ISEH 2016, ISEG 2016 & Geoinformatics 2016
Joint International Conference on Environment, Health, GIS and Agriculture
Galway, Ireland, August 14 - 20, 2016
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ISEH 2016, ISEG 2016 & Geoinformatics 2016 Joint International Conference on Environment, Health, GIS and Agriculture Galway, Ireland, August 14 - 20, 2016 |
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Joint Conference Keynote Speakers
Prof. Shu Tao, Peking University, China. Shu TAO, professor of College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Science. His current research interests include emission inventory of incomplete combustion products, atmospheric transport and population exposure modeling, indoor air quality, and bioaccessibility of toxic pollutants. At present, he serves as PI of a number of projects supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China and Ministry of Environmental Protection of China. He has more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals. He is an advisory board member of ES&T, editorial board members of Environmental Pollutant, and Journal of Environmental Science and Health, and board members of International Panel on Chemical Pollution and Pacific Basin Consortium for Environmental and Health Sciences.
Prof. Kirk Smith, University of California Berkeley, USA. Prof. Smith is Professor of Global Environmental Health and is also founder and director of the campus-wide Masters Program in Global Health and Environment. Previously, he was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu before moving to Berkeley in 1995. He serves on a number of national and international scientific advisory committees including the Global Energy Assessment, National Research Council’s Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, the Executive Committee for WHO Air Quality Guidelines, and the International Comparative Risk Assessment of the Global Burden of Disease Project. He participated, along with many other scientists, in the IPCC’s 3rd and 4th assessments and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and is Convening Lead Author for Climate and Health for the 5th Assessment. He holds visiting professorships in India and China and bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley and, in 1997, was elected member in the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors awarded to US Scientists by their peers. In 2009, he received the Heinz Prize in Environment and in 2012 was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Presentation:
How fossil fuel and electricity can
save millions of lives by reducing air pollution exposure
Geoinformatics 2016 Keynote Speakers
Paul is Professor of
Geographic Information Science at University College London, UK, where he
also directs the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre. He has been involved:
in over 50 research grants (totalling over £22 million); postgraduate
supervision of 50 Ph.D. students (most funded by research councils);
publications, including eighteen books, over 150 refereed journal articles
and contributions to edited collections; academic and editorial duties,
including past editorship of two journals and current membership of five
editorial boards; eleven externally-funded visiting appointments and over
150 conference presentations and external seminars; extensive teaching
commitments (including strategic roles in two centres of excellence in
teaching and learning); and major commitments to administration in four
top-rated university departments.
Chris Brunsdon is currently
Professor of Geocomputation, and Director of the National Centre for
Geocomputation at Maynooth University. Prior to this he was Professor of
human Geography at the University of Liverpool in the UK. He has degrees
from Durham University (BSc Mathematics) and Newcastle University (MSc
Medical Statistics, PhD in Geography). His research Interests cover various
aspects and applications of spatial statistics, data science and spatial
analysis. In particular he advocates the use of open source software, and
reproducible methods, mainly via the R Statistical Programming Language. In
terms of subject areas, he has interests in crime pattern analysis, health
geography and environmental applications.
Huadong Guo is Professor of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Remote Sensing and
Digital Earth (RADI), an Academician of CAS, and a Fellow of The World
Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS).
He presently serves as President of International Society for Digital Earth
(ISDE), Past-President of ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology
(CODATA), Scientific Committee Member of the Integrated Research on Disaster
Risk (IRDR) co-sponsored by ICSU, ISSC and UNISDR, Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of Digital Earth, and Chairman of IRDR-China. He has
over 30 years of experience in remote sensing, specializing in radar for
Earth observation and research on Digital Earth. He has been Principle
Investigator for over 30 major national projects in China, and Principle
Investigator for 7 international radar remote sensing projects. He also
serves as Director of the International Center on Space Technologies for
Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) under the Auspices of UNESCO, and
Director of the CAS-TWAS Center of Excellence on Space Technology for
Disaster Mitigation (SDIM). Prof. Guo has published more than 400 papers and
16 books, and is the principal awardee of 13 national and CAS prizes, one
being “National Outstanding Expert”, awarded by the State Council of China.
