 13 years with the U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station in Pineville, Louisiana, after two years on the faculty of the University of California–Berkeley. Tim’s research career has focused on the efficient and effective utilization of renewable resources in advanced composite materials, including development of high throughput analytical methods for characterizing wood. As director of the Center for Renewable Carbon, he facilitates UTIA’s research and development program on the use of forest and agricultural biomass for alternative liquid fuels, industrial chemicals, and advanced materials. The CRC is home to the Southeastern Regional Sun Grant Center that supports an expansive research portfolio in biomass and bioenergy throughout the region. He also leads a regional team of research and outreach specialists in the Southeastern Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems, a competitively awarded grant from USDA’s AFRI program. Dr. Rials was recently recognized for his contributions in the area of renewable carbon science with the 2011 AgResearch Impact Award. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Wood Science and an active member of the American Chemical Society’s Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division

Advanced composite materials, Development of high throughput analytical methods

Mike Schultz is Managing Director of PTI Global Solutions, bringing process technology leadership to companies in the fuels, chemicals, and energy space. Previously Mike was Vice President of Engineering for LanzaTech, where he led the scale-up and commercialization of first of its kind gas fermentation technology for conversion of waste carbon into fuel and chemical products. Prior to LanzaTech, Mike spent two years with Battelle Science and Technology Malaysia, working closely with PETRONAS to develop the R&D infrastructure and capabilities for a robust sustainable fuel and chemical portfolio. This followed a ten-year tenure at UOP in technology development. Mike holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He received the 2015 EPA Greener Synthetic Pathway award and the 2005 Haden Freeman Award for Engineering Excellence from IChemE. Mike has been granted more than 40 US Patents in his career, and has extensive international experience with postings in Malaysia and New Zealand, and frequent travel throughout his career supporting partners and customers in China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, SE Asia, and Europe.

Renewable Energy ♦ Technology Scale-up ♦ Research & Development ♦ IP Portfolio Management ♦ Project Management ♦ Joint Development Partnerships ♦ Business Development ♦ Commercialization ♦ Capital Raising ♦ Mergers & Acquisitions ♦ Public Sector Relationships

Dr. Philip J. Angevine Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in the year 1976 and is currently a President at Anjou Technologies, LLC since 2014, his Consultant in areas are in refining, catalysts, petrochemicals, and biomass upgrading. He worked a Senior VP at Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai, India (2012-2014). VP, R&D, Hermes Catalysts BV, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (2008-2012). Dr. Philip J. Angevine is a founder and owner of Anjou Technologies, LLC (2007-2012). Previously he server for ABB Lummus Global Inc. (2000 to 2008), Bloomfield, NJ. Corporate Research Program Manager (2000-2002), Catalysis and Chemical Processes (Zurich) and Director of Clean Fuels (2000 to 2002) Bloomfield. Director of Catalysis (2002 to 2008), Technology Development Center (Bloomfield) Development/Commercialization: Symposium Co-Chairman, “Advances in Petroleum Processing and Clean Energy Technology”, ACS National Meeting, August 2004, Philadelphia, PA. ABB International Technology Day (Zurich, 2001), one of 12 speakers to address over 150 journalists from the business and investment communities on new ABB technical advances. Professional Organizations: American Chemical Society New York Catalysis Society Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association

Refining, Catalysis, Biofuels, and Petrochemicals.

Seema Singh is a distinguished member of the technical staff at the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and director of the biomass pretreatment at the Joint Bioenergy Institute. For the past decade, she has been developing novel pretreatment technologies based on ionic liquids. She has developed ‘hybrid chem-bio’ approaches and ‘syn-bio tools’ for lignin valorization and single cell technologies for in-situ examination of algal oil. She serves as the organizing committee member of the Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals and Asia-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquid and Green Processes as well as associate editor and editorial board member of Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels, and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology respectively. She recently edited the book on “Valorization of Lignocellulosic Biomass in a Biorefinery: From Logistics to Environmental and Performance Impact” and contributed book chapters in Ionic Liquids in the Biorefinery Concept: Challenges and Perspectives and Biofuels for Aviation

Biomass, Bioenergy, Biofuels

Christopher Niezrecki is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He obtained dual BS degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1991. In 1992 he obtained a MS. degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in 1999 while working at the Center for Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures (CIMSS). He was the Director of the Smart Structures and Acoustics Laboratory at the University of Florida until 2004, is currently the Co-Director of the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Laboratory (http://sdasl.uml.edu/), and leads the Center for Wind Energy at UMass Lowell (www.uml.edu/windenergy). Dr. Niezrecki is also the Director of the NSF-Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wind Energy Science Technology and Research (WindSTAR). He has been directly involved in mechanical design, smart structures, noise and vibration control research for over 23 years, with more than 100 publications. He is the member of three separate conference executive committees pertaining to structural dynamics/smart structures/materials and serves as an Associate Guest Editor of the Journal of Energy Resources Technology. Areas of current research include: renewable energy systems, wind turbine dynamics, monitoring, and inspection, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, structural health monitoring, and smart materials. Over the last several years, his research has focused on using optical digital image correlation for non-contacting inspection and vibration measurement of wind turbine blades/rotating structures. He was a 2010 recipient of a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL/National Wind Technology Center) Research Participant Program Fellowship and is the 2018 Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair. Funding for his research ($11M+) has been provided through grants from numerous federal and state agencies as well as several industry sponsors.

Dr. Christopher Niezrecki’s primary research includes renewable energy systems, wind turbine dynamics, monitoring, and inspection, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, structural health monitoring, and smart materials. His goals include expanding the global use of renewable energy, developing technologies that can impact the 1.3 billion people in the world who do not have access to electricity, and advancing sensing technologies to measure and monitor structural systems.

Melio SAENZ has completed his PhD (Docteur-Ingénieur) in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Grenoble, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in 1978. Melio SAENZ currently works as an Associate Researcher at the Water and Soil Management Center, PROMAS of the University of Cuenca, Ecuador) . He has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Systems Science since 2011 and a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Fluid Dynamics. Member of the Energy Group of the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences, IANAS, since 2010.

Computational fluid mechanics and complex systems modeling and simulation

Delly Oliveira Filho completed his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1995. He was a visiting professor at Iowa State University, USA, 2004. Delly OLIVEIRA FILHO is currently working as Coordinator of a Sustainable Energy Graduate Program- under BRICS Network University program, at the Federal University of Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is supervisor of the Agricultural Engineering Graduate Program of Federal University of Vicosa at the Energy Sector. He is a full professor of Federal University of Vicosa, teaching in the area of: Rural energization, Renewable Energy Sources, Modeling of Control Systems, Instrumentation and Energy Management.

Biogas, Photovoltaic systems, Sustainable Energy, Public Policy for Renewable Energy

Yilu Liu completed her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 at The Ohio State University. She currently serves as a Governor’s Chair Professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She led the effort to create the North American Power Grid Monitoring Network (FNET/GridEye) which is still the only monitoring network that covers the entire North America as well as major grids worldwide. She is the recipient of Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, the NSF Young Investigator’s Award, and several university awards for research and teaching excellence. Liu and her student’s work has appeared in over 100 journal papers and more than 200 conference papers and she serves as an editor, reviewer and on the editorial board for about 20 journals including IEEE Transactions. Liu is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of National Academy of Inventors and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Power grid monitoring and large system dynamics

Dr. Reza Nekovei is a Professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been conducting research in the field of Micro/Nano scale integrated circuit design, including modeling of circuits for nano-electronic devices. Additionally, he has many years of experience in developing graduate and undergraduate programs. He is currently the department’s Ph.D. program coordinator for the Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering. Dr. Nekovei was a senior Fulbright grantee at Bucharest Polytechnic University. He has been the recipient of multiple distinguished teaching and outstanding research awards. He is a member of IEEE and Etta Kappa Nu honor society. Dr. Nekovei has two patents.

Mico/Nano Electronics, Integrated Circuits, Solar Power, Sustainable Energy

Debjyoti Banerjee Completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999 and B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Under his supervision at Multi Phase Flows and Heat Transfer Labs. (MPFHTL) at the Texas A&M University, 13 Ph.D. and 17 M.S. students have graduated since 2005. He worked at Applied Biosystems (Applera) NanoInk, Coventor and Tata. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Associate Editor of Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT), advisory board member of JHT and Journal of Nanofluids. He has 14 US Patents and 5 WO patents (and 1 patent pending). He co-founded Thermascape Technologies Inc. in 2017 to commercialize his research inventions, and was the 5th Place Winner in the Texas New Ventures Competition (TNVC) in 2017 where he also received the “Amerra Visualization Services Prize” and the “AM Innovation Center Prize”.

Heat Transfer, Thermal engineering, Thermo-Fluidics, Boiling/Condensation

Anthony R. Lupo completed his Ph.D degree in Atmospheric Science, Purdue University in 1995. Anthony Lupo is working currently as a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. He serves as the chief editor of Atmosphere, Climatology and Meteorology. He has been a member of the organizing committee for the Advances in Renewables in Missouri Conference since 2005. He is also a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004) and Belgorod State National Research University (Russia, 2014-2015, 2017).

Atmospheric Science,Renewable Energy

Mirosław Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Fuels and Energy, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, in the discipline: technology of chemistry. Currently he is working an assistant professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology, at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels. His published work includes more than 40 papers in international journals and 72 conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial board of internationals journals as well as a member of the organizing committees international conferences, and a regular reviewer in a reputable scientific journals. Apart from scientific work Mirosław Kwiatkowski also does some teaching. Runs classes on computer science, numerical methods, chemistry and is a tutor of a student scientific society called “Green Energy”.

Municipal waste management, Green Energy

Yanxia Sun got her joint qualification: D-Tech in Electrical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa and PhD in Computer Science, University Paris-EST, France in 2012. Yanxia Sun is currently working as Associate Professor/Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She has 15 years teaching and research experience. She has lectured five courses in the universities. She has supervised or co-supervised five postgraduate projects to completion. Currently she is supervising six PhD students and four master students. She published 42 papers including 14 ISI master indexed journal papers. She is the investigator or co-investigator for six research projects. She is the member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS).

Renewable Energy, Evolutionary Optimization, Neural Network, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Systems

Dequan Xiao has a PhD degree in theoretical and computational chemistry from Duke University in 2009, and a BS degree in chemistry from Sichuan University (China) in 1996. He completed his postdoctoral work at Yale University from 2009 to 2013. In August of 2013, he started as an assistant professor at the University of New Haven, and later established the Center for Integrative Materials Discovery. His research interests focus on developing and integrating new theoretical and computational chemistry methods with experiments to drive the discovery of novel materials such as green catalysts for biomass conversion, molecular drugs, and polymer nanostructures. He is currently a University Research Scholar at UNH. He published 32 peer-reviewed articles, obtained 4 patents, and wrote two book chapters on “Inverse Molecular Design for Materials Discovery” and “Green Catalysts for Producing Liquid Fuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass”, respectively.

Biomass Conversion; Integrative Materials Discovery

Dr. Meisam Tabatabaei is the founding Leader of Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam). He is also the founding President of the Iranian Biofuels Society (IBS) under the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, President of the Biofuels Committee (Vice-Presidency for Science & Technology), and is also the President of the Liquid Biofuels Standards Committee (National Standards Organization). His research focus is biofuels production from waste resources and nanotechnology. Other than being a regular reviewer for more than 70 international journals, he is currently serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian-based ISI-SCOPUS indexed Biofuel Research Journal (BRJ). He is also the Editor of Energy Education Science and Technology & Bioethanol Journal. Meisam has been working with the United Nation Development Program for the promotion of waste-oriented biodiesel in Iran. He has co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has achieved over 10 patents (h-index: 27, i10-index: 67).

Biofuel, Bioethanol

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.

Prof. Jürgen Karl holds a degree in chemical engineering from Technical University of Munich. In 2007 he bacem Full Professor at the Institute for Thermal Engineering, Graz University of Technology. Since 2011 Prof. Karl heads the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, which is part of the newly founded Energy Campus of Nuremberg (EnCN). As coordinator of several European R&D projects and founder of the start-up company agnion Inc. he was mainly responsible for the development of the Heatpipe Reformer, an innovative indirectly heated steam gasification technology for the synthesis of Second Generation Fuels.

Energetic use of biomass, Combustion and gasification in fluidized beds,Methanation and SOFC fuel cells, Carbon capture and sequestration

Dr. Gokare Aswathanarayana Ravishankar Fellow, Elected 2003 Born in Bangalore, India on 12 February 1954. Educated at Vijaya High School, Bangalore, 1964-68; Vijaya College, Bangalore, 1968-72; Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 1973-80; B.Sc. 1972; M.Sc. 1975; Ph.D. 1981. Vice-President, R&D (Life Sciences), Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Dr. C.D. Sagar Centre for Life Sciences, Bangalore, 2012 to date. Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Baroda, 1979-80; Crop Plant Physiologist & Head, Agricultural Research Division, M/s Alembic Chemical Company, Baroda, 1980-81; INSA Research Associate, Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu - Tawi, 1981-84; Scientist & Head, Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, CFTRI, Mysore, 1984-2012; Visiting Scientist to Korea Ginseng and Tobacco Research Institute, South Korea, 1984; Visiting Scientist, University of Alabama, Tuskegee, USA, 2000; Visiting Professor: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, 2004; Kaosiung Medical University, Taiwan, 2012; Ural Federal University, Russia, 2013..

Plant biotechnology, algal biotechnology, food biotechnology, plant tissue and cell culture, secondary metabolites, metabolic engineering, biodiversity utilization, biofuels

Dr. Jianbing Li is a professor in the environmental engineering program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Regina in 2003. He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis. He has published more than 180 journal and conference papers. He served as a guest editor for three international journals, and acted as a committee member for many international conferences. He also serves as a reviewer for many international journals and a variety of national and international research funding organizations.

He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis

Evgeny Katz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983. He was a senior researcher in the Institute of Photosynthesis (Pushchino), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983-1991. In 1992-1993 he performed research at München Technische Universität (Germany) as a Humboldt fellow. Later, in 1993-2006, Dr. Katz was a Research Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 he is Milton Kerker Chaired Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, NY (USA). He has (co)authored over 440 papers in peer-reviewed journals/books with the total citation more than 30,000 (Hirsch-index 84).

His scientific interests are in the broad areas of bioelectronics, biosensors, biofuel cells and biomolecular information processing.

Dr. Jaya Shankar Tumuluru works as a senior research scientist in the Biofuels Department at the Idaho National Laboratory. He is the principle investigator for the Biomass Size Reduction, Drying and Densification project supported by the Bioenergy Technologies Office at the Department of Energy. His research is focused on biomass pre-treatments and densification technologies. Before he came to INL, Dr. Tumuluru worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork, Ireland; postdoctoral researcher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and research associate, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. His major research areas include biomass densification using pellet mill and briquette press, biomass storage (off-gas measurements and modeling the emission rates), food processing using extrusion technologies, and food storage modeling. Dr. Tumuluru has also worked on experimental data analysis using statistical methods, evolutionary and back propagation algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department at the Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has received numerous honors, including outstanding reviewer for Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and INL’s Exceptional Contributions Program Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scientific and Technical Publication.

Feedstock particle mechanics, biomass thermal pretreatments, biomass densification, and bioenergy technologies

Professor Ruan is the Director of Center for Biorefining and Professor of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Department at University of Minnesota, and Fellow of ASABE. He has published over 400 papers in refereed journals, books, and book chapters, and over 300 meeting papers and other reports, and holds many patents. He is also a top cited author in area of agricultural and biological sciences. He has served as guest editor and/or editorial board member of Bioresource Technology, etc. and an Editor-in-Chief and chairman of the board for International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.

