16^th World Bioenergy Congress and Expo April 26-27, 2021 Barcelona, Spain

Dr Mukesh Goel is working as Senior Lecturer in Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has serve as Associate and assistant Professor in many colleges of India having 10 years of experience in teaching Chemical Engineering modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in three universities and he is one of the most liked teachers by the students in the faculty. He has completed is Ph D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India & University Lyon 1, Lyon, France In 2009. He had done M.Eng from National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2003 and B. E. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Karnataka, India in Chemical Engineering in the year of 1999. He has published 29 SCOPUS indexed journal papers, 26 conference papers, as well as 4 book chapters. He has written 16 research proposals in the areas of wastewater treatment and water quality studies. He has guided 14 PG students, 6 PhD students and several UG students. He is a regular reviewer for very high impact factor journals, such as Bioresource Technology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Biotechnology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Journal of Env Manag. and other leading international journals. His paper in Water Research (Goel et al., 38(19):4247-61) is one of the highly cited paper on sonochemical engineering (total citations-205).

Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, wastewater treatment and water quality studies

Merja H. Tölle is a Senior Scientist at CESR (Center of Environmental System Research), in University of Kassel, Germany. She served as Guest University Professor at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Vienna, Austria and Research scientist and lecturer at the Institute of Geography, Justus‐Liebig‐ University Giessen, Germany She have done Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Bioclimatology, Georg- August University of Göttingen (GAU), Göttingen, Germany and Doctoral Research Assistant at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Geesthacht, Germany. She has done Doctorate of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) from Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany in the year of 2010 and M.Sc. in Meteorology from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA in the year of 2006. She got so many achievements in her career and published more than 10 articles in reputed journals.

Environmental System Research, Meteorology and Geophysics

Dr. Valasia Iakovoglou is a distinct graduate of Iowa State University, USA, with an MSc in Urban Forestry and a Ph.D. in Ecophysiologist/Silviculture. She has more than 25-yrs of national/international research and teaching experience with emphasis in seedling production and Restoration/Conservation of Ecosystems with emphasis on Biodiversity under the challenges of Climate Change. She has received numerous scholarships, awards and recognitions. She is an editor of ten international journals and a reviewer in more than fifteen with one of them being the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She has more than 100 publications that incudes books/book chapters, peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. She is active in many scientific societies such as the Mediterranean Experts of Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) and associations such as the “Association of Inter-Balkan Woman’s Cooperation Societies (AIWCS)” of UNESCO Center, where she serves as Board Member. Currently she is the Director of the Ecotourism Sector of the UNESCO chair Con-E-Ect and a visiting professor at the MSc program “Man and Water” at the International Hellenic University (IHU).

Conservation, Ecotourism, Nature-based solutions, Restoration, Seedling production, Sustainable Ecosystems

Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Research Assistant of Civil Engineering at Water Engineering Department, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology in Iran. Over his 12-year career, he has focused on Groundwater Modeling System (GMS). Kaveh currently works at the College of Agriculture, Department of Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology. Kaveh studies in GMS and Water Management. Their current projects are Environmental Impact Assessment, Solute Transport Modeling, GMS and Climate Change. He studies in the Department of Civil Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran in 2019. Kaveh has published a large number of scientific books, reports, chapters, journals and conference papers. Kaveh has contributed to more than 500 publications in Journals, Books, Chapters and technical Reports. He has been successful in a number of research grants. Kaveh has been an Editorial Board Membership of 3 ISI International Journals and technical reviewer for about 30 ISI scientific Journals. He displays extensive teaching experience in groundwater modeling systems and hydrogeology, environmental science and climate change. Kaveh has taught and developed course material for about 10 subjects at various levels and supervised over 7 graduate Master students. Kaveh has worked with several companies in the groundwater area. During his American university Dubai & Canadian University Dubai affiliation, Kaveh has developed investigation and forecasting of the quantity of groundwater resources using the GMS model under climate change conditions. Recently, he had scientific visits from several countries, particularly the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Deutschland, United Arab Emirates and Qatar for scientific collaborations.

Groundwater Modeling System & Hydrogeology, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment