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Dr. Luoping Zhang is a Research Professor of Toxicology in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Wuhan, China and Ph.D. in Biochemical Toxicology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada in 1993. For the past three decades, her research at UC Berkeley has focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and toxicity caused by human exposures to arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, and, most recently, glyphosate and PFASs in the environment and at work places. Dr. Zhang and her research team have developed and continue to employ many high-throughput technologies, such as the innovative OctoChrome FISH device for a chromosome-wide aneuploidy study (CWAS) and array-based toxic genomic and epigenomic tools in their molecular epidemiological studies to explore and identify chemical-disease associations. Most recently, Dr. Zhang is applying CRISPR technology to investigate these chemical exposures induced toxic effects and the underlying mechanisms. She has served as a member on various committees for Institute of Medicine at the National Academies, the US EPA and IARC. She was also appointed as a member of Carcinogen Identification Committee at California EPA by former California Governor Brown (2012-2022). Dr. Zhang was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in Italy (2020-2022)!

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Prof. Blaž Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the programme “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 / 29 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >290 articles, was cited >6000 times, having a h-index of 39. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards.

Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, Acting Director of Jeju Secretariat (UNESCO World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves), and an emeritus prof. of environmental sociology at Jeju National University in South Korea. He received BA and MA degree in sociology from Korea University (South Korea), and PhD in environmental sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a prof. of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a teaching professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the president of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and OECD environmental meeting, and a member of Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development Republic of Korea, etc. He has published 60 environment-related research papers in domestic and international journals and 13 books including Environmental Sociology. He has conducted 100 unpublished environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

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Dr. Luisi, after his graduation at the ScuolaNormaleSuperiore in Pisa, made his academic career at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland, where he became professor of Chemistry in the department of material sciences. Since 2003,till 2012, he has been working at the University of Rome3, Italy, as professor of Biochemistry. His research focussed in the origin of life, and the synthetic biology of minimal living cells. In Zurich he initiated the field of enzymology in reverse micelles, later the self-reproduction of micelles and vesicles.Author of over 500 reviewed papers, and a dozens of books. The last books are resp. The systems view of life, with Fritjof Capra, and the second edition of his The emergence of life, both for Cambridge University Press.. At the ETHZ, he created (1985) the Cortona-week, an interdisciplinary residential week for graduate students, who are working with artists, psychologists, religious leaders, to open up their horizon and foster a new generation of world leaders with a more integrated and balanced view of life. See www.cortona-week and www.cortona-india.org. He has been associated from the start (1987) with the Mind and Life Institute, created by Francisco Varela and the Dalai Lama, devoted to the dialogue between modern science and Buddhism.

Liu Xuejun, full Professor at College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University. He is winner of the National Outstanding Youth Scientist Funds, associate editor of and as well as member of International Nitrogen Initiates(INI) in East Asia. His research mainly focuses on nitrogen cycling and atmospheric deposition as well as their environmental and human health impacts. He has hosted a number of national key projects and international cooperative projects and published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers (including papers in Nature, Science and PNAS) and written 1 professional book entitled . He is selected as “Elsevier 2020 and 2021 Chinese highly cited scholar”.

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, metamaterials, structural health monitoring, and renewable energy, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published 280 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and has seven issued U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research.

John Sansalone, PhD, PE is a Full Professor of Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. Research and teaching areas of interest include physical and computational modeling methods for unit operations and processes focused on urban water treatment and management, green infrastructure for the urban hydrologic and heat cycle, urban water infrastructure design, combined sewer and wastewater treatment, water and soil chemistry analysis and monitoring. He is a member of the PhD faculty at Bari Politechnical University and has been a visiting Professor at Milano Politechnical University, University of Genoa, University of Bologna, University of Parma, and University of Calabria. He is an Associate Editor at Water Research. He has over 200 research publications and over 200 presentations worldwide. Beyond his academic career, he is an active triathlete and marathoner.

Dr. Ahm Shamsuzzoha is working as a Tenure Track Professor, in the Industrial Systems Analytics program, at the School of Technology and Innovations and in the Digital Economy Research Platform, at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He is also working as a Visiting Professor at Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and as an Associate Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, majoring in Energy and Environment from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Management from the University of Vaasa, Finland. Dr. Shamsuzzoha has published more than 85 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 90 international conference articles so far. He is currently involved in several European Union projects as well as nationally funded projects in Finland. His research interests are mainly focused on greener innovation, entrepreneurship, supply chain and logistics management, product development, innovation management, etc.

Prof .Quanguo Zhang is the Vice President of Henan Agricultural University, Director of Key Laboratory of New Materials and Facilities for Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China. He is a foreign academician of Ukrainian National Academy of Engineering and the fellow of the International Bioprocessing Association (IBA), He is the Deputy Director of Steering Committee of Agricultural Engineering Education, Ministry of Education, China. He is the Vice-chairman of China Biogas Society, Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, and Chinese Universities Society of Engineering Thermophysics. He is a leader in the field of waste utilization in China,an important contributor to China's biomass energy sectors, and a pioneer researcher of solarphoto-fermentation bio-hydrogen production in China. He has published more than 300 academic papers and 5 books.Seventeenachievements were awarded China's Science and Technology Progress Award. Twenty-one invention patents were granted, and won the Chinese Patent Award of Excellence. He developed and greatly promoted the clean production technology and equipment of agricultural waste multigenerationengineering in the world.