Agricultural and biological sciences

Teresita Marzialetti completed her PhD in Chemistry from Universidad de Concepción, Chile, and postdoctoral studies at School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She is an assistant profesor and the director of Catalysis and Biomass Laboratory at School of Engineering at Universidad de Concepción. She has published more than 30 journal and conference papers and has been serving as peer reviewer of many international journal of repute, and holds two patents. Her research interest is biomass conversion and valorization using thermochemical and biochemical pretreatment and processes involving heterogeneous catalysis. She is been also working on simulation and exergoenergetic analysis of biomass conversion processes.

Her research interest is biomass conversion and valorization using thermochemical and biochemical pretreatment and processes involving heterogeneous catalysis

Dr. 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, 200 review articles, 7 books and 150 chapters in books.

Renewable energy technologies, energy efficient systems, environment and sustainable development

Dr. Muhammad Farooq is a Researcher at Heriot-Watt University UK in Renewable Energy Engineering with a specific focus on the adsorption and regeneration for Carbon Capture and low-cost Bio-methane production from biogas. He is author of more than 25 Peer Reviewed Research Publications. From 2014-17, he presented research work at various International Conferences. In September 2017, he visited University of Cambridge, UK to attend an International conference funded by UK IBCarb. In April 2017, he was invited as Chair of technical session ''New trends in Biogas Production'' at 3rd International Conference on Biogas Microbiology, held from May 1-3, 2017 in Wageningen, Netherlands. He served as Technical Committee Member of International Conference on Renewable Energy and Conservation (ICREC-2017) held during June 12-14 June, 2017 in Perth, Australia. He is recipient of Travel Grant from UK ADNET to present his research work at International Conference Progress in Biogas held in Stuttgart, Germany from 8-11th March 2017. In October 2016, He was awarded with a Travel Grant by the International scientific committee of ICEEES to present his research results at International Conference on Energy for Environment and Economic Sustainability at Lahore Pakistan. He is recipient of travel grant from UK BBSRC for the oral presentation of his research findings at Biogas Science Conference in Szeged, Hungary held from 21-24th August 2016. In July, he presented his research at AD Network ECR Conference at University of Birmingham, UK supported by BBSRC UK. In June-2016, he attended 4th International Sulics Summer School on CCS Technologies-2016at Sotacarbo Research Center, Carbonia, Italy. In April-2016, he received Neilson Travel Award to attend the International Biomass Conference & Expo (IBCE) as Invited Speaker at Charlotte NC, United States. In Sept- Oct 2015, he visited Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China as Research Exchange Scholar under EU-CO2-TRIP Project funded by Marie Curie Actions IRSES for Clean Coal Energy Generation. In Aug-2015, he presented research findings at International Bio-energy Conference in Valencia Spain. In June-2015, he presented his work at ADBA-2015 held in NEC Birmingham, UK. During 2014, he attended & presented at various conferences in UK including Super-gen Bio-Energy Hub Annual Conference-2014 at Aston Conference Birmingham UK, Energy academy Conference Edinburgh UK and IMPEE Conference Heriot-Watt University, UK. He received UK ESRN Travel award to attend UK Energy Storage Confernce-2014 at University of Warwick UK. He also worked as Volunteer Organizer for Scottish Carbon, Capture and Storage Conference-2014 at Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, UK.

Renewable Energy Engineering with a specific focus on the adsorption and regeneration for Carbon Capture and low-cost Bio-methane production from biogas

Prof. Octavio Armas graduated as a mechanical engineer at the University of Railway Transport in Moscow, Russia in 1983. From 1985 to 1995 he worked as assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Havana, Cuba. In 1998 he finished his doctoral thesis at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Payri at the CMT Motores Térmicos Institute. Currently Prof. Armas works as full professor in thermal machines at the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) at Toledo city (Spain). Likewise, Prof. Armas is the director of both the Research Group in Energy and Environmental processes (GPEM, www.grupogpem.com) and the Institute in research applied to the Aeronautical Industry. Also, he is the coordinator of the Doctoral Program of Sciences and Technologies applied to Industrial Engineering at the UCLM. Prof. Armas, with h index 22, has written more than 75 journal publications registered in Scopus, related to diesel engine operation and efficiency, biofuels, combustion process, pollutant emissions, etc.

Prof. Armas, with index 22, has written more than 75 journal publications registered in Scopus, related to diesel engine operation and efficiency, biofuels, combustion process, pollutant emissions, etc.

Prof. Eduardo Jacob-Lopes is currently associate professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. He graduated with a Masters in Food Engineering in Federal University of Rio Grande, doctorate in Chemical Engineering from State University of Campinas and post-doctoral at State University of Campinas. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies and scientific journals. He has 400 publications/communications which include 5 books, 20 book chapters, 75 original research papers, 290 research communications in international and national conferences and has registered 11 patents. His research interest includes environmental biotechnology with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology

His research interest includes environmental biotechnology with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology

Andréia Anschau received her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 2014 at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She became professor at Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Department at Federal University of Technology (UTFPR) in 2015. Since 2017 she cordinates the Master Program in Biotechnology at UTFPR. Professor Anschau is currently leading a multidisciplinary team of scientists, working in a broad spectrum of interests, focusing on yeast and microalgae fermentation, bioenergy, biomass and bioprocessing. She is working on the utilization of different waste materials as alternative, cheap and renewable substrates for the production of value added products such as biofuels

She is working on the utilization of different waste materials as alternative, cheap and renewable substrates for the production of value added products such as biofuels.

Dr. Mirosław Kwiatkowski in 2004 obtained Ph.D. degree at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, currently he is working as an assistant professor. His published work includes more than 45 papers in reputable international journals and 75 conference proceedings. He is the editor-in-chief International Journal of System Modeling and Simulation (UAE), a member of the twelve editorial board of internationals journals and a regular reviewer in a reputable scientific journals as well as a member of the organizing committees international conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia and United States of America.

Qiang Wang, professor of the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Professor Wang, Qiang obtained his PhD in the Institute of Botany, CAS in June 2002, and was honored at the same time the "Lady Davis Trust Fellowship" of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and worked later in the United States as Post-Doc and Research Associate in the University of Tennessee, the University Of Arkansas at Little Rock and Michigan State University. His lab at IHB-CAS (from 2010) currently focusing on photosynthesis with the model system of Synechocystis PCC6803, algal biofuel and its application in environmental issues.

photosynthesis with the model system of Synechocystis PCC6803, algal biofuel and its application in environmental issues.

Dr Weilan Shao has completed her PhD degree in 1993 from the University of Georgia, USA; she has worked as a distinguished professor of a few universities in China. Her research mission is to develop feasible and economicly effective approaches for renewing bioenergy. Shao’s group have discovered the repressor/operator system coupling glycolysis and fermentation pathways, and the regulation mechanism of thermophilic ethanol fermentation. Dr Shao also invents new techniques for lignocellulase production and modification, including pHsh gene expression system (US patent), in situ gene random mutagenesis (US patent), and gfa selection marker for the bio-safety of gene modification.

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.

G.Q. Chen is a professor of energy and environmental resources at Peking University, China and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abudulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. With distinguished contributions as marked by around 300 publications in prestigious journals, Prof. Chen has won a series of awards and honors, including Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers Award, Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureate. He served as editor, associate editor or advisory member for 50 international journals.

He served as editor, associate editor or advisory member for 50 international journals.

Dr. Takeshi Sako is professor emeritus at Shizuoka University in Japan. He received his PhD from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He worked on chemical engineering at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for 22 years. He became professor at Department of Materials Science and Technology at Shizuoka University in 2000. He was deans of Faculty of Engineering and Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology from 2013 to 2017. He has worked on the supercritical/subcritical fluid technology for more than 30 years. In particular, he is interested in the application of this technology to the field of energy and earth environment. He has studied the production of many kinds of bio-fuels from waste/unused materials, the recycling of waste plastics and the decomposition of toxic substances using supercritical /subcritical water, supercritical methanol and supercritical carbon dioxide. He received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on “Study of earth environmental protection technology using supercritical/subcritical fluids” in 2011.

He is working on the production of high–quality bio-fuels from refractory organic waste mixtures such as municipal waste and industrial waste using hydrothermal treatment.

Andrea Monti PhD, Full professor in Agronomy and Crop Science. Research field: industrial non-food crops, mainly bioenergy & biorefinery. Head of the Research Group on Industrial Crops (university of Bologna). Presently, he is the general coordinator of the EU-H2020 project: Brazil – Europe Coollaboration on Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuels (BECOOL, 2017-2021), and local project leader of 4 EU Projects (H2020). Gues editor of 3 special issues in reputed ISI journals. Editor of 4 international books on bioenergy & biorefinery crops. H-index=25.

bioenergy & biorefinery crops

Dr. Hajime Hirao received his BEng and MEng degrees from Kyoto University and his PhD from The University of Tokyo. He underwent his postdoc training at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Emory University, and Kyoto University. Prior to that, he worked for three years on computer-assisted drug design at the Novartis institute in Japan. Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he worked as faculty at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Over the years, he has been interested in computational and theoretical aspects of chemistry, especially chemical reactions. One of the major goals of his research is to figure out how difficult chemical transformations can be achieved using simple catalytic platforms built from earth-abundant elements.

One of the major goals of his research is to figure out how difficult chemical transformations can be achieved using simple catalytic platforms built from earth-abundant elements

Dr. Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari is a Ph.D. of Civil Engineering, Postdoctoral Student of Civil Engineering, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran. He collaborates as Editorial Board Membership in more than 45 Journals and as reviewers in more than 30 Journals. Currently, Associate, Editor-in-Chief of of IJREH. He has contributed to more than 195 publications in Journals, Books and Technical Reports. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Canadian University Dubai, and American University in Dubai. On the research side, he started a research partnership in 2017 with Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 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

Dr. Jagriti Narang has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from MD university, Rohtak, India. and is working as an Assistant professor in Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, and has work experience of more than 8 years. She has authored or coauthored 65 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She holds seven patents on biosensors and uses of nanotechnology in molecular techniques. She was awarded a silver medal for extraordinary contribution during her PhD. She has also received prestigious award “Shakuntla Amir chand Award “by ICMR. She has also been project investigator and co-project investigator in two projects by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. She has edited one book and 5 chapters in her credits. She is committee member of many international conferences and is member of Material Research Society of India and Society of Biological Chemistry. She is also editor and peer reviewer of many international journals and has presented her papers on several international platforms. Dr. Narang has done extensive work on the fabrication of various biosensors that are used for measuring serum metabolites like triglycerides, cholesterol, glutathione, peroxides, bilirubin, oxalates, lysine, and ascorbic acid. In the area of drug monitoring, she has done extensive work on anti-HIV, anti-epileptic, and anti-diabetic drugs. She has proposed some laboratory models that can be converted into commercial monitoring devices.

Dr. Narang has done extensive work on the fabrication of various biosensors that are used for measuring serum metabolites like triglycerides, cholesterol, glutathione, peroxides, bilirubin, oxalates, lysine, and ascorbic acid. In the area of drug monitoring, she has done extensive work on anti-HIV, anti-epileptic, and anti-diabetic drugs. She has proposed some laboratory models that can be converted into commercial monitoring devices.

Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as a Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc… He published more than thirty research articles in international peerreviewed journals. He supervised, has done and examined about twenty M. Sc. and Ph. D. dissertations. He participated in several either local or international conferences on the topics of Agricultural Process Engineering.He contributed in the attendance of many meetings, workshops and training courses. He was awarded: Food Engineer of the Year Award – 2010; Excellence Award in International Scientific Publication – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; Arab Papers Published on Agriculture – 2012; Egypt 25 Foundation Award – 2012; Who's Who in the World – 2013, 2014 and 2015; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 2013; Top 100 Engineers– 2013; International Biographical Center Man of The Year– 2013; Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Engineering Achievement – 2013 and Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding EducationalAchievement – 2013. He served as: Editor-in-Chief; Associate Editor; Editorial Board Member; Food Expert; Reviewer, etc… in more than five hundred international peer-reviewed journals.

Agricultural Process Engineering; Postharvest Technology; Bioengineering; Food & Dairy Engineering; Agro-Industrial Waste Management; Process and Bioprocess Engineering; Thermal & Non-Thermal Process Engineering; Agricultural Production Engineering; Postharvest operations Engineering; Composting and Vermicomposting Process; Non-Conventional Forages Processing; Farm Wastes Bioconversion; By-Products Recycling 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 particularly biofuels 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 has established “Prominent Agro Based Industries SDN BHD”, “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.

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.

Prof. Yogesh C. Sharma comleted his Ph.D. (Applied Chemistry) in 1991 from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in 2010. He has published important articles in the area of Biodiesel synthesis and characterization and has seceral highly cited articles to his credit. He has ~ 5000 SCOPUS citations and an h index of 40. He was elected as Fellow, Royal Societyu of Chemistry (FRSC,UK) in 2014 and as Fellow, Biotech. Research Society of India (FBRS). He is editorial board member of several reputed journals and has authored sevaral books.

He has published important articles in the area of Biodiesel synthesis and characterization and has seceral highly cited articles to his credit.

Tony Tiyou holds a triple Engineering Master’s Degree from Cranfield University (UK), Ecole Centrale de Lille (France) and Faculte Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium). A registered PRINCE2 Practitioner, Tony has also been recognised as an achiever of the Galileo Master Certificate from the European Energy Centre (UK) and holds qualifications as a Renewable Energy expert. After working in various positions and holding different roles for about a decade in the Automotive and the Renewable Industries, Tony has co-founded a consultancy, O’wango & TT Smart (O&TT). O&TT supports businesses and provides solutions in Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Project Management. In September 2016, Tony launched Renewables in Africa (www.renewablesinafrica.com), the expert blog about Renewable Energy in Africa. The ambition is to Raise the Technical Awareness about the various Renewable Energy sources on the African Continent and share the information. As much as helping businesses primarily, it is also about getting the civil society understanding what they need, what they buy and to some extent as well, how to better use this energy.

