4^th Global Recycling Expo

Vasilis Fthenakis is a Director, Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, USA. He also leads the National PV Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Research Center operating at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) under the auspices of the DOE since 1982. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation.

Life Cycle Analysis, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy Penetration in the Grid, Fluid Dynamics, Air Pollution Prevention and Control

Hesham Ali, Ph.D., P.E., CPM, came to FIU with over 21 years of civil engineering experience, mostly in pavement design, analysis and construction. Ali joined the CEE faculty in December of 2011 as Green Paving Professor of Practice and is working to advance the new Green Paving Initiative of Florida International University. Ali earned holds a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The City University of New York. He has spent much of his career in the transportation sector focusing on pavement evaluation, pavement engineering and consulting for various public and private employers, including a role as Highway Research Fellow for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Additionally, Ali has participated in the delivery of hundreds of roadway and airport construction projects in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Florida. Recently, Ali served as an executive at the Florida Department of Transportation, where he worked for over a decade and participated in the delivery of $3 billion of highway construction and maintenance projects.

Recycling and Waste management

Andreas Krause has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is the Professor for wood composites and processing technology at University Hamburg. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals.

Recycling and waste management

M. A. Martin-Luengo, graduated in chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain) in 1980. In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work in 1981 and PhD in 1983 on the characterization of surfaces. Then she worked with a CSIC grant in England and Belgium till 1987. From 1987 till 1991, she was awarded a fellowship IA from the UK´s Scientific Engineering Research Council and from 1992 she is permanent research staff of the CSIC

Nowadays she carries on with her studies on sustainable issues, applying the knowledge acquired during 34 years of career to the search for the use of renewable materials, chemical processes and energies, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economic resources.

Miklas Scholz is a Fellow of IWA holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group and has published two books and approximately 150 journal papers. His main research areas are wetland systems, storm water management, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality and wastewater treatment. Prof. Scholz is Editor-in-Chief of the ISI Web of Science-listed journal Water (impact factor for 2012: 0.973). He has membership experience of over 30 editorial boards.

Wetlands, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality, storm water management and wastewater treatment.

Alejandro Rodríguez has completed his PhD from University of Córdoba, Spain, and started to work as lecturer in University Pablo of Olavide, Spain. He worked as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher from 2007 to 2011. He is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department in the University of Córdoba, Spain, from December 2011. His scholarly activity should be resumed as follow: books 1, book chapters 3, Journal Articles >80, proceedings & abstracts >50, invited talks 1 and supervisory roles (including present personnel): 9 PhD Students. He has also been serving as an Editorial Board Member of several journals

Recycling, Bioprocess Engineering and Fermentation Technology,Biomass Conversion,Biochemical Engineering

Jorge Manuel Calico Lopes de Brito is currently working as a professor in department of civil engineering at University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his Phd in civil engineering department in 1993. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Building Engineering and Associate Editor of European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering Editorial Board. He participated in several international conferences.

Sustainable construction (recycled aggregates in concrete and mortars),Bridge and building management systems,Buildings service life (prediction),Construction technology

Irene M. C. Lo is currently a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and 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 2 Patents, edited 7 technical books, and published over 260 SCI journal articles and conference papers with citation about 4500 and H-index of 35. Her research areas include remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater; magnetic nano- and microparticles for environmental pollution control; pollutant migration in soils; and waste treatment and management.

Energy, Environmental Engineering: Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Engineering: Solid/hazardous Waste Management & Recycling/reuse, Environmental Engineering: Water & Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Green Building & Sustainable Development, Infrastructure Development & Planning, Nano Technology

Hojae Shim is currently working as an Associate Professor in department of Civil Engineering at University of Macau, China. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science Engineering, Ohio State University, USA. His research interests includes Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater, Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Bio filtration and Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater,Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Biofiltration, Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Arvind Jayant is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Head, Department of Disabilities Studies, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed University, Longowal, Punjab, India (Established by MHRD, Govt. of India). His research area expertise includes Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics & Simulation of Manufacturing System. He has published more than 100 research papers in International/national journals. He has completed three sponsored research projects of Rs. 10 Millions funded by MSJE, MHRD and CSIR. He is the members of different professional bodies like ISTE, ISME, IWS, IIE (USA), IACSIT (Singapore), IAEngg. (Hongkong). He had visited USA, Japan, England, Nepal and Singapore

Recycling, e-waste management, Resource recovery etc.

