Committee
Mostafa Ghasemi
Dr. Mostafa Ghasemi Baboli is a professor and internationally recognized researcher in chemical engineering, specializing in advanced energy and environmental systems. His work focuses on membrane technologies, microbial fuel cells, and sustainable water treatment, integrating materials science with artificial intelligence for performance optimization. He has held academic and research positions across Asia and the Middle East and currently works at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and the Yangtze Delta Region Research Institute. He has published more than 100 ISI-indexed papers in reputed journals, co-authored four book chapters, and currently serves as the Editor of a book on microbial fuel cells with Elsevier. He was honoured as a China Talent in 2024 and received the Achievement Award from King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia. His research bridges fundamental science and industrial application, addressing challenges in energy recovery, wastewater treatment, and resource efficiency. His recent work emphasizes nanocomposite membranes and intelligent optimization techniques to enhance system performance and scalability for real-world applications.
Jaroslav Jerz
Dr. Jaroslav Jerz, materials scientist. He has completed his PhD from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) with dissertation dedicated to the development of aluminum foam by powder metallurgy. He is materials scientist at the Institute of Materials & Machine Mechanics (Slovakia). His scientific work is devoted to advanced metallic materials, development of technologies for their industrial production and transfer of knowledge gained by material research into industrial practice.
Sankar Kr Acharya
Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kr Acharya, Dean, Post Graduate Studies and former Head, Dept. of Agril Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, Social Ecology and Environmental Sociology, Enterprise Ecology Framework, Farm Stewardships: The Transition from Conservation, Technology Socialization Process, and The Social Ecology of Livelihood, which have got tremendous policy as well as scholastic importance. Research Publication: 253in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 125 books authored / co-authoredVisited Italy, France, Germany, China , Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Malyasia.. He has also been honoured to be selected as the Convener of Panel (PE-32) entitled, the hunger, poverty and silence, of IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013 .Co-PI of ICAR, NAHEP and World Bank funded project on Conservation Agriculture. So, far he has successfully guided 23 Ph D scholarsHe is now acting as editor, reviewer of a good number of national and international journals.
Giulio Teodoro Maellaro
Giulio Teodoro Maellaro was born in Brindisi (Italy) in 1955. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Padua (Italy). he was an officer in the technical services corps of the Italian army in the motorization sector. He taught thermotechnics and heating systems in industrial technical institutes. At the "Carnaro" Nautical Institute in Brindisi he taught marine machinery, on-board technical systems and mechanical technology. Expert in sustainable energy and energy transformations. Freelance designer engineer in the construction, plant engineering and energy saving fields. Convinced advocate of the need to immediately implement the energy transition. He created the SEWAT (Sustainable Energy by Waves Trap) device to obtain sustainable energy from sea waves.
Albin Kaelin
The CEO of Switzerland based company EPEA Switzerland has been named twice in the 2022 Business Worldwide Magazine CEO Awards. The awards are a celebration of the most influential and innovative CEOs from around the world, across a wide variety of sectors. Instead of focusing on a company's overall successes, as many business awards do, here the spotlight is instead on the leaders behind them. The aim is to give worthy executives the recognition they deserve, whilst also inspiring others to achieve similar successes. Albin Kaelin of EPEA Switzerland was the outright winner in two categories: 'Most Innovative CEO in the Worldwide Textile Industry' 'Business Leadership and Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Manufacturing'
Dimitrios Rakopoulos
Dr. Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Senior Researcher at the Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) of Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), belongs for the 6th year in a row to the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers (HCR 2020) list of the world’s most influential scientists, which includes only 11 Greek scientists serving Greek Universities and Research Centres. The list is compiled by the internationally recognised Thomson Reuters organisation, represented by the Clarivate Analytics project over the last 4 years, based on the Web of Science™ research database. Only scientific publications that belong to the Top 1% in terms of citations per scientific field and publication year are considered as highly cited, taking into account articles of just the last 11 years (circa 160,000 articles), preventing this way the advantage of older articles since they all compete in the same time horizon. The catalogue of 2020 comprises about 6,400 researchers, i.e. approximately the 0.1% of researchers worldwide, in 21 distinct research fields as well as across multiple fields (cross-field). Engineering is represented globally by 173 scientists in the HCR 2020 list, while Dr. Dimitrios Rakopoulos is the only Greek scientist of this list who serves the discipline of Engineering in Greek Universities/ Research Centres, with over 5355 citations according to Scopus (excluding citations of all co-authors) and respective H-index=35.
Joudi Dibsi
Joudi Dibsi, founder and IT Consultant at Innovalytics IT Consultancy DWC-LLC, holds a Master of Engineering Management from the University of Wollongong, Australia. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with membership in the Project Management Institute (PMI), Joudi has a strong background in project management, supported by a research assistantship grant from Wollongong University. Her research includes the publication "Data Management for Environmentally Sustainable and Profitable Business: Evidence from the Food Retail Industry" in the Swiss Journal of Sustainability MDPI. Professionally, Joudi has diverse experience in education, finance, and event management, with notable contributions to the COP28 project, enhancing processes through advanced project management techniques.
Dongling Ma
Prof. Dongling Ma (FRSC, FIAAM), holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Advanced Functional Nanocomposites, has been a professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) since 2006. Her main research interest consists in the development of various nanomaterials (e.g., semiconductor quantum dots, transition metal catalytic nanoparticles, plasmonic nanostructures) for applications in energy, environment, catalysis and biomedical sectors. She has co-authored >200 articles in a broad range of areas, centered on materials science, in selective, high-impact journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc, Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Chem. Mater. and Chem. Soc. Rev. with H-index of 69 (Google Scholar). She has co-authored 7 granted patents and 4 book chapters. She has delivered >140 invited speeches at international conferences and prestigious universities/government laboratories. She is an associate editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials and also serves/served on multiple journal editorial advisory boards, including the prestigious ACS Energy Lett., ACS Mater. Lett., Scientific Reports, Frontiers (Energy), PhotonX (Springer), etc. She also acted as the section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” of Nanomaterials, and acts in Section Editor Group of National Science Review (NSR, Materials Science). Her recent awards include the 2022 Clara Benson Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada.