Renewable Energies (Solar, Wind, Bioenergy, Hydro, Geothermal), Energy Efficiency, Climate change

Yanqi Wu is Professor Emeritus at the Oklahoma State University, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK. Major responsibility is to provide leadership of the OSU Grass Breeding and Genetics Research Program. Current research is focused on the development of new cultivars, and genetic and genomic research on important agronomic traits in bermudagrass used for turf and forage, and switchgrass for bioenergy. Four new cultivars, ‘Goodwell’ forage bermudagrass, ‘Cimarron’ switchgrass, ‘NorthBridge’ turf bermudagrass, and ‘Latitude 36’ turf bermudagrass have been released from the breeding program since 2006. Responsibilities also include teaching one graduate level course, Plant Breeding Methods (2 credits), one undergraduate course, Plant Breeding (3 credits), advising graduate students and providing committee service

development of new cultivars, and genetic and genomic research on important agronomic traits in bermudagrass used for turf and forage, and switchgrass for bioenergy. Four new cultivars, ‘Goodwell’ forage bermudagrass, ‘Cimarron’ switchgrass, ‘NorthBridge’ turf bermudagrass, and ‘Latitude 36’ turf bermudagrass have been released from the breeding program since 2006. Responsibilities also include teaching one graduate level course, Plant Breeding Methods (2 credits), one undergraduate course, Plant Breeding (3 credits), advising graduate students and providing committee service

Nicola Senesi is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy. Previously Full Professor of Soil Chemistry (1986-2013, now retired) at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, Head of the Department of Agroforestal and Environmental Biology and Chemistry (2005-2011) at the University of Bari. Courses taught: Soil Chemistry, Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Wood Chemistry and Technology, Organic Chemistry, and General and Inorganic Chemistry. Visiting professor and/or scientist for various periods at universities in Canada, USA, Somalia, Indonesia, Switzerland, Argentina, Brasil, Venezuela and Colombia. Doctor Honoris Causa Institute National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), France (2000), Fellow of American Society of Agronomy (ASA) (1995) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) (1996), Honorary Member of Int. Humic Substances Society (IHSS) (2009), Polish Soil Science Society (2011), Azerbaijan Soil Science Society (AzSSS) and Int. Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) (2012). Currently Past-President of the Italian Soil Science Society (SISS). Previously, President of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS), President of Division VI-Chemistry and the Environment and Chair of the Subcommittee Biophysico-Chemical Processes in Environmental Systems of the Int. Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC), President of the Mediterranean Scientific Assoc. for Environ. Protection (MESAEP), President of the Int. Humic Substances Society (IHSS) and Chairman of Division II-Soil Properties and Processes of the Int. Union of Soil Science (IUSS). Currently Associate Editor of Geoderma, Soil Science, Pedosphere, CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water and other technical and scientific journals. Research focused on fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry and biochemistry of organic matter from soils and other systems and materials, and its interactions with soil-applied organic chemicals and trace metals, by the use of advanced physico-chemical techniques and biochemical tools. Recently, physiological and antimutagenic effects of humic substances on plants, and implications of recycling organic wastes on soil fertility and crop production. Pioneered the application of fractal geometry to the study of molecular conformation and aggregation processes of natural soil organic colloids and the view of humic substances as natural nanomaterials. The results of his research are documented in about 370 scientific and technical papers and about 60 book chapters and invited reviews. Dr. Senesi has also co-edited 20 books and Proceedings Volumes.

Fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry and biochemistry of organic matter from soils and other systems and materials by use of advanced physico-chemical techniques and biochemical tools; interactions of humic substances with organic and inorganic chemicals, including pesticides, endocrine disruptors and trace metals; the physiological and antimutagenic effects of humic substances on plants; the implications of recycling organic wastes on soil fertility and crop production; the application of fractal geometry to molecular conformation and aggregation processes of humic substances; and humic substances as natural nanomaterials

Dr.Zeliha is a full time professor at Nigde university in the department of Biotechnology. Her research interests include tyrosine tydroxylase activity, oxidative stress, antioxidants, selenium, bee products such as propolis and also natural products. Her current research concerns the antioxidant activity, in vivo oxidative stress by environmental chemicals and health risk assessment of environmental chemicals. The studing of heavy metals which environmental contaminants, toxic agents and trace metals which have some metabolic and environmental effects are important try fields. She has researched antihypertensive effects of organoselenium, bee products such as CAPE, pollen and propolis which played an important role in supression of oxidative stress, too. She has also researched biological activities of natural protective agents which is very important at detoxification of toxic chemicals. Besides, that the investigation of natural antioxidants which has metabolic significance and effects againts oxidative stress and hypertension in vivo. In addition to, synthetic antioxidants has been included her interested area. She has got two membership. These name are “Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine” and “European association for cancer research”. She has got reviewership some journals. Some of these: Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Iranian Journal of Fisheries Science, Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Biological Trace Element Research, Journal of Food Science, International Journal of Environmental Engineering Science, International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Experimental and Molecular Pathology, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Current Drug Delivery, Asian Journal of Biochemistry, International Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

include tyrosine tydroxylase activity, oxidative stress, antioxidants, selenium, bee products

Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as an Associate Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc…

Agricultural Process Engineering; Postharvest Technology; Bioengineering; Food & Dairy Engineering; Agro-Industrial Waste Management; Process and Bioprocess Engineering; Thermal & Non-Thermal Engineering; Agricultural Production Engineering; Postharvest operations Engineering; Composting and Vermicomposting Process; Non-Conventional Forages Processing; Farm Wastes Bioconversion; By-Products Recycling Engineering.

Nasran Siregar is the Deputy General Chairman of Training, Education and Research from Association of Farmer's and Business Industry Coconut Indonesia (APPIKI). Bachelor from the Faculty of Sharia majoring Civil-Criminal Islamic from IAIN Medan of the year 1988 to 1993. Training Assistance Micro SME sector in Bandung district West Java Province on 2015, Training business Institutional Strengthening on Enterprises business in Bogor district West Java Province on 2010 until 2012, Education consultant financial bank partner by Bank Indonesia in Building Faculty of Economics Amir Hamzah University Subdistrict Percut Sei Tuan Deli Serdang District on 2007. Workshop & Training on ASEAN region about strengthening small communities in Institute South East Asia Hatyai & Songkha (Thailand) on 1994 & 1996. Founder and Board on Institution Economic Development and Human Resource Community (YAPESDAMSU), Member forum financial consultant bank partner & State-owned enterprises on 2009 until 2018 as Chairman Sector training and strengthening of Human Resources, Institutions Service Technology proper behoof in Subdistrict Medan Deli city of Medan on 2014 until 2017, Board Association Business Development Services North Sumatra on 2015 until 2018 as Chairman sector Network and Institutional Relations and Entrepreneur Coconut Fiber Processing on 2013 until now.

Biomass

Robby Aswin is the Deputy General Chairman of International Trade, Investment & Promotion Product from Association of Farmer's and Business Industry Coconut Indonesia (APPIKI). Bachelor of Economics majoring Economic Management from University of HKBP Nommensen Medan of the year 1997 to 2003. Previous work on container shipping company (Bintika Bangunusa Medan) on department of Import and Export as Assistant Head, Sales Manager Export & Import fowarding company (Indonesia Logistic), Assistant Manager Logistics and Warehouse from Oleochemical company in Medan (Sinar Mas Oleochemical) the Sinar Mas Group Subsidiary, Manager export company (CV. Mulia Karya) on Betelnut & Palm Ekels Broom Stick. Since 2015 become agent representative Singapore company (CH Global Pte Ltd) as Manager Development Business on Agrocommodities products encompass: Natural Rubber, Coco Fibre, Palm Fibre, Betelnut. Last in the occupy positions in the Association APUKRIN (Association of Rubber Business of Indonesia) & APINDO Medan Branch as Deputy General Chairman of International Trade, Investment & Promotion Product and Chairman Sector Agriculture & Plantation.

Biomass

Dr.Muhammad Waqar Ashraf is author of over 60 research publications and a book.He has successfully carried out funded research projects related to water and environmental issues in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has presented his research work at various renowned international conferences held in Europe and Canada. He acts as a reviewer for government funding agencies and reputed scientific journals. Dr.Ashraf is an active member of Environmental Technology & Management Association (ETMA) and American Chemical Society (ACS) Saudi Arabian Chapter. He has served as Chairman for Department of Mathematics & Natural Sciences and Acting Dean for the Core Curriculum. He is the member of various university committees and Secretary General of the Scientific Council.

Environmental Monitoring & Assessment and waste water treatment

Research Professional with 9+ years of track record and varied R&D experience in multinational corporate companies, industry and leading academic institutions. Excellent skills in editorial works and review, journal publishing, conference management, etc., Research aptitude in teaching. learning process and university departmental administration

Waste-to-Electricity Generation, Biomass / Biogas,

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, INDIA. 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. 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 190 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 98 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He extends his expertise in various National as well as International Reputed Journal as Editor and Editorial Board Member like Open Access Book of Cloud Publication, Journal of Environment Pollution and Human Health. 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”.

Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is currently the Managing Director of Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). He is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune. He is holding the following degrees in education proficiency: • Post Graduate (M.Tech) in Nuclear Technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 2006. • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from JNU in 2002, • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from JNU in 1994. In a short span with the understanding of the Biomass IPPs and biomass supply chain management, he set up the first of its kind biomass fuel aggregation and supply company Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL).

Biomass IPPs and biomass supply chain management

K.K.Pant worked more than 24 years of academic and industrial research experience with 110+ publications and patents besides 130 conference proceedings (more than 4100 citations and H factor above 31). Successfully completed several high impact projects valued more than 450 million INR from India’s and worlds top most premier companies and organization such GAIL, HPCL, DRDO, NOVOD, MHRD, CSIR, IARI, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Fertilizers, DST Government of India and Petrochemical Society of India.His current research focus is on waste management and conversion of solid waste into energy and other value added chemicals.

waste management,renewable energy and chemical,sustainable processes

Appointed by Governor Brown February 2013, Reappointed by Governor Brown January 2016. Janea A. Scott is one of five Commissioners on the California Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is the State's primary energy policy and planning agency. Ms. Scott was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in February 2013 and reappointed in January 2016 to serve as the Commission's public member. She is the lead Commissioner on transportation and western regional planning, and in 2014 Ms. Scott led the 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update. Ms. Scott serves as the chair of the California Plug-In Electric Vehicle Collaborative, a public/private organization focused on accelerating the adoption of PEVs to meet California's economic, energy and environmental goals. She is also a member of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee. Prior to joining the Energy Commission, Ms. Scott worked at the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Secretary as the Deputy Counselor for Renewable Energy and at Environmental Defense Fund in both the New York and Los Angeles offices as a senior attorney in the climate and air program. Ms. Scott was also an AmeriCorps member working at the San Francisco Urban Service Project from 1996-1997. Ms. Scott earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Law School and her M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

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Mustapha Benmoussa, Ph.D. is a CEO at AGT Nutraceuticals LLC and founder of Atlantic Green Technology, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Laval University in plant biotechnology and performed post-doctoral research at Indiana University and Purdue University. Dr. Benmoussa occupied different managerial and academic positions along his research and development career. He used biotechnology and processing tools in both fundamental and applied scientific research to develop solutions in nutrition and bioenergy sectors. With his 25 year of experience in plant biotechnology and food science, he developed a microalgae biorefinery technology to produce algae biofuels and high-value chemicals for food, beverages, supplement, cosmetic and energy market.

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Mike Schultz is Managing Director of PTI Global Solutions, bringing process technology leadership to companies in the fuels, chemicals, and energy space. Previously Mike was Vice President of Engineering for LanzaTech, where he led the scale-up and commercialization of first of its kind gas fermentation technology for conversion of waste carbon into fuel and chemical products. Prior to LanzaTech, Mike spent two years with Battelle Science and Technology Malaysia, working closely with PETRONAS to develop the R&D infrastructure and capabilities for a robust sustainable fuel and chemical portfolio. This followed a ten-year tenure at UOP in technology development. Mike holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He received the 2015 EPA Greener Synthetic Pathway award and the 2005 Haden Freeman Award for Engineering Excellence from IChemE. Mike has been granted more than 40 US Patents in his career, and has extensive international experience with postings in Malaysia and New Zealand, and frequent travel throughout his career supporting partners and customers in China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, SE Asia, and Europe.

Renewable Energy ♦ Technology Scale-up ♦ Research & Development ♦ IP Portfolio Management ♦ Project Management ♦ Joint Development Partnerships ♦ Business Development ♦ Commercialization ♦ Capital Raising ♦ Mergers & Acquisitions ♦ Public Sector Relationships

Dr. Philip J. Angevine Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in the year 1976 and is currently a President at Anjou Technologies, LLC since 2014, his Consultant in areas are in refining, catalysts, petrochemicals, and biomass upgrading. He worked a Senior VP at Reliance Technology Group, Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai, India (2012-2014). VP, R&D, Hermes Catalysts BV, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (2008-2012). Dr. Philip J. Angevine is a founder and owner of Anjou Technologies, LLC (2007-2012). Previously he server for ABB Lummus Global Inc. (2000 to 2008), Bloomfield, NJ. Corporate Research Program Manager (2000-2002), Catalysis and Chemical Processes (Zurich) and Director of Clean Fuels (2000 to 2002) Bloomfield. Director of Catalysis (2002 to 2008), Technology Development Center (Bloomfield) Development/Commercialization: Symposium Co-Chairman, “Advances in Petroleum Processing and Clean Energy Technology”, ACS National Meeting, August 2004, Philadelphia, PA. ABB International Technology Day (Zurich, 2001), one of 12 speakers to address over 150 journalists from the business and investment communities on new ABB technical advances. Professional Organizations: American Chemical Society New York Catalysis Society Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association

Refining, Catalysis, Biofuels, and Petrochemicals.

Tim Rials is the Associate Dean of AgResearch at the University of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture. This appointment follows 15 years as the Director of the UT Center for Renewable Carbon. Dr. Rials is a graduate of Mississippi State University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in wood science from Virginia Tech. He joined the university following 13 years with the U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research Station in Pineville, Louisiana, after two years on the faculty of the University of California–Berkeley. Tim’s research career has focused on the efficient and effective utilization of renewable resources in advanced composite materials, including development of high throughput analytical methods for characterizing wood. As director of the Center for Renewable Carbon, he facilitates UTIA’s research and development program on the use of forest and agricultural biomass for alternative liquid fuels, industrial chemicals, and advanced materials. The CRC is home to the Southeastern Regional Sun Grant Center that supports an expansive research portfolio in biomass and bioenergy throughout the region. He also leads a regional team of research and outreach specialists in the Southeastern Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems, a competitively awarded grant from USDA’s AFRI program. Dr. Rials was recently recognized for his contributions in the area of renewable carbon science with the 2011 AgResearch Impact Award. He is a fellow in the International Academy of Wood Science and an active member of the American Chemical Society’s Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division

Advanced composite materials, Development of high throughput analytical methods

Dr. Cinzia Buratti was born in Marsciano (PG, Italy) in 1966. She received her graduation as a Civil Engineer in the year 1990, and continued her Research in Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer from the University of Perugia (Italy). She received her PhD in Applied Physics in the year 1995. She worked as an Assistant professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, 1997 ‐ 2004 under the department of Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy). Currently Dr. Cinzia Buratti is working as an Associate professor of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and Environmental Control Techniques, from 2005, Faculty of Engineering in the University of Perugia (Italy).

The research interest of Dr. Cinzia Buratti is followed by - Transparent insulation materials (aerogel) foe energy saving in buildings; - Indoor thermal comfort: instrumental and adaptive approach; - Biomass and bioenergy; - Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of energy chains; - Carbon Footprint of products and processes; - Environmental impact and sustainable energy; - Heat Transfer (thermal resistance of building elements, thermal expansion of materials); - Acoustics (Environmental acoustics, measurements of sound insulation in buildings and of buildings elements); - Natural lighting; - Thermoigrometrical conditions in museums and in presence of works of art; - Water vapour evaporation measurements from free surfaces; - Thermophysical properties of fluids for absorption machines.

Markus Brautsch is Full Professor for Thermodynamics, Energy Technology and Renewable Energies at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden since 1998. He is the founder of the Institute of Energy Technology and the Bavarian Center of Excellence for Combined Heat and Power Generation. In 2014 he was appointed Guest Professor at the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology in China. He is guest lecturer at the Renewable Energy Center in Mithradam (India) and the University of Santa Caterina (Brazil).

Thermodynamics, Energy Technology and Renewable Energies.

Ing Piotr Kardasz PhD - scientific discipline: the construction and operation of the machines, specialization: internal combustion engines and artificial sources of energy. A graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Transport specializations Organization and Design of Transport Systems and Engineering and Ecology Means of Transport, and the Department of Computer Science and Management of Wroclaw University of Technology, the Financial Analysis. Deputy Coordinator of the Cluster R & D & I.

Identification and evaluation of Biopetrol and Renewable technologies. Translation of technical opportunities into market exploitation via active investment. Biodiesel; Energy; Bioenergy; Biofuels; LCA; LCC; Programing.