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Dr. Yarlong Wang is the founder and a technical director of Petro-Geotech Inc. (PGI). since 1996. After obtained a Ph.D. degree from University of Waterloo in 1991, he has been working on casing failure, hydraulic fracturing initiation and simulation, sand prediction and troubled shale effects on wellbore stability and reservoir simulation for ESSO, Total (former Elf Aquaitaine), Shell Canada and CMGL before he founded PGI With publications of more than 80 technical papers on geo mechanics in SPE conferences and leading journals in petroleum- related areas, he has been leading and working on many projects, including: sand control, sand management and optimized production; in-situ stresses determinations in the vicinity of faulting region; sequestration of CO2, injection of supercritical CO2, injection storage design through geothermal formation; development of an finite element algorithm for far-field stresses determination based on the in-situ stress information from wells; derivation of analytical solutions for thermally- induced fluid flow and stresses near a wellbore subject to multiphase fluid flow with coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical environments for enhanced production and energy extraction; planning for wellbore stability and hydraulic fracturing designs in the vicinity of a fault; sanding and wellbore collapsing in producing and injecting wells during and after fracturing. Dr. Wang’s current research activities focus on drilling and producing in hydrate-gas-bearing formations; CO2/CH4/H2 injection and enhancing production in depleted oil reservoirs; injection in HP/HT naturally fractured reservoirs. Yarlong is also an active reviewer for technical journals and agencies such as: Water Resource Research, Journal of Hydrology, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Journal of Petroleum Engineering and Science, International Journal of Analytical & Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, SPE Journal; Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Advances in Water Resources, U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, and U.S. National Research Foundation.

Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes applied & environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture, Chemistry of biology, and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred fifty publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters and six patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has twelve years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award & Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA; Outstanding Scientist Award in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; BRICPL Science Investigator Award and Research Excellence Award etc. He has been serving as editorial board members: Nanotechnology Reviews; Green Processing and Synthesis; BMC Microbiology; BMC Biotechnology; Current Microbiology; Archives of Microbiology; Annals of Microbiology; BioMed Research International, IET Nanobiotechnology; Journal of Nanomaterials; Journal of Renewable Material; Journal of Agriculture and Food Research; Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering; SN Applied Sciences; Agriculture etc.,etc. including Series editor of Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, Springer Nature, USA. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Assistant Professor at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

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Prof. Dr. Abudukeremu Kadier is a senior scientist at The Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (XTIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi City, Xinjiang, China. He is a recipient of "China National High-level Talent Special Support Plan" Award for Excellence in research, and he was ranked in the "World's Top 2% Scientists 2022" List released by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis' team at Stanford University, USA, on October 10th, 2022. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) and Master of Science (MSc.) Degrees in Chemical and Process Engineering from The National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM). His main research interests including: Industrial Wastewater Treatments, Oil/water Separation, Environmental Functional Materials, Electrocoagulation Process (EC), Environmental Electrochemistry, Conductive Composite Membrane Materials, Bioenergy and Biofuels, Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC). Professor Abudukeremu Kadier has hosted a number of reginal, national key scientific research projects and international cooperative projects. He has presented his research work at various National and International conferences. He has published over 70 SCI papers in the world's top journals in related fields (including Renew Sust Energ Rev、Bioresource Technol、J Clean Prod、Sep Purif Technol、Environ Res、Chemosphere), which have been cited over 3500 times in total. Additionally, by the Invitation, he has published over 30 Book Chapters in the world's well-known scientific publishers (including Elsevier 、 Springer Nature 、 Wiley). Presently, he also serves on the editorial boards of international journals, including Front Energy Res、J Membr Sci Sep Technol

Mafalda Pantoja is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP/UP/Portugal) with the thesis "Tectonic Reflection in the Work of Norman Foster", has a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF/Brazil) with the dissertation "Tectonic Poetics as a mediator of contemporary architecture towards sustainability".Mafalda Pantoja also holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from University Center of Brasilia (CEUB/Brazil) and a degree in Interior Design from Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU/Brazil). She is currently Substitute Professor at the University of Brasilia (UnB/Brazil), Associate Professor at the Euroamerican University Center of Brasilia(UNIEURO/Brazil) and Full Professor at the Brazilian Institute of Teaching, Development and Research (IDP-Brazil). She is a researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Porto (CEAU/FAUP/UP/Portugal) and a researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Brasilia (LaSUS/FAU/UnB/Brazil). She has published several articles in the area of theory and history in the field of tetonics in architecture with correlation to contemporary sustainability.

