Committee Members

Dr. Serguei Alejandro‑Martín, a Chemical Engineer (Ph.D.), is an Associate Professor at the University of Bío‑Bío (UBB) in Chile and leads the Nanomaterials & Catalysts for Sustainable Processes (NanoCatpPS) research group. He obtained his Chemical Engineering degree and a Master’s in Management from Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” in Cuba, and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Concepción, Chile, in 2013. With over 20 years of experience, his research centers on catalytic co-pyrolysis and co-hydropyrolysis of biomass-plastic mixtures using natural and modified zeolites to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals. He also leads the GC-pyrolysis analytical lab, teaches reactor design and thermochemical biomass processes, and has directed the UBB doctoral program in Sustainable Materials & Processes. Dr. Alejandro‑Martín has secured major research infrastructure grants and published widely on zeolite catalysis, nanocomposites, and biomass valorization for environmental and energy applications.

Prof. Abdeltif Amrane is a Professor of Exceptional Class at the University of Rennes, UMR CNRS 6226 ISCR. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1991), a Master’s degree (1988), and a Thesis Director Enabling Degree (1998) from the University of Rennes 1, as well as a Chemical Engineering degree from USTHB, Algeria (1987). For over two decades, his research has focused on developing combined processes for removing organic pollutants from wastewater and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has supervised 16 Ph.D. theses (with 2 ongoing) and co-supervised 24 more (with 4 in progress). Prof. Amrane has actively participated in numerous national and international research projects and collaborations across countries such as Algeria, Iran, Mexico, Spain, and Poland. He has authored over 550 international publications, 12 book chapters, and five books (as co-editor, Elsevier), and delivered more than 150 scientific communications. His scholarly impact is reflected by an h-index of 68 (Google Scholar) and 56 (Scopus), with over 18,000 citations.

Prof. Katarzyna Styszko, Ph.D., Eng. is a professor and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków. Her research focuses on environmental protection, water and wastewater treatment, microplastic and micropollutant analysis using advanced chromatographic techniques. She leads the “Contemporary Environmental Threats” research group and has authored over 300 scientific publications. Prof. Styszko is also active in academic governance and international collaboration.

Dr. Renjie Dong is a Professor at China Agricultural University and a leading expert in bioenergy and environmental technologies. He serves as Chairman of ISO TC 255 (Biogas) and Vice Chair of the Research Advisory Council at Germany’s DBFZ. He also directs key national academic boards, including CPURE and iBEST.

With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Dong focuses on biogas production, biomass utilization, renewable energy systems, and sustainable agriculture. He has led more than 20 national and international projects, published 300+ papers, and holds over 20 patents. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering and Technology of the Developing World and a recipient of major national science awards in China.

Dr. Biao Hu is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. He earned his Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong in 2017, following an M.Eng. from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (2014) and a B.Eng. from Wuhan Institute of Technology (2011).

His research focuses on structural engineering, including the use of advanced composites, recycled materials, and life-cycle analysis for sustainable infrastructure. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Composite Structures, Journal of Cleaner Production, and ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Dr. Hu actively collaborates on seismic retrofitting, durability enhancement, and green construction technologies.