Dr. Francisco Colombatti started his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in the Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (IAL), working on unknown oxidative resistance genes on plants. his research achieved agronomic interest, because plants overexpressing chimeric genes produce threefold more biomass, up to 100% more seeds and increased tolerance to pathogen. As a consequence, he protected this work and licensed the patent to Plant Bioscience Limited. (PBL®), also, produced a few articles of this research. Immediately after he received his Ph.D. degree, he began working for Molinos Río de la Plata, one of the biggest food companies of the region. His job there was related to multiple projects, but always having as a main project one development aimed to biocontrol Salmonella spp. in the soybean meal production facility. This patented new and novel method of Salmonella spp. biocontrol in soybean crushing facilities led him to win the MIT recognizement as a young innovator. There he played his role as a Head of Project which allowed him to involve in different projects acquiring experience in the agro and food industry and business. Nowadays, Molinos Agro is a "spin off" company that born from Molinos Río de la Plata, focused on processing of soybean and seeking new horizons, always related to grain processing; oil and meal production, and biofuels. He is working not only for Molinos Agro, as a Head of Project and Biotechnological Development Laboratory Director, but also as a consultant for companies like Fugran C.I.S.A. and others.

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Dr. Sivakumar Nallusamy is an assistant professor in Department of Biology, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He holds a Master and PhD degree in Microbiology. Earlier, he worked at Seventh April University, Libya and Bharathidasan University, India. He is establishing a bioprocess laboratory at Sultan Qaboos University. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, 6 book chapters, and has presented more than 30 conference presentations. He is currently supervising one Post-doc, three PhD and one Master students. His current research is focused on the production of biofuel, polyhydroxybutyrate and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

Microbial enzymes, Bioenergy, Bioprocessing and Bioresource utilization, Bioactive compounds

Since 2000 Prof.dr.ir. Gerrit Brem is a professor in Energy Technology and chair of the Thermal and Fluid Engineering department at the University of Twente (NL). He is an expert in the field of thermal conversion processes. In his previous job he was a senior scientist/consultant at TNO and in 2009 appointed by TNO as a Senior Research Fellow. He has carried out a large number of commercial research and development projects for national and international clients. He has developed new advanced conversion technologies and demonstrated in practice. Since 2011 he is Scientific Director of the PDEng programme (Professional Doctorate in Engineering) on Energy and Process Technology. The PDeng programme is a two years post-Master designer programme at the University of Twente. Since 2015 he is Scientific Director of the new research Institute of Engineering of the University of Twente.

Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Thermal conversion processes

Seema Singh is a distinguished member of the technical staff at the Sandia National Laboratories, CA and director of the biomass pretreatment at the Joint Bioenergy Institute. For the past decade, she has been developing novel pretreatment technologies based on ionic liquids. She has developed ‘hybrid chem-bio’ approaches and ‘syn-bio tools’ for lignin valorization and single cell technologies for in-situ examination of algal oil. She serves as the organizing committee member of the Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals and Asia-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquid and Green Processes as well as associate editor and editorial board member of Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels, and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology respectively. She recently edited the book on “Valorization of Lignocellulosic Biomass in a Biorefinery: From Logistics to Environmental and Performance Impact” and contributed book chapters in Ionic Liquids in the Biorefinery Concept: Challenges and Perspectives and Biofuels for Aviation

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Professor Sukla is at present Research Professor in Multidisciplinary research cell,Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University (SOA University), Bhubaneswar. He has also worked as CSIR-Emeritus Scientist at CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar after superannuation as Chief Scientist on 2011. He has more than 40 years of R&D experience in the area of Algal Biotechnology, Bio-mineral Processing, and Hydrometallurgy and contributed over 174 papers in International & National Journals in the area of BioScience and other related fields. He has published 4 books & 11 patents and seven students have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his guidance. He is now supervising several students from different Universities for Ph.D. in the area of bioleaching. He has co-edited the book on Mineral Biotechnology 2002, Mineral Biotechnology 2007, and Environmental Microbial Biotechnology (SPRINGER) 2015, Applied and Industrial Biotechnology (IAEBI) 2015. The books have been widely acclaimed by the readers in the field. He was also a leader of several national and international R&D projects in the area of bio-minerals. Mr. Sukla is the recipient of several prestigious awards that include Prof. S.R. Vyas Memorial Award for the year 2010 by Association Of Microbiologists of India (AMI) towards his significant contribution to the Development of Microbiology in India, IIME Mineral Beneficiation Award: Academic / R&D for the year 2009 for his outstanding professional contribution to Mineral Engineering and Sita Ram Rungta Memorial Award – 2007 of the Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists ( SGAT) for the year 2007 for outstanding work in the field of bio-mineral processing. Mr. Sukla is Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature. Mr. Sukla is the editorial board member of the World Environment journal (Scientific & Academic Publishing) and International Journal of Nonferrous Metallurgy Mr. Sukla is the National Expert in Envis Centre on Environmental Biotechnology (MOEF), New Delhi. Er, Sukla has implemented projects of Alcoa, USA, Ministry of Mines, DST, DBT, MOE and Govt of Odisha. Mr. Sukla has become Senior editor INGLOMAYOR magazine, Santiago (CHILE).

Algal Biotechnology, Bio-mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy

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.

Animesh Dutta is an Associate Professor and Director of Bio-renewable Innovation Lab, and Associate Director, Graduate studies with the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. Previously, he taught at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and at Faculty of Agriculture of Dalhousie University, NS. Dr Dutta is specialized in advanced energy systems and thermo-fluid science with hands-on experience in reactor design and pilot plant operation, design and performance of various tests in laboratory scale and pilot scale units, thermal design and process development. Over the last seventeen years, he has been consistently delivering new and innovative ideas in the areas of advanced energy conversion and heat transfer. In his career, he has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal papers, 2 book chapters, and has roughly 85 conference publications and reports. His current research is focussed on thermochemical conversion (gasification, combustion, torrefaction, hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction) and characterization of agri-residue, biomass, and waste (MSW, Bio-solids) for fuel and energy, and design and optimization of advanced energy systems. He is committed to developing an innovative research program on energy and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

His current research is focussed on thermochemical conversion (gasification, combustion, torrefaction, hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction) and characterization of agri-residue, biomass, and waste (MSW, Bio-solids) for fuel and energy, and design and optimization of advanced energy systems. He is committed to developing an innovative research program on energy and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

A senior expert in bioenergy supply chains and in the use of algal and non-food plant systems for the capture of CO2 and production of green chemicals and biofuels. She gained a PhD in plant biochemistry from the University of Durham, then joined Genzyme Biochemicals in protein production before moving into Business Development and Industrial Marketing. She resumed her research career at Imperial College on wood degradation and the biochemistry of polymeric lignin breakdown, then joined the University of Greenwich, where she holds the Chair in Biochemistry in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. She has led international and national research programmes, more recent of which include “The CO2 microalgae biorefinery: D-Factory”, a 10 million Euro FP7-funded project (https://www.d-factoryalgae.eu/)(ongoing); “Macrobiocrude”, (EPSRC-funded) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=EP%2FK014838%2F1(ongoing) ; Non-food bio-oil supply chains (EU-ACP-funded) (http://www.acpnonfood.com/) aimed at capacity building measures in South Africa, Namibia and Ghana to create sustainable, non-food bio-oil supply chains; Ecotec21 (EU-Interreg) http://enterprise.gre.ac.uk/case-studies/glycerol-chp-a-world-first which installed novel, biofuel-fired CHP technology at the University of Greenwich using biooils and glycerol; and Tuning algae for biofuel profitably (NERC, Innovate UK). 90 publications; 2164 citations; h-index 23; i10-index 35.

Current Research Interests: Biorefineries; bioenergy; microalgae and macroalgae; redox enzymes and anti-oxidants

Dr. Richard Sayre (https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsayre) is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the New Mexico Consortium (NMC). Dr. Sayre’s research interests include; enhancing the efficiency of photosynthesis, algal and plant biotechnology, and nutritional biofortification of crop plants, and molecular control of vector borne diseases. Prior to coming to LANL, Dr. Sayre was a faculty member and later Chairman of the Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at Ohio State University; served as the first Director of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St Louis, and became a Senior Research Scientist at LANL/NMC in 2011. Dr. Sayre has directed several large research consortia including: 1) Director of Phase I of the BioCassava Plus Program funded by the Grand Challenges in Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 2) Director of the Center for Advanced Biofuel Systems, a Dept. of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Center focusing on generating advanced biofuels from algae and plants. 3) Scientific Director of the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels, and Bioproducts, the largest DOE-sponsored algal biofuels consortium funded to date; and 4) is currently Director of the US-DOE sponsored PACE (Producing Algae for Energy and Coproducts) targeted algal biomass and bioproducts program.

Plant biotechnology, photosynthesis, plant biochemistry, metabolic engineering, renewable fuels, food security

Prof. Irene M. C. Lo is currently a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Environmental Engineering and Management Program at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She has been joining HKUST since 1992. Prof. Lo is an elected Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She is the first Hong Kong scholar inducted into the EASA. She is an elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), and elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), She received her Ph.D. degree in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She is also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prof. Lo was the recipient of the 2004 ASCE James Croes Medal, the 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, the 2008 EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award, the 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. Prof. Lo has held 3 Patents, edited 7 technical books, and published over 270 SCI journal articles and conference papers with citation of 5650+ and H-index of 409. Her research areas include magnetic nano-particles and nano-photocatalysts for environmental applications; pollutant migration in soils; food waste and solid waste treatment and management; and remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater.

Her research areas include magnetic nano-particles and nano-photocatalysts for environmental applications; pollutant migration in soils; food waste and solid waste treatment and management; and remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater.

Prof. Ing. Jana Zabranska, PhD. is a member of the academic staff of the Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Technology of Environment Protection, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague. She is a supervisor of Master and Doctor Degree students and has lectures on subjects "Anaerobic technology in environmental protection" and "Technology of biogas and biohydrogen production". The main field of the research is anaerobic degradation of organic compounds, activities of anaerobic microbial consortia and technological applications of anaerobic processes in practice. She is engaged in the field of industrial wastewater treatment, anaerobic digestion of different organic substrates, especially focused on anaerobic microorganism's activity, determination of degradability and methane yield from different substrates. She is authored and co-authored 273 scientific papers, 3 technological patents, 6 textbooks and 2 monographs. Prof. Zabranska is a member of IWA (International Water Association), Specialist group of Anaerobic Digestion, Sludge Management, Health Related Water Microbiology, a member of Czech Biogas Association, Czech Water Association, member of the Committee of the Czech Biotechnology Society, editorial board member of Czech journals Energy 21 and Bioprospect.

Currently she is involved in the research of intensification and control of biogas production from agroindustrial materials and biological removal of hydrogensulfide from biogas. The new interest is focused on utilization of stored renewable energy in the form of hydrogen to upgrade biogas to biomethane and biological transformation of carbon dioxide to biomethane.

Dr. Dana Pokorna is Assistant Prof. at the Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Technology of Environment Protection, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague. She has lectures on subjects "Biodegradability and Ecotoxicity" and "Technology of biogas and biohydrogen production". Main activities in research area are anaerobic wastewater treatment and sludge stabilization, the anaerobic biodegradability of organic compounds, methods for the determination of anaerobic biomass activity, special analytical methods (gas chromatography and capillary isotachophoresis) for the monitoring of anaerobic metabolism and the anaerobic biodegradability of organic compounds, the removal of hydrogen sulfide from biogas both using sulfur oxidizing bacteria immobilized on biofilter and by autotrophic denitrification combined with the removal of nutrients from wastewater. Currently, she is interested in upgrading biogas to biomethan utilizing stored renewable energy in the form of hydrogen and the biological transformation of CO2 to biomethane. She is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conference presentation on renewable energy and the production and cleaning of biogas. She has participated in solving a number of projects dealing with anaerobic process and biogas production. Dr. Pokorna is the member of International Water Association (IWA) and European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB), the member of Czech Biogas Association and Czech Water Association and the member of the Czech Biotechnology Society Committee.

Main areas of her interest – anaerobic biodegradation of organic substrates, determination of anaerobic biomass activity, analytical determination of byproducts and end products of anaerobic degradation, biogas cleaning (H2S removal), upgrading biogas to biomethan and transformation of CO2 to biomethan.

Inder Singh with a Masters in Organic Chemistry and PhD in combined fields of Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology has been providing custom environment friendly solutions for pharmaceutical industry globally for 35 yrs. and now in the renewable energy sector for 10 yrs. Inder has extensive industry experience in developing new custom molecules, reaction specific catalysts, catalysis, process intensification and in developing continuous processors and downstream product recovery systems. He has successfully developed several manufacturing processes that are used commercially in pharmaceutical industry. He has established, owned and operated SBI Fine Chemicals and SBI BioEnergy for over 18 yrs. in Canada.

Inder has extensive industry experience in developing new custom molecules, reaction specific catalysts, catalysis, process intensification and in developing continuous processors and downstream product recovery systems.

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 is a President of International Society for Environmental Information Sciences, Executive Director of Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability Communities. 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

Sandra D. Eksioglu is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Eksioglu’s research focus has been on the theory and application of operations research tools to problems that arise in the areas of transportation, logistics, and supply chain. She works on developing mathematical models and solution algorithms that help design and manage large scale and complex supply-chains. In particular, she is interested in the application of these tools to the biofuels supply chain. She received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation in 2011 for her work on biofuels supply chain. She has co-authored over 70 refereed publications. Dr. Eksioglu is an active member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Dr. Eksioglu’s research focus has been on the theory and application of operations research tools to problems that arise in the areas of transportation, logistics, and supply chain. She works on developing mathematical models and solution algorithms that help design and manage large scale and complex supply-chains. In particular, she is interested in the application of these tools to the biofuels supply chain.

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is currently the Managing Director of Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). He is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune. He is holding the following degrees in education proficiency: • Post Graduate (M.Tech) in Nuclear Technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 2006. • Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from JNU in 2002, • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from JNU in 1994. In a short span with the understanding of the Biomass IPPs and biomass supply chain management, he set up the first of its kind biomass fuel aggregation and supply company Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). The company has grown from a start up to INR 18 Crores Turnover Company in 5xYears time and having closed its first round of PE investment from Zurich based Impact PE- responsAbility in 2013. This is a big force multiplier to support biomass IPPs, process industry boilers, cogeneration plants and other industry using biomass as a feedstock.

Lt Col Monish Ahuja (Retd) is known in the Biomass fraternity as a dedicated and knowledgeable leader. He has been advocating the barriers faced by Biomass Project Developers at various seminars and forums and has been instrumental in impressing MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources, India) towards the cause of biomass power plants.

“Morten is Senior Project Manager in Sweco A/S and is managing severals of Sweco’s biogas projects. Morten has more than 20 years years of experience in project management and since 1997 he has managed several large bio-gas projects in both Denmark and abroad. The last 6 years, the emphasis has been on exports, including sales, development, construction and commissioning of the plant in the USA in particular and to some extent Africa. Previously, Morten been stationed in Japan and was responsible for the construction of a biogas plant. Especially the foreign projects have been characterized by high complexity and a large number of stakeholders with consequent heavy demands on coordination and follow-up. As project manager Morten puts great emphasis on good communication and personal presence both internally and in relation to customers and other partners in the project. His work also includes developing advanced separation technologies for separating nutrients from digestate and transforming these into valuable and marketable fertilizers. Morten Jacobsen holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Denmark.”

His work also includes developing advanced separation technologies for separating nutrients from digestate and transforming these into valuable and marketable fertilizers.