Prof. Kunio Yoshikawa was born in 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology and an associate editor of Applied Energy. His bachelor, master and doctor degrees were awarded from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His major fields are energy conversion, waste management and environmental engineering. He has been working in Tokyo Institute of Technology for more than 38 years as a research associate, an associate professor and a professor. He has published nearly 200 journal papers with the major award of AIAA Best Paper Award, ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal, JSME Environmental Technology Achievement Award and Best Educator Award of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Waste-to-Energy

Professor Tsuyoshi Fujita is a Director of Social Environmental Systems Research Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. He is also an alliance professor of Nagoya University as well as a visiting professor of United Nations University in Japan. His research fields are eco industrial development, low carbon city, urban environment simulation system, circular economy planning and spatial LCA, where he has published around seventy journal papers. He is engaged in several national research projects to develop integrative urban technology and policy simulation system for Japanese and Asian cities and regions. He is a member of the National Council of Low Carbon City Promotion of Japan. He is also engaged in academic positions such as a counselor of the International Society of Industrial Ecology, Chair of Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Systems Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering. He received a doctor of engineering degree from the University of Tokyo in 1997 as well as a MCP (Master of City Planning) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He was formerly an Associate Professor in Osaka University after working in the construction company as an urban planner for ten years.

Recycling

He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the ' University of Turin in 1994. In 1996 he founded, together with other shareholders, the cooperative ERICA Soc. Coop. one of the first companies in Italy to deal with waste, both in terms of technical design and communication. By ERICA Soc. Coop. holds up to 1999 as a director only to become, in that same year, President and finally, in 2014, CEO. From 1997 to 1999 he was Minister for the Environment, Agriculture and Civil Protection of the City of Alba. In 2001 he was appointed an expert evaluator for the European Commission Directorate General Research. Since December 2002, he was appointed President of AICA (International Association for Environmental Communication). In June 2003 he joined the Board of Directors of ACR + (Association Cities and Regions for Recycling and Sustainable Management of Resources) of which he was elected vice president in November 2014. In that same year the Ministry of the Environment and the Sea appointment horse vice president of the Scientific Committee for the implementation and development of the National Plan for the Prevention of Waste in office until 2017 (Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, the Ministry decree Gian Luca Galletti, n. 185 dell ' July 8, 2014)

Recycling and waste management

Fabrizio Cumo, Nuclerar Engineer , professor in Applied Applied Physic Faculty of Architetture – University of Rome "La Sapienza . Operates in the Institute of the Valorisation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of Italian CNR (ICVBC) –section of Rome . Member of the board of the CITERA center and director of the Master “BIM” Building Integrated Modelling. Leader of the some international research groups for the responsible use of energy in residential area and the use of renewable sources. Is author of more than 120 papers regarding the fields of energetic , environmental applied physic (IAQ, heat transfer and lightning) and architecture tecnologies

Recycling, Waste management, Sustainable Energy, Urbanism

Muscolo Adele graduated in Biological Sciences (MSc), and has completed her PhD in Food Science at the age of 26 years at the Policlinic Federico II University of Naples, Italy. In 1988 she started her professional carrier as Researcher at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Professor. Since 1990 she is Reviewer for Scientific International Journals and since 2008 she is Evaluator of national and international projects for European Community and Funding Research Agencies. She is Examiner of international PhD dissertation. She published more than 170 papers in international journals with IF and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of many international journals. Additionally she is Associate Editor for JFR

Agricultural Biomass, Bioenergy, soil ecosystem, Biodiesel, Soil salinity

Nour-Eddine Menad has completed his PhD from National School of geology of Nancy (France) and worked as Associate Professor at Technical University of Lulea (Sweden). He is scientific expert on process development on recycling of industrial wastes. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and conferences, 4 patents and is in the board committee of Edorium Journal of Waste Management. At the moment, he is working at BRGM (Bureau de recherché Géologique et minière) on development of separation techniques applied on the urban mine to recover stratégic metals.

recycling, waste management, urban mining, geology

Enric Vazquez is Professor Emeritus in Construction Materials on the ETS Ingenieros de Caminos of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. At present in Constructing Cycle SL. Research in eco-efficient materials and wastes for his use in construction, environmental impact by leaching, road pavements, durability of concrete and bituminous mixtures. 80 papers and books published from 1967 til today.This publications include the books Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment,Vol 8,RILEM STATE OF ART REPORTS “2013” y Guia Española de Áridos Reciclados procedentes de RCD (2012),Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y GEAR. He has oriented 22 doctor thesis and 30 master th..Invited Plenary Speaker in Spain, Japan,France,Germany,Austria,Poland,Brasil,Italy,Portugal and China. Has been Chairman from the RILEM TC-217 y TC-198 URM.Member of WG of AENOR,AIPCR and CEN.In 2011 he received the Environment Award from the Catalan Government for his profesional career.

