Sustainable Waste Management

Dr. Abu Yousuf has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from University Naples Federico II, Italy in 2010 and postdoctoral studies from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed ISI journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Bioenergy and Biofuels, Frontier, Switzerland and Peertechz Journal of Biological Research and Development, India. He won UNESCO Prize on Energy for sustainable development in Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011. He attended the BIOVISION.Next Fellowship Programme at BIOVISION 2013 - the World Life Sciences Forum, Lyon, France, after a selection based on scientific excellence, mobility, involvement in civil society.

Ann T W Yu has a BSc degree in Building from University of Brighton, UK and MSc degree in Construction Management from City University of Hong Kong. She has obtained her PhD from the Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. She has started her profession as an Assistant Architect and worked for a number of different professional firms including architectural firms, quantity surveying practice as well as the Hong Kong Housing Authority. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Value Management and Construction Management by the Department of Building and Real Estate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. She has a strong track record and has published extensively on the broad theme of project management in leading construction management journals and international conference proceedings.

Dr. Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari, is a PhD of civil engineering, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering. His topics of interest include Groundwater Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Sustainable Development and Environmental Assessment, Climate and Integrated and Sustainable Water Resource Management, Water System Engineering, Water Resources Planning, Artificial Neural Network, and Genetic Algorithm. He has contributed to more than 195 publications in Journals, Books and Technical Reports. He collaborates as Editorial Board Membership in more than 45 Journals and as reviewers in more than 30 Journals. Currently, he is a Faculty Member of the Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. He is Editor-in-Chief of International journal of Rural Development, Environment and Health Research (IJREH) and Associate Editorial Board Membership of International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources (IJESNR) and Civil Engineering Research Journal (CERJ), Juniper Publishers. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Canadian University Dubai (CUD), Dubai, UAE, and American University in Dubai (AUD), UAE. On the research side, he started a research partnership in May 2017 with Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Panin Alexander - senior lecturer of the Department of Microbiology of the Military Medical Academy. Specialist in medical support for the preparation of expeditions to the polar zones. Participant 50 and 56 Russian Antarctic expeditions. I monitor the sanitary status of the objects of Russia in Antarctica. In a team of like-minded people, psychophiles – bacteria and micromycetes, living at low temperatures under extreme polar conditions, types of microorganisms of medical significance, are exploring. He has published more than 20 scientific articles in well-known journals, where observations on aspects of global warming are objectified. Microbiological monitoring is most informative in extreme zones of polar deserts as predictors of global warming and epidemiological risks of the emergence of infectious diseases of humans and animals. Studying symbiosis in cyanobacterial mats and in the polar microbiota. This allows us to objectify the risks of global climate disasters.

As an applied environmental anthropologist, the majority of my research projects focus on the dynamics of human populations and environmental change, specifically climate change in most cases. A project I recently completedin several coastal communities in Belize, addresses the ways in which households respond to climate-related shocks. The research involveddetermining levels of vulnerability and devising a Resilience Index to examine specific responses and coping strategies to climate-related disturbances. In 2014, I conducted research in the western interior region of Belize to determine awareness and level of understanding of climate change on the part of those working in the tourism industry. I continue to interview farmers in West Texas to document their farming systems and to examine their understanding of climate change along with their perceptions of risk relative to impacts on their wheat and corn production. I began this research in 2014 and will continue through 2019.

She is researcher at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Her research focuses mainly on local and regional effects of global climate change, atmospheric CO2, temperature and drought stress on the ecology, physiology, mineral nutrition, reproduction of South African Mediterranean-climate plants. She also mentor students at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in plant and animal science and conservation interpretation. She is registered at the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professionals (SACNASP) and a certified Environmental Impact Assessment Practitioner.

Jaroslaw Krzywanski is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science at Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa, Poland. He received the M.Sc. degree from Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Institute of Thermal Machinery, Poland and Ph.D. degree from Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Poland. Last two years he obtained a D.Sc. degree (Doctor Habilitatus). He has published more than 100 refereed works, including papers, a monograph, conference proceedings and serves as an editorial board member of several international journals. He has participated in the scientific committee of several conferences and serves as a reviewer in a wide range of international journals.