2^nd World Congress and Expo on Recycling July 25-27, 2016 Berlin, Germany

Vasilis Fthenakis is a Director, Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, USA. He also leads the National PV Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Research Center operating at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) under the auspices of the DOE since 1982. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation.

Life Cycle Analysis, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy Penetration in the Grid, Fluid Dynamics, Air Pollution Prevention and Control

Hesham Ali, Ph.D., P.E., CPM, came to FIU with over 21 years of civil engineering experience, mostly in pavement design, analysis and construction. Ali joined the CEE faculty in December of 2011 as Green Paving Professor of Practice and is working to advance the new Green Paving Initiative of Florida International University. Ali earned holds a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The City University of New York. He has spent much of his career in the transportation sector focusing on pavement evaluation, pavement engineering and consulting for various public and private employers, including a role as Highway Research Fellow for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Additionally, Ali has participated in the delivery of hundreds of roadway and airport construction projects in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Florida. Recently, Ali served as an executive at the Florida Department of Transportation, where he worked for over a decade and participated in the delivery of $3 billion of highway construction and maintenance projects.

Recycling and Waste management

Andreas Krause has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is the Professor for wood composites and processing technology at University Hamburg. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals.

Recycling and waste management

M. A. Martin-Luengo, graduated in chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid (Spain) in 1980. In the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain), she presented her Master work in 1981 and PhD in 1983 on the characterization of surfaces. Then she worked with a CSIC grant in England and Belgium till 1987. From 1987 till 1991, she was awarded a fellowship IA from the UK´s Scientific Engineering Research Council and from 1992 she is permanent research staff of the CSIC

Nowadays she carries on with her studies on sustainable issues, applying the knowledge acquired during 34 years of career to the search for the use of renewable materials, chemical processes and energies, especially giving priority to countries with deprived economic resources.

Miklas Scholz is a Fellow of IWA holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group and has published two books and approximately 150 journal papers. His main research areas are wetland systems, storm water management, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality and wastewater treatment. Prof. Scholz is Editor-in-Chief of the ISI Web of Science-listed journal Water (impact factor for 2012: 0.973). He has membership experience of over 30 editorial boards.

Wetlands, sustainable drainage, biological filtration, water quality, storm water management and wastewater treatment.

Muscolo Adele graduated in Biological Sciences (MSc), and has completed her PhD in Food Science at the age of 26 years at the Policlinic Federico II University of Naples, Italy. In 1988 she started her professional carrier as Researcher at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Professor. Since 1990 she is Reviewer for Scientific International Journals and since 2008 she is Evaluator of national and international projects for European Community and Funding Research Agencies. She is Examiner of international PhD dissertation. She published more than 170 papers in international journals with IF and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of many international journals. Additionally she is Associate Editor for JFR

Agricultural Biomass, Bioenergy, soil ecosystem, Biodiesel, Soil salinity

Alejandro Rodríguez has completed his PhD from University of Córdoba, Spain, and started to work as lecturer in University Pablo of Olavide, Spain. He worked as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher from 2007 to 2011. He is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department in the University of Córdoba, Spain, from December 2011. His scholarly activity should be resumed as follow: books 1, book chapters 3, Journal Articles >80, proceedings & abstracts >50, invited talks 1 and supervisory roles (including present personnel): 9 PhD Students. He has also been serving as an Editorial Board Member of several journals

Recycling, Bioprocess Engineering and Fermentation Technology,Biomass Conversion,Biochemical Engineering

Jorge Manuel Calico Lopes de Brito is currently working as a professor in department of civil engineering at University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his Phd in civil engineering department in 1993. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Building Engineering and Associate Editor of European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering Editorial Board. He participated in several international conferences.

Sustainable construction (recycled aggregates in concrete and mortars),Bridge and building management systems,Buildings service life (prediction),Construction technology

Takashi Nakamura completed his MA Sc in Metallurgy from Kyushu University, Japan in 1974, PhD in Metallurgy in 1979 from the same university. He became Lecturer in Kyushu Institute of Technology (1977), Associate Professor (1981) and Professor (1991). In 1998, he was appointed as a Professor at Institute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University and from 2001 to till date he is a Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

Recycling engineering, Metallic production engineering

Irene M. C. Lo is currently a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and has been joining HKUST since 1992. Prof. Lo is an elected Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She is the first Hong Kong scholar inducted into the EASA. She is an elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), and elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), She received her Ph.D. degree in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. She is also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prof. Lo was the recipient of the 2004 ASCE James Croes Medal, the 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, the 2008 EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award, the 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. Prof. Lo has held 2 Patents, edited 7 technical books, and published over 260 SCI journal articles and conference papers with citation about 4500 and H-index of 35. Her research areas include remediation technologies for river sediment, contaminated soils and groundwater; magnetic nano- and microparticles for environmental pollution control; pollutant migration in soils; and waste treatment and management.

Energy, Environmental Engineering: Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Engineering: Solid/hazardous Waste Management & Recycling/reuse, Environmental Engineering: Water & Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Green Building & Sustainable Development, Infrastructure Development & Planning, Nano Technology

Hojae Shim is currently working as an Associate Professor in department of Civil Engineering at University of Macau, China. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science Engineering, Ohio State University, USA. His research interests includes Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater, Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Bio filtration and Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Environmental Biotechnology, Biological Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse, Biogas/Biodiesel Production from Waste/Wastewater,Bioremediation of Contaminated Environments, Biofiltration, Biodegradation/Biotransformation

Arvind Jayant is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Head, Department of Disabilities Studies, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Deemed University, Longowal, Punjab, India (Established by MHRD, Govt. of India). His research area expertise includes Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics & Simulation of Manufacturing System. He has published more than 100 research papers in International/national journals. He has completed three sponsored research projects of Rs. 10 Millions funded by MSJE, MHRD and CSIR. He is the members of different professional bodies like ISTE, ISME, IWS, IIE (USA), IACSIT (Singapore), IAEngg. (Hongkong). He had visited USA, Japan, England, Nepal and Singapore

Recycling, e-waste management, Resource recovery etc.