As one of the 200 Inaugural Future Fellowship Awardees across Australia in 2009, Dr Lian Zhang specialises in the Research, Development and Deployment related to a broad range of high-efficiency and low-emission clean energy technologies, particularly for the advanced utilisation of low-rank coal, biomass and industry waste. He has also been conducting interdisciplinary research including hydrometallurgical leaching of low-rank coal and biochar for the selective removal of troublesome elements; extraction of specific metals to make construction materials such as MgO-Board from low-rank coal fly ash and steelmaking slag; as well as the use of synchrotron – based facilities for both ex-situ and in-situ characterisation of a variety of solid products collected from the clean energy processes.  Apart from being interested in the fundamental aspects of every research topic, Dr Zhang is also keen to commercialise a number of patented technologies that were developed by his group, including the manufacturing of high-pyrity MgO/MgSO₄/CaO from low-rank coal fly ash, selective removal of troublesome elements from low-rank coal and biochar, and advanced catalysts for in-situ production of aromatic – rich hydrocarbons from the pyrolysis of low – rank coal and biomass.  Dr Zhang obtained his MEng in 1999 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD in 2003 from the Department of Applied Chemistry, Chubu University Japan. Dr Zhang undertakes extensive collaborative research with a variety of industry partners and research organisations across Australia and from overseas. He is a member of the Japan Society of Chemical Engineers, the Japan Institute of Energy and the Engineer Australia. He is currently leading the Clean Solid Fuel Laboratory (CSFL) in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, supervising one postdoctoral research fellow and eight PhD students.

Profa. Angélica M. S. Vieira is a Professor in the Department of Food Engineering at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). She holds a PhD in Food Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos and has completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (CSIC), Spain.

Her research focuses on membrane technology, biocatalysis, and sustainable processing of food and water, including the use of natural coagulants and bio-based adsorbents. She has published over 160 scientific papers and actively collaborates in national and international research projects.

Wenqiang Sun is a Professor and Head of the Department of Thermal Engineering at Northeastern University, affiliated with the Institute of Energy Science and Ecological Industry. His research focuses on Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, particularly Thermal Engineering and sustainable energy systems.

He has served at Northeastern University since 2014, progressing from Lecturer to Associate Professor (2018–2023), Deputy Director of the department (2022–2024), and Professor and Department Head since 2025.

Prof. Sun is currently a Senior Editor for Applied Energy (IF = 10.1) and Subject Editor for High Temperature Materials and Processes (IF = 1.5), and was Associate Editor for Applied Energy from 2022 to 2024. He also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Energy and Thermal Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society for Metals (since 2021) and is a member of the Teaching Committee of New Energy and Energy Storage Engineering under the China Mechanical Industry Education Association (since 2022).

Dr Yu (Jack) Gong, Associate Professor in Operations Management at the Business School of the University of Southampton, UK, academic visitor at the University of Oxford. His main research interests are multi-tier sustainable supply chain management and supply chain innovation. He has published more than 80 SCI/SSCI papers and four Ivey teaching cases. Papers have been published in prestige journals such as IJOPM, IJPE, IJPR, IMM, and BSE. Served as AE of “Business Strategy and the Environment” (ABS 3), editorial board member of IMDS and SCREM, guest editor of IJOPM, IJPR, JBL, and anonymous reviewer for many internationally renowned journals.

Wenzhou Yu is a professor at Chongqing University, China, specializing in Metallurgical Engineering. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Central South University in 2007, followed by a Master’s degree (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) from Kunming University of Science and Technology. From 2022 to 2023, he conducted a one-year visiting study at the University of Tokyo. His research primarily focuses on solid waste recycling, particularly the sustainable treatment of coal fly ash, red mud, and polycrystalline silicon cutting waste using low-carbon metallurgical techniques. To date, he has published extensively in areas such as waste recycling and high-purity metal preparation.

Dr. Huan Xi is an Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He obtained his B.Eng. in Environmental Science and Engineering and his Ph.D. in the School of Energy and Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University,  and he also had a visiting PhD experience at Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Xi’s research interests cover 100% renewable energy utilization systems, waste to heat/power, energy storage technology, and battery thermal management systems. He has a rich publication record in various high – impact journals and has presented his research at numerous conferences, including delivering keynote and invited speeches. Additionally, he serves on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals, contributing to the academic community’s growth and the development of research in his fields of interest.

Dr. Gi-Wook Cha obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from Kyungpook National University in South Korea, specializing in the field of building environmental studies. His doctoral research focused on the assessment of carbon dioxide emissions throughout the life cycle of buildings. Currently, he is serving as a research professor at Kyungpook National University, where he conducts research on waste management technologies and CO2 prediction using machine learning. To date, he has published over 28 papers in prestigious journals and has served as a reviewer for more than 10 internationally recognized journals.