Dr. Saady received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Technology (Iraq), and a Ph.D. from the University of Windsor (Canada). He worked as an associate researcher at Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre, Sherbrooke, Quebec. He received seven prestigious scholarships including three NSERC top scholarships. He published 30+ peer-reviewed articles, two book’s chapters, and served on committees for 6 international conferences in USA, Canada and Europe. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Recycling & Waste Management Journal published by OMICS International. Dr. Saady is currently a consulting biogas projects development scientist.

Dr. Saady is specialized in developing environmental biotechnologies to bioconvert organic waste biomass into biofuel and bioenergy such as hydrogen, methane, and electricity using wet and dry anaerobic digestion. Microbial fuel cell and bioelectrochemical technology. Lignocellulose hydrolysis. Biodegradation and fate of recalcitrant organic compounds and emerging contaminants. Identification and evaluation of on-farm clean and renewable technologies. Biofiltration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in livestock industry waste gases. Development of psychrophilic microbial processes.

Jay J. Cheng is a Professor of Bioprocessing and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, USA and Adjunct Professor at Peking University-Shenzhen Graduate School, China. He graduated from Jiangxi Institute of Technology (now Nanchang University) in China with BS in Chemical Engineering in 1982, St. Cyril & Methodius University in Macedonia with MS in Biological Engineering in 1987, and University of Cincinnati in USA with PhD in Environmental Engineering in 1996. He was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2005/2006. Dr. Cheng’s research has been focused on wastewater treatment and bioenergy production processes. His research effort has resulted in publications of a book, over 80 articles in refereed scientific journals, and more than 80 papers in national and international technical conferences. Dr. Cheng is among the most cited authors in the areas of Bioenergy and Environmental Engineering. He has been invited to present over 60 key-note speeches and seminars in China, Europe, and North and South Americas.

His research maily focuse in the areas of Bioenergy and Environmental Engineering. His research effort has resulted in publications of a book, over 80 articles in refereed scientific journals, and more than 80 papers in national and international technical conferences

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

Nedim Saracoglu, Ph.D., is professor, the chair of Forest Management Department at the forestry faculty, vice dean of forestry faculty and the director of Renewable Energy Research Centre of Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey. His current research interests are forest biomass, energy forestry, forest yield. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals.

His current research interests are forest biomass, energy forestry, forest yield. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals.

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.

Kelly Dwyer is pursuing her Phd at Irish Research Council, Monaghan Biosciences

I have had a long academic career and done research in marine science, microbiology and cell biology, medicine, nanotechnology, engineering, and environmental sciences. I have had various affiliations with outstanding institutions: graduate school at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, and positions or affiliations at the University of Copenhagen, University of Paris at Orsay, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at Yale Medical School, Argonne National Lab, NASA Ames Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz, Tokyo University Agriculture and Technology, and the California Academy of Science. After all this, my legacy project is "OMEGA (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae)." OMEGA is an integrated "life-support" system for Spaceship Earth--an "ecology of technologies" in which wastes from one part of the system are resources for another part. It combines algae cultivation for biofuel, wastewater treatment, and carbon capture, with electricity and heat generation by solar, drinking water production by osmosis, and food production by aquaculture. It expands our sphere of influence into coastal waters, but mitigates our impact on coastal ecosystems, while preparing future generations for sea-level rise. OMEGA is work-in-progress with many remaining challenges, but the goals are of critical importance: sustainable energy, water and food availability, and mitigation of our environmental impact. To find out about progress on OMEGA, please watch my TED talk and consider if this technology is appropriate for you and your country, keeping in mind that with >7 billion people in the world: "We are not passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are the crew."

Marine science, microbiology and cell biology, medicine, nanotechnology, engineering, and environmental sciences.

Dr. Marina Kousoulidou is a Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineer. She has completed her PhD in the field of transport emissions from the Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and postdoctoral studies at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. She is working as an Aviation Expert Project Officer at the European Commission. She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals, she is the author of scientific books, a pilot and has been serving as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

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Biorefineries

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.

Dr. Ajay K. Dalai, P.Eng., FRSC, FEIC, FCIC, FCAE, FAIChE, FIIChE Professor of Chemical Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bio-Energy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Bio-Energy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing,Chemical Engineering

Abd El-Latif Hesham is Associate Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology at Assiut University, Egypt. He graduated and got his M.Sc. from Genetics department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt and his PhD degree from Chinese academy of Sciences in Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology. He awarded postdoctoral studies from CAS-TWAS. He expert in molecular biological techniques, including Clone library, RFLP and gene sequencing, phylogenetic analysis, florescent in situ hybridization (FISH), PCR-DGGE, MPN-PCR, reverse transcriptase PCR , and real time PCR (RT-PCR). He has authored more than 50 papers in reputed journals. He expert and one of organizing committee for several international conferences in biotechnology and serving as an Associate editor and Editorial Board member for international reputed journals with high impact factors.

Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than ten books in Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than five hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals. Hitherward, he is a member of more than one hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. It should be noted that he is currently the President of American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA.

Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure

Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (1st Class) in 2000 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 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 two PhD 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 Spark-Ignition (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

IC Engines, Combustion Analysis, Alternative fuels, Fluidized Bed Heat Transfer, Wavelets Analysis

• Optimization Algorithms and Methods • System Degradation Modeling and Lifetime Monitoring • Energy and Exergy Analysis of Integrated Systems

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

Dr. Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan, distinguished professor and graduate coordinator in the agricultural and biosystems engineering department at South Dakota State University, has been the principal investigator on several research projects and an advisor to undergraduate and graduate students with academic and research activities. His research work is actively involved in national and international standards development focused in food and biprocessing. He has served as PI/Co-PI in several projects funded to the total amount of about $20.0 million. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and made more than 350 regional, national, and international presentations. K. Muthukumarappan has contributed to the revision of three ASABE standards. He has served in leadership roles on numerous Food and Process Engineering Institute (FPEI) committees and served as FPEI division representative to the Standards council. He is currently serving as associate editor of Transactions of the ASABE. A few of his awards and honors include a 2013 Distinguished Professor, 2012 ASABE Fellow Award, 2012 F.O. Butler Service Award, 2011 Griffith Faculty Research Award, 2010 International Research Award, 2009 Evelyn E. Rosentreter Standards Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions as a research leader and educator in the food and bioprocess engineering area, and in the development of international and ASABE standards, South Dakota State University F.O. Butler Research Award and CoE Outstanding Researcher award.

Ajit has more than 35 years of experience in the petroleum refining and petrochemicals business, technology development and management. He received his PhD from the University of Delaware and MBA from Cornell University. His experience includes technical and managerial assignments in research, engineering, licensing, business, manufacturing units and corporate planning. Ajit 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 45 U.S. patents to his credit.

Dr. Lew Christopher holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology, and has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience. Currently he serves as Director of the Biorefining Research Institute at Lakehead University. His research mission is to add value to the emerging bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach to the development of renewable energy technologies. Dr. Christopher is 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 bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass.

Environmental and Energy Sustainability: Sustainable production of biofuels and bioenergy from renewable resources, energy reduction and integration; environmentally sustainable solutions for municipal, industrial and wastewater treatment plants, reduction of waste streams and greenhouse gas emissions; Value-Added Bioproducts: Biotechnological pathways for production of high-value biochemicals and biomaterials; turning industrial and agricultural waste into value; natural compounds with biological activities for use in a variety of pharmacological products, cost-effective integration of products and processes at the Forest Biorefinery, maximizing the fiber value of plant materials.

Dr. Wil Burns is the founding Co-Executive Director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, a scholarly initiative of the School of International Service at American University; he is based in its western office in Berkeley, California. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow for the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and as a Research Fellow for the Center for Science, Technology and Medicine in Society at the University of California-Berkeley. He previously served as the Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He is the former President of the Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences and former Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law interest group of the American Society of International Law and Chair of the International Wildlife Law Interest group of the Society. He has published over 80 articles and chapters in law, science, and policy journals and books, and has co-edited four books. He also served as founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy and Case Studies in the Environment. He holds a Ph.D. in International Environmental Law from the University of Wales-Cardiff School of Law. Prior to becoming an academic, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the State of Wisconsin and worked in the non-governmental sector for twenty years, including as Executive Director of the Pacific Center for International Studies, a think-tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife treaty regimes, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. His current areas of research focus are: climate geoengineering; international climate change litigation; adaptation strategies to address climate change, with a focus on the potential role of microinsurance; and the effectiveness of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System.

climate geoengineering; international climate change litigation; adaptation strategies to address climate change, with a focus on the potential role of microinsurance; and the effectiveness of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System.

Dr. Sevim Z. Erhan has a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1980 and a Ph.D. in Organic-Polymer Chemistry from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1987. She has been with the U.S. Depadment of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service {ARS), since 1988. She was a Postdoctoral Associate, Research Scientist and Research Leader at the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, from 1988-2008, and then became Center Director of the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, 2008-present. Her research subjects are Vegetable Oil Based Industrial Products, including printing inks, paints, coatings, lubricants, biodiesel, hydraulic oils and composites. She has authored or coauthored over 250 scientific articles, including 9 U.S. Patents, 2 books and 25 book chapters. She has been invited to present her research findings at more than 200 national and international scientific meetings. She has received several Agricultural Research Service awards and industrial awards including: Land of Lincoln Soybean Association Market Award; US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Distinguished Service Award; Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer; United Soybean Board Outstanding Achievement Award; and Oil Technologists Association of India KT. Achaya Award; Fellow, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers; Fellow, American Oil Chemists Society; and the Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year Award.

Dr. Timilsina is a Senior Research Economist at the Development Research Group of the World Bank, Washington, DC. He has more than 20 years’ experience across a board range of energy and climate change economics and policies at the international level. His key expertise includes biofuels, climate change policies, electricity economics and energy sector as well as general equilibrium modeling for policy analysis. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Timilsina was a Senior Research Director at the Canadian Energy Research Institute, Calgary, Canada. At present, he is leading a number of studies including economics of renewable energy including biofuels, modeling of carbon markets in China, sustainable urban planning in the Middle East and North Africa.

His key expertise includes biofuels, climate change policies, electricity economics and energy sector as well as general equilibrium modeling for policy analysis.

Dr. James G. Speight has doctorate degrees in Chemistry, Geological Sciences, and Petroleum Engineering and is the author of more than 60 books in petroleum science, petroleum engineering, and environmental sciences.

Dr. Speight has fifty years of experience in areas associated with (1) the properties, recovery, and refining of reservoir fluids, conventional petroleum, heavy oil, and tar sand bitumen, (2) the properties and refining of natural gas, gaseous fuels, and (3) the properties and refining of biomass, biofuels, biogas, and the generation of bioenergy. His work has also focused on safety issues, environmental effects, remediation, and safety issues associated with the production and use of fuels and biofuels. He is the author of more than 70 books in petroleum science, petroleum engineering, biomass and biofuels, environmental sciences.

Although he has always worked in private industry which focused on contract-based work, he has served as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering at the University of Utah and in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming. In addition, he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Science, University of Mosul, Iraq and has also been a Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering at the following universities: University of Missouri-Columbia, the Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr. Speight was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1996 and awarded the Gold Medal of Honor that same year for outstanding contributions to the field of petroleum sciences. He has also received the Scientists without Borders Medal of Honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2001, the Academy also awarded Dr. Speight the Einstein Medal for outstanding contributions and service in the field of Geological Sciences.

Animesh Dutta is a Professor and Director of Bio-renewable Innovation Lab, and Associate Director, Graduate studies with the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. He is specialized in advanced energy systems and thermo-fluid science with hands-on experience in reactor design and pilot plant operation, design and performance of various tests in laboratory scale and pilot scale units, thermal design and process development. In his career, Dr. Dutta has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers, 3 book chapters, and has roughly 100 conference publications and reports and has been serving as editorial board members of various journals.

His current research is focussed on thermochemical conversion (gasification, combustion, torrefaction, hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction), biochemical conversion, and characterization of agri-residue, biomass, and waste (MSW, Bio-solids) for fuel, energy, fertilizer and other value added products in the concept of Circular Economy. He is committed to developing an innovative research program on energy and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

Dr. Madhu Khanna is the ACES Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She was selected as a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, a University of Illinois Scholar, a Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Woods Institute at Stanford University and received the Paul A. Funk recognition from the College of ACES. She serves on the Science Advisory Board of the USEPA and is currently the editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Her research examines the incentives for clean technology adoption, the economic and environmental effects of biofuels and the effectiveness of environmental policies. She uses welfare economics to examine the costs and benefits of energy and environmental policies and the design of policy incentives that can achieve environmental targets cost-effectively.

Prof. (Dr.) Yogender Kumar Yadav received his Ph.D. in Energy Studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and at present he is the Director General, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (an Autonomous Institution of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India), Kapurthala, Punjab (India). Prof. Yadav has been actively engaged in research, teaching, consultancy, administration and management in the field of renewable energy for the last more than two decades. He developed and taught renewable energy courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students at CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar (India) and established the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam (India) offering postgraduate programme in Renewable Energy.

During his career he has made significant contributions to the advancement of renewable energy technologies and has more than 100 research publications in the international/national journals of repute and conferences in addition to writing teaching text on Renewable Energy. Prof. Yadav has been the Project Coordinator of Haryana State for the Government of India sponsored project on Integrated Rural Energy Programme (IREP) for meeting out rural energy needs through optimum mix of conventional and renewable energy sources with special emphasis on biomass and bio-energy. He has completed several research projects including the ICAR All India Coordinated Research Project on Renewable Energy Sources as Principal Investigator.

Prof. Yadav had been the Chairman, Energy Forum at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Associate Editor, Energy for Journal of Agricultural Engineering. Currently he serves on a large number of expert committees and national/international panels dealing with renewable energy. He Chaired the Technical Session of the World Renewable Energy Congress IV at Denver, USA and was the Member of International Steering Committee of World Renewable Energy Forum 2012. Presently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biofuels and Bioenergy.

Prof. Yadav is the recipient of Distinguished Service Award of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers for ‘Energy in Agriculture’ and has been honoured with the prestigious ‘Excellence Award 2012 for Research and Innovation in recognition of his research in the field of Renewable Energy at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Recently, Prof. Yadav has been awarded the World Renewable Energy Pioneer Award (WREN Pioneer Award 2014) by the World Renewable Energy Council/ Network for his global contributions in the field of renewable energy and the award was conferred upon him at the World Renewable Energy Congress XIII during August 3-8, 2014 at Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.

Dr. Foster Agblevor is currently the Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) endowed Professor of Biological Engineering at Utah State University (USU), Logan UT and Director of USTAR Bioenergy Center, Utah State University. He is also Adjunct Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. He received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry from the University of Toronto. He did postdoctoral work at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, HI. Prior to joining USU in 2011, Dr Agblevor was Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. He was also a Senior Chemical Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Co. before joining Virginia Tech. Some of his awards and recognitions include the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Excellence in Basic Research Award, the Virginia Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. US Department of Energy Special Research Award. His research involves the thermochemical and biochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. He is currently working on the fractional catalytic pyrolysis of biomass to produce biochar, chemicals, and biogasoline.

Thermochemical and biochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals & fractional catalytic pyrolysis of biomass to produce biochar, chemicals, and biogasoline.

Dr. Saady received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Technology (Iraq), and a Ph.D. from the University of Windsor (Canada). He worked as an associate researcher at Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre, Sherbrooke, Quebec. He received seven prestigious scholarships including three NSERC top scholarships. He published 30+ peer-reviewed articles, two book’s chapters, and served on committees for 6 international conferences in USA, Canada and Europe. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Recycling & Waste Management Journal published by OMICS International. Dr. Saady is currently a consulting biogas projects development scientist.