Li Deren, male, Han nationality, is a native of Dantu, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He received his doctorate from Stuttgart University in 1985, and was awarded the title of honorary doctor from ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 2008. In the 1980s, Li mainly engaged in the study of measuring error theory and treatment methods. In 1982, he initiated the selection iteration method, which deducted the rough difference positioning from the variance estimation. In 1985, he put forward the expandability and reliability theory based on two multi-dimensional optional hypotheses, including the error discovered and differential. He also scientifically "solved the pended problems for more than one hundred years of measurement science." For this research, he received the best monograph prize from Germany's Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Society in 1988, the "Hansa Aerial Photogrammetric Award". Since the 1990s, Li mainly engaged in the space information science based on the integration of remote sensing, global satellite positioning system (GNSS) and geographical information system (GIS) and the scientific research and teaching works of multimedia communication technology. Since 1989, Prof. Deren Li has supervised
over 170 Ph.D students. Five Ph.D theses by students under the supervision
of Prof. Li won the “Best Doctoral Thesis Award” respectively in 1999, 2001,
2002, 2005 and 2011. So far, he has supervised 18 post doctoral candidates.
He has published over 700 papers, 11 books, one piece of translation work
and 8 pieces of compiling works. He has won more than ten of national and
ministerial level prizes, such as the National Science and Technology
Progress Award, the National Excellent Textbook Award, Award of the
Excellent Educational Achievements, and etc. Prof. Deren Li served as
President of ISPRS Technical Commissions III and VI from 1988-1992 and
1992-1996 respectively. He worked for CEOS in 2002-2004 and was the first
president of Asia GIS Association (2003-2006). He received the Samuel G.
Gamble Award at the ISPRS XXI Congress in 2008 and was awarded ISPRS
Honorary Member at the IPRRS XXII Congress in 2012. Prof. Deren Li worked
for CEOS in 2002-2004 and was the first president of Asia GIS Association
(2003-2006). He got an award in appreciation and recognition of the
outstanding contribution to the success and achievements of the MOST/ESA
Dragon Programme 2004 to 2007.
ISEH 2016 & ISEG 2016 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Ming-Hung Wong, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China. BSc (CUHK), MSc, PhD, DSc (Durham), MBA, DSc (Strathclyde) -Research Chair Professor of Environmental Science, Hong Kong Institute of Education -Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Environmental Science, Jinan University, China -Emeritus Chair Professor of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University Having served as the Regional Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of the project “Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances” sponsored by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF), Prof. Wong has joined a panel of three to review a UNEP/GEF initiative “Emerging Chemicals Management Issues in Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition” with the aim of understanding the sources and preventing adverse impacts of chemicals on human health and the environment in rapidly developing countries. Professor Wong has published over 590 SCI papers and 32 book chapters, edited 28 books/special issues of scientific journals, and filed 5 patents. His reputation has been widely recognized internationally and capped by receiving two DSc Degrees awarded by University of Durham and University of Strathclyde in 1992 and 2004, respectively. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Elsevier), and Book Series Editor of Urbanization, Industrialization and the Environment (CRC/Taylor & Francis).
Prof. Yongguan Zhu, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, China Dr Yongguan (Y-G) Zhu, Professor of Soil Environmental Sciences and Environmental Biology, currently works in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), he is the director general of the Institute of Urban Environment, CAS. He has been working on soil-plant interactions, with special emphasis on rhizosphere microbiology, biogeochemistry of nutrients, metals and emerging pollutants (such as antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes). Professor Zhu is a leader in taking multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approaches to soil and environmental problems, for example his systematic contribution to the understanding of the dynamics of arsenic in soil-plant systems and human health impacts. Before returning to China in 2002, he was working as a research fellow (Supported by the Royal Society London), the Queen's University of Belfast, UK (1994-1995); and a postdoctoral fellow in The University of Adelaide (1998-2002), Australia. He obtained his BSc in soil science from Zhejiang Agricultural University in 1989, and MSc in soil science from the Institute of Soil Science, CAS in 1992, and then a PhD in environmental biology from Imperial College, London in 1998. Dr Zhu is currently the co-editor-in-chief of Environmental Technology & Innovation (Elsevier), associate editor of Environment International (Elsevier), and editorial members for a few other international journals. He is a scientific committee member for the ICSU program on Human Health and Wellbeing in Changing Urban Environment, and served for nine years as a member of Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Application, International Atomic Energy Agency (2004-2012). Professor Zhu is the recipient of many international and Chinese merit awards, among them including TWAS Science Award 2013, National Natural Science Award 2009; Professor Zhu has published over 200 papers in international journals, and these publications have attracted over 8500 citations (Web of Science). Presentation:
Environmental antibiotic resistome:
sources and sink
Michael Kersten is professor of environmental geochemistry at the Geosciences Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. His current research interests include synchrotron-based solid speciation and nano-tomography as an input for advanced HPC models of the mobility of toxic pollutants in geomaterials at the pore scale. At present, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Applied Geochemistry. He has more than 100 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals, with an h-index of 23. He is serving as one of officers of the International Association of Geo-Chemists (IAGC).
