Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment (IAA)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Bernd Bilitewski
Prof. Bernd Bilitewski graduated in 1975 in chemical process engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated in 1980 in Environmental Engineering at the TU Berlin. He gained the habilitation at the TU Berlin in 1986. In 1995 he founded the Institute of Waste Management and Contaminated Sites Treatment at Technische Universität Dresden and he is managing director of the institute since 2004. Four years ago he received an honorary doctorate from the Vietnam National University. Since 2008 he is also president and scientific member at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Technical University of Girona (Spain) and since 2009 member of the avalanche of Saxony, the National Association of Publicly certified and qualified experts, Sachsen eV.
In addition to these activities, he participates in numerous committees and boards:
- chairman of the USV e. V. (Unabhängige Sachverständiger für Verpackungsentsorgung)
- member of the EdDE e. V. (Entsorgergemeinschaft der Deutschen Entsorgungswirtschaft, Working Committee “Energy recovery and thermal treatment)
- chairman (Co-Chair) of the experts group of the GTZ for the Promotion of International Environmental Advisory Council of the State Council of China Circular Economy
- member of the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks of endocrine effects of organic tin compounds
- member of the TAVOLO DI ROMA. Group of international experts in sustainable resource use and waste
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Waste Management and Contaminated Site Treatment (IAA)
Eng. (M.Sc.) Veit Grundmann
Mr. Grundmann is coordinator for RISKCYCLE on behalf of Prof. Bilitewski. Currently he is particularly involved in research work in the environmental sector especially on biological treatment of organic waste, Phytoremediation and problems related to renewable energies.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Prof. Joaquim Casal
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering of UPC (1995-1999)
Vice-Chancellor of UPC (1999-2001)
Director general for Research at DURSI (Autonomous Government of Catalonia)
He has taught courses at universities in diverse countries
Visiting professor at the Doctorate School of Politecnico di Torino
Research
Prof. Casal has worked on fluidization and fluid-particle systems and, during the last twenty-two years, his research has focussed on risk analysis (he has been one of the introducers of these topics in Spain), mathematical modelling of major accidents (fire, BLEVE, etc.) and environmental impact. He has published 150 papers and three books. He has been the responsible scientist of 30 research projects developed for industry, the European Comission, the Catalan government and the Spanish government.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Dr. Rosa Mari Darbra
In 2005, she got her PhD in Environmental Sciences from Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Licensed in Environmental Sciences, UAB- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2000.
Extraordinary Award of Final Studies, UAB- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2000.
Award for the collaboration in the project ECOPORTS.
Young Professional Award 2005. Fundació ECOPORTS. Marsella, 2005.
Research
Her main field of research is environmental risk assessment of hazardous substances in chemical plants through fuzzy logic. She is accredited by Lloyd’s register as an environmental auditor. She has been working in different EU countries as well as in Australia and has been involved in different EU projects: ECOPORTS, MITRA, PEARL, Asia Pro Eco, ERMA, RISKBASE.
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA)
Prof. Dr. Damià Barceló
Full Research Professor at IIQAB-CSIC (since 1999) and Head of the Environmental Chemistry Department. Published over 480 scientific papers in journals of SCI, 86 book chapters and co-author of 1 book on Pesticides analysis in the environment and editor of 10 books on Environmental analysis and fate of pollutants, with a total of 5893 citations. His Hirsch-Index is 54. Editor of the book series Wilson + Wilson Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry (Elsevier, Amsterdam, NL), the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry book series (Springer-Verlag), Associate Editor of Trends in Analytical Chemistry (Elsevier, NL) and Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier, NL) and member of the Editorial board of SCI journals l Analytical Bionalytical Chemistry, The Analyst and Talanta. Supervisor of 22 Ph. D. thesis on environmental analysis (1992-2006). Member of the Scientific Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (2004-2009) and Panel Member of the EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards) from ESF (2004-2007)
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA)
Dr. Antoni Ginebreda
Dr. Antoni Ginebreda was born in 1953. Academic Degrees: Chemical Engineer by the Instituto Químico de Sarriá (Barcelona),1976, Graduate on Chemical Sciences by the University of Barcelona, 1977, PhD in Chemical Engineering by the Instituto Químico de Sarriá (Barcelona), 1980. Postdoctorates: Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, USA), Instituto de Química Bio-orgánica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Barcelona) and Instituto Químico de Sarriá (Barcelona). Postgraduate degrees: DD-IESE, Universidad de Navarra, 1993 Professional Career: (1986-1992) Prodesfarma S.A., Head of Chemical Research and Process Development, (since1992 till now) Agència Catalana de l’Aigua, Head of the Water Control Department.
Dr. Antonio Ginebreda has been involved in environmental water quality control for 12 years working for the Catalan Water Agency (CWA), combining his previous experience on academic and industrial research with practical knowledge of “real world” problems, approached from the public side. Although the CWA does not perform research by itself, it regularly contracts applied research programmes related to water contamination and quality aspects to academic institutions, such as the Instituto de Química Ambiental (CSIC), University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (CSIC) etc., with Dr. Ginebreda being in charge of the co-ordination activities. He is in close contact with the research world, thus participating actively in several European funded projects, as well as other related activities such as project evaluations etc. Therefore, Dr. Ginebreda can provide a valuable contribution in order to bridge the gap between the pure academic research side and the end users.
Universiteit Leiden
Dr. Ester Van der Voet
Ester van der Voet obtained her MSc as a biologist in 1982 at Leiden University. Since 1984 she has been employed as a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. She has conducted research that for the most part can be placed under the heading of Industrial Ecology. Research areas are, among others: stock breeding and the ammonia problem, risk assessment, LCA, biodiversity policy, indicator development, material flow accounting, and especially SFA.. In this last field she obtained her PhD in 1996. She still is employed at the CML as an Associate Professor, and has initiated a Masters program in Industrial Ecology, together with the universities of Delft and Rotterdam. As a researcher, she is presently involved in research on sustainable resource use, with a focus on metals and bio-energy. She has developed a GHG calculator for bio-based electricity and heat for the Dutch government.
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Tomas Rydberg
Ph.D, Environnemental Science.
Mr. Rydberg has profound experience in industrial projects on Design for Environment (DfE) and LCA as a researcher and consultant. He has worked in industry as well as in governmental organisations. He has a wide network, both in public authorities, industry and academia, as well as long experience from project management.
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri
Dr. Emilio Benfenati
is currently Head of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology at the Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy. He has a long experience in the coordination of EC projects (11), and in the participation of several (16) others. Many of them are on toxicity and environmental modelling, such as COMET, IMAGETOX, DEMETRA, EST, OpenMolGRID, EASYRING, CHEMOMENTUM, CAESAR, OSIRIS, and CASCADE. He has coordinated other international projects on (Q)SARs with USA and European participants. He has been a Member of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Pesticides, Italian Ministry of Health, 1997-1999. He has organised and co organised international workshops/symposia on (Q)SAR and modelling. Emilio Benfenati is author or co-author of about 200 papers in international journals, he is editor of a few books and participates in the Editorial Board of several scientific journals. His research activities include: Computational chemistry; Molecular descriptors; (Q)SAR; Toxicity prediction; Environmental toxicology; Environmental management; Environmental chemistry; Analysis of organic compounds by mass spectrometry; Metabolism studies and Risk assessment.