Professor Antonis Zorpas is a Chemical Engineer, actively engaged with several Universities, Research Institutes in Europe. He is Professor at Open University of Cyprus, Director of the Lab of Chemical Engineering & Engineering Sustainability, Director in Sustainable Environmental Engineering Postgraduate Master (MSc) and member of OUC Senate. He has more than 650 publications (books, contribution on books, papers in journals, international conferences). His Google h-index now 59, with more than 11000 citations. He has recognized since 2019 among the worlds to 1% in the list of the most influential researchers in the world in the section of Environmental Science and on <1% in the section of Chemical Engineering based on bibliometric data from the Stanford University (USA) and Elsevier Report. In addition, his acting as Editor on behalf of several Scientific Journals such as the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier, I.F15.1/Q1). His research background is dealing with Strategic Panning Development in the Framework of Circular Economy and Bioeconomy, Waste Management, Life Cycle Assessment, End-of Waste Criteria, etc. He has participated in more than 50 EU research project the last 15 years. For more than 20 years, he was acting as Consulting Engineer on behalf of several industrial activities and governmental authorities. On 2019 he received honorary distinction for his long-standing contribution to the environmental issues of Cyprus from the President of the Republic of Cyprus. He collaborates with European Commission since 2008. More details can be found here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D7koX6YAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Julián Puszkiel has more than ten years of experience in different fields of materials science, applications of hydrogen, energy technology, and capture-conversion CO₂ (h-index: 25 / citations > 1800). He has been in eight different positions in research centers in Argentina, Spain, and Germany obtained through competitive evaluation processes in the frame of various agencies and institutions such as CONICET, Alexander von Humboldt, and EU-Marie Skłodowska-Curie-ACCIÓ. He is the laboratory manager in the Dept. of Applied Material Engineering at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg and deputy head of the Dept. of System Design for Mobile and Stationary Hydrogen-Energy Applications in Helmholtz-Zentrum HEREON, Germany.

Raffaella Colombo graduated (2004, 110 cum laude) and obtained her PhD (2009) in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Pavia (UniPv), where then she had also Post Doc fellow (2009-2010). Since 2010 she is Researcher in Drug Sciences Dept., UniPv. She is an expert of analytical techniques (HPLC, CE) applied on proteins and drugs (quality control, protein folding and aggregation pathways, drug discovery). She has worked on many projects aimed at studying pathological proteins involved in amyloidosis diseases (mainly Alzheimer’s Disease) at Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory, Drug Sciences Dept., UniPv. She has also studied molecule-target interactions by Affinity techniques (ACE and microcantilevers). Since 2017 she is part of Nutraceutical and Food Chemical Toxicological Analysis Laboratory, Drug Sciences Dept., UniPv. She works on different matrices (herbal extracts, food, food supplements, and food by-products) from the set-up of extraction methodologies and analytical platforms (HPLC-UV/MS) for the characterization step to the test of bioactivities by in vitro technologies (biochemical assays and cell-based millifluidic platforms).

She is author of 61 scientific publications (h-index 20) (Scopus ID: 26632925700; Orcid 0000-0001-9675-6598) and holds 1 patent. She is Lecturer of: -Food supplements and food for specific groups, -Compounds with healthy and toxic action in food, -Pharmaceutical analysis 2-Quantitative drug analysis (Pharmacy course, Drug Sciences Dept., UniPv).

Adele Papetti graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies, received post-lauream degree in Industrial Pharmacy and Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Pavia. Since 2012 she is Chief of Nutraceutical & Food Chem Toxicol Analysis Laboratory, since 2018 Associate Professor in Food Chemistry, since 2020 Director of post-lauream Master’s degree in “Nutraceuticals and food supplements: from raw material to their clinical uses”. She is SIFNut scientific board member, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Related Industrial Innovation PhD school teaching board, Italian Chemical Society and Institute of Food Technologists Professional Member. Author of 110 papers, 6 book chapter, h-index: 35 (Scopus).