Dr Mulcahy, is the Chief Environmental Health
Officer for the Health Service Executive West Region. He has vast experience
as a regulator in the Environmental Health field, including food safety,
occupational safety, environmental protection, cosmetic product safety and
tobacco control. He is responsible for numerous Environmental Health
initiatives including those relating to Sustainability and Research. He was
a recipient of the UK Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH),
Presidents Award in 2004, for his outstanding contribution to and excellence
in the field of Environmental Health. In 2007 he was awarded the inaugural
Tom Power Medal by the Office of Tobacco Control, for his commitment,
leadership and vision in defeating the tobacco epidemic in Ireland. In
December 2014 he was awarded an Excellence Award by the Environmental Health
Association of Ireland. He holds an MSc in Occupational Safety from the
Robens Institute, University of Surrey and was awarded a PhD by NUI Galway
in 2010 for his research investigating the Environmental Health perspectives
of tobacco control, with a particular focus on the Irish smoking ban. He is
as an adjunct lecturer with the Centre for Health from Environment (CHfE),
Ryan Institute, NUI Galway and Visiting Professor at K U Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Jose A. Centeno, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA Dr. José A. Centeno is serving as the
Director, Division of Biology, Chemistry and Materials Science, Center for
Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in
Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Centeno received his BS (Chemistry) and MS
(Physical Chemistry) from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1979
and 1981, respectively; and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Michigan
State University in 1987, and completed a postdoctoral training in
biophysics at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr. Centeno is
the co-founder and Past-President of the International Medical Geology
Association, and is currently serving as a Regional Officer for the IUGS
Commission on Environmental Management. Dr. Centeno has presented over 250
invited seminars and lectures, and he is the principal author and/or co-
author of over 150 manuscripts, book chapters, reports, monographs, and
research abstracts on various topics of trace elements, metals and
metalloids, medical geology, environmental toxicology, and human health. He
has been involved in numerous academic, government and professional
activities related to biomedical research, environmental health, medical
geology and environmental toxicology including serving as General Chairman
of the 6th International Symposium in Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine (ISMIBM)
(May 7-10, 2000), and co-chairman of the 7th, 8th, and 9th ISMIBM (2002,
2004 & 2006), participating in several national and international committees
including the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC Vol 74
(1999), Lyon, France), NIH grant proposal Study Sections, the USEPA
TOSCA-Interagency Testing Committee, the International Working Group on
Medical Geology, the National Research Council Committee on Research
Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health, the National Academies –
Board on International Organizations, and the U.S. Department of Defense
Working Group on Biomonitoring.
Dr. Eddy Y. Zeng is currently a professor and
the dean of the School of Environment at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
He obtained his B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China
in 1982, M.S. from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in1985 and Ph.D. from the
University of Southern California (USA) in1992. He has been conducting
research in the field of environmental geochemistry, focusing mainly on the
environmental occurrence and fate of and human exposure to persistent
organic pollutants. He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific
articles and several book chapters and edited a book entitled “Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs): Analytical Techniques, Environmental Fate and
Biological Effects”, which was published by Elsevier in 2015. Dr. Zeng now
serves as the co-editor-in-chief of Environmental Pollution, associate
editor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and editorial board member
of Environmental Science & Technology and Chemosphere.
Dr. Olle Selinus is a Ph.D. geologist working with the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) and after retirement guest professor at the Linneaus University, Kalmar, Sweden. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked in mineral exploration and since the beginning of the 1980s his research work has been focused on environmental geochemistry, including research on medical geology. He has served as the organizer of several international conferences in this field, was vice president for the International Geological Congress in Oslo in 2008 and has published over 100 papers. Dr. Selinus was in charge of external research and development at SGU. 1996 he started the concept of Medical
Geology and was 2006 founder and after that president of the International
Medical Geology Association, IMGA. He was Editor-in-Chief for the book on
“Essentials of Medical Geology”,. He has received several international
awards and has been appointed Geologist of the Year in Sweden because of
Medical Geology. He was also chairing the ”Earth and Health” team of the
International Year of Planet Earth 2008-2009 by UN National Assembly. He has
also been chief editor for other books on medical geology.
