Professor Michael Komárek is currently Full Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic. He is leading the Environmental and Isotope Geochemistry Research Group and specializes in the field of environmental, soil and isotope geochemistry, specifically in the behavior of contaminants in the environment, soil remediation, adsorption and geochemical modeling. He acted as a visiting scientist at the University of Limoges (France), where he also obtained his Habilitation (HDR). In 2012, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Western Michigan University (USA). He did several internships at, e.g., Universite de Rennes I (France), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Since 2004, he has published over 130 papers, including 6 review articles, and five book chapters. He belongs to 2% of the most cited