Dr. Jerry Wu received his bachelor’s degree in 1989 from the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Cheng Kung University and master’s degree in 1991 from the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering in National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Michigan State University, USA. He is an editorial board member of American Journal of Environmental Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Engineering. He is currently a distinguished professor at Feng Chia University in Taiwan, where he was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor.

Giuseppe Lengella is an associate professor of Energy and Environmental System at the University of Naples. He graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering and completed his PhD in thermo-mechanical system engineering. He has been teaching the courses of Fluid Machinery, Thermal Generation Plants, and Thermo-mechanical Technologies for the Energy Transition. His main research fields concern the abatement systems of pollutants produced by combustion processes (in particular scrubbers for the desulphurization of exhaust gases), thermodynamic solar plants and their integration with other renewable sources, the use of alternative fuels for the reduction of emissions.

Dr. Miklas Scholz, cand Ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, DSc, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, VINNOVA Fellow, Marie Curie Senior Fellow, holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Salford (UoS, UK). He is also a Professor in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University (LU, Sweden) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (UoJ). He has published three books and 206 journal articles. Prof. Scholz has more than 3978 citations, an h-index of 31 and an i10-Index of 91.

Dr. Chen is an associate professor at Alabama A & M University (AAMU). He holds PhD in ecology. He has 25 years of experience in ecological research and 70 peer reviewed journal publications. He conducts research and teaches ecology related courses at AAMU.

James Barker graduated from University of Manchester, UK with a BSc(Hons) in Chemistry and PhD in bioanalysis. He then became a Research Fellow at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Later, he returned to UK as Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich and later Manager of an analytical company. Since 1999, he has been at Kingston University, UK as Reader in Analytical Science and as Associate Professor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. James' research interests lie in the development and validation of environmental analytical techniques, especially those based on Mass Spectrometry.

Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Branca obtained Ph.D. Doctor "Crop Productivity of growing plants" in 1991. He became associated professor at the Catania University in 2010. He studied aspects related to diversification of vegetable production in terms of biology and adaptation, both in open field and in protected cultivation of species widespread in other geographic regions, and of species neglected or underutilized, such as wild species utilized as food. He is actually chair and Italian representative of the Brassica Working Group and member of the Vegetable Network Group of the European Cooperative Program on Genetic Resources (EPCGR) managed by Bioversity International. From 2014, he is vice chair of the ISHS Section “Vegetables, Roots, Tubers, Edible Bulbs, Brassica, Asparagus”. He is author of about 180 papers related to the exploitation of the wild and cultivated germplasm utilized as vegetable, medicinal and aromatic plants, in view to qualify and to innovate their production chains.

Dr. Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani is professor at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) and São Paulo Academy of Science (ACIESP). She did her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of São Paulo in 1990 and a post-doctorate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPISU-USA). Since 2003, she is a member of the Biota-FAPESP Program Coordination. Currently, she is Director of the UNESP Technology Transfer Office (UNESP-AUIN). Her field of interest is plant science, and has been involved in the isolation, bioactivity and function of secondary metabolites and peptides from plants. She has published more than 203 articles, 5 book chapters and 7 patents.

Dr. Fatih Deniz obtained his Ph.D. degree in the field of environmental biotechnology, Department of biological sciences from the University of Kahramanmaras Sutuc Imam (Turkey). He is currently an associated professor and department chair at the department of environmental protection technologies at Harran University in Turkey. His research interest focuses mainly on the bioremediation technologies such as biosorption and bioaccumulation for the purification of water environments especially polluted with organic and inorganic substances like synthetic dyes and heavy metal ions. His publication includes numerous peer-reviewed articles in the international SCI/ SCI-E indexed journals and many congress papers in his field of specialization.

Obas John Prof. Ebohon is a Professor in Sustainability and Environmental Law at London South Bank University. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of energy, sustainability, and development, built environment economics and finance, institutions and the process of construction industry development, impact of globalisation on built and natural environment discourse, management and efficiency drive in the construction and production processes, housing and urban development in developing countries, technology transfer, and construction multinationals. He has published widely and contributed papers to international conferences and seminars in these fields, especially concerning sub-Sahara Africa. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of several professional bodies.

Nasruddin Hassan is an associate professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, specializing in Operations Research, Management Mathematics and Multicriteria Decision Making. He received the PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Universiti Putra Malaysia, MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Western Michigan University USA, and BSc degree (High Honors) in Mathematics from Western Illinois University USA. His research interests also include decision making in fuzzy environments and numerical convergence. He has published more than 100 articles in international journals and proceedings.

Dr. M Yeşilnacar received his BSc in Geological Engineering from Mediterranean University, 1991, Turkey, MSc in Geological Engineering from SDU in 1995, Turkey, and PhD from the Cukurova University in 2000, Turkey. He,finally did his post-doctoral degree from METU, 2007, Turkey. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as a geological engineer for the Geotechnical Services and Groundwaters Section of the DSI in Atatürk Dam and Sanliurfa Tunnels of GAP Project, Turkey. He has been a professor in the Environmental Engineering Department, Harran University of Turkey since 1993. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of hydrogeology, groundwater pollution, waste management, medical geology, and geothermal exploration.

Dr. MAO Jiansu is a Post professor, doctoral supervisor at the Beijing Normal University. She graduated from Northeastern University in China and had been a postdoctoral associate and Research Fellow at Yale University, USA. She has strong research interests in Industrial Ecology, Ecological Economics, Eco-urban planning and has published more than 70 academic papers and 7 books. She is in charge of the National Excellent Online Open Course titled “Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Enterprises”.

Dr. Nour Shafik El-Gendy is a Professor in the field of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology. She is currently acting and was Former vice Head of Process Design & Development Department and also Former Head Manager of Petroleum Biotechnology Lab at the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. She has published four chapters, four books and 108 research papers, and also supervised 27 MSc and PhD thesis.