Plenary & Keynote speakers

“TBA”

Elisabetta Balzi 

Head of Unit Ocean, Seas and Waters, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission (Belgium)

“Scaling up remediation processes”

Marco Petrangeli Papini

Department of Chemistry, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy)

“Development of (bio)chemical applications for the valorization of food waste in integrated biorefineries”

Michalis Koutinas

Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)

“From plastics to micro/nanoplastics: Potential health implications”

Philip Demokritou

Nanoscience and Environmental Bioengineering, Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers University (USA)

“TBA”

Korneel  Rabaey 

Department of Biotechnology, Ghent University  (Belgium)

“Microbial Electrochemistry in Bioremediation”

Sebastià Puig

Facultat de Ciències, Universitat de Girona (Spain)

“Anaerobic-Aerobic Processes for Enhanced Pharmaceutical Removal from Hospital Wastewater”

Michail Fountoulakis

School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, TU-Crete (Greece)

“Transitioning plastics into the circular bioeconomy through biotechnology”

Nick Wierckx 

Institute of Bio- and Geosciences IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) 

“Mining Tailings Remediation with Resource Recovery via Continuous Multi-Stage Bioleaching”

Vladimiros G. Papangelakis

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario (Canada)