Recycling and waste management

Gary Leeke is Chair in Chemcial Engineering and Head of the Bioenergy and Resource Management Centre at Cranfield University, UK. His research interests lie in the areas of recycling enabling technologies and resource efficiency. He has expertise in high pressure engineering and thermo-chemical processing, specifically in reaction engineering, separation technology, flow reactors, and their applications to polymer/composite processing and remanufacture, mixed plastic waste and the circular economy. He leads the EXHUME project in the UK investigating the deconstruction of fibre reinforced composites. Gary sits on the Composites Leadership Forum Sustainability Working Group for Composites UK

Recycling, waste management, Thermo chemical processing, sustainability, urbanism etc

Awf Al-Kassir, male, Professor Industrial Engineer, (Ph.D.) from Valladolid University in 1995, graduated (B.Sc.) from mechanical engineering department, Mosul University in 1978. He worked for University of Technology of Baghdad in 1979 and Institute of Technology of Ramady 1980-1988 after getting his (M.Sc.). From 1989-1994, he worked as a researcher and associate professor at the University of Valladolid in Spain. From 1995 up to date he worked as a professor at the University of Extremadura in Spain. He was invited professor at TUBITAK research center of Turkey during the academic year 2009-2010. Also he is the coordinator of Master Bioenergy Subject & lecturer at the Polytechnique Institute of Portalegre in Portugal, 2010-2012. Now he has published more than 150 papers and contributed more than 80 communications to congresses & other books. He participated in national research projects, he was a member of ASHRAE from 1989-1995, he was accepted for colligate in the engineering college of Spain since 1990.

Use of biomass residues for energy production Evaluation of combustion, pyrolysis and gasification processes Refrigeration and air conditioning Heat pumps & thermal comfort Design and optimization of thermal drying systems Energy saving & renewable energy Infrared thermography technique applications Heat transfer in manufacturing processes and heat exchangers design

Stéphane Bourg is Project Manager at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission in the Radiochemistry and Processes Department located in the CEA Marcoule Research Center. He is in charge of projects dealing with hydrometallurgical process simulation and life cycle assessment studies. Since 2008, he has been the Coordinator of European research projects dealing with solvent extraction process develoment (ACSEPT, SACSESS) and of research infrastructure networks (ACTINET-I3, TALISMAN). He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of PROMETIA, an international non-profit association aiming at promoting the development of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy for mining and recycling. This association, gathering academia, research and technology centers and industries, acts as a pre-consortium tank for answering industry R&D needs and fostering innovation in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Stéphane Bourg graduated as an Engineer from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris and is Doctor in Chemistry. From 1992 to 1998, he carried out research work on silicon organochemistry, applied to advanced silicon carbide material synthesis. He joined the CEA in 1999 as research engineer for developping sol-gel organo modified silica materials dedicated to liquid effluent decontamination . In the years 2000, he was involved in pyrometallurgical process development. He has been a member of expert groups regarding nuclear waste management issues (IAEA expert groups following Fukushima accident), nuclear fuel cycle research programmes (UK EPSRC), raw materials (EIP-RM working groups). He is also member of several advisory boards and international conference committees.

Nuclear waste management, Recycling, Thermal Waste recovery

Li Guangming is currently working as a professor in Tongji University, China. In 1985, East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now the East China University of Technology) Department of Chemical energy graduate, bachelor's degree in petroleum refining engineering; graduated from the school in 1988 petroleum processing, received a master's degree organic chemical disciplines; graduated from the school in 1990 the Department of Petroleum Processing PhD in organic chemical disciplines. July 1990 Tongji work played so far, worked in the Department of Chemistry (1990-1999), Higher Technical School (2000-2001) and the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (2002 - present), he served as a lecturer (1990 ), associate professor (1994) and Professor (2000).

Pollution Prevention and Control Process, Water Management system scale, waste resource management systems and pollution control technology to achieve a low-carbon pathway Process or low-carbon society.

