Sustainable Waste Management

Agata Zdyb received her PhD in 2002 from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. She completed the habilitation in 2012 at AGH University of Science and Technology, thesis title: “The research on the improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells efficiency”. She is the head of the Institute of Renewable Energy Engineering at Lublin University of Technology, Poland. Agata Zdyb is author and co-author of more than 80 publications in international and Polish journals and conference contributions. Her scientific topics of interest are: thin film solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), photovoltaic systems, organic dyes for applications in DSSC, renewable energy sources, nanotechnology.

Renewable energy, photovoltaics, thin film photovoltaic modules, outdoor testing of PV system

Stephen Salter is emeritus Professor of Engineering Design. After an apprenticeship in the aircraft industry on the SR177 and Black Knight he did physics at Cambridge and stayed on as a research assistant/inventor’s mate to Richard Gregory working on microscopes and telescope cameras. He moved with Gregory to Edinburgh University to build robots for Artificial Intelligence and then to the School of Engineering to work on renewable energy.

Transfer-function, cloud-brightening, climate-change. condensation nuclei.

Titin Handayani was born in Central Java Indonesia on October 25th, 1957. She received the Master and Doctor degree in Agronomic from Bogor Agriculture University, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. She is currently a Professor in the Center for Environmental Technology, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Jakarta, Indonesia and has been the Director of the Laboratory of Ecotoxicology and Biomonitoring since 2013. Her current research interest include environmental technology include micrfoalgae for tolerant to extreme environment. She published more than 100 scientific papers in the field of environmental and agriculture technology.

biofixation, CO2 emission, Euglena sp., raceway pond.

Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina, Canada. He holds BSC from Peking University (China), MSc from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and PhD from McMaster University (Canada). Since the 1990s, Huang has led over 150 environment-related research projects, produced over 900 peer-refereed international journal papers (with an SCI-based H-index of 60 in Science Citation Index under Thomson Reuters' Web of Science), and supervised over 100 Master/PhD students. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the President of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. He also acts (or acted) as editor-in-chief for 2 international journals and editorial board member for over 10 journals, and was conference chair or keynote speaker at over 40 international events. He has also served the United Nations Development Programme as Chief Scientist for its Program of Rural Water Resources Management and Drinking Water Safety.

Water resources and environmental system engineering,Simulation of hydrological and environmental systems ,Planning of energy and environmental management systems,Climate modeling and downscaling

Yosef Jabareen received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion, Israel and earned a Masters in Design Studies at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He was a Krietman Fellow at Ben Gurion University and Rothschild Fellow. He received the Tami Steinmetz Award for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University. At MIT, his research focuses on efforts to create trust among different ethnic communities.

Sustainability Sustainable Development Climate Change Architecture Urban Planning Land Use Planning Urban Development Urban Sustainability Built Environment Urbanism City Planning Spatial Planning Regional Planning Urban Geography Regional Development Public Policy Social Theory Urban Design Development Research

Glen is the executive director of the Pembina Institute, Canada’s leading energy think tank. Prior to joining the Institute, Glen was an Ontario cabinet minister, and oversaw several portfolios, including transportation; training, colleges, and universities; research and innovation, and most recently, environment and climate change. In his role as environment minister, Glen led the development and implementation of the cap-and-trade system, and extended producer responsibility in Ontario. His work was foundational to the creation of the Quebec-Ontario-California carbon market. Glen has held a number of leadership roles, including serving as mayor of Winnipeg from 1998-2004, and was chair of the Big City Mayors’ Caucus. During his time as mayor, he led the successful fight to transfer the five cents/litre federal gas tax to municipalities. He also served as chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, under Prime Ministers Harper and Martin. Glen was also president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute.

Environment, Climate change