Keynote Speakers

Asher Brenner is Professor and chairman of the Environmental Engineering (graduate) program at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel. He received the B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1979), and then M.Sc. (1982) and D.Sc. (1986) from the Technion) Israel Institute of Technology(. From 1986-1988 he has been a research associate with the Department of…

Dr. Konstantinos Komnitsas, hydrometallurgist, is Professor at Technical University Crete, School of Mineral Resources Engineering. He is director of three labs: i) Waste Management and Soil Rehabilitation ii) Ore Processing and iii) Ceramics and Glass Technology. His expertise is in the fields of metallurgy, hydro- and bio-hydrometallurgy, decontamination of effluents, soils and wastes, life cycle…

Dr. Evangelos A. Voudrias is a Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. After receiving his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he spent two years as…

Professional Career since 2016 Professor and Holder of the Department Resource Efficient Wastewater Technologies at the University of Kaiserslautern, from 2016 until 2020 as endowed chair of Carl-Zeiss Foundation 2007 – 2015 Professor and Holder of the Chair of Sanitary Engineering and Water Recycling at the University of Stuttgart Since 2007 Professor and holder of the…

Emeritus Professor since Sept. 2018. Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras and Director of the Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (1989-2018). Received the Ptichion of Chemistry (BSc) from the university of Patras (1972), MBA from the Athens School of Economics (1974) , Ph.D from SUNY at Buffalo (1980)…