Sébastien Déon obtained his PhD degree from the University of South Brittany in 2007 on the modeling of transport through nanofiltration membranes. In 2008, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Franche-Comté where he has broadened his areas of expertise to electrokinetic characterizations of membrane materials and fouling cakes. Currently, he is Associate Professor and his skills are mainly dedicated to water treatment by membrane processes. He is also the Author or Co-author of one book, twenty four publications in international recognized journals, and twenty presentations in international conferences. His expertise in reviewing scientific papers led him to become an Associate Editor of International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology and an Editorial Board Member of several peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Recyclin, waste management, Waste water treatment

Lingai LUO received her Ph.D. degree (1991) in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. She worked as associate professor at University of Nancy I and at INPL, France. From 2003 until 2012 she was a full professor at University of Savoie, France. She is now senior research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the laboratory of thermo-kinetics, Nantes (LTN), France

Recycling and thermal waste recovery, solar systems, heat recovery

M. Sulyman was born in 1976. He got his MSc. degree in 2008 from Academy of Graduate Studies and the B.Sc. degree in 2000 from Al-Mergheb University in the field of chemical engineering in Libya. Currently he is a PhD student at Polymer Technology Department, Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. His interests of research are environmental and polymer engineering. His main research is asphalt polymer blend using polymer waste materials. Additional interest work is wastewater treatment using green adsorbents prepared from agricultural by-products/wastes

Environmental and polymer engineering, wastewater treatment, Recycling

Francois O. Méar has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Montpellier II University and postdoctoral studies from Cambridge and Tohoku University. He is assistant professor at Lille I University and specificly in the Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry Unit. FOM is working on the formulation of glass matrices for unconventional applications (e.g. containment matrices for nuclear waste, seals glass for SOFC) and on the synthesis of self-healing glassy matrices. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals, 1 patent and 2 book chapters.

Innovative glass formulation, Functional glass with phosphates, Special glasses, Physical and chemical characterization – Structural investigation

Helena Maria Vieira Monteiro Soares has completed her PhD from University of Porto, Portugal. Her main research is focused on the selective recovery of metals from wastewaters and secondary resources. She has published about 70 papers in ISI journals, coordinated several national projects and has been serving as Project Evaluator of advanced fellowships and grants from the Portuguese and other international (EU, South Africa, Chile) research agencies.

Solid Waste management and Recycling

David Elena is a Graduate of Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MS-in Physics-Chemistry of Surface and Analytic Chemistry of “Babes-Bolyai” University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He serves as a Doctor in Chemical Science, Assoc. Prof., Head of Laboratory: Carbonic Materials, Composites & Analysis Techniques, at National Research Institute of Cryogenics & Isotope Technologies-ICIT Rm.Valcea, Romania. His overall research topics approached concern to renewable energy sources; conservation of energy; energy from waste; methods and mechanisms for the reduction of pollution; methods of waste recycling and tests to determine their toxicity; development of analysis techniques with applications in energy & environment fields.

Carbonic Materials, Renewable energy, energy from waste, Recycling and waste management

Chuan Chen has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and postdoctoral studies from University of Calgary from 2013 to 2014. He is Associate Professor of HIT at present, and has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals

Recycling and waste management

Ashraf Bakkar has obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering and Corrosion from Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany, May 2005. He conducted his scientific research and development in the field of Corrosion and Electrometallurgy in Institut für Materialprüfung und Werkstofftechnik Dr. Neubert (DN) GmbH at Clausthal, Germany (2005-08). He worked as Assistant- and Associate-professor in Metallurgical and Materials Eng. Dept., Suez University, Egypt (2008-2013). He is the Head of Environmental Eng. Dept. at Umm Alqura University, Saudi Arabia. His scientific co-operation with Prof. Neubert (Director of DN) has been continued since 2001. They are currently conducting recent research on recycling of dusts evolved from different Egyptian and German steelmaking fields. He has about 35 scientific contributions published as patents, journal papers, and conference articles.

Materials Engineering, Electrometallurgy, Recycling and Waste Management

Takashi Nakamura completed his MA Sc in Metallurgy from Kyushu University, Japan in 1974, PhD in Metallurgy in 1979 from the same university. He became Lecturer in Kyushu Institute of Technology (1977), Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1991). In 1998, he was appointed as a Professor at Institute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University and from 2001 to till date he is a Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

Recycling engineering, Metallic production engineering