Jinxing Ma is a professor in the School of Ecology, Environment and Resources at Guangdong University of Technology. He obtained B.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) degree in Environmental Engineering from Tongji University. His research interests include i) the understanding of the “Water-Energy” nexus in water purification and ii) development of appropriate solutions to challenges such as the sustainable water supply and resource management. Particularly, Dr. Ma’s significant achievement involves the design and deployment of fit-for-purpose electrochemical technologies for clean water. He has (co)authored 6 book chapters and over 150 refereed journal publications, and holds more than 20 patents. By 2024, he has successfully attracted 1.5 million USD funds from the National Natural Science Fund of China, Australian Research Council, and industry partners. Dr. Ma is now a member of IWA Young Water Professionals China, 2021-2023. He has been recognized in Stanford University List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and a Rising Star of Research in Australia’s Top 40 young researchers.

Érika Flávia Machado Pinheiro is professor at Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). She completed a postdoctoral study at the University of Florida (USA) in 2015. She has experience in organic waste reuse and treatment for agriculture, as well as the production of agricultural inputs (fertilizers), materials characterization techniques, low-cost adsorbents, water treatment, energy, and environment. She also investigates soil organic matter: dynamics and function. She also works monitoring soil carbon for carbon credits. She is Head of the Department of Agrotechnology’s and Sustainability at the Institute of Agronomy at UFRRJ and Vice Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at UFRRJ.

Dr. Irene Voukkali is a Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus, specializing in Green Entrepreneurship, Climate Resilience, Urban Metabolism, Bio-economy, and the European Green Deal. She holds a PhD in Urban Metabolism from the Open University of Cyprus, a Master’s in Food Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a Master’s in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cyprus. She has published 62 scientific papers, presented at over 80 conferences, and authored 10 book chapters. Additionally, she reviews for multiple scientific journals and has a Google Scholar h-index of 27.

Thami Zeghloul was born in Casablanca, Morocco, on December 25, 1962. He received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Fundamental and Applied Sciences Faculty and the Ph.D. degree with a thesis on the stick-slip phenomena between solids from the University of Poitiers, Angouleme, France, in 1987 and 1991, respectively. During his doctoral studies, he started teaching mathematics and physics, at first to high school pupils, and then to university students, as a Teaching Assistant. From 1991 to 1995, he was an Associate Researcher with the University Institute of Technology, Angouleme, University of Poitiers, where since 1995, he has been an Assistant Professor, and then, an Associate Professor. From 2001 to 2007, he was the Head of the Quality, Industrial Logistics, and Organization Department. As Director of the University Institute of Technology, from 2007 to 2017, he stood for the creation of an expertise center dedicated to ecodesign, to train students, and to favor the transfer of sustainable technologies to small- and medium-sized businesses. Since September 2010, he has also been the Manager of a technological platform dedicated to image and sound industry, sponsored by the University Institute of Technology, and the local authorities. Since September 1^st 2023 he is Full University Professor and leader of the “Tribo-electrostatics” Research Group of the PPRIME Institute, CNRS–University of Poitiers–ENSMA. He is the author of more than 80 papers in the field on electrostatic and tribology processes, and has given invited lectures related to tribo-electrostatic processes at several international conferences. He holds 5 patents and currently supervises several Ph.D. theses on the triboelectric charging of polymers and the electrostatic separation of granular mixtures.

Ioanna Giannopoulou is a Metallurgical Engineer graduated from the National Technical Univerity of Athens, in Greece and obtained a PhD degree in Metallurgy and Materials Technology from the same University. She is Scientific Researcher at Frederick Research Center, in Nicosia, Cyprus. She has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences on the critical metals recovery from wastes and the utilization of solid wastes into innovative materials.

