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Distinguished Professor Huu Hao Ngo (Hao) is an award winning and world-leading researcher in environmental engineering who has a special interest in wastewater treatment and reuse, and environmental biotechnology for sustainable development. Hao has made it his mission to have his work published in high-impact journals, to work with quality collaborators, and to be an active and leading member in the global network of scholars in his fields, through editing top journals and reviewing the papers of others. As Dstinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering and Deputy Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater at UTS, Hao helps oversee the development of innovative technologies that deliver abundant supplies of recycled water and green and sustainable technologies for clean energy and materials towards practical zero emission. He is also Co-Director of the Joint Research Centre for Protective Infrastructure Technology and Environmental Green Bioprocess, which was formed by China’s Tianjin Chengjian University and UTS. He has also served as President of the International Bioprocessing Association, is a Fellow of International Water Association and Distinguished Fellow of the International Bioprocessing Association. He is currently a founder and Executive Coordinator of the newly established Australasia Practical Zero Emissions Society (APZES)

The main objective of my work relates to the physiology of microalgae as related to mass culturing outdoors. In a nutshell the work so far points out that our original approach taken some 35 years ago of treating algal growth outdoors in terms of light limitation or a process governed by one main limiting factor was a naive attempt to simplify things. Our findings point out that in many cases the system is down regulated or even photoinhibited not necessarily because of exposure to high light intensity but rather due to other environmental stress that reduce the photosynthetic activity be it temperature or salinity. As a result the ability of the cells to utilize light by the photosynthetic machinery is reduced and thus light levels that are considered as harmless under optimal growth conditions are turning to be over-saturating levels and result in down regulating and photoinhibiting the photosynthetic apparatus. Based on this working hypothesis we are also reviewing some of our old data related to the role of light and temperature in outdoor cultures and getting a better understanding that algal cultures are shifted during the day from light limitation to light inhibition in a relatively very fast cycle. The major organism studied was Spirulina or under it scientific name Arthrospira platensis. A large collection of strains collected during the years from all over the world is used in our studies. In recent years a significant part of the work is dedicated to selection of species (Nannochloropsis) either from different habitats or after induced random mutations with the attempt to isolate strains of higher adaptability capacity to biotic stress. Present Academic Activities: The main activities in my group along the above mentioned line are: - Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus of two Spirulina strains to salinity stress and low temperature: (photoinhibition and antioxidants). - The role of environmental factors ( high salt and high light ) on growth and fatty-acid biosynthesis in Monodus subterraneus - Isolation of mutants of the marine microalgae Nannochloropsis. oceamica resitent to 'oxidative stress" and the modification induced in their growth and photosynthetic capacity.

Zoran Ivanovic received his MD and PhD in Experimental Hematology at Faculty of Medicine, and also his MSc degree in System and Comparative Physiology at the Faculty of Science of Belgrade University. He specialized in Transfusion (Bordeaux 2 University) and in Cell Therapy (Paris 7 University). He received the “HDR” (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) Degree at Bordeaux 2 University. He 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Medical Research, Belgrade, where he received the title of Research Professor in 1998. He was appointed Associate Professor of Hematology at the Medical Faculties of Limoges University and Bordeaux 2 University in the period 1999-2002. Since 2002, he has been Scientific Director of French Blood Institute for the regions of Aquitaine and Limousin (since 2018 of Nouvelle Aquitaine) where he founded his research laboratory in 2003. Since 2011 he is a guest professor at the Medical faculty of Nis University (Serbia) and from 2015 adjunct associate professor of Luxembourg University. Dr Ivanovic is full member of Medical Sciences Academy of Serbian Medical Society. Dr Ivanovic published some pioneer works on the induction of stem cell self-renewal at low O2 concentration. More than one decade-long work on this issue allowed him to develop his concept “Evolutionary Oxygen Stem Cell Paradigm” (Anaerobiosis and stemness: an evolutionary paradigm, Elsevier 2016) considering “anaerobic”, low-energy proliferation to be in fact a key of self-renewal: low availability of energy preventing cells from differentiating, which requires much more energy than simple cell division not coupled with differentiation. This feature of stem cells seems to reflect the ancestral, primitive mono-cellular organisms existing at the time when atmosphere oxygen concentration was still very low. This concept, applied to cell engineering enabled Dr Ivanovic and his group to develop clinical-scale ex-vivo expansion procedures combining an anti-oxidants-supplied medium with cytokines mimicking the effects of a low O2 concentration in order to neutralize the negative effects of hyper-oxygenation (20-21% O2), as well as to design a completely new and original approach of stem and progenitor cell conservation in hypothermia. Dr Ivanovic holds several grants in the field of cord blood and adult stem cell research. He has published 129 papers (mainly in peer reviewed journals) and book chapters; he realized 164 meeting communications and 38 invited conferences and supervised several PhD and master thesis. Dr Ivanovic serves as Academic Editor/Editorial board member of PLoS One, Editorial board member of Transfusion Clinique et Biologique and acts frequently as reviewer for several scientific journals (J Cell Physiol, PLoS One, Stem cells, Haematologica...).