Dr. Saady is specialized in developing environmental biotechnologies to bioconvert organic waste biomass into biofuel and bioenergy such as hydrogen, methane, and electricity using wet and dry anaerobic digestion. Microbial fuel cell and bioelectrochemical technology. Lignocellulose hydrolysis. Biodegradation and fate of recalcitrant organic compounds and emerging contaminants. Identification and evaluation of on-farm clean and renewable technologies. Biofiltration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in livestock industry waste gases. Development of psychrophilic microbial processes.

Dr. Simmons joined Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA, www.energy.sandia.gov) in 2001 as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, serving as a member of the Materials Chemistry Department. He was promoted to Manager of the Energy Systems Department in 2006. The primary focus of the department was the development of novel materials-based solutions to meet the nation’s growing energy demands. In 2007, he was one of the principal co-investigators of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI, www.jbei.org), a ten year, $259M DOE funded project tasked with the development and realization of next-generation biofuels produced from non-food crops. He is currently serving as the Chief Science and Technology Officer and the Vice-President of the Deconstruction Division at JBEI, where he leads a team of 41 researchers working on advanced methods of liberating fermentable sugars from lignocellulosic biomass. He is also the Senior Manager of the Advanced Biomanufacturing Group at Sandia and serves as the Laboratory Relationship Manager for the Biomass Program. He has over 250 publications, book chapters, and patents. His work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company, and the KQED televised science program Quest.

With a background in biofuel cells, nanophotonic materials, micro- and nanofluidics, desalination, biomineralization and enzyme engineering, Blake Simmons brings a wealth of research experience to the Deconstruction Division. Simmons has been responsible for overseeing the development of more energy-efficient and cost-effective methods to achieve the first step in bioenergy production: deconstructing biomass into fermentable sugars. Deconstruction researchers are developing various strategies for affecting these goals, including identifying microbes that have evolved to naturally break down biomass within a community, which become sources for efficient enzyme cocktails that could be used in the biomanufacturing process. In addition, scientists have developed new techniques, such as a one-pot ionic liquid pretreatment procedure that will reduce waste and cost, and another that does not require the use of expensive enzyme additives for pre-treating biomass and breaking it down into fuel sugars.

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. 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. Souza is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo where she leads research on sugarcane genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics. Dr. Glaucia Souza is the President of FAPESP Bioenergy Program (BIOEN). BIOEN aims at articulating public and private R&D, in academic and industrial laboratories, to advance and apply knowledge in fields related to bioenergy. Research ranges from biomass production and processing to biofuel technologies, biorefineries and sustainability. Dr. Souza led the SCOPE Bioenergy & Sustainability project, a global assessment of current status and latest developments on bioenergy production and use to produce policy recommendations (http://bioenfapesp.org).

Areas of Expertise: Functional Genomics, Sugarcane, Biotechnology

Sandra D. Eksioglu is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Eksioglu’s research focus has been on the theory and application of operations research tools to problems that arise in the areas of transportation, logistics, and supply chain. She works on developing mathematical models and solution algorithms that help design and manage large scale and complex supply-chains. In particular, she is interested in the application of these tools to the biofuels supply chain. She received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation in 2011 for her work on biofuels supply chain. She has co-authored over 70 refereed publications. Dr. Eksioglu is an active member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Dr. Eksioglu’s research focus has been on the theory and application of operations research tools to problems that arise in the areas of transportation, logistics, and supply chain. She works on developing mathematical models and solution algorithms that help design and manage large scale and complex supply-chains. In particular, she is interested in the application of these tools to the biofuels supply chain.

Dr. P Shanmugam is employed as Senior Principal Scientist (Scientist -“F”) in the Environmental Engineering Department of Central Leather Research Institute (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), Adyar Chennai.20 India, leading a team of Scientists/ Researchers and carrying out research in the field of sequential production of bio-diesel, bioethanol, bio-hydrogen and biomethane from fat and protein rich solid and liquid wastes as a “Biorefinery” through enzymatic transesterification, solventogenesis, hydrogenesis and methanogenesis respectively as an enzymatic biorefinery for CDM, high Carbon offsetting, and for better environmental protection. He has demonstrated many large scale onsite biogas plants producing power and fertilizer from leather, slaughter house, wholesale vegetable market complex waste and municipal organic solid wastes, which can be viewed in his web site www.clri.org/WriteReadData/Biodata/PaShanmugam.htm . Shanmugam did his Ph.D. on Hydrogen and methane generation from the phase separated anaerobic co-digestion of leather fleshing with MSW from Public Health and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom on Commonwealth Fellowship after his M.S.,Degree from Civil / Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India and M.Sc. Degee in Environmental Sciences, (Specialization on Industrial Pollution and control) from Bishop Heber College, Bharathidasan University, Trichirappalli, Tamil Nadu. India. His core Professional responsibilities are to lead the bioenergy research ream and to deliver lectures in Wastewater Engineering and treatment and solid waste management for Leather industries to B.Tech and M. Tech. Environmental Engineering and Leather Technology students for Anna University, Chennai.

Submerged Anaerobic Membrane separation technologies for water and waste water treatment for zero liquid and solid discharge. Bio-refinery producing biodiesel, bio-ethanol, biohydrogen and biomethane from Industrial and municipal organic solid and liquid wastes for Zero liquid Discharge, power generation (Waste into Wealth) and green house gas emission reduction. Design, erection, commission, execution, operation maintenance and troubleshooting assessment of large scale and pilot scale biohydrogen and methane plants (UASB and CSTR reactors. Tracer residence time distribution, rheology and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling detecting short circuiting and active/ dead zone predictions of anaerobic CSTRs Atmospheric air pollution dispersion modeling and photochemical smog formation studies Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Plan and QMS.

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

DR.Mukesh Tulsidas Pandya, a Professor In Microbiology(Retired), Department Of Microbiology – Jai Hind College, Mumbai. He did his PhD From Bombay in Microbiology in 1983. He did his M. Sc. By Research From Bombay in Microbiology in 1975.He did his B.Sc. HONS From Bombay in Microbiology & Chemistry in 1972. He has a teaching experience of 37 years. He has published many papers in National and International journal and also conducted many workshops.

• Development of bacterial cultures for treatment of Industrial Wastes containing Hydrocarbons , Phenols , Nitrogenous Compounds , Straight and Branched Chain Amines , Amides Caprolactum , Mineral Oils, Sugars, bulk drugs, Cresols, Paracresidine etc. • Management of Re-circulatory systems and control of Microbial Fouling of Heat Exchangers. • Control of Micro-organisms in Environment in food and pharmaceutical industries. • Inhibition of Nitrification Using Plant Seed Extract to increase the availability of nitrogen in soil after addition of nitrogenous fertiliser. • Studies on Effect of Ammoniacal Nitrogen Containing Effluent on Soil Flora. • Sulphate Reducing Bacteria their cultivation and Control in Oil Drilling Operations and in other Industrial Process. • Studies on Microbial Contamination of Swimming Pool water and Its Control. • Studies on Bacterial Contamination during manufacture of bottled water /mineral Water. • Bioremediation of Natural water bodies like lakes. • Development of Bioremediation products for Solid waste management. • Hospital Acquired Infection in Hospital Environment and it’s control. • Eco-friendly Disinfectant formulations. • Sewage treatment and management. • Anaerobic treatment programmes. • Micro-algae an alternative to coal as Energy source.

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.

Dr. Mohammed Nasim, Outstanding scientist did his Ph.D. from Moscow State University, Moscow in 1991. Presently he is the Director of Defence Institute of Bioenergy Research (DIBER), DRDO, India. He has developed various alternative source of materials like Nanophotovoltaic Materials from group II-VI (CdTe, CdSe) & I-III-VI (CuInGaSe2, CuInGaS2) Semiconductor for Electronic and Solar Cell Applications and LED. He also carried out research work for storage of solar energy using salt hydrates. Under his leadership, a technology model for production of biodiesel from Jatropha plant has been developed. This model involves a comprehensive approach to utilize all waste parts of Jatropha to make technology cost effective. He has over 50 research publications in the Journals of National and International repute, 45 papers presented in the National and International Seminars. 5 Patents and 5 technical reports are also in his credit. Dr. Nasim attended and presented papers in various International Conferences at UK, Brazil, Poland, USSR (Kiev-Ukraine, Riga, Irkutsk) and also visited few countries i.e. Germany, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Saudi Arabia.

R&D on bio-energy and biofuel for defence use, Bio resource conservation and crop improvement including biotechnological approach, Performance enhancing Bio-products from Himalayan Flora.

Animesh Dutta is an Associate Professor and Director of Bio-renewable Innovation Lab, and Associate Director, Graduate studies with the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. Previously, he taught at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and at Faculty of Agriculture of Dalhousie University, NS. Dr Dutta is specialized in advanced energy systems and thermo-fluid science with hands-on experience in reactor design and pilot plant operation, design and performance of various tests in laboratory scale and pilot scale units, thermal design and process development. Over the last seventeen years, he has been consistently delivering new and innovative ideas in the areas of advanced energy conversion and heat transfer. In his career, he has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal papers, 2 book chapters, and has roughly 85 conference publications and reports. His current research is focussed on thermochemical conversion (gasification, combustion, torrefaction, hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction) and characterization of agri-residue, biomass, and waste (MSW, Bio-solids) for fuel and energy, and design and optimization of advanced energy systems. He is committed to developing an innovative research program on energy and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

His current research is focussed on thermochemical conversion (gasification, combustion, torrefaction, hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction) and characterization of agri-residue, biomass, and waste (MSW, Bio-solids) for fuel and energy, and design and optimization of advanced energy systems. He is committed to developing an innovative research program on energy and other value-added products from biomass and waste materials.

Nicola M. Pugno was born in 1972 in Pavia, Italy and is married and has three babies. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics, as well as a Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biology. He is a Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, Italy and there Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics (previous Associate Professor, Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno”, at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy). He is the Scientific Responsible of Graphene Nanocomposites (within the Graphene Flagship) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy and Full Professor of Materials Science at the Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. He has published about 260 International Journal (Int. J.) papers on Solid-, Structural-, Fracture-, Bio- and Nano-Mechanics in leading international journals (including Nature, Nature Materials and Nature Communications) mainly on nanotubes and graphene and bio-inspired nanomaterials (e.g. mimicking limpet teeth for strength, spider silk for toughness, gecko foot for smart adhesion, lotus leaf for self-cleaning, bone for self-healing, etc.). He is a Reviewer for about 100 Int. J. and is in the Editorial Board of about 40 Int. J., including Academic Editor of PlosOne and Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Bio-Inspired Materials and Frontiers in Materials - Mechanics. NMP has received 4 grants from the European Research Council: the 2011 ERC Starting Grant (at the Consolidator level), in 2013 both the two ERC Proof of Concept assigned to Italy and in 2015 a third ERC Proof of Concept.

He is a Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, Italy

Dr.Stephan Leisner have been working in the biodiesel industry since 2005. He have been involved in building up the largest biodiesel plant in Austria and I am now working for Bio Oil Group, which is dedicated to producing biodiesel based on 100pc waste feedstocks such as used cooking oil. So far he worked on six production sites with different technologies and a total capacity of 350,000 t/yr . His main expertise and experience lie in using difficult waste feedstocks and producing double counting eligible products for blending companies and mineral oil firms.

His main expertise and experience lie in using difficult waste feedstocks and producing double counting eligible products for blending companies and mineral oil firms.

Dr. Rob Mitchell is a Research Agronomist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Grain, Forage and Bioenergy Research Unit in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the Coordinator of the USDA Central-East Regional Biomass Research Center. Dr. Mitchell is a Fellow in the Crop Science Society of America and a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy. In 2000, he was named the American Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources National Outstanding Teacher. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 refereed journal publications, book chapters, proceedings, popular articles, cultivar releases and extension publications, and given more than 120 invited presentations.

All aspects of establishment, management, harvest, storage, and sustainability of perennial grasses for bioenergy and forage production in the Great Plains and Midwest, USA.

Dr. REX B. DEMAFELIS, is a Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension & Professor 10, Chemical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Agro-industrial Technology, University of the Philippines Los Banos, College, Laguna. He completed his Doctor in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He did his MSChE in 1990 from University of the Philippines Diliman. He did his BSChE (Cum laude) in 1984 from University of San Agustin, Iloilo City. Awards : 2014 UPLB Outstanding Senior Researcher in Natural Sciences, UPLB,2014 Alumni Achievement Awardee in Science and Technology, University of San Agustin Alumni Association (USAAA), 2013 Outstanding Professional of the Year Award, Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), 2013 Outstanding Chemical Engineer of the Philippines Award, Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2011 University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) Outstanding Alumni in Chemical Engineering

Plant, process and equipment design Design of Microbial Film Bioreactor for Industry, Physico-Chemical Methods of Purification and Recycling of Distillery Slops, Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Chemical Process Equipment, Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Countercurrent Mixed Flow Condenser, Feasibility Study for the Establishment of a Commercial Sweet Sorghum Plantation and a Sweet Sorghum Syrup Processing Plant in the Philippines.

Professor Wyman has devoted most of his career to leading advancement of technology for conversion of cellulosic biomass to ethanol and other products. In the fall of 2005, he joined the University of California at Riverside as a Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and the Ford Motor Company Chair in Environmental Engineering with a research focus on pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and dehydration of cellulosic biomass to reactive intermediates for biological or catalytic conversion into fuels and chemicals. Before joining UCR, he was the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Dr. Wyman recently founded Vertimass LLC that is devoted to commercialization of novel catalytic technology for simple one-step conversion of ethanol to fungible gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel blend stocks. Dr. Wyman is also cofounder and former Chief Development Officer and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Mascoma Corporation, a startup focused on advanced technology for biomass conversion to ethanol and other products. Dr. Wyman’s diverse career also includes holding major leadership roles focused mostly on biomass conversion over a 17 year period with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as well as management positions at Badger Engineers and BC International, a biomass startup. He has contributed over 155 peer-reviewed papers, 25 book chapters, many edited volumes, over 250 presentations many of which were invited, about 25 technical reports, and 21 patents. He edited a recent book on aqueous pretreatment of cellulosic biomass to which he also contributed several chapters as well as a previous cellulosic ethanol book. Other honors received include Fellow in the American Association for Advancement of Science, Tang Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, and CD Scott Award for the Annual Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. In addition to his role as a founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology for Biofuels, Wyman is on the editorial board of several other technical journals and the board of directors and advisors for several organizations and institutions.

Professor Wyman’s UCR research focuses on conversion of cellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals to address critical issues in the release of greenhouse gases, sustainable energy production, and strategic and economic vulnerability. In particular, our research targets aqueous phase processing (APP) of abundant, non-food cellulosic biomass (e.g., energy crops such as poplar hardwood and switchgrass and agricultural residues such as corn stover) into commodity products including ethanol for use as a transportation fuel.

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.

Silvano Vergura received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2004, he is Tenured Assistant Professor in Politecnico di Bari, where he is currently teaching "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering". His main research interests concern the monitoring of renewable energy sources. He has devoted particular attention to the energy performance analysis of photovoltaic plants, nonlinear systems, and smart cities. He served as a member of the International Program Committee of several international Conferences and Symposia. He served as reviewer of 20+ international journal. He is author or co-author of 70+ printed international publications. He has a patent on the ageing of PV modules and he has designed several softwares. Other information on www.silvanovergura.it

Modeling of Renewable Energy Systems (RES), Analysis of SmartGrids (SG), monitoring of energy performaces of RES, Big data management in RES, Analysis, modelling and simulations of power electronics circuits, Descriptive and inferential statistics of electrical data, Synthesis of electrical circuit.

