15^th World Bioenergy Congress and Expo April 20-21, 2020 Berlin, Germany

Dr. Jianbing Li is a professor in the environmental engineering program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Regina in 2003. He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis. He has published more than 180 journal and conference papers. He served as a guest editor for three international journals, and acted as a committee member for many international conferences. He also serves as a reviewer for many international journals and a variety of national and international research funding organizations.

He has research interests in environmental remediation, energy recovery from waste materials, environmental modeling and risk assessment, and environmental systems analysis

Animesh Dutta is an Associate Professor and Director of Bio-renewable Innovation Lab, and Associate Director, Graduate studies with the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. Dr Dutta is specialized in advanced energy systems and thermo-fluid science with hands-on experience in reactor design and pilot plant operation, design and performance of various tests in laboratory scale and pilot scale units, thermal design and process development. In his career, he has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal papers, 3 book chapters, and has roughly 85 conference publications and reports.

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He is working for a sustainable energy supply from locally available resources in villages to make villages self reliant in energy requirement. Prof. Vijay’s work on biogas technology, particularly biogas Upgradation is well recognized at global level. He is also the national coordinator of two major national programmes of the Govt. of India, one is Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (Movement for Progressive India ) of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt of India that aims to utilize knowledge institutions of the country to help villages in their development and second is Scientific Utilisation through Research Augmentation (SUTRA) – Prime products from Indigenous Cow (Panchgavya) of Ministry of Science Technology, GoI which will help in reinstating the cow based rural economy supported by critical scientific validation and research.

He has about above 150 publications in journals and conferences, 7 books and one lab manual to his credit. Prof. Vijay has successfully developed and patented Biogas Enrichment and bottling for Vehicular Application and transferred it to the industries and field. He is fellow and life Member of various scientific and professional societies/ bodies He is also Indian coordinator of Sustainable Energy and Environment Forum (SEE Forum) working in Asia with head quarter in Kyoto University Japan Japan and General Secretary of Biogas Forum (India). Prof. Vijay has received many awards and recognitions.

Dr. Lew Christopher holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology. He has more than 25 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass. He has worked as industrial research scientist and held faculty positions in departments of biotechnology, chemical and biological engineering, and environmental engineering in South Africa and USA. Currently he serves as Director of the Biorefining Research Institute leading an interdisciplinary team of faculty and researchers from several science and engineering departments at Lakehead University in Canada. His research mission is to add value to the global Bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach to the development of renewable bioenergy technologies. Dr. Christopher is a member of the editorial board of several international biotechnology journals, advisory boards, and professional societies. He has made over 400 scientific contributions to the field of Biomass Biorefining including 8 patents, 4 books, and over 50 invited lectures delivered in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

His research mission is to add value to the global Bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach to the development of renewable bioenergy technologies. Dr. Christopher is a member of the editorial board of several international biotechnology journals, advisory boards, and professional societies.

With a masters degree as an Agricultural Biologist and as a trained farmer Michael Köttner is professionally involved in Biogas and Bioenergy Technology for more than 25 years. His portfolio ranges from professional services as a scientist and farmer in USA and South Africa, adult education, to being a founding member and CEO (1992 – 2000) in Europes biggest biogas association, the German Biogas Association with almost 5000 members today. Since 2000 he is consultant, senior expert, as well as managing director of the International Biogas and Bioenergy Center of Competence (IBBK Fachgruppe Biogas GmbH) and Vice-President of the German Biogas and Bioenergy Society, GERBIO/FnBB e.V.. The main focus of his work is consulting and training work in the field of industrial and small scale decentralized biogas technology with manure, plant oil for energy production, wood gas (gasification, pyrolysis) and ecological sanitation in a regional, national and international context.

The main focus of his work is consulting and training work in the field of industrial and small scale decentralized biogas technology with manure, plant oil for energy production, wood gas (gasification, pyrolysis) and ecological sanitation in a regional, national and international context.

Dr. Nhuan (John) Nghiem holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales and a PhD also in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University. He has more than 30 years of experience in industrial and government research laboratories. His past and current research activities focused on development of commercially feasible bioprocesses for production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. While at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) he was a member of the team consisting of researchers from several U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories and an industrial partner that developed and patented the technology for biological production of succinic acid by genetically engineered Escherichia coli strains in a two-stage fermentation process. The technology won one of the R&D 100 awards in 1997. He currently is a Lead Scientist in the Sustainable Biofuels and Co-products Research Unit at the Eastern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, where he is leading the effort to convert all components of the sorghum plant to fuels and industrial chemicals.

Dr. Nghiem’s current interests include pretreatment and subsequent conversion of lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks to fuels and chemicals, and capture and use of fermentation-derived carbon dioxide as feedstock in bioconversion processes.

Prof. Haiyan Pei, has particular expertise in microalgae-energy production and algal-blooms control. Since 2014, she has published 84 SCI papers on international journals, like Trends Biotechnol., Bioresource Technol., Biotechnol. Biofuels, Water Res., and authorized 14 national invention patents and 1 software; Besides, 4 research projects she carried out were granted the awards of ministerial and provincial Scientific & Technological Progress (3 of the first rank, 1 of the second rank). She has completed more than 60 national and provincial research projects. She won “The prize of New Century Excellent Talents in University, People’s Republic of China” and “The National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars by NSFC”; Moreover, Prof. Pei is honored of “Outstanding Contribution Young Scientist” and “Excellent scientific and technological workers” by Shandong provincial government.

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Bulent ICGEN received his MSc. and PhD. in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University (METU) of Ankara in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He conducted two-year-post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering Research Unit of University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. In 2008, he became an Associate Professor and took up a faculty position at Kirikkale University (KU) till 2012. Since then, he has been a faculty at METU in the Department of Environmental Engineering. He became a Professor in 2017. Meanwhile, as a visiting faculty, he visited Princeton University (PU) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His interests lie in the fascinating and often complex array of processes taking place in microbial environment and the behaviour of the microorganisms under different environmental conditions. He particularly enjoys looking at systems from environmental and microbial biotechnology perspective, trying to tease out the key relationships between consortiums. He likes using molecular biological methods to investigate the occurrence and distribution of bacteria in the environment in order to provide direct information on community structure for variety of environmental and industrial applications. His team focuses on microbial biotechnology, with a recent focus on environmental genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

Environmental sustainability through bioremediation of contaminated environments Bacterial degradation & transformation & detoxification of xenobiotic compounds  Structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in contaminated environments  Molecular genetic tools to assess the effects of microbial treatment on anthropogenic chemicals  Biomonitoring of waterborne pathogens & toxic metals & drug resistance genes as contaminants  Biomarkers & bioindicators & DNA probes & FISH for in situ microbial activity monitoring  Metabolic engineering & catabolic genes & biocatalytic applications for pollutant degradation Biotechnological processes for aerobic & anaerobic waste treatment Environmental genomics & metabolomics & transcriptomics & proteomics