Dr. Angelantonio Calabrese. Researcher at the National Research Council - Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA) He has a degree in biological sciences, enrolled in the register of biologists since 2006. He carried out aph.D. in water and hydraulic engineering of watercourses obtained at the University of Basilicata by carrying out innovati)ve research on the "Experimental evaluation of the fate of pollutants and sediments in a semi-arid Mediterranean basin subject to intermittent fluxes". Since 2008 he has carried out research in the environmental field specializing in microbiology applied to the environment. From 2012 to 2018 he carried out support activities for the Puglia Region for the drafting, implementation and development of the Nitrate Action Plan of Agricultural origin. The tasks in the regional working group were in addition to the drafting and application of both national and international regulations in force, He was able to develop new technologies for environmental monitoring and the identification of soil and groundwater contamination in relation to the problem of agricultural activities. Dr. Calabrese from 2013 to 2018 was responsible for the monitoring activities with “ACCORDO DI COLLABORAZIONE TRA COMMISSARIO STRAORDINARIO PER GLI INTERVENTI URGENTI DI BONIFICA, AMBIENTALIZZAZIONE E RIQUALIFICAZIONE DI TARANTO, UNIVERSITÀ DI BARI “ALDO MORO” / CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE – DTA (SOTTOSCRITTO IN DATA 29 /01/2015) - Azionisull’ecosistemadell’Area di CrisiAmbientale di Taranto: ProgrammaTecnico-Economico- Operativo-Temporale (art. 2 – Accordo di Collaborazione) – Azione 1 “Ambienteterrestre”. Over the years he has worked as research manager for 30 projects. Since 2012, the participation in technical tables for environmental issues in the region and at the Ministry of the Environment has been of considerable importance. From 01/15/2019 to 09/30/2022 he held the role of external expert member of the regional environmental impact assessment committees (VIA). Currently he also plays the role of teacher at the “Fondazione ITS Agroalimentare Puglia” - Locorotondo (BA) with the subject of teaching agri-food techniques and impacts on soil and water matrices - sustainable management. During his activity at the CNR IRSA he was awarded several scientific aword: • Certificate of best innovationtecnolgies in water-food-nexus - EWaS 2022 with the project “DEMETRA DSS: new technologies for the protection of water from nitrate pollution of agriculturalorigin” • Premio Nazionale Forum PA 2019: II Edizione miglior progetto ambito risorse ambientali “Falde e Nitrati: Indagine sulle cause della contaminazione attraverso il DNA dei Batteri”; • Premio Nazionale Forum PA 2019: II Edizione miglior progetto ambito sviluppo tecnologico “MrBrown - dal residuo al produttivo” • CERTIFICATE OF MERIT FOR INNOVATION WORK IN ADVANCED TECNOLOGY IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT - WASTE MANAGEMENT (2018). “NEW ALLERT SYSTEM FOR MONITORING WASTEWATER COMPOUNDS HARFULL FOR THE TREATMENT:MAUI”. EWaSInternetional conference 30/06/2018.; • CERTIFICATE OF MERIT FOR INNOVATION WORK IN ADVANCED TECNOLOGY IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT - WASTE MANAGEMENT (2018). “SULPHIDE BIOOXIDATION IN ACTIVATED SLUDGE DIFFUSION PROCESS: MICROBIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS”. EWaSInternetional conference 30/06/2018.;

I am currently working as a Research Planning Assistant at Cairn Homes PLC which is one of the largest listed Irish Housing Construction Company in Ireland. I received my Bachelor's degree in Planning from UPES, India (2016-2020) and my Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from University College Dublin, (2020-2022). I am accredited Planner with Royal Town Planning Institute and Irish Planning Institute. I have a great research interest in spatial risk assessment modelling, sustainability assessment, development policy evaluation and net zero planning.

Vitta Abdel Rehim Ibrahim; Associate Professor at Pyramids Higher Institute (P.H.I.) for Engineering and Technology , 6th of October, Egypt; Head of Architecture Department; Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo-Architecture Department, Helwan University; Received her Master degree and PhD from Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, Helwan University; research interest include Contemporary Architecture, Sustainability, Smart Applications in Buildings and cities, Biomimicry, Landscape, Urban Design and Interior Design; Memberships in Engineering Syndicate; Received award of recognition from P.H.I. for Best Department ‘Innovative teaching techniques’ in 11/2021.Jury member of students’ competitions’, Scientific Forums under the auspices of Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt – “Architecture Design –Smart Applications in Buildings-Green Architecture-3D Modelling-Interior Design-3D Environmental concepts and materials” for ‘Science Forums’ 2020, 2021 and 2022. Published several papers,Editorial Board memberand peer-Reviewer for scientific Journals and International Conferences. Her latest scientific contribution in 2023, co-Authored a book chapter in Springer.She is the Head of “Community service and Environmental Development Committee” at P.H.I.

Larissa Lago is Ph.D candidate in Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro with “Compactation of Synthetic Carbonate Rocks”. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2011, and Master’s in geotechnics at the faculty of civil engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2018. Since 2022 she has been an assistant professor in engineering geology and rock mechanics at UNIFESO (Serra dos Órgãos University Center). She has experience as a geologist in field and laboratory engineering, with professional expertise in natural disasters, analysis and diagnosis of mass movements and geological risk mapping on a detailed scale, geological-geotechnical mapping and data processing for works linear, evaluation of the physical environment for the construction of landfills, evaluation of construction materials with emphasis on asphalt paving, analysis of physical, mechanical and microstructural properties of natural and synthetic carbonate rocks.

