Keynote speakers

Dr. SIXTO MALATO RODRÍGUEZ

Co-Director of Joint Research Center (Univ. Almería-CIEMAT) of R&D in Solar Energy (CIESOL). http://www.ciesol.es. 2006- up to now.

Director of Plataforma Solar de Almeria, Spain (www.psa.es). 2012-2017.

Head of Research Unit at CIEMAT. 2012- up to now

Sixto Malato Dipl. Chemistry (Chemical Engineering) by Facultad de Ciencias of University of Granada (1987). Master in Environmental Sciences by the Instituto de Investigaciones Ecológicas (Málaga, 1994). PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Almería (1997). 29 years of experience having worked at different sectors. His professional activities started in 1987 as Junior Researcher in Chem. Eng. Department of Univ. of Almería; in 1988 he joined the Production Department in an oil refinery (REPSOL S.A.) in Puertollano (Spain). 

Since 1990 he works at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA-CIEMAT) in all the EU R&D projects linked to the Solar Treatment of Water. Concretely, he has been involved in 23 International, 30 National R&D Projects and different Contracts (with Private Companies) related to the development of solar wastewater treatment technologies, and has been involved in the design and construction of all the experimental pilot plants for solar photocatalytic treatment of water and waste water in Europe.

He is author of 1 book and co-author of 18 books as well as >50 chapters in others. He has also co-authored more than 240 publications in indexed international journals, 35 articles in technical journals and more than 300 contributions to different International Congress and Symposiums and 5 patents. He has participated in >90 Workshops and Conferences on Water Treatment and participated as speaker in >60 specialized courses and masters on Advanced Water Treatment. He has directed 15 PhD Thesis. >16000 cites, h-index (http://www.scopus.com, Sept 2018): 74.

Ass. editor Environmental Chemistry Letters (Ed. Spinger) and Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. (RSC Publishing) up to now. Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies ( Sci.& Technol. Network, Inc.; 2008-2016). Member of editorial board: Catalysis Today (Elsevier), up to now.

Feng WU jointed the Department of Environmental Science at Wuhan University (WHU, CHINA) in 1998 and received his Ph. D. in Environmental Science in 2003 from WHU. He became an associate professor in 2003, qualified as the supervisor of doctoral student in 2007 and promoted to professor in 2009. He has been engaged in the researches of environmental photochemistry with emphasis on: (1) photochemical cycling of transition metals such as Fe and Cu, and its environmental effects; (2) arsenic speciation and species transformation during photochemical reactions; (3) hydroxyl radical or oxysulfur radical based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for water/wastewater treatment. He has been the PI of 8 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and got more than 150 papers published in the international peer-reviewed journals and 16 Chinese authorized patents.

Johannes Lützenkirchen : Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Studies of Chemical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Technical University (now KIT). Ph.D. in Environmental Physical Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. Post-doc at the University of Umea. Since 2001, scientist at KIT-INE.

Specialized in Surface Complexation Modelling and interfacial charging of and adsorption on mineral surfaces from aqueous solutions. Recent interest in water films on minerals with relevance to charging phenomena and ice-nucleation.

Editor of the book Surface Complexation Modelling (Elsevier, 2006). Associate Editor for Applied Geochemistry. Editorial board member for Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Colloids and Surfaces B. More than 100 papers with citation on googlescholar, h-index 28, 2700 citations.

Jaesang Lee currently serves as an associate professor in the School of Architectural, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at Korea University (South Korea).

Prior to joining the faculty at Korea University in 2014, he was a senior researcher at Center for Water Resources Recycle Research in Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Before beginning his tenure-track academic positions, he performed his postdoctoral training from 2006 to 2010 at Rice University (USA) and Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology in 2005. His primary research interests include the development of nanoscale materials for redox-based treatment processes and comprehending of the underlying fundamental mechanisms. He has published more than 60 papers in top-international journals with the citation number of 2867 and h-index of 30. 

Anthony Szymczyk is currently Full Professor of the University of Rennes 1 and the President of the European Membrane Society (https://www.emsoc.eu/ems/site/home/index.php). He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1999 at the University of Franche-Comté (France). Prof. Szymczyk's research lies at the interface of chemical engineering, chemistry of materials and physics of condensed matter. His main research activities focus on the modeling and simulation of membrane separations for desalination and water purification, and physico-chemical characterization of membrane materials with applications in functionalization, fouling, ageing, etc. He has published more than 140 top international papers and book chapters. In 2013 he was the recipient of the “IUPAC distinguished Award for Novel Materials and their Synthesis” for his excellent work on ion transport through nanoporous membranes.