AMRANE Abdeltif: Professor – Exceptional class, UMR CNRS 6226 ISCR, University of Rennes. (Google Scholar: h-index: 68; citations: 18337 // Scopus: h-index: 56; citations: 13858).

1998: Thesis Director Enabling Degree (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1991: PhD in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1988: Master (DEA) in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) / 1987: Chemical Engineering Degree (USTHB – Algeria).

Since approximately 20 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewater and gaseous emissions within the CIP team.

He has managed 16 PhD theses as thesis director and 2 are in progress; he has also co- managed 24 PhD theses and 4 co-managements theses are in progress. He has been involved as a manager or a participant in several national and international projects, as well in international collaborations (Algeria, Belgium, Hungary, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia…).

He has published more than 550 international papers including 15 papers in press. He is the co-Editor of five books (Elsevier). He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications.

Dr. Xin Wang received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Arkansas in 2022. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Wenzhou-Kean University. Since 2020, he has published more than 15 papers in a variety of top journals, such as Nano Energy, Matter, Energy Storage Materials, Journal Energy Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Journal, and has been editorial board members of Exploration and Responsive Materials.

Amalia Conte has completed her PhD and postdoctoral studies from University of Foggia (Italy). She is Associate Professor in Food Science at the University of Foggia. Her involvement in projects is very active. The high degree of novelty of the results achieved from her research allowed to deposit various patents, published numerous articles in international journals provided with peer review system, and create a spin-off on the development of food products with healthy, high shelf life and high convenient products. Her research has always been characterized by an intense editorial activity with more than 200 scientific publications in reputed journals

Antoni Femenia, Director of the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). He has a PhD in Agri-Food Sciences from the University of Western Brittany (France) and a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the UIB. He has also worked at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and at different Research Centers in England (Quadram Institute and John Innes Institute) and France (ADRIA center). He has published more than 100 research articles in prestigious specialized journals and is co-author of 6 books, all of them within the subject of Food Chemistry.

Dr. Claudio Di Iaconi is a chief research scientist at Water Research Institute (IRSA) of National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Bari headquarter. Dr. Di Iaconi has completed his MS degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome in 1993. He has a vast experience in water-related environmental technologies and in particular in wastewater treatment and resource recovery, biomass and sludge treatment. Mr Di Iaconi developed several advanced processes for municipal and industrial wastewater and sludge treatment according to the circular economy model. He was coordinator/principal investigator in more than 30 national and international research projects. He is a co-author of more than 200 scientific papers published in peer reviewed journals or presented to scientific conferences, book chapters on different subjects within the wastewater treatment field. He is serving as an editorial board member for several international peer reviewed journals. He was member of the international scientific committee in several conferences. He has received some national and international awards for having achieved innovative scientific results in the field of water-related environmental technologies.

Olena Stryhunivska, PhD, Eng., AGH University of Krakow, Poland. Faculty member at the Department of Business Informatics and Management Engineering, Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. Specializes in spatial planning of production facilities, machine placement in production halls, technological planning and designing logistics processes in manufacturing plants. Author of publications on managing harmful emissions from transportation, layout planning, ecodesign based on circular economy principles, reconstruction of production halls and updates to spatial layouts. Continues research on hydrogen technologies and renewable energy sources (RES). ORCID: 0000-0002-7843-2984.

Renan S. Nunes holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Federal University of ABC – Brazil, with research internships in Portugal. He is a FAPESP-funded Postdoctoral Researcher specialized in materials chemistry for environmental, agricultural, and biomedical applications. Renan has extensive expertise in developing catalysts for biomass conversion, adsorbents for wastewater treatment, and nanomaterials for sustainable processes. His work integrates chemometric tools like DoE to optimize materials and promote sustainability. Throughout his career, he has worked with diverse materials, including nanoparticles, clays, and biopolymers, focusing on practical applications in catalysis, adsorption, and resource recovery, aligned with global environmental challenges.