"Rodrigo L. Sobrinho received his B.Sc. degree in biology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2005 and the PhD in geosciences from the Fluminense Federal University in 2013. In the first postdoctoral fellowship held at the Netherlands Institute of sea research (NIOZ), between 2013 and 2015, he published scientific papers concerning the carbon budget in continental and coastal aquatic systems of the Amazon basin. Since then, he has been working as coordinator and advisor in research projects related to the application of biomarkers in paleoclimatology, paleoceanography and environmental pollution. He also worked as a project manager for an oil company in environmental monitoring of offshore exploration and production activities between 2020 and 2022. He is currently working as a post-doctoral fellow at UFF in the application of biomarkers for modeling organic carbon maturation in marine and continental oilfields. "

Hakim S. Abdelgader - is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1996 respectively from Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland. His research interests include pre-placed aggregate concrete, self-consolidating concrete, concrete with recycled materials, utilization of pozzolanic materials, underwater concreting, concrete durability, and concrete casting in fabric forms. He has authored or co-authored over 78 professional technical papers and reports. He was been involved in organization of several International Conferences and member of Scientific Committees. He is a associate member and voting member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committees 221, Aggregates; 237, Self-Consolidating Concrete; 304, Measuring, Mixing, Transporting, and Placing Concrete; 444, Structural Health Monitoring and Instrumentation; and 555, Concrete with Recycled Materials. He is an Editorial Board member of more than five academic Journals. He is reviewer and contributor to American Concrete Institute (ACI), all Elsevier journals related to Construction Materials and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE). Prof. Abdelgader was elected fellow of ACI in 2019. He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences in North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Japan, Iran, and India.

Dr. Xing Fu received his Ph.D. degree in structural engineering from Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 2017, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in DUT from 2017 to 2020, and the deputy director of the Structural Monitoring Institute since 2019. Currently, he is an associate professor in School of Civil Engineering, DUT. His research interests include multi-disaster resistance and intelligent evaluation of infrastructures. He presided more than 10 projects in these areas, includingthe General Program and Youth Science Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Grants and First-Class Grants of China Postdoctoral Science Fund, and Liaoning Doctoral Research Startup Fund. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, 6 PCT patents, and 4 computer software copyrights. He was the awardee of the first prize of Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Electric Power Science and Technology Innovation, DUT XinghaiExcellentyouth program, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Dalian University of Technology. He is the guest editor of international journals, such as Journal of Aerospace Engineering-ASCE and Materials, and acted as a member of the academic committee of the 27th LSCE International Conference, the Chairman of the seminar in 17th ICCEE International Conference, and the member of ASCE and IALCE. He has rich experience in serving important projects, such as the five-hundred-meter aperture spherical radio telescope, the world's first 100000-ton deep-water semi-submersible production and storage platform "Deep Sea No. 1".

Chengmei Liao, Assistant Researcher, MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University. The research is focused on the biocathode of microbial electrochemical systems (MES). Recent research has focused on the electron transfer mechanism of biocathodes and their engineering applications, including biocathode-based BOD/toxicity sensors and biocathode reduction for degradation of refractory pollutants. She has published more than 30 SCI articles, serves as a reviewer for several SCI journals, and is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Microbiology

Mariana Machado Toffolo is a Ph.D. candidate at the “Innovative technologies and sustainable use of Mediterranean Sea fishery and biological resources” (FishMed-PhD), the International PhD program of the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the UniversidadeEstadual de Londrina, Brazil, in 2015, and Master’s of Science and Management of Nature from the University of Bologna, Italy in 2019. Her doctoral research started in 2021 concerning socioeconomical and environmental aspects of a highly impacted costal lagoon in Spain, studying physical aspects of this environment in contrast with climate change, as well as stakeholder impressions through citizen science and environmental education activities to collaborate in creating comprehensive environmental management practices.

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Michael Abrams received his B.Sc. degree in Biology in 1970 and M.Sc. degree in Geology in 1973, both from Caltech. Since 1973 he has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in geologic remote sensing. He has been on the science team for many instruments, including Skylab, HCMM, Landsat, EO-1 and ASTER. Combining geologic research and technology validation, he has helped design field spectrometers and aircraft scanners in the optical reflected and emissive parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Areas of geologic specialization are mineral exploration, ophiolites, natural hazards and volcanology. He has been on the US/Japan ASTER Science Team since 1988, and became the ASTER Science Team Leader in 2003. He is the author of over 100 journal publications, several book chapters, and serves on the editorial board for earth science journals and books.

Dimitris Markou received his Diploma in Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Democritus University of Thrace in 1995. In 2005 he earned his M.Sc. Degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Democritus University of Thrace, while in in 2019 his M.Sc. Degree in Environmental Design of Infrastructure from Hellenic Open University. He is a coauthor of 5 papers approved by international scientific journals and 23 papers which are concluded in the proceedings of international and national scientific conferences. From 2003 to date he owns an engineering and consulting firm which provides specialized, high-quality services to public and private sector entities, nationally, as well as internationally. His firm is an authorized consultant of several Hellenic public bodies and it has developed a close cooperation with many Hellenic universities and research institutes.