Prof. Chiusano is full professor of Molecular Biology. She is an expert in omics and bioinformatics, she has always been involved in training and research in the sector. You have designed and developed numerous databases and computational platforms for the analysis of biological data also in the context of international consortia. Responsible for Italian and European scientific projects, author of numerous scientific publications, he is an invited speaker at national and international conferences.

2018- Director, School of Dental Technology, Taipei Medical University 2014- Professor, School of Dental Technology, Taipei Medical University 2007-2014 Associate Professor, School of Dental Technology, Taipei Medical University 2000-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology 1998-2000 Professor, Department of Industrial Design Shih Chien University, Shih Chien University 1995-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology

Biomaterials, colloids and interfacial phenomena, pharmaceutical engineering, catalysis, wastewater treatments

Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering, School of Chemical Sciences andFounder Director, International and Inter UniversityCentre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,Mahatma Gandhi University

Vice President Global Medical Affairs, Breast, Ovarian, Bladder Cancer and Immunotherapy, Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ, USA Stefan Glück, MD, PhD, is Vice President, Global Medical Affairs at Celgene Corporation since October 2014; prior to that he was until September 2014 a Sylvester Professor in the Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He is a medical oncologist with a focus on breast cancer. From 2003–2008, he was the Clinical Director of the Braman Family Breast Cancer Institute, from January 2009 to December 2010 assistant Director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Chief, Division Hematology and Medical Oncology. Dr. Glück was presented the America’s Top Oncologists 2008 award from Consumers’ Research Council of America; he also received the Best Doctors in America honor in since 2006, and has annually earned that prestige every year, including in 2014; this award was warranted after less than 3 years of working in the United States. Before his move to Miami, Dr Glück was Director, Southern Alberta Breast Cancer Program at the Tom Baker Cancer Center, a Professor in the departments of oncology, medicine, pharmacology, and therapeutics at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and Deputy Head, Department of Oncology at the University of Calgary. Dr Glück completed his medical studies at the Free University of West Berlin, Germany. The internship in Berlin was followed by residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology at the Heinrich Heine Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany, and a medical oncology and bone marrow transplant fellowship at the Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto in Canada. As VP, Global Medical Affairs, he oversees Breast, Ovarian and Bladder cancer activities worldwide for the Celgene Corporation as well as the Immuno-Oncology Program. His interest has been in clinical trials in breast cancer and he has been a PI of 37 clinical studies in breast cancer in Miami, and investigator in numerous scientific, translational projects. Dr Glück is a member of such prestigious professional organizations, as the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the European Society for Medical Oncology, the American and European Association of Cancer Research, and the International Association for Breast Cancer Research. He is a reviewer of numerous journals e.g.: Journal of Clinical Oncology, European Journal of Cancer, Lancet Oncology, Lancet, Breast Cancer Research, The Oncologist, The Breast Journal, Clinical Breast Cancer and many others. He is Medical associate Editor of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment and Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Carcinogenesis and Clinical Communications Oncology that he co founded in 2014. He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles. In addition, Dr Glück has written or co-written a number of book chapters and numerous journal abstracts, and he has presented more than 350 papers at national and international meetings.