Emmanuel Umoru Haruna is an experienced economic policy and development specialist with over 14 years of experience. Mr. Haruna worked as a Senior Economic Policy and Research Analyst with the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and Economic Planning for 12 years. He is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Analysis (ICEA) in Canada, and Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa (IRPIA) in Sierra-Leone. Currently, Mr. Haruna is a PhD candidate in Development Economics at Kobe University in Japan (all-but-dissertation) to graduate in March, 2025. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of development, labor, and environmental economics.

Elena Coccia is a Senior Researcher of Comparative Anatomy, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology. Her research focuses on developing advanced biological models, such as brain organoids and intestinal epithelium models, to investigate the effects of bioactive compounds on feeding behavior and gut-brain axis. Biomolecules derived from sustainable and renewable sources can protect against inflammation and oxidative stress, offering potential benefits for chronic conditions like metabolic syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.Her work also includes testing bioactive compounds to improve nutrition, growth, and health in animal models, with applications in sustainable aquaculture and biomedicine.Additionally, she explores nanoparticles functionalized with bioactive molecules for medical applications. The potential of biopolymers and bioactive molecules extracted from biomass and agricultural by-products for use in food and medicine is also being investigated in collaboration with European universities.

Érika is a Biologist, Esp. in Environmental Management, Master in Environmental Technology, tutor and PhD in Environment and Development. She has completed her PhD at the age of 47 years and postdoctoral studies from from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is a post-doc researcher in the Development and Environment Program (PRODEMA). She has published more than 28 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Dr. Jan-Olof Drangert is em. Assoc. professor at Linköping University. His area of studies started with water issues in rural areas, then over to urban sanitation challenges, and presently global environmental and health impacts of food systems. The common thread is human food consumtion and its relation to resources and the environment. He has published more than 50 articles in reputed journals and has been serving as Guest Editor to several publications

Dr. Andrea Appolloni is Associate Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy. In the same University he completed his Ph.D in Business Administration. He is Permanent Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University (UK) and Research Associate at the Italian Research Council. His teaching areas focused on Operations, Supply Chain and Procurement Management and Sustainability courses at undergratuate and executive level. He was visiting in several Universities in the last years He has published and presented articles in several international journals and conferences. He is coordinator of the European Project Marie Curie Hosrizon 2020 on Sustainable Public Procurement. . He is expert member in Sustainability at the Global SCP Clearinghouse is a unique one-stop hub dedicated to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and he is part of the10 Year Framework of Programmes on SCP (10YFP on SCP), convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He was visiting scholars at Tianjin University  (China), at University of Tennessee in Knoxville (USA) and at ETH Zurich (CH).

Dr. William CHUNG is an associate professor of Management Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His personal research interests mainly focus on developing mathematical methodologies for environmental policy problems, like large-scale equilibrium models and benchmarking methods for waste management. He has published over 60 papers in reputed journals, like Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), and Waste Management.

Bojan Đurin Was born 30.07.1981. in Varaždin, where he finished elementary and high school. Graduated from the Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb in 2007 (Master of Geotechnical Engineering, M.Sc.). Received his PhD in 2014 from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Split (Ph.D.). Became Assistant professor in 2016, and Associate professor in 2021.