Ron Fuge has been a staff member at
Aberystwyth University since 1966. His main research interests are in the
fields of environmental geochemistry and geochemistry and health. He has
published over 100 papers and was Executive Editor of Applied Geochemistry
from 1993 to 2012 and a past editorial board member of Environmental
Geochemistry and Health. He is a past President of the Society of
Environmental Geochemistry and Health. He was awarded the IAGC Distinguished
Service Award for 2012-2013.
Dr. Robert B. Finkelman, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Dr. Robert B. Finkelman, retired in 2005
after 32 years with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). He is currently a
Research Professor in the Dept. of Geosciences at the University of Texas at
Dallas and an Adjunct Professor at the China University of Geosciences,
Beijing. He is an internationally recognized scientist widely known for his
work on coal chemistry and as a leader of the emerging field of Medical
Geology. Dr. Finkelman has degrees in geology, geochemistry, and chemistry.
He has a diverse professional background having worked for the federal
government (USGS) and private industry (Exxon), and has formed a consulting
company (Environmental and Coal Associates. he has lectured and provided
mentorship at colleges and universities around the world. Most of Dr.
Finkelman’s professional career has been devoted to understanding the
properties of coal and how these properties affect coal’s technological
performance, economic byproduct potential, and environmental and health
impacts. For the past 20 years he has devoted his efforts to developing the
field of Medical Geology. Dr. Finkelman is the author of more than 700
publications and has been invited to speak in more than 50 countries. Dr.
Finkelman has served as Chairman of the Geological Society of America’s Coal
Geology Division; Chair of the International Association for Cosmochemistry
and Geochemistry, Working Group on Geochemistry and Health; founding member
and past chair of the International Medical Geology Association; President
of the Society for Organic Petrology; member of the American Registry of
Pathology Board of Scientific Directors and is Past-Chair of the GSA’s
Geology and Health Division. He was a recipient of the Nininger Meteorite
Award; recipient of the Gordon H. Wood Jr. Memorial Award from the AAPG
Eastern Section; a Fellow of the Geological Society of America; and a
recipient of the Cady Award from the GSA’s Coal Geology Division. Dr.
Finkelman was also awarded a U. S. State Department Embassy Science
Fellowship for an assignment in South Africa and was a member of a National
Research Council committee looking at the future of coal in the U.S.
Prof. Ya Tang, Sichuan University, China Dr. TANG Ya is professor at department of
environment, college of architecture and environment, Sichuan University. He
holds a PhD from Kunming Institute of Botany, these Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS). He was associate scientist, associate professor and
professor at Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), CAS from 1990 to 1995, and
project coordinator, specialist, senior specialist, division head at
International Center for Integrated Mountain Development from 1995 to 2001,
professor at CIB in 2002, and professor at Sichuan University since 2003.
His research interests are mainly ecological and environmental impacts of
integrated natural and anthropogenic intervention on the environment and use
of ecological engineering to solve various ecological and environmental
problems.
Professor Lora Fleming is a board certified
occupational and environmental health physician and epidemiologist with over
30 years of experience and expertise in environment and occupational
exposures and human health. Professor Fleming is Director of the European
Centre and Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health at the University
of Exeter. With various Centre and international collaborators, Professor
Fleming is involved in research in the metadiscipline of Oceans and Human
Health. She is the recipient of the 2013 Edouard Delcroix Prize and the 2015
Bruun Medal of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC), both for
her research and other activities in Oceans and Human Health. Professor
Fleming is a Member the US National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to the NIEHS Gulf Oil
Study, and the Horizons 2020 Advisory Group on Health, Demographic Change
and Wellbeing.