Dr. Mina Masoud is a Postdoctoral Research fellow of Data Science in Physical Oceanography at Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science department in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. She received her M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering-Coastal Engineering in the University of Tehran and her PhD in Civil Engineering-Coastal and Marine Structures in the University of Tehran-University of British Columbia in 2019. For the past decade, her research across universities and industries has focused on Data Science, Analytical and Numerical modelling in Physical Oceanography field, and Environmental and Coastal Engineering. Her expertise are Coastal Trapped waves, Water Response to the Sea Breeze System and Gravity Currents and the effects of these oceanography processes on the Marine Environment. She interprets the measurement data using data science techniques and programming and predicts the future processes with numerical and analytical modelling. She is also the Vice president of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the PostDoc Association at the University of British Columbia

Dr. Sarman Singh, is a retired as Director & Chief Executive Officer of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal in November 2021 after more than 3 years outstanding work at the AIIMS, Bhopal. After retirement he has joined as Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal. Before that he had worked at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi for 30 years in various faculty positions. He is an able hospital administrator, a loved teacher and dedicated researcher of international repute. Dr. Singh brought AIIMS, Bhopal to new heights and during Covid-19 times AIIMS, Bhopal has done outstanding public service under his leadership. Dr Singh is a conscious about our environment and its impact on human and animal health. Dr. Singh has 7 patents to his credit, and one technology has been commercialized, and taken-up by the Government of India in its kala-azar elimination programme. He is Fellow of more than 7 national and international Academies including Royal College of Pathologists and Royal Society of Chemists and Member of more than 20 national and international scientific bodies. He is Editor-in-chief of Journal of Laboratory Physicians, Academic Editor of Medicine, PLoS-NTD, PLoS-One, and Tuberculosis Research and Treatment, besides being on the editorial boards of more than 40 national and international journals. He has been awarded by more than 25 national and international scientific /academic bodies for his outstanding contribution. Prof. Singh has successfully undertaken more than 46 research projects from various national and international funding agencies including Department of Biotechnology (Government of India), Indian Council of Medical Research (Government of India), Department of Science and Technology (Govt of India), Department of Health Research (Government of India), World Health Organization (Geneva), National Institute of Health (USA) and from European Commission. He has guided 30 PhD and doctorate In Medicine (DM) scholars, 36Doctor of Medicine (MD) resident doctors and more than 40 MSc. students. He has written 6 books, 46 book chapters and more than 350 research papers with a total citation of more than 12,000, i10 index of 211 and H-index of 57. He has been listed in the top 2% of the world scientists (Microbiology) for last 3 consecutive years.

Dr. Lucille Joanna S. Borlaza is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Environmental Geosciences, University of Grenoble Alps in France. She is also an associate in the National Research Council of the Philippines. Her research focuses on sources of particulate matter and oxidative potential with the aim of identifying precise measures to significantly reduce atmospheric pollution and its health impacts. Dr. Borlaza works with an integrated approach using various modelling techniques, including receptor modelling, multiple linear regression, and various machine learning techniques to de-convolute these pollution sources.

Dr. Izharul Haq is currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He obtained his PhD in Microbiology from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. He is working on the theme of liquid and solid waste management through microorganisms and their toxicity evaluation. Dr Haq has four years of teaching and research experience from reputed Institutes. Dr Haq has working experience in different projects granted by DST, DBT, CSIR and MHRD, Gov of India. He has been honored with the prestigious award "Young Scientist Award 2018" to recognize his scientific research. Dr Haq has published many research and review papers in reputed National and International journals with high impact factors. He has published many book chapters in splendid International books and has also published four books with reputed International publishers. Dr Haq has presented his research work at various National and International conferences. He has been appointed as Editor in three reputed International journals. He also serves as a reviewer in many International journals published by reputed publishers. He is the member of various National and International Societies.

I'm Tooba Varasteh, postdoctoral researcher at Thompson's lab (https://www.thompsonlab.com.br) from Federal university of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, BRAZIL. I have been working on various aspects of Coral holobiont symbiosis, as you can see in my publications (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-BR&user=kCU1MGcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F63lnv3Ponwn4swuUzGPAE_KF7BFt9t3qOO12ZDYBdiTBELuA5srQ76AOn9XRnU9MJ71VVo VlBjNC6_mww4DadYj4G3Yyj33H3vZFti6rJ9wDGHDGg). My research interest is Marine Omics Symbiosis Coral holobionts Marine conservation Microbiology.

Julia M. A. Pereira received her B.Sc. degree in Fisheries Engineering in 2002 (UFRPE), M.Sc. (2005) and PhD (2010) in Environmental Engineering Sciences (USP). Since 2017 is a professor at the Fisheries Engineering course at Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho”, teaching the set of disciplines involved on techniques and technologies in commercial and non-commercial fisheries. Her research spans the biosocioeconomic aspects of commercial and non-commercial fisheries. About continental fisheries resources, the marked presence of non-native fish has always been present in her discussions, given their broad impacts on the ecosystem and on the results of fisheries. In addition, she participates in studies about ecological aspects in trophic interactions in freshwater systems and of fish production in ponds

