Invited Speakers

Distinguished Engineer Disinfection and Oxidation at Xylem He is active member in different water related organisations e.g. IWA, International Ozone Association, Association of German Chemists (GDCh) and member of German Water Associations (DWA, DVGW).

His business activities and research interests are in the fields of water and wastewater treatment and Water Reuse.

One focus area is the optimization of multi barrier solutions by generating synergies between process technologies including advanced monitoring and control concepts.

Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India and is a Senior.

His recent research interests include Oxidation technology for water purification, Polar environmental research, monitoring of Emerging contaminants in water bodies, membrane technology for water purification, Air pollution and protein-pollutant interaction.

He has over 400 publications in International Journals/Conference proceedings /book chapters/reviews/editorials.

Coordinator of EMBRAPA’s AgronNano Network.

Coordinator of the National Laboratory for Nanotechnology in Agriculture LNNA/EMBRAPA.

Current focus on semicondutors synthesis, photocatalytic application in environmental and energy industries, and slow and controlled devices for pesticide delivery.

Full Professor at Department of Chemistry at the Universitá Degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

LCA expert and Head of the Process and Plants Research Group for Industrial Chemistry at the University of Milan.

Coordinator of the Master Degree in Industrial Chemistry.

Member of the Board of the European Society of Sonochemistry. Research interests in the field of advanced materials, specifically the design of heterogeneous catalysts for environmental remediation.

Herman Schneider Professor of Environmental Engineering and Distinguished Research Professor (STEM) at the University of Cincinnati.

Distinguished Research Professor (STEM) at the University of Cincinnati. He has served as a UNESCO co-Chair Professor on “Water Access and Sustainability”.

Executive Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE), co-Editor of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, and member of the Editorial Boards of several other journals.

He has published 606 scientific papers (more than 300 during the last 10 years) and 36 chapter books on Adsorption, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, with more than 19,000 citations.

His expertise in X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Adsorption and Environmental Catalysis has been worldwide recognized.

He founded two Spin-Off companies VACOQUING and ECOPIBA for water treatments and valorization of saline and alkaline batteries.

He has received several research awards in the field of Analytical Chemistry applied to environmental, food safety and public health studies, specifically in research related to the use of chromatographic techniques coupled to mass spectrometry.

Researcher responsible for some 60 research projects and numerous contracts with companies and collaboration agreements, national and international.

Its working group was one of the eight European centers that created the SCORE network (https://score-network.eu), which promotes and coordinates multidisciplinary studies based on the analysis of wastewater for epidemiological purposes (Wastewater Based Epidemiology, WBE).

President of International Ozone Association (2022-2023). Deputy director of the Agricultural and Food Sciences Department of Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan (France). Dean of Research - TOAST and TFFFC platforms scientific manager. He develops academic and research works on characterization and properties study of macromolecules using FlFFF techniques and use of ozone as sanitary and technological agent in agriculture and food sciences.

Her professional and research trajectory is focused on solving environmental issues, particularly in Water Treatment, Waste Valorization and Treatment, and Environmental Remediation, alongside university-level teaching.

Currently, her research is centered around water treatment using advanced oxidation processes (both photochemical and non-photochemical), water quality, and biotransformation of solid waste into macrofungi.

She possesses expertise in implementing analytical techniques and managing instrumental equipment.

Full Professor in Chemical Engineering at the UCLM.

Research interests on the development of new and value-added applications of electrochemical engineering, with expertise in the frontiers among electrochemistry-energy-environment and with a relevant transfer of knowledge to the industry.

Author of more than 600 papers in referenced journal and books, more than 100 technical reports for companies and 5 patents.

Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Full Member of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS).

Founding Member of the COPPE Women Support Group and she is a Member of the Commission "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion" of FAPERJ.

Current interests on processes for the treatment of water and effluents, and emergin pollutants removal.

Junior Researcher at the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, ALiCE, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.

Member of the editorial board of the JECE journal (Elsevier).

Current research interests on cutting-edge technologies for the remediation of water and wastewater and the synthesis of value-added products, covering (1) innovative processes, mainly electrochemically-based processes, (2) pioneering reactor designs, and (3) new electrode materials.

Senior Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Professor and Consultant at the University of General San Martín, Argentina.

Pioneer of photocatalysis in Argentina.

Member of: the World Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Latin America, and the Academy of Environmental Sciences of Argentina.

Research interests on the treatment of pollutants in water and air by AOPs, especially heterogeneous photocatalysis and use of iron-based nanomaterials.

Director of the Sustainable Engineering Initiative and the Donald F. Othmer Associate.

Co-founder of Sunthetics, an enterprise housed in its early days at NYU Tandon’s Urban Future Lab (UFL).

Research interests on the development of electrochemical technologies for the incorporation of renewable energy into chemical manufacturing.

Member of the research groups I2P - Intensification and Innovation in Chemical and Biotechnological Processes (co-leader, UFSC), Development of New Materials from Solid Waste (UFSC), and Modeling, Simulation, Control, and Optimization of Processes (FURB).

Editor for the Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ).

Fritz Müller Research Prize Award in the Engineering category (Young Researcher).

Research lines include phenomenological investigation of equipment and processes relevant to Chemical Engineering (involving photocatalysis, electrochemistry, multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, etc.), chemical reactors, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), process intensification, microfluidics, advanced material development, and artificial intelligence.

CNRS Research Director at ICPEES (Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health) at the University of Strasbourg, France.

Currently Grant Awarding Coordinator of the European PRIORITY COST Action on Plastics monitoRIng detectiOn RemedIaTion recoverY.

Current research on the design of light-driven heterogeneous catalysts for the environmental and energy transitions.

George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, where he also serves as founding Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water.

His research interests include environmental implications and applications of nanotechnology, bioremediation, fate and transport of toxic chemicals, water footprint of biofuels, water treatment and reuse, and antibiotic resistance control.

He is an Executive Editor of Environmental Science and Technology and previously served on the scientific advisory board of the EPA and of the advisory committee of the NSF Engineering Directorate.

Prof. Alvarez was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for outstanding contributions to the practice and pedagogy of bioremediation and environmental nanotechnology.

Professor at the School of Technology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil.

Member of the International Ozone Association (IO3A) and serves as the President of the Brazilian Association of Advanced Oxidation Processes (ABPOA).

Current interests on the water and wastewater treatment through advanced oxidation processes, with a specific focus on ozonation, disinfection, and the removal of micropollutants.

Emeritus professor in the Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona.

Associate editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, member of the steering board committee of the SEQUI (Spanish Society of Industrial Chemistry, and IOA (International Ozone Association).

Chemical Engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and holds a Doctorate title in Chemical and Biochemical Process Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.