Committee & Speakers

Finalists of the Elsevier Foundation Climate Action Challenge

The following five finalists of the Elsevier Foundation Climate Action Challenge will give short talks within the program. The winner will be announced at the conference.

John Adongo, Cynthia Mudalungu and Alice Ochieng (Kenya)

- Carbon capture beads designed from iron-fortified avocado seed waste

Salah El Sadi (Palestine)

- Removal of nitrate and chloride from water using a green technology that is free from chemicals or electricity

María Alejandra Flórez-Restrepo, Xiomara López-Legarda and Freimar Segura-Sánchez (Colombia)

- Development of mycelium biomaterials from white-rot fungi isolated from Colombian forests for climate action

Gudula Naiga (Uganda)

- Waste management: black soldier fly protein insect value chain linkages

Altantuya Ochirkhuyag, Oyun-Erdene Gendenjamts (Mongolia)

- VolcaniBlock: Sustainable block material from mongolian volcanic rocks for organic pollutant removal in wastewater

Scientific Committee

Dr. Ricardo Barra, University of Concepcion, Chile Prof. Dr. Vladimir Beskoski, University of Belgrade, Serbia Prof. Dr. Lorena Betancor, Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay Prof. Cecilia Cagliero, UNITO, Italy Prof. David Chiaramonti, Politecnico di Torina, Italy Dr. Irene Erdelmeier, Innoverda, France Prof. Dr.  Henning Friege, N³ Thinking Ahead Dr. Friege & Partners & Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany Prof. Dr. Nicholas Gathergood, University of Lincoln, UK Prof. Dr.  Niklas Hedin, Stockholm University, Sweden Prof. Dr. Jun Huang, University of Australia (Sydney), Australia Dr. Reinhard Joas Prof. Dr. Burkhard König, University of Regensburg, Germany Prof. Carol S.K. Lin, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Prof. Dr. Hankwon Lim, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea Prof. Dr. Yan Lu, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany Prof. Dr. Rafael Luque, University of Cordoba, Spain Prof. Avtar Matharu, University of York, UK Prof. Dr. Peter Mahaffy, The King's University, Canada Prof. Dr. Borhane Mahjoub, INRAP, Tunisia Prof. Dr.  Stephen Matlin, Imperial College London, UK Prof. Piergiuseppe Morone, University of Rome, Italy Prof. Michael Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany Prof. Dr.  Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo, Canada Prof. Dr. Christian Peifer, University of Kiel, Germany Prof. Dr.  Daniel Pleissner, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany Prof. Dr. Justyna Płotka-Wasylka, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland Prof. Dr. Elia Psillakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Dr. Shiju Raveendran, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr. Lasse Rosendahl, Aalborg University, Denmark Dr. Kei Saito, Japan Prof. Dr. Naomi Shibasaki-Kitakawa, Tohoku University, Japan Dr. Chris Slootweg, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Prof. Dr. Emma Strömberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden Luigi Vaccaro, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy Prof. Dr. Eva Valsami-Jones, University of Birmingham, UK Dr. Rajender Varma, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA Prof. Dr.  Jane Wissinger, University of Minnesota, USA Dr. Małgorzata Zakrzewska, FCT-UNL, Portugal Prof. Dr. Dr. Vania Zuin Zeidler, Leuphana University, Germany