Kassian T.T. AMESHO, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. His research interest includes: biofuels/bioenergy production; bioresources utilization; biorefinery; circular economy; highadded-value products; green solvents; sustainable solid-waste management; air pollution control technologies; microplastics (MPs) pollution. Dr. AMESHO has more than 45 publications to his credit, ranging from research papers, review articles and international conferences proceedings. Dr. AMESHO has over 7 years of teaching and research experience. He has been awarded several awards such as the Most Promising Multi-Sector Partnership, UNLEASH Singapore 2018, A Global Innovation Lab for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Fellowship Award for the UNLEASH Singapore 2018, A Global Innovation Lab for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Professor Yeh Kung-Chie Memorial Scholarship, among others. Dr. AMESHO served as guest editors for various reputable journals such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Sustainability, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Water-Smart Food Production), Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing (AETiC), etc. He is currently a Youth Editorial Board Members for the Universal Journal of Green Chemistry (UJGC) and also served as a Technical Program Committee Member of the DALS-WSN-IOT 2022: Special Session on Data Analytics for Large Scale Wireless Networks and Internet of Things, ICCCI 2022 (14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence) 28-30 September 2022, Hammamet, Tunisia. He is a member of the Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research (TAAR), Member of The Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering (CIEE), Taiwan and Member of the PM2.5 Control Association (PMCA), Taiwan.

Prof., Dr. of Sc. Kartlos Joseph Kachiashvili is Professor of Georgian Technical University, Faculty of Informatics and Control Systems. He is a Member (Academician) of Georgian National Academy of Science. He also is Senior Scientific Worker of the I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and Main Scientific Worker of Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics. He was working in many scientific research institutes and universities in Georgia, Russia and Pakistan on the positions: engineer, scientific worker, Head of Laboratory, Head of Department, Head of National Center, Professor, Rector of Institute. He has 237 scientific papers published in various esteemed reputable International Journals. He is a Member of Various (30) Professional Bodies and Editorial Boards of international scientific journals. He published seven monographs and four text-books in Georgia, Ukraine, USA and Indonesia. He has received many prestigious awards and rewards. His research interests are: Mathematical Statistics, Data Analysis (Environmental, Agricultural, Medical), Mathematical Mo¬deling and Simulation, New Computer Technologies Development, System Analysis (Environmental Water Pollution Control Systems), Com¬pu¬ting Mathematics.

Professor Dr. Md. Monirul Islam is an experienced academic leader and a Civil Engineer with BSc Engineering in Civil from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and he did his Masters in Civil Engineering and PhD from Japan under the Japan Government Scholarship in Remote Sensing and GIS on Environmental Hazard.He has completed Post-Doc fellowship under the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in the year of 2002-2004. He did another Post-Doc fellowship from Tropical Marine Science Institute of National University of Singapore in the year of 2000-2002. He obtained different positions in academia in Bangladesh, Singapore and Japan. He led the development of curriculum activities of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Technology (CEAT) of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT), Bangladesh since 2004. He has a distinguished service and research career as a professional for over 30 years in the different branches of Civil Engineering and, Hazard and Disaster Management. His activities are focused on Remote Sensing and GIS techniques for oceanography, environmental hazards such as earthquake, flood, cyclone, tornado, and climate change and climate justice, etc. He has published more than 70 papers in the wide range discipline of environmental hazards and civil engineering. He is a Rajuk registered design engineer and completed different training organized by Rajuk and Bangladesh Government for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), especially or BNBC and other Building Codes. Dr. Islam serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer of several international research journals. He is an expert member of the Outcome Based Education in the university and worked as Chair, Department of Civil Engineering of IUBAT and the Dean of College of Engineering and Technology of IUBAT. Dr. Islam has lectured and given invited addresses worldwide in countries including China, England, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA.