Dr. Clemens Reimann is an expert in
multi-media, multi-element regional geochemical mapping, biogeochemistry and
statistical data analysis. He is the author/editor of 4 geochemical atlases
covering increasingly larger areas (from 200.000 to 5.6 million km2), three
books and more than 150 articles in the field of geochemistry and
geochemical data analysis in international journals. He is presently
Chairman of the EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group. He has been
President of the International Association of GeoChemistry (IAGC),
distinguished lecturer of the Association of Applied Geochemists (AAG) and
received the gold medal of the AAG in 2013. Clemens has worked as lecturer
in mineralogy, petrology, economic geology and geochemistry at Leoben Mining
University, project geologist for Selco Inc. in eastern Canada, in contract
research in Austria, and has been head of laboratory in an Austrian cement
company before joining the section for hydrogeology and geochemistry at the
Geological Survey of Norway in 1993.
Dr. Mark Cave, British Geological Survey, UK Dr Mark Cave (BSc, ARCS, PhD, MSc, CSci, MRSC,
CChem) is a principal scientist at the British Geological Survey. He is an
analytical chemist/geochemist with extensive experience in the analysis and
interpretation of environmental chemical data with particular reference to
geochemistry and human health. He is chairman of BARGE (Bioaccessibility
Research Group of Europe), working to develop harmonised protocols for
bioaccessibility testing and the production of a soil reference material for
in-vitro bioaccessibility measurements. He has specific experience on
working on the occurrence and bioaccessibility of polyaromatic hydrocarbons
in soils. He has wide experience in investigating the geological controls on
the bioaccessibility of naturally occurring arsenic in the UK. Extensive
experience in working on the interpretation of geochemical data sets with
reference to geogenic and anthropogenic influences.
Prof. Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland Dermot Diamond received his Ph.D. and D.Sc.
from Queen’s University Belfast (Chemical Sensors, 1987, Internet Scale
Sensing, 2002), and was Vice-President for Research at Dublin City
University (2002-2004). He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in
international journals, is a named inventor in 19 patents, and is co-author
and editor of five books. He is director and founding member of the National
Centre for Sensor Research (www.ncsr.ie) at Dublin City University, and an
SFI-funded investigator in the INSIGHT Centre (http://www.insight-centre.org).
In 2002, he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by
the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and in 2006 he received the DCU
President’s Award for research excellence, and in 2015 he was received the
president’s award for innovation. In May 2014, in recognition of his
academic contributions and achievements, he was admitted to Membership of
the Royal Irish Academy. In April 2015 he was awarded the Boyle Higgins Gold
Medal by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland in recognition of his
research achievements. His research is focused on the fundamental science of
stimuli responsive polymers, the development of futuristic autonomous
chemical sensing platforms, and the use of analytical devices and sensors as
information providers for wireless networked systems i.e. building a
continuum between the digital and molecular worlds. Details of his research
can be found at
www.dcu.ie/chemistry/asg
Dr. Pat Rasmussen, Health Canada, Canada Dr. Pat Rasmussen is a senior research
scientist at Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada. She serves as the leader of the
Metals and Airborne PM Laboratory in the Exposure and Biomonitoring Division
of the Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, as well as being
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at
University of Ottawa. Rasmussen received her BSc and PhD degrees in Earth
Sciences from University of Waterloo, Canada, and her MSc in Analytical
Geochemistry from University of Toronto, Canada. She is a pioneer in the
development of sampling and analytical methodologies to investigate metals
in residential environments, and is the Principal Investigator of the
Canadian House Dust Study. Her recent research activities aim at refining
measurements of exposure to airborne particles and settled dust in indoor
environments, including engineered nanomaterials. Rasmussen serves on the
OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) Steering Group 8:
“Exposure Measurement and Exposure Mitigation”; Canadian Standards
Association Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety Technical
Committee; and the Standards Council of Canada Mirror Committee for ISO
Technical Committee 229 (Nanotechnology).
Martin Cormican Graduated from Medical school in the National University of Ireland Galway in 1986. He subsequently work in general medicine, Medical Micrbiology and Immunology before his appointment as Professor of Bacteriology at NUIGalway and Consultant Medical Microbiologist at Galway University Hospital in 1999. he is Director of the centre for health from Environment at the Ryan Institute NUIGalway and contributes to a number of national policy groups related to antimicrobial resistance and food, water and health. His publications are primarily in the fields of antimicrobial resistance and food borne infection.
Prof. Xinbin Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Prof. Feng is a Professor at the State Key
Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China. He is now the vice director in general of
Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained a PhD in
geochemistry in 1997 at the same institute and did post-doctoral study at
Gothenburg University, Sweden. His research focuses on mercury
biogeochemical cycling in the environment and its health impact, mercury
stable isotope geochemistry and remediation of mercury contaminated lands.
