Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris / Université Paris Cité, France
Prof. Eric D. van Hullebusch received his PhD (Aquatic Chemistry and Microbiology) from Université de Limoges (France) in 2002. From November 2002 until October 2004 he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands) where his research focused on the optimization of anaerobic granular sludge reactors by studying the speciation, bioavailability and dosing strategies of trace metals. In 2005, he was appointed as associate professor in biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at Université Paris-Est (France). In 2012, Eric van Hullebusch obtained his Habilitation qualification in Environmental Sciences from Université Paris-Est (France). The title of his Habilitation thesis is “Biofilms in the environment: from anaerobic wastewater treatment to material bioweathering”. From September 2016 until August 2018, he worked at IHE Delft as chair professor in Environmental Science and Technology and head of the Pollution Prevention and Resource Recovery chair group. In September 2018, he joined Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France) as full professor in Biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems.
Prof. Eric D. van Hullebusch has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers (about 12000 citations, h-index 57) in the field of biogeochemistry of metals and metalloids in engineered ecosystems. His research is currently mostly focusing on the implementation of biohydrometallurgical approaches for the recovery of technology critical elements as well as polluted soils (bio)remediation.
University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Denys Villa-Gomez is a Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering. She obtained her PhD at the Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE), The Netherlands in 2013. Before joining UQ, she was docent of the at the National Polytechnic Institute (UPIIZ-IPN), Mexico, where she developed BSc courses for the careers in environmental engineering and food engineering bioprocess. She leads research in the area of environmental engineering, focusing on the development of sustainable technologies for the treatment and recovery of valuable resources from wastewater and solid waste, where she works with METS sector and government stakeholders. Her topics of interest include circular economy, extraction of critical metals through biotechnology processes, anaerobic digestion for extraction of bioenergy and high-value compounds, waste/wastewater treatment, optimization of bioreactors systems, use of genomics and proteomics tools for improving bioengineered systems. Denys has published over 35 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in high impact factor journals and has expert and advisor roles such as Editor in leading journals and member of scientific committees.
Jožef Stefan Institute, IJS, Slovenia
Dr. Aleš Lapanje is head of the Colloid Biology group at JSI and has successfully coordinated several national, international and industrial research projects. He has extensive knowledge of microbial community dynamics by using advanced molecular biology tools. During his research he has been developing methods that enable studying colloid-bacteria interactions, electrostatic interactions of bacterial cells and their entrapment in different matrices. Based on his approaches he contributed new insights in environmental toxicology, host-microbe interactions, plant-bacterial association, bioremediation as well as in medical field. He published more than 300 different scientific and professional contributions and 12 patents in the field of molecular and clinical microbiology.
University of Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Michel Chalot is Professor « class exceptional» at the University of Franche-Comté and the University of Lorraine (France). He obtained his Ph-D at the University of Lorraine (France) in 1994 on forest microbiology and plant biochemistry. He has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of phytomanagement and lead research on the management of polluted environments, focusing on the use of plant and microbial species. Within the past 20 years, he has been supervising 28 Ph-D and 14 post-doc students and has developed an extended network of collaborations between different European and French academic laboratories and is fully involved in industrial networking. Most recent publications of his group deal with the selection of trees and associated microorganisms in ecotechnology perspectives, and with the characterization of molecular pathways involved in pollutant transport and sequestration in plants and microorganisms. He is coordinating / involved in numerous National (ECOPOLIS, BIOFILTREE) and EU projects (NETFIB, SIRAM, BIOSYSMO). Michel has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in high impact factor journals (with about 12900 citations, h-index 47).
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