Dr. P. M. Natarajan, son of two farmers Thiru K.P. Muthaiyah and Thirumathi Meenakshi is the Doctor of Philosophy in ‘Water Management’ was the Former Director, Centre for Climate Change, PeriyarManiammai Institute of Science & Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam,Indian President introduced him to this University after reading his books Rainwater Harvesting. He was a Member in the State level Expert Appraisal Committee, Government of Tamil Nadu, Former Senate Member and Former Member Learned Persons (ArignarKuzhu) in Bharathidasan University,Former Member Working Group Tamil Nadu Planning Commission.He has more than 50years experience in water resources assessment, development, conservation, management, governance, rainwater harvesting, artificial groundwater recharge, remote sensing, climate change, teaching, research etc. He presented more than 100 research papers in the regional, national and international conferences. He authored 3 books “Rainwater Harvesting new approaches for sustainable water resources development”, in English and Tamil and the Tamil Book/Water Management.To his credit he received the SRM University “தமிழ்ப்பேராயவிருது”PerayaViruthu/ “Tamil Academy Award” and 2. PEARL FOUNDATION “Life Time Achievement Award in Water Resources and Management”.Mr. Joe Biden,USA President thanked him after reading his “THE WATER RESOURCES POLICY BOOK - USA ALSO NEEDS DROUGHT PROOF WATER MANAGEMENT PATHWAYS” as follows.“Dear Dr. Natarajan Thank you for sending such a thoughtful gift. I look forward for writing the next great chapter in the American story with you”. He delivered a lecture on “Cauvery Delta water resources development” in the Pacific Institute, San Francisco, USA Accepting his invitation of Dr. Peter Gleick, President of this Institute.He wrote the new “THE WATER RESOURCESPOLICY BOOK-HOW TO PRESERVE THE FRESHWATER DROPS LAST FOREVER?”and sent it to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minster Mr. M.K.Stalinto achieve success in the seven Long Time Policy Visions of this statethrough sustainable water resources development. He presented his research paper “Biofuels impact on the water and food resources” in the 107 Indian Science Congress 2020, in Bangaloreas the Very Very Important Person/VVIP. He wrote the book “Water Resources Development” to Bharathidasan University to arrest the water scarcity there.He wrote a model water resources report “Integrated water resources development in a deltaic regionin the east coast” as the Consultant to the SASTRA University, Tamil Nadufunded by Science and Technology. His very important scientific research papers are 1. “Urban resilient integrated water management pathways, to achieve sustainable water resources development in Chennai Metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu, India”(published in the Water Practice & Technology Vol 12 No 21)2. “Transforming Ganges to be a Living River through Waste Water Management”, (published in the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering Vol:10, No:2, 2016) 3. “Rejuvenating Yamuna River by Wastewater Treatment and Management”(published in International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages: 14-29) 4.“CLEAN CHENNAI IS A UTOPIA WITHOUT RESTORATION OF WATERWAYS” presented in the WEF USA and Environmental Engineering Society Conference of Singapore held in Singapore from 28 June – 1 July 2015. His recently published books in 2021 are: 1. Water Resources of Major Water Bodies 2. Climate Change Food Security and Biodiversity 3. The Water Dictionary 4. Forests and Water-Critical Role in Ecosystems and Rainforests 5. Hydrologic Cycle the Gift of Water 6. Hydrological Shocks and Management 7. Irrigation: The Way Ahead for Sustainable Agriculture 8. Sectoral Water Uses and Laws to Sustain Basic Demand of Water 9. Water-Role In Carrying Capacity of The Earth And Gender Management 10. Water Security Measures.Now he has released his /ThiruvalluvarumAriviyalum, a Tamil research book which explains the scientific meeting of three words of poet Thiruvalluvar‘ /World cannot thrive without water. It explains all the natural wealth in the Earth produced by the natural cycles of water. His three recent books published are 1. “Water resources of the rare water bodies”, 2. “The water resources policy book -USA also needs to practice water management pathways” and 3. “The water resources policy book-How to preserve the freshwater drops last forever?”. No one in the world should not meet the water miseries as his parentsMrs.Meenakshi, mother and father Thiru K.P. Muthaiyahmet in their entire life. So, he has decided to write water resources books till all people in the world sustain water resources development permanently without a break. If the water management paths suggested in his books are faithfully implemented, it may not be a pipe dream to sustain water resources development everywhere in the world.

Castine Bernardy is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire in the civil and environmental engineering department. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Engineering in environmental engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 2019 and 2021, respectively. In addition, she received her EIT (Engineer in Training) certificate in 2019.Her doctoral research started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, studying the effects of UV254 as a disinfection technique for FFRs. Her research then expanded into exploring the effects of surface characteristics and causal interactions of UV254 and BL405 (blue light) She specifically studies materials commonly used in healthcare settings and others with varying porosity, contact angles, and surface charges. Bernardy is working on several publications about her findings and has authored Effects of UV-C Disinfection on N95 and KN95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Reuse.

Yasmine Yahia Marzouk graduated from Mansoura University (Egypt), faculty of commerce, business administration department. She get her master’s in business administration, more specifically on the topic of ethical leadership and its impact on employees’ voice and silence, from Damietta university (Egypt), faculty of commerce, business administration department. She studied her PhD in Harbin Institute of Technology (China), school of management. The focus of her PhD is on environmental scanning and its impact of organizational resilience of Egyptian SMEs. She is also working as an assistant lecturer at Damietta University, Egypt. She has published –as a first author- several papers in the fields of environmental scanning organizational resilience in highly ranked journals classified as SSCI, SCIE, Q1, and Q2, including the following: [1] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). Impact of environmental scanning on organizational resilience and competitive advantage: A study of Egyptian SMEs. Continuity & Resilience Review, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 192–223. DOI 10.1108/CRR-10-2021-0037. [2] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). Linking environmental scanning and organizational innovation with competitive advantage: evidence from Egyptian SMEs. Management & Sustainability: An Arab Review, Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 170–195.DOI 10.1108/MSAR-02-2022-0010. [3] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). Linking environmental scanning and organizational learning with organizational resilience of Egyptian SMEs: the moderating role of environmental uncertainty. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, ahead of print,DOI 10.1108/IJOA-12-2021-3066. ESCI (also classified as Q2 according to SCIMAGO Institution Rankings). [4] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). The relationship between environmental scanning and organizational resilience: Roles of process innovation and environmental uncertainty. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10:966474, pp. 1-20. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.966474. SCIE with an impact factor of 5.411 (also classified as Q1 according to SCIMAGO Institution Rankings). [5] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). Does relational capital matter to food and beverage SMEs’ resilience? The mediating role of environmental scanning. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1033837, pp. 1-16. DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033837. SSCI with an impact factor of 4.232 (also classified as Q1 according to SCIMAGO Institution Rankings). [6] YahiaMarzouk, Y., and Jin, J. (2022). An integrative framework for building organizational resilience through environmental scanning: a view of organizational information processing theory. Management Research Review, ahead of print,DOI 10.1108/MRR-11-2021-0790. ESCI (also classified as Q1 according to SCIMAGO Institution Rankings).