He is the coordinator of China’s large scale project of mercury in the
environment, which will provide the scientific base for China’s
implementation of Minamata Convention. He is now an associate editor of
Journal of Geochemical Exploration. He also serves as editorial board
members for a number of journals. He was the Chair of the 9th International
Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant and the 17th International
Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment. He has published more than
200 peer reviewed papers in international journals.
Prof. Yong Sik Ok, Kangwon National University, Korea Dr. Yong Sik Ok is Full Professor at the
Department of Biological Environment, Kangwon National University (KNU) and
is currently serving as Director of the Korea Biochar Research Center (KBRC)
in Korea. During his time at KNU, Dr. Ok has supervised over 50 postgraduate
students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists from many countries
including Korea, Taiwan, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka. Additionally, he has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles
and was awarded the KNU excellent research award in recognition of his
outstanding achievements. He is currently serving as an editor for
Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Coordinating Editor), Journal of
Soils and Sediment (Subject Editor), Canadian Journal of Soil Science
(Associate Editor) and Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability (Editorial
Board). He has also served as a guest editor for Bioresource Technology,
Journal of Hazardous Materials, Chemosphere, Plant and Soil, Journal of
Environmental Management, Environmental Science and Pollution Research,
Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Geoderma, Journal of Soils and
Sediments, etc. Other notable engagements include working as a Visiting
Professor at the Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta in
Canada, at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University in
Belgium and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong
Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. As a top researcher in his field,
Dr. Ok has organized many international conferences including, most
recently, CLEAR 2014 (Korea) and Biological Waste 2014 (Hong Kong).
Prof. Taicheng An, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Prof. Taicheng An is a professor of
Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry,
Chinese Academy of Science, Vice-director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of
Environmental Resources Utilization and Protection, China. He was born in
Gansu, China, in 1972. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Northwest
Normal University in 1996, and his Ph.D degree in 2002 from Zhongshan
University, China. Now, he is a professor of Environmental Science and
Engineering at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of
Science, and vice-director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental
Resources Utilization and Protection, China. His research interests include:
1. The transportation mechanisms, fate prediction and health effect of
emerging organic contaminants, for example EDCs, PPCPs and BFRs, etc, in the
environment, especially the identification of intermediates and their
potential decontamination mechanisms in the natural or simulated systems; 2.
Characterization, optimization and application of novel environmental
friendly materials as well as natural mineral resources in environmental
remediation; 3. Applications of various advanced oxidation processes (AOPs),
especially heterogeneous photocatalysis for the degradation of organic
pollutants and inactivation of pathogens in water and air. He has been
published more than 200 peer-received professional papers (including 180 SCI
papers) in reputation journals, such as ES&T, Water Res and Atmos Chem Phys.
He is also the holder of total 47 patents including 36 issued. He is the
winner of National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars in
China, and the excellent Young Scientist Award from many reputation
Societies, like Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
in 2011, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (Defen
Hou Award) and Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences in 2010. Now, he
is Co-chair of The China-Ireland Consortium as well as board member of The
International Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, and he also
served as editorial aboard of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SCI)
and Atmospheric pollution Research (SCI).
Prof. Shiming Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Prof. Ding earned his my doctorate in
physical geography in 2005 from Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). From 2005 to
2007, he worked as a research assistant in Nanjing Institute of Geography &
Limnology (NIGLAS), CAS. Currently, Prof. Ding is a professor and the vice
director of Division of Lake Environment and Engineering in NIGLAS. Prof.
Ding has published several high-quality papers in several leading journals
in environmental science and analytical chemistry. He was honored with the
project of Outstanding Youth Science Foundation by NSFC in 2013. His
researches include developments of diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)
and other in situ, high-resolution techniques for detecting environmental
conditions and sampling diverse pollutants in environments, studies of
small- and micro-scale processes in freshwater system, and recovery of
polluted sediment-water system.
Dr. Job Spijker finished is PhD in 2005. He
started working for the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the
Environment (RIVM) in the same year. His background is environmental
geochemistry and Job worked on many studies how human activities alter the
geochemistry of soil and groundwater. These studies resulted in impact
assessments for the environment and human health but also in policy
instruments for prevention and mitigation. The last 3 years Job is more
involved in future challenges for a sustainable healthy living environment.