Lucian-Ionel CIOCA is a full professor at the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, a position he acquired in 2007. Since 2010, he has been a doctoral advisor in Engineering and Management.
His research focuses on management, human resources management, production systems engineering, ergonomics, circular economy, sustainability, occupational safety, and health management.
He is a guest editor of the following journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (ISSN 1687-8434), Frontiers in Psychology (ISSN: 1664-1078), Frontiers in Environmental Science (eISSN 2296-665X), Processes (ISSN 2227-9717), Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), and Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).
Professor Lucian-Ionel CIOCA is a reviewer of scientific articles published in journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, for example, Studies in Educational Evaluation (ISSN 0191-491X), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (ISSN 1551-3203), Studies in Informatics and Control (ISSN 1841-429X); Waste Management (ISSN: 0956-053X), Journal of Hazardous Materials (ISSN 0304-3894), Water Environment Research (ISSN 1061-4303), Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994), Resources (ISSN 2079-9276), Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), and Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).
He is the Director of the Master program Occupational Safety, Health and Work Relations Management, and the Director of the Postgraduate training and professional development program Risk Assessment and Audit in Occupational Health and Safety.
In 2005, he was awarded the title of EUR ING from the European Federation of National Engineering Associations BRUXELLES (FEANI).
I am currently working on the project entitled: SafeEngine – Blended Learning through Innovative Tools for Sustainable and Safety Engineering and Social Inclusion. The SafeEngine project is a strategic partnership concerned with the development of innovative tools for higher engineering education, supporting the improvement of learning-oriented programs that better meet students’ learning needs, while being relevant to the labor market and society at large. The project partners are the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (Romania), the University of Malaga (Spain), the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania), and the University of Naples Federico II (Italy).

Prof. Giuseppe Bonifazi, a distinguished academic at the Department of Chemical, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at Sapienza – Università di Roma, is renowned for his expertise in advanced sensing and imaging technologies. Holding an M.Sc. in Mining Engineering from Sapienza Università di Roma (1983), Prof. Bonifazi’s research focuses on hyperspectral imaging applications in waste management, recycling, and materials characterization. His work addresses critical sustainability challenges, including urban mining, anaerobic digestion monitoring, and quality control in industrial processes. With an extensive publication record, he has significantly advanced environmental engineering, particularly through innovative imaging platforms for classifying construction and demolition waste, monitoring biological reactions in waste processing, and assessing the quality of food and recyclable materials. Prof. Bonifazi’s contributions to sustainable resource recovery and process optimization are widely recognized in academia and industry alike.

A Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the Civil Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in September 1993. B.Sc degree from the Civil Engineering Department at An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. Prof. Al-Khatib has experience in a wide range of areas including water recourses management and quality, renewable and sustainable energy, environmental assessment, wastewater management, advocacy, coordination and networking. Al-Khatib has an extended experience in the development and carrying research and evaluation projects, professional work experience in water resources management, environmental impact assessment, environmental monitoring, training and evaluation of medical waste, solid waste, waste to energy, climate change, water and sanitation and urban environment projects. He is an expert in social and environmental health, promoting environmental public awareness through training, organizing and conducting awareness campaigns and workshops in environmental education and health.

Dr. Hugo Wai Leung Mak is a dedicated academic and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics and completed his PhD at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he honed his expertise in mathematical and physical sciences.

At CUHK, Dr. Mak is based in Room 208 of the Lady Shaw Building, situated on the university’s Shatin campus. His work focuses on advancing understanding in mathematics and its applications to physics, fostering interdisciplinary insights, and contributing to the academic development of students and the broader research community

Prof. Dr. Nelio Teixeira Machado is a leading expert in Chemical Engineering with a focus on bioenergy, thermodynamics, and separation processes. He holds degrees in Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, a doctorate from TUHH (1998), and a Post-Doctorate in Bioenergy Engineering (ATB, 2015-2016).

Currently a Full Professor at UFPA, he has held key roles, including Dean of the Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Chemical Engineering. He has supervised over 100 graduate and doctoral research projects.

An accomplished researcher, Prof. Machado has published 43 journal articles, 4 book chapters, and over 295 conference papers. His work in biofuel production, biomass transformation, and supercritical fluid technology has established him as a leader in the field.

Ahmed Kassem is a Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg. He works within the Chair of Technical Logistics, specializing in transportation systems and logistics.

