Speakers

Keynote speakers and resource persons

Prof. Ji-Dong Gu

Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, China

Editor-in-Chief , International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, ELSEVIER
Microbial Ecology,Applied Microbiology
Environmental microbiology, biodegradation, and bioremediation.

Prof. Jih-Gaw-Lin,

Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

-Environmental biotechnology -Water Pollution Control -Sludge treatment and disposal -Municipal and industrial waste water treatment, Anammox research

Prof Makarand M. Ghangrekar

Director, National Institute of Technology Puducherry

Union Territory Puducherry, Karaikal 609609, India

Prof. Hirendra Nath Ghosh

Director, National Institute of Science Education and Research

Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Prof. K. PakshiRajan

Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering IIT Guwahati, Assam India

Biological treatment of industrial wastewaters; Biodegradation of xenobiotics, Biofuels: Production; Process design, kinetics and optimization

Prof. S. Sampath

Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Naturally occurring / synthetic organic electrode materials for secondary batteries. Nano-electrocatalysis

Prof. C. Retna Raj

Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur

Electrochemical and photo-electrochemical energy conversion and storage to electrocatalytic and bioelectrocatalytic sensing. Ampherometric sensing.

Prof. Vijayamohanan K Pillai

Chair, Chemistry and Dean (R&D)

J C Bose National Fellow (SERB) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research(IISER) Tirupati - 517507

Prof. Jeong Young Park

Full Professor, Department of Chemistry

Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics & KAIST Institute for the NanoCentury KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Principal Investigator, SCALE (Surface science and Catalysis with Atomic Level Engineering) Lab 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

Dr. Nitin K. Labhsetwar,

Chief Scientist & Head, Energy & Resource Management Division CSIR-NEERI, Nehru Marg, NAGPUR- 440020, India

Environmental Catalysts, Nano-materials. photocatalytic water splitting, methane combustion, photocatalytic-reforming, CO2 & N2O emission control, Photocatalytic CO2 conversion

Prof. Chang Gyun Kim,

INHA University, Korea

Environmental Engineering, Bioremediation, Wastewater treatment or biomineralization in the field of soil/groundwater.

Prof. (Em) Yoram Oren

BenGurion University, Israel

Electrodialysis studies; developing of highly conductive ion exchange membranes; understanding transport mechanisms in RO and NF membranes using electrochemical techniques and measuring electrochemical

Prof. Sharon Velasquez Orta

Professor Sustainable Chemical Engineering, Deputy Director for Business Innovation and Enterprise. Newcastle University, England

Prof. Veera Gnaneswar Gude

Professor Purdue University, USA

Prof. R. Ramaraj

Professor of Eminence Dept of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University

Dr. Prashanth W. Menezes

Head of Materials Chemistry at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie & Head of Inorganic Materials at TU Berlin, Germany

Prof. Teresa Gea

Professor Chemical Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Zainul Akmar Zakaria

Associate Professor, Environmental Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

Subhabrata Dev

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering College of Engineering University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC), University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Alaska, USA

Dr Argyro Tsipa

Assistant Professor in Environmental Biotechnology, Head of Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory (EmBIOSysTech lab) Nireas International Water Research Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Dr. Farrah Aini Dahalan

Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia

Prof. Eldon R. Rene

Associate Professor, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra

Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, India