The pressure on resources, the urge for re-use of waste and waste water, and
the impacts on the urban environment and climate are the topics of his
current research projects.
Dr. Jörg Rinklebe is
Professor for Soil- and Groundwater-Management at the University of
Wuppertal, Germany. From 1997 to 2006 Dr. Rinklebe has worked as a scientist
and project leader at the Department of Soil Sciences at the UFZ Centre for
Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Germany. Dr. Rinklebe has studied one
year Ecology at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. (1992-1993). He has
studied Agriculture, specialized in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, at the
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and received his Ph.D.
in Soil Science at the same university. His main research is on wetland
soils, sediments, waters, plants, and their pollutions (trace elements and
nutrients) and linked biogeochemical issues with a special focus in redox
chemistry. He also has a certain expertise in remediation of soils and soil
microbiology. Professor Rinklebe is internationally recognized particularly
for his research in the areas of redox-chemistry of trace elements in
flooded soils. He published plenty of scientific papers in international and
national journals as well as numerous book chapters. He is serving on serval
editorial boards (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Ecotoxicology, Archive of
Agronomy and Soil Science). Also, he is a guest editor and reviewer for many
international journals. He has co-organized several special symposia at
various international conferences such as “Biogeochemistry of Trace
Elements” (10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th ICOBTE) and “International Conference
on Heavy Metals in the Environment” (15th, 16th, and 17th ICHMET). He was an
invited speaker at many international conferences.
Dr. Karen Daly is a Research Officer within the
Crops Environment and Land Use Department of Teagasc at Johnstown Castle
Wexford. She holds a degree and MSc. in Organic Chemistry from Trinity
College Dublin, and a Ph.D. in Soil and Catchment Science (Trinity College,
Dublin). Previous positions held include Environmental Chemist in the
Central Laboratories of Dublin City Council with responsibilities for
analysis and reporting of water quality data. Since joining Teagasc, her
research interests have included soil nutrient cycling and the fate and
transport of agricultural nutrients at various scales (plot, field and
catchment). Karen has worked as project leader on a number of large-scale
projects addressing topics such as, diffuse pollution from agricultural
sources, catchment scale models and risk assessment schemes, as well as
process-scale soil nutrient cycling in agricultural systems. Her interest
in soil also extends to soil spectroscopy, soil quality and soil mapping and
her work has included collaboration among 50 scientists across 6
universities.
Zengwei Yuan is a professor at the Department of Environmental Planning and Management, School of the Environment, Nanjing University. His interest is focused on industrial ecology, especially the quantification of environmental and social impacts associated with human production and consumption activities. He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, half of them in international journals such as PNAS, ENVIRON SCI TECHNOL, ECOL APPL, and SCI TOTAL ENVIRON. Details can be found via: http://hjxy.nju.edu.cn/yuanzw or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zengwei_Yuan
Dr. Jianmin Ma is a Thousand Talent Program distinguished professor and head of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China, and adjunct professor of CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences. He obtained his PhD degree from James Cook University, Australia, in 1995. He was a research scientist with Environment Canada from 1998 to 2013 and Canadian chair of Long-range Transport Working Group of Great Lakes Binational Toxic Strategy (2009-2013). Dr. Ma has been working on the studies of modeling of persistent organic pollutants, trace gases, heavy metals, and impact of climate change and human activities on environmental cycling and human health of air contaminants. He has authored and coauthored more than 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and UNEP, HTAP, and AMAP scientific assessment reports. Dr. Ma now also serve as editorial board member of Environmental Science & Technology.
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Professor
Paul Longley, University College London, UK
Professor
Chris Brunsdon, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Professor
Huadong Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof.
Deren Li, Wuhan University, China
Prof.
Dr. Michael Kersten, Mainz University, Germany 
Dr.
Maurice Mulcahy, Health Service Executive (HSE) West Region, Ireland
Prof.
Eddy Y. Zeng
Dr.
Olle Selinus, Linneaus University, Sweden
Professor
Ron Fuge, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Professor
Lora Fleming, University of Exeter, UK
Dr.
Clemens Reimann, Geology Survey of Norway, Norway
Prof.
Martin Cormican , National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Dr.
Job Spijker, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The
Netherlands
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Jörg Rinklebe, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Prof.
Zengwei Yuan, Nanjing University, China
Prof.
Jianmin Ma, Lanzhou University, China