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Dr. Cremer (B.S. MIT, 1976, PhD. Electrical Engineering, U. of Maryland, 1984), chief scientist of Adelphi Technology, has a diverse experimental and theoretical background in applied physics, which includes x-ray/neutron sources, detectors, optics, bioelectric phenomena (artificial skin S.B thesis at MIT), and postdoctoral traineeship in biophysics on cellular electrofusion and electrically mediated gene transfer at University of California at San Francisco, 1984-1986. Dr. Cremer has published 43 peer-reviewed publications, 4 books on neutron and x-ray optics with Academic Press (Elsevier), and 4 issued US patents. Presently, Dr. Cremer is funded with grants for research and development of instruments for neutron spin echo, neutron radiography, neutron diffractometry, neutron small angle scattering, and gas sensors.

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State University of Milan, Italy. Full Professor of Irrigation and Drainage. Master in Geology, State University of Milan Ph. D. in Advanced Engineering, Geology, State University of Milan. Qualifications: Ph. D., State University of Milan, Advanced Engineering Geology, Master, State University of Milan, Geology. Director of the Computer Centre of the Faculty of Agriculture (1989 – 1995), Director of the Department of Agricultural Hydraulics (2000 – 2006), President of EurAgEng (European Society of Agricultural Engineers) (2002 - 2004), Member of the Executive Board of CIGR (International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) (2006 – 20014), Member of the Board of Directors of WIT (Wessex Institute of Technology) (2010 -), Member of the Editorial Board of the ICID (International commission on Irrigation and drainage) Journal Irrigation and Drainage (1998 -), Author of more than 150 publications (scientific papers ,key-note lectures, books and tecnical reports), Organizer of more than fifty International Events (Conferences, Congresses, Symposia and Workshops) held in about fifteen Countries throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, America and Australia). Specialization Areas: Water resources management, Irrigation and drainage technology, performance assessment of sprinkler irrigation systems, modelling of tran sport processes in porous media, modelling of fluid-dynamics of debris and hyper-concentrated flows, flood control and mitigation measures, desertification and environmental impact of climate change, quantum approach to water droplet trajectories in sprinkler spray flow.

Professor Glaucio Dire Feliciano (D.Sc.) has a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ / 1999), a master's degree in Human Biology and Experimental (Morphology) from the University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ / 2001) and doctorate in Biology (Nuclear Biosciences) by the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ / 2004). He completed his postdoctoral degree in Experimental Pathology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ / 2005). He is currently a research professor in the area of Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry of the Foundation State University Center of the West Zone (UEZO), where he is responsible for research on the Study of the biological effects of natural products with investigative interest in the Brazilian single health system (SUS) , which is developed in the Laboratory of Chemical and Biological Analysis (LAQB). This research professor has experience in the areas of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Morphology and Neuroscience, mainly in the following subjects: Radiolabeling, Biological Effects, Medication Interaction, Histology, Physiology, Pathology, Metabolism, Toxicology and Neurosciences. Member of the American Association for Science and Technology.

Vakhtang Barbakadze has his expertise in isolation and structure elucidation of a new series of plant polyethers, which are endowed with pharmacological properties as anti-cancer agents. Besides, he interested in enantioselective synthesis and biological activities of basic monomeric moiety of these biopolyethers, synthesis of enantiomerically pure epoxides as chiral building blocks for the production of synthetic analogues of natural polyethers. He has completed his Ph.D and D.Sci. in 1978 and 1999, respectively. He is the head of Department of Plant Biopolymers and Chemical Modification of Natural Compounds at the Tbilisi State Medical University I.Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry. In 1996 and 2002 he has been a visiting scientist at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, by University Scholarship and The Netherlands organization for scientific research (NWO) Scholarship Scientific Program, respectively. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. In 2004 he was Georgian State Prize Winner in Science and Technology

Amjad Ghazy Juma mizyed is committee member in Palestinian syndicate of engineers and received PhD from water technology program in joint programme. Amjad Mizyed is completed M.Sc. In Civil Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine in 2018 and B.Sc. Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine in 2016.