Thomas Foust is the Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Bioenergy Center (NBC). The NBC is a world leading organization of approximately 175 engineering and scientific staff performing cutting edge work to develop cost effective, environmentally sustainable technology for producing transportation fuels and products from biomass by delivering innovative, cost-effective biofuels solutions. Foust is a comprehensive expert in the biofuels field. His areas of expertise include feedstock production, biomass conversion technologies to fuels and products, and environmental and societal sustainability issues associated with biofuels and bioenergy. He has over 25 years of research and research management experience specializing in biomass feedstocks and conversion research. He has over 100 publications in the biomass field covering all aspects of biofuels technology. Foust has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.

Biomass

Han’s primary research focuses on forest operations which involve the application of various forest management tools and processes to achieve a wide range of objectives in forest management. He has been conducting studies on economics, operational advantages and constraints for various harvesting equipment and systems. Topics associated with forest biomass harvesting, collection and transportation for energy generation have been a main theme of his research for the last 15 years. As seen in his past publications, He is interested in designing efficient operations systems and developing innovative equipment to improve economic feasibility of utilization of forest residues such as logging slash and non-merchantable small-diameter trees for energy production. For example, his research teams recently evaluated centralized slash grinding operations which was combined with roll on/off and hook-lift container trucks to improve access to remote areas and machine utilization rates. Collaboration with other disciplines such as wood chemistry (e.g. gasification) and forest ecology (nutrient impacts from biomass removal) has been also a key approach to comprehensively address recent challenges related to biomass removal and utilization. For the W2W project, Han will be responsible for development of cost-effective biomass harvesting systems and evaluation of innovative machines and tools in biomass feedstock operations.

Forest operations which involve the application of various forest management tools and processes to achieve a wide range of objectives in forest management

George T. Tsao is an emeritus professor of Purdue University. In 1978, he established the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering at Purdue. His major research interest has been biochemical engineering involved in syntheses of biochemicals and biofuels from waste biomass. He has had about 300 technical publications and patents related to subjects in his field. He trained a total of 72 doctoral students and 64 post-doctorates. He is the first recipient of the John Ericsson Award issued by the U S Department of Energy, cited for outstanding in research on bioenergy. Professor Tsao's very early emphasis on the valuable potential of renewable resources to human well being has been awarded and recognized as a world leader in the advent of industrial biotechnology by Visionaries of Industrial Biotechnology.

Chemical Engineering, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Molecular Genetics, Biological Science, Food sciences and chemistry.

Dennis Buffington completed his Ph.D from University of Minnesota - Major in Agricultural Engineering; Minor in Operations Research, currently he is working as Professor Emeritus in Penn State University

Energy Management and Environmental Control Systems

Tatjana Stevanovic has completed her undergraduate and graduate studies up to PhD at the University of Belgrade at which she was teaching Wood Chemistry and Chemical Transformation of Wood until 1997. Since then she is teaching these same cources at Laval University and performing research on bioactive polyphenols as well as on polymeric applications of lignins. She has published numerous scientific papers and book chapters as well as Wood chemistry textbook. She has deposited a international patent on new organoslv process leading to highly pure lignin along with cellulose pulp and bioactive extractives from pre-extraction.

Chemistry lignin, Wood chemistry, bioactive molecules of forest biomass, Pulp and paper

Hermes José Loschi holds a BSc in Control and Automation Engineering from Paulista University. He has undergone several postgraduate studies, focused on Wireless Sensor Network, Smart Grid, Broadcasting, Photovoltaic Systems Applications, Energy, Biomass and Solar Tracking, through the performance as a researcher by the Laboratory of Visual Communications of the State University of Campinas. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as editorial board member and reviewer of some academic journals and research centers.

Wireless Sensor Network, Smart Grid, Broadcasting, Photovoltaic Systems Applications, Energy, Biomass and Solar Tracking.

Pascale Champagne completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering 2001 from Carleton University. She is a Professor in Civil Engineering with a cross-appointment to Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Bioresource Engineering. She has been recepient of a number of resarch awards and was inducted into The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in the inaugural cohort of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. She has published more than 75 journal papers in reputable journals in her field, 9 book chapters and her work has been presented in more than 185 conference presentations.

1) Developing novel processes for CO2 sequestration, bioenergy recovery and bio-oil extraction from microalgae integrating environmentally sustainable approaches; 2)Identifying and enhancing the role of algae in the treatment of municipal, industrial and agricultural wastewaters as part of low-energy, low carbon footprint systems; 3)Optimizing passive wastewater treatment systems as low energy technologies for Canadian climate applications; 4)Enhancing the conversion of biomass residuals for the recovery of bioenergy, biofuels and higher value bioproducts. 5)Modifying and synthesizing biomass-derived hybrid copolymers using natural polymers (biopolymers) for wastewater treatment application.

Laércio Couto is President of The Brazilian Network of Biomass for Energy

Renewable sources

Anthony Bridgwater is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Aston University in Birmingham, specialising in thermal conversion of biomass for production of fuels and chemicals. He obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from UMIST followed by several years working for BP in Sunbury. After returning to Aston, He gained my PhD and DSc. Most of His professional career has been spent at Aston University where He lead the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) and Bioenergy Research Group within EBRI.

Development of fast pyrolysis of biomass and the fuel and chemical products that can be derived from the liquids

Dr Junwang Tang is a Reader in Energy, Leader of Solar Energy and Advanced Materials Group in the Department and a Fellow of the RSC. He currently leads a research team including postdoctoral researchers, academic visitors and research students with financial support from EU PF7, Qatar, UK EPSRC, Leverhulme, Royal Society, RAE and so on.

Research interests encompass structure-controlled nanomaterials synthesis by a flow system powered by microwave irradiation, solar H2 synthesis from water, CO2 capture and conversion to a renewable fuel, photocatalytic water treatment, microwave catalysis and biomaterials fabrication. Such studies are undertaken in parallel with the mechanistic understanding and device optimisation to address the renewable energy supply and environmental purification.

Professor Joe Wood completed a BEng degree in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge (2001). He has three years of industrial experience with BP and Albright and Wilson. Since 2001 he has worked at the University of Birmingham, where he was awarded a Chair in 2012 and leads the Chemical Reaction Engineering Group in the School of Chemical Engineering. He has published 72 journal papers and four book chapters.

Professor Wood carries out research on upgrading of bio-oil, hydrogenation of furfural, in-situ upgrading of heavy oil, capture of carbon dioxide from industrial sources, catalyst development and testing, reactor design and engineering.

Prof. Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group. Prof. Scholz has shown individual excellence evidenced by world-leading publications. About 46% and 45% of his research is in water resources management and wastewater treatment, respectively. He has published three textbooks and 177 journal articles. Since 2015, he topped the publication list in terms of numbers for all members of staff at The University of Salford. Prof. Scholz’s full journal article publications in recent years are as follows: 2009 (13), 2010 (19), 2011 (13), 2012 (21), 2013 (17) and 2014 (15). Prof. Scholz has total citations of more than 2845 (above 2122 citations since 2010), resulting in an h-index of 28 and an i10-Index of 64.

Biomass, water resources management

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a professor in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

Nicola Senesi is Professor Emeritus of the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, where he was Full Professor of Soil Chemistry from 1986 to 2013, and developed all his academic career since 1969. He was Head of the Department of Agroforestal and Environmental Biology and Chemistry (2006-2011), Chairman of PhD Programme Committee in Agricultural Chemistry (1991-2002) and Director of the Institute of Agricultural Chemistry (1992-1999). Visiting Professor and Scholar in several world Universities and Research Institutes. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute National Polytechnique of Toulouse, France, Fellow of the American Soc. of Agronomy and Soil Science Soc. of America, Honorary Member of the Internat. Humic Substances Soc., Internat. Union of Soil Science and others, President of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies and other International and National scientific Societies. Author of about 400 scientific and tecnical papers and 50 invited book chapters and reviews, and co-editor of 20 books and conference proceedings.

Fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry and biochemistry of organic matter from soils and other systems and materials by use of advanced physico-chemical techniques and biochemical tools; interactions of humic substances with organic and inorganic chemicals, including pesticides, endocrine disruptors and trace metals; the physiological and antimutagenic effects of humic substances on plants; the implications of recycling organic wastes on soil fertility and crop production; the application of fractal geometry to molecular conformation and aggregation processes of humic substances; and humic substances as natural nanomaterials

Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as an Associate Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc…

Agricultural Process Engineering; Postharvest Technology; Bioengineering; Food & Dairy Engineering; Agro-Industrial Waste Management; Process and Bioprocess Engineering; Thermal & Non-Thermal Engineering; Agricultural Production Engineering; Postharvest operations Engineering; Composting and Vermicomposting Process; Non-Conventional Forages Processing; Farm Wastes Bioconversion; By-Products Recycling Engineering.

Adnan Midilli, General Secretary of Hydrogen Technologies Association in Turkey, is a Professor of Energy Division in Mechanical Engineering Department at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University in Rize, Turkey, specialising in biomass conversion processes and technologies for production of fuels, thermodynamic analysis of energy systems, energy policies and sustainability. He is the funding dean of Faculty of Engineering and worked to be vice rector for Science, Technology and Innovation. He has authored/co-authored 4 books and 10 book chapters, 55 journal and more than 100 conference papers and numerous technical reports. Prof. Midilli has total citations of more than 3164 (above 2230 citations since 2010), resulting in an h-index of 25 and an i36-Index. He has chaired many conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He is an active member of various international scientific organisations and societies and serves as the associate editor, editorial board member of various prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards from TUBITAK and METU in Turkey. He has been an active researcher and supervisor. Currently leads a research team including postdoctoral researchers and research students.

Energy Technologies and Mass Transfer Thermodynamic Design and Analysis Innovation and Methodology Energy Strategies and Policies Exergy, Economy and Sustainability Analyses Experimental Modeling, Design and analysis, Biomass conversion processes and technologies, Clean fuel production and Gasification Hydrogen energy, PEMFC and SOFC, Waste minimization, etc.

Ngo is an academic with more than thirty years' professional experience in Australia and in Asian countries. Presently, Ngo is Professor of Environmental Engineering and serving as Deputy Director of Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater (assigned by Director) and Research Theme Coordinator - Sustainable Water: Treatment and Reuse Technologies and Management. He is also a School Research Degree Coordinator while mentoring the development of new Environmental Engineering Laboratory in the new faculty building. Ngo is well known for his activities in the areas of water and wastewater treatment and reuse technologies, which include advanced biological wastewater treatment technologies (e.g. membrane bioreactor, specific attached and/or suspended growth bioreactors, biosorption, osmosis bioreactors), membrane technologies (e.g. membrane hybrid system, desalination), and physical-chemical separation technologies as pretreatment or post-treatment (e.g. adsorption, flocculation and filtration, advanced oxidation). His expertise and practical experience also covers the areas of water and wastewater quality monitoring and management, water and wastewater treatment technology assessment and pollution control. Ngo has participated in more than 60 research and consulting projects as an investigator. Ngo has successfully supervised postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate students and a large number of capstone project students. He has been invited to give numerous invited speeches, seminars and lecturers in the international conferences and the universities/research institutions. Ngo has published more than 250 technical papers including 2 books and a number of book chapters and patents. Ngo's editorial abilities are international recognised through his achievement of 'Elsevier's Top Reviewer - BITE' and his appointment of an Editor of Bioresourse Technology, Elsevier (one of the top impact international journals in the environmental field). He is also a founder and Editor in Chief of Journal of Water Sustainability (UTS and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology). In addition, he is also serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Chemistry, Journal of abvances in Environmental Chemistry, Hindawi.

Water and wastewater treatment and reused technologies, water and wastewater quality monitoring and management, treatment technology assessment, environmental impact assessment, solid waste management, desalination

Michele ARESTA completed his PhD in Industrial Chemistry at University of Milan.

1)Synthetic chemistry 2)Catalysis 3)Biomass conversion 4)Coordination and metallorganic chemistry related to carbon dioxide utilisation

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 energy 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.

Dr. Silvio Silvério da Silva is the Associate Professor and Head at Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He completed his doctorate in Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Gesellschaft Fuer Biotechnologishe Forshung (GBF), Germany in 1994. Prof. Silva offers the consulting services to various scientific journals, ad hoc institutions and biotechnological industries. He has published more than 150 papers in peer reviewed international journals and presented more than 455 papers in international conference proceedings. He has also 18 book chapters to his credit. He has edit 3 international books and recorded two patents on technological processes for xylitol production. Prof. Silva has guided, 04 post-doc, 11 doctoral students, 26 masters’ dissertations and 58 scientific initiation students in the area of Applied Microbiology, Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He has successfully completed 19 research projects funded by Brazilian Government and private funding agencies, including International Cooperative Projects. He got recognized some important Awards on biotechnology field. His area of research is Micro-biotechnology harnessing since last 25 years specifically on the potential of lignocellulosic feedstock for the production of Xylitol and bioethanol. For the exchange of scientific knowledge on the various aspects of xylitol production, he has visited several international research institutions of several countries.

Prof. Qu graduated from Shandong University in 1974, and got his Ph.D. there in 1986. He became a research assistant in 1981, and became full professor in 1993 in Shandong University. During those years, he had been a visiting scholar in Osaka University, The University of Tokyo, Lund University and Kyoto University. His main research interest is biodegradation and bioconversion of lignocellulosics by microorganisms. With cooperation of his colleagues, more than 300 papers and 10 books were published in his research fields. He was elected as Vice President of Chinese Society for Microbiology in 2006 and Advisory Board Member of Asia Federation of Biotechnology in 2010.

Prof. (Dr.) Yogender Kumar Yadav received his Ph.D. in Energy Studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and at present he is the Director General, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (an Autonomous Institution of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India), Kapurthala, Punjab (India). Prof. Yadav has been actively engaged in research, teaching, consultancy, administration and management in the field of renewable energy for the last more than two decades. He developed and taught renewable energy courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students at CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar (India) and established the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam (India) offering postgraduate programme in Renewable Energy. During his career he has made significant contributions to the advancement of renewable energy technologies and has more than 100 research publications in the international/national journals of repute and conferences in addition to writing teaching text on Renewable Energy. Prof. Yadav has been the Project Coordinator of Haryana State for the Government of India sponsored project on Integrated Rural Energy Programme (IREP) for meeting out rural energy needs through optimum mix of conventional and renewable energy sources with special emphasis on biomass and bio-energy. He has completed several research projects including the ICAR All India Coordinated Research Project on Renewable Energy Sources as Principal Investigator. Prof. Yadav had been the Chairman, Energy Forum at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Associate Editor, Energy for Journal of Agricultural Engineering. Currently he serves on a large number of expert committees and national/international panels dealing with renewable energy. He Chaired the Technical Session of the World Renewable Energy Congress IV at Denver, USA and was the Member of International Steering Committee of World Renewable Energy Forum 2012. Presently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biofuels and Bioenergy. Prof. Yadav is the recipient of Distinguished Service Award of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers for ‘Energy in Agriculture’ and has been honoured with the prestigious ‘Excellence Award 2012 for Research and Innovation in recognition of his research in the field of Renewable Energy at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Recently, Prof. Yadav has been awarded the World Renewable Energy Pioneer Award (WREN Pioneer Award 2014) by the World Renewable Energy Council/ Network for his global contributions in the field of renewable energy and the award was conferred upon him at the World Renewable Energy Congress XIII during August 3-8, 2014 at Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.