Ahmed’s academic and professional expertise lies in advancing research and innovation in logistics and transportation technologies. He is actively involved in interdisciplinary projects and contributes to developing efficient and sustainable solutions in the field.

Based in Duisburg, Germany, Ahmed operates from the university’s SK Building, where he collaborates with fellow researchers to address the challenges of modern logistics. He can be reached via email at ahmed.kassem@uni-due.de or by phone at +49 203 379 7055.

Dr. Dan Cudjoe is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He got a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from the Beijing University of Technology, where he received the academic excellence award for outstanding Ph.D. students. Dr. Cudjoe has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology. He sits on the editorial boards of a number of energy and environment journals and is active in research in the field of circular economy, pro-environmental behaviors, environmental management, and waste management. He is ranked among the World’s top 2% scientists in the Environmental Sciences and Energy field by Stanford University and Elsevier. He has been awarded high-level national research grants as the principal investigator, including the Research Fund for International Young Scientists by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Cudjoe has published over 50 papers in reputable international peer-review SCI/SSCI journals as the first or corresponding author.

Dr. Hong Chen has a multidisciplinary background in environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, inorganic chemistry, material chemistry, and applied physics. His main research interest is green energy-driven resource recovery and environmental pollution control. He received his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from the Department of Environmental and Material Chemistry at Stockholm University in 2014, working with Prof. Junliang Sun and Xiaodong Zou. After a short postdoc training, he continued his postdoc training at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology with Prof. Licheng Sun, Stanford University with Prof. Michael F. Toney, University of California-Berkeley with Prof. Peidong Yang. In September 2018, he joined SUSTech. Now he is an associate professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

He has applied for more than 10 patents and published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 47 and google scholar citations >8300. More than half of them were published in prestigious journals with an impact factor higher than 10, including Nature Mater., PNAS, Science Adv., Nature Comm., JACS, Angew. Chem. Nano Lett., Environ. Sci. Tech., Water Res., Green Chem. etc..He serves as the associate editor for Environmental Chemistry Letters (IF:13.6), board member for the journal of Sustainable Horizons, Environmental Surface and Interfacse, Environmental Functional Materials, young editorial committee member of Chinese Chemical Letters, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, Industrial Wastewater Treatment(In Chinese), Engineering Science &Technology (In Chinese). He serves as a regular reviewer for more than 40 journals, including Nature Comm., Engineering, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., Environ. Sci. Tech., ACS Catal., Nano. Energy., ACS Catal. etc

As a research scientist, Dr. Omid Akbarzadeh Pivehzhani works with Texas A&M University, Department of Petroleum Engineering. He worked with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the USA and Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT) at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. His main research areas are heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, catalytic reaction engineering, nanocatalyst synthesis, nanomaterials characterization, CO2 conversion, and gas process. He has spent 15 years in academic-industrial projects as a research officer and post-doctoral. He developed advanced smart catalysts, especially for the oil and gas industries. Omid has contributed to two PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd industrial catalyst projects and worked on an international Airbus R&D project in NANOCAT. He was a project member of the FRGS grant in UTP Malaysia. Omid was the Chairman, keynote speaker, and organizing committee of many international conferences. He supervised three PhD students from different countries. He has published many ISI papers; book chapters and inventor of two approved and granted international patents. Also, he has hands-on experience and passed several pieces of training on handling different types of advanced equipment which are being widely used for nanomaterials synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation. He is in close collaboration with other departments, government agencies, and universities worldwide. He was a visiting researcher at Jiangsu University China and Hokkaido University Japan. He is a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) member and a Senior Member of the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. Omid was awarded a full fellowship from the University Technology PETRONAS during his PhD and was involved as a lab demonstrator and teaching in the different courses of chemical engineering. He was awarded a Silver Medal at the 27th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX 2016), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia, and a Silver Medal of Post Graduate Research Project at the 35th Science & Engineering Design Exhibition (SEDEX 35).