Alessandro Magrini achieved the PhD degree in Applied Statistics in 2014 and he is currently Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications – University of Florence, Florence, Italy. He teaches the course Business and Economic Statistics for the Bachelor’s Degree programme in Statistics, and the course Statistical Methods for Forecasting and Quantitative Marketing for the Master's Degree programme in Statistics and Data Science. His main research interests include time series modelling and forecasting, productivity analysis, sustainability assessment, policy evaluation, and bankruptcy risk prediction. He has authored several articles in high-quality scientific journals like Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Advances in Statistical Applications, Expert Systems with Applications, Quality & Quantity, Social Indicators Research, and Journal of Business Research.

Muhammad Aksan, B.Agr.,M.Sc. is a researcher and an active lecturer in vocational teaching in agricultural engineering at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. He is teaching crop protection focuses at IPM (Integrated Pest Management), Sustainable Agriculture, and organic farming related to nematodes. He got his bachelor degree in agronomy departement (B.Agr) in 2014. He studied in International Course Program in Agro- and Environmental Nematology under fully funded scholarship VLIR- UOS in Belgium, hereceived M.Sc degree in 2021. Prior his master, he joinedcourses in land and water development for food security program at IHE Delft in The Netherlands. His experiences and advoacy in environmental related field in agriculture brought him to be interested in exploring research on integrated pest dan diseases management as a way to create sustainable agriculture in tropical countries, particularly in Indonesia. In addition, he gain more experiences in Kenya during international mobility, working on cyst nematodes suppresion by using botanical extract as well as do extensive work in tropical pest and diseases drag his attention to work more on nematoxi city in controlling nematode. Recently in May 2022, he presented a research on biodiversity of nematodes between organic and conventional rice production in Indonesia at ICN (International Congress Nematology) in Antibe, France under travel grant from IFSN & ESN (European Society Nematologist), as one of the 70 invited grantees participants all over the world. Now he is actively writing his books, conducting research, writing journals, and engage the phytopathology community in Indonesiaas well as global scale.

Dr. Aditi Singh is working as a DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) – Technical and Research Expert at Miyamoto Global Experts India Pvt. Ltd. She has completed her BTech (Civil Engineering), MTech (Structural Engineering) and PhD from Gautam Buddha University, Greater NOIDA. Her broad area of interest is disaster management by applying civil engineering knowledge. Her PhD topic was “Landslide Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in and around Gopeshwar Township of Chamoli District, Garhwal Himalayas”. Dr. Singh has a research experience of 5 years and teaching experience of 3 years. She has published several national and international research papers in SCI indexed journals and reputed book chapters. She is also engaged as reviewer for several international journals of high repute. Dr. Aditi Singh presented her research in an international conference in ‘Slovenia, Europe - 2017’ in the 5th World Landslide Forum. During her PhD work, Dr. Singh has been selected to attend 2 weeks high level course in iRALL (International Research Association on Large Landslides) School ‘Field data collection, monitoring, and modelling of large landslides’ organized by State Key Laboratory of Geo-hazard Prevention and Geo-environment Protection (SKLGP), Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT), Chengdu Prov. Sichuan, China.

Oscar May Tzuc is a PhD in Engineering specializing in Renewable Energies. He currently works as a full-time professor at the Autonomous University of Campeche. Since January 2021, he is member of the Mexican System of Researchers (SNI). He has served as an evaluator for the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT-Mexico) in various research projects related to sustainability and environment. He has also served as a Guest Editor for prestigious journals such as Sustainability. His main lines of research cover the techno-economic feasibility of industrial systems and the implementation of artificial intelligence for the analysis and improvement of energy and environmental processes. He has more than 35 international JCR publications, as well as, diverse book chapters in prestigious publishers and participation in multiple international conferences focused on artificial intelligence for sustainability. Currently, he is part of the Ibero-American Energy Poverty Network (RIPEBA) and the Ibero-American Network for Energy Analysis Research (RIASE). He collaborates in research projects on solving Mexican strategic sustainability problems.

Rafaela Viteri Uzcátegui is currently working as an Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator for the Faculty of Chemistry at the Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (ESPOCH), Professor Viteri is currently the President of the research team Bioethics at the ESPOCH. She is an Environmental Engineer from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), she holds a Master'sdegree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Environmental Chemical and Materials Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (España). Professor Viteri has worked as a researcher at theEnvironmental Modeling Laboratory of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, IPCC and a consultant for Latin America, beingthe director and member of research projects in theenvironmental field. Professor Viteri is also a Trainerfortrainers which will be comecertified. Professor Viteri isalsoanEnvironmentalConsultant. María Rafaela Viteri Uzcátegui has beenactivelyinvolved in several research projects with Italian universities. She has developed social projects involving Italian institutions in order to solve energyproblems. Her field of research is Air quality and modelling