Prof. Praveen Kumar Ramanujam is currently is working as Head of the Department in Department of Biotechnology, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, India. He has published 18 research papers in renowned journals and 1 book. He was the chair for 1st International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies (BEST2013) and organized various national level symposiums and conferences. He is also the chair for 2nd International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies (BEST2015) which is going to be held during 28-31 January 2015. He served as International Scientific Advisory Committee member in “The 2012 Asian Biohydrogen and Bioproducts Symposium (ABBS)” conducted by Chongqing University, on November 9-12, 2012 in Chongqing, China. He has visited various countries including USA, Australia, China, Italy & Bangladesh to attend various conferences. He has chaired sessions and delivered invited talks in various International conferences which include “World Renewable Energy Congress – Australia 2013” and “International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics organized by Dr. DY Patil University– ICABB2013”. He had done provisional registration for patent for his work on “Production of Paper from Algae”. He is a life member in various professional societies which includes Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IICHE), International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses (IFIBiop), Biogas Forum of India (BigFin), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Engineers Without Borders, India (EWBIndia).Currently he is serving as Management council member in Biotech Research Society of India

She obtained a Master on Environmental Science in 2005 by the Universidad Jaime I of Castellón. In 2009, she got her PhD with European Mention in Microbiology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid with a thesis work entitled “Bioethanol production from wheat straw: strategies for process integration”. During her PhD studies she was visiting student at the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Dinamarca) and at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) where she worked with xylose fermenting yeasts optimizing its utilization for bioethanol production as well as improving its tolerance to inhibitors by evolutionary engineering. After her PhD, she worked as a Postdoctoral project assistant for almost two years at CIEMAT in the Biofuels Unit. From March 2011 to February 2013 she worked as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Industrial Biotechnology Group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden where she evaluated and developed xylose fermenting yeast strains to further improve sugar consumption capacity, robustness and inhibitor tolerance. At Chalmers, she also supervised Master Thesis and gave lectures in PhD courses. She has been working in the bioethanol field since 2005. She has studied different configuration processes, optimized process conditions and done studies on yeast physiology, adaptation and propagation. She has participated in European and National R&D projects and she has presented the obtained results in International and National Conferences in different posters as well as oral presentations. Dr. Tomás-Pejó is co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and co-inventor of 2 patents. She is part of the Editorial Advisory Board of the open access journal “Bioethanol” and acts as reviewer of international journals.

Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Distinguished Univ. Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is Founding Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter.net) which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ.of Michigan, Missouri Univ. of S&T, and Univ. of Texas-Austin. The Center has developed partnerships with over 85 companies from 15 countries since its inception in 2001. In addition, he has mentored his students and developed a spin-off company Predictronics with support from NSF Innovation ICorps Award in 2012. He also serves as an invited committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Advisory Group in 2013.His current research focuses on Industrial Big Data Analytics, Cyber-Physical Systems.Currently, he also serves as advisor to a number of global organizations, including a member of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council, member of International S&T Committee of Alstom Transport, France, Scientific Advisory Board of Flanders\\\\\\\' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre (FMTC) in Leuven, Belgium, Scientific Advisor Board of SIMTech, Singapore, Member of Advisory Committee of MIRDC Taiwan, etc.Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC),He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 200 invited keynote speeches at major international conferences and has over 20 patents and 2 trademarks. He received a number of awards including the most recent NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in Jan. 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and the Prognostics Innovation Award from National Instruments in 2012. He mentored his students to participate in PHM Data Challenge Competition and won the 1st Prize 5 times since 2008.

Industrial Big Data Analytics & Cyber-Physical Systems

Philip Totaro is the Founder and CEO of Totaro & Associates, a market research and innovation strategy consulting firm based in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Totaro is regarded worldwide as the foremost expert on wind industry technology and intellectual property matters. Mr. Totaro has a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering and over 12 years of experience in strategic planning as well as creating and protecting intellectual capital. His strategic market analysis has led to the funding justification of over US$500M in R&D investment and the development of multimillion dollar product and service offerings. He has provided legal and technical due-diligence for over US$1.5B in M&A.

Wind Industry Technology and Intellectual Property matters.

Professor Pourkashanian is the Head of University Energy Research at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Pilot-scale Advanced Capture Technology (PACT) national facilities. He is a Professor of Energy Engineering and has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology and has received a substantial sum of grants from RCUK-EPSRC, EU, NATO, and industry. He has published over 446 refereed research papers and has co-authored books on coal combustion. He played a leading role in developing the NOx post-processing computer codes and subsequently soot/NOx models that were later employed in the commercial CFD software. He is a member of numerous international and national scientific bodies including a member of EERA Implementation Plan 2013-2015 (contribution to CCS-EII Team, SET-PLAN), a member of Coordinating Group of UKCCSRC, an invited member of the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group, member of technical working group for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (CCS Roadmap UK2050) and Expert-Member in EU-GCC Clean Gas Energy Network.

Wind Energy Technologies

Dr.S.Gomathinayagam is now Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy-NIWE (C-WET the old name), Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD in ocean Engineering, from IIT, Madras, 2004, MS in structures from IIT, Madras 1982, B.E from Regional Engineering College, Trichirapalli Madras University, Tamil Nadu, India, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Now since 2009 He is working as an institutional Head/CEO of NIWE (C-WET the old name). He worked as a Scientist-Dy.Director in Structural engineering Research Centre, CSIR, Chennai, 1983–2009 Structural Enegineering- Software development - offshore-onshore-power-navy-space-blast-impact-wind-wave-current- Wind turbine fatigue loads measurement and design - Towers - dynamic - static and fatigue designs. Research and technology management.

He has 36 years of research experience, consultancy, FEM Software devep.and static/dynamic/stochastic analysis of structures onshore/offshore space/navy/industrial/Wind Energy & Solar Energy renewables sector. Presently He is looking for Networking.

Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. Prior to that, Prof. Hamzeh worked from 1984 to 2012 as full professor at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in 2000, and at Erlangen-Nuernberg University, Germany many times during 1994-2014. His main research domains include electrical power systems and renewable energy systems. He published over 100 peer-reviwed article and conference papers. He authored/co-authored 17 books in the area of electric power systems, renewable energy, and computer programming.

He is member of IEEE, World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), Board of Arab Institute of Operation & Maintenance (Saudi Arabia), and Energy Committee of Arab Engineers Fedaration.

Prof. Beyene graduated with Ph.D. from Warsaw University of Tech., Warsaw. He is a Fellow member of ASME and currently serves as Director of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at SDSU. Dr. Beyene’s research integrates analytical, computational, and experimental techniques to address fundamental and practical problems of energy conversion. He has developed novel methods for wind and wave energy conversion. Over the years, Dr. Beyene has attracted several millions of dollars in funding from NSF, DOE, US Navy, CEC, and others. Professor Beyene is the recipient of many research and teaching awards. He has authored significant number of refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Ralph M. Kennel was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1955. He received the Diploma and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D) degrees from the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, in 1979 and 1984, respectively. The research activities of Prof. Kennel (b. 1955) cover the traditional field of electrical drive systems but also sensorless and encoderless control of electric drives, the predictive control of power converters and “hardware in the loop” power electronics systems. Through its wide range of teaching and lecturing topics, the Chair of Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics provides a solid base for forward-looking training in system engineering and drive technology. He held a number of positions at Robert Bosch GmbH up until 1999. From 1994 to 1999 he also held the position of visiting professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. After that, he held the Chair of Electric Machines and Drives at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2008, he was appointed full professor at TUM. Prof. Kennel is a senior member of the IEEE, an IET fellow, a chartered engineer in the UK and a member of the EPE Association and the VDE (Kurpfalz district), as well as Vice President for Meetings of the Power Electronics Society. Prof Ralph M.Kennel was awarded with these awards: Best Paper Award: 
3rd Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (IEEE-PEDSTC 2012), Keynote Paper ACEMP 2011, \"Replacement of Electrical (Load) Drives by a Hardware-in-the-Loop System\" (2011), PELS Distinguished Lecturers - ECCE 2011, \"IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2011 Awards Ceremony\" (2011).

Electrical drive systems & Sensor less and Encoder less control of electric drives.

Dr.ing.ir. P. Bauer received his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Kosice (‘85), Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (’95) and title prof. from the president of Czech Republic at the Brno University of Technology (2008). Since 1990 he is with Delft University of Technology, teaching Power electronics and Electrical Drives. From 2002 to 2003 he was working partially at KEMA (Arnhem) on different projects related to power electronics applications in power systems. P. Bauer published over 45 journal and 200 conference papers in his field, he is an author or co-author of 5 books, he holds international patent and organized several tutorials at the international conferences.

Power Electronics

Martin Jakubowski, CEO at Sea Wind Ocean Technology is one of the pioneers in the renewable energy industry having set up unit energy europe AG in Germany in 1995 out of which a number of pathbreaking companies have been set up in various countries in the EU, such as WRE Hellas with its wind farms in Greece, the Vila do Bispo I & II wind farms in Portugal, the hydro-power plant Ancinale in Southern Italy, the Tri Chalupky hydro power plant on the Elbe river, the wind farm Lastours in Southern France, the clean energy distribution companies unit energy Stromvertrieb in Germany and Good Energy Plc in the UK. In 2002 Martin Jakubowski filed a number of patents for floating foundations and in 2004 he set up Blue H Technologies with which he installed the first floating wind turbine in the world in 2008 in the Southern Adriatic Sea in 113m deep water. In 2010 he set up Condor Wind Energy, which is building a 6.1 MW two-bladed wind turbine with yaw control (no blade pitch mechanism) on a self-installing floating foundation. Martin Jakubowski holds a number of patents for two-bladed wind turbines with Silvestro Caruso his partner in Blue H and Condor. In 2015 Martin Jakubowski and Silvestro Caruso set up Seawind Ocean Technology in the Netherlands and filed for new patents for a hybrid mechanic-elastomeric teetering hinge for two-bladed wind turbines and for a self-installing 6.2 MW offshore wind energy system for shallow waters to bring the LCOE in offshore wind below $0.08. He was Founder and Director at Condor Wind Energy, Founder and Technology Architect at Blue H Technologies BV, Founder and Director at Good Energy.

Wind Energy

Dr. Ghida received a Master’s degree in energy engineering in 2010 from Lebanese university, Lebanon. In 2011 she started her Ph.D. work in Brussels school of Engineering at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Her thesis focused on the contribution to the development of wind energy in Lebanon by analysis his potential, his environmental impact and his storage. Having been awarded her Ph.D. degree in August 2015, she joined the department of Aero-Thermo-Mechanics in Brussels school of engineering as postdoctoral research follow in October 2015 and is currently working on the techno-economic analysis of the hydro pumped storage system. She has published 3 papers in reputed journals.

Energy Engineering

Dr.PKC Bose, CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR of SAERTEX INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED (a wholly owned subsidiary of SAERTEX Group, Germany) has completed his Ph.D. from Washington International University, USA. He is an alumnus of IIM-A, and also Wharton-SMU, USA, ISB, Hyderabad India and Kellogg Business School, USA. He has an M.Phil. in Business Management, MLM, Advance Management Diploma, in his credentials. He was conferred with the UDYOG RATNA Award by Institute of Economic Studies, India. He was conferred with the ASIA PACIFIC OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENUER AWARD by Enterprise Asia, Malaysia. He has been invited as a visiting/guest faculty in over 30 universities and business schools in the world. which includes International University in Germany, GISMA, ESMT in Germany, University of Hungary, Budapest, Adelphi University, New York, Rossevelt University, USA, Frankfurt University (Oder), Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany and Symbiosis Institute of Management and many more. He was also an advisory Board Member of University of Denver, USA & Global Leadership School, Germany. Recently.Dr. Bose has been invited by one of the oldest universities of Italy Universita Bocconi, Milan, and German University in Cairo for their Executive MBA program. Dr.Bose was featured in FORBES INDIA Magazine in May 2011 and in June 2012 as well. Dr. PKC Bose has been bestowed with the CEO OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 by India Leadership Conclave in Mumbai on 18th July 2014.

Business Development & International Business

Marc Costa Ros is Senior Manager in the Carbon Trust´s Offshore Wind team, Present London, United Kingdom. focused in the delivery of the Offshore Wind Accelerator, a joint R&D program with 9 of the major offshore wind developers, which aims to reduce the LCOE by 10% for UK Round 3 sites through a wide R&D project portfolio, gaining a deep Offshore wind lifecycle understanding and focus in LCOE reduction. Chartered MSc Civil Engineer specialized in both “Structural Design and Analysis” and “Construction Engineering” and with knowledge in Naval Architecture and Finance, very motivated in developing my career in the Offshore Wind sector. Extensive work experience background in wind energy, with high knowledge of the offshore wind business and lifecycle; and structural civil engineering specialised consulting and construction companies. Besides, being fluent in different languages, with strong management and technical skills, problem-solving, multitasking, well-organised and hardworking (both in team work and on standalone basis) are some of the characteristics that describe me. Head of Offshore Wind Division - MSc Civil Engineer (Structural designer) ESTEYCO, July 2010 – February 2013 (2 years 8 months) Barcelona Area, Spain. Responsible of the development of self-buoyant and completely crane-less Gravity Base Structure, including the structural design, manufacturing, transport, installation and final operation. Management of a resource-pooling team, with up to 7 people working simultaneously in a multidisciplinary team (structural engineers, geotechnical experts, naval architects, draftsmen). Strong communication skills as a sales engineer, giving commercial speeches across the EU. Supervision and approval of both internal and subcontracted works, with strong attention to detail. Design of onshore concrete towers for multi-megawatt turbines.

Off Shore Wind Energy, Structural Design and Analysis, Construction Engineering.

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

V. Venkitachalam is the Director- Business Development of EFENP Automation Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India, a Total Solution provider for Food and Pharmaceutical & Energy industry sectors. Completed the post graduation in Business management with specialization in International Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune and B.Tech from Regional Engineering College, Calicut. He is an Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India), the National organization of Engineers in India. He has been bestowed with the Vijay Shree Award and Certificate of Excellence by IIFS, India. He has worked in the capacity of Managing Director of CVC Technologies Inc and handled their Indian operations. He was a member of National Advisory Board Pharma WORLD EXPO 2005.

Business Development and Manufacturing

Dr. Mahmood Shafiee is a Lecturer in Engineering Risk Analysis at Cranfield University, UK. His expertise is in the fields of Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Optimisation, Inspection Planning, Structural Health Assessment, Aging and Degradation Modelling, Probabilistic Risk Analysis, Asset Management, and Warranty & Service Reliability. He has over ten years of experience in the area of Risk and Reliability Engineering within the Oil and Gas, Renewable Wind, Railway, and Manufacturing industry sectors. He has also published more than forty papers in top tier journals and conference proceedings. He has been plenary speaker and program committee member of more than twenty international Conferences.

Energy Asset Integrity Management

Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar (Member 2012, Senior Member 2015, IEEE) received Bachelor of Engineering (first class), Master of Technology (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. After completing his Ph.D degree he worked as Associate Professor with VIT University from August 2012 to May 2013. Furthermore he joined as Faculty with National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, from July 2013 to December 2013. He was invited as visiting fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar from January 2014 to February 2014. He continued his research activities with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland from April 2014 to November 2014. Presently, from September 2014, he is Project Head in Research & Development and Consultant with Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India. He has published scientific papers in the field of power elec¬tronics, with particular reference to multi¬phase and multilevel converters. He has received the Most Excellent Research Paper Award of IET-4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Intelligent System in 2013.Dr.Sanjeevikumar is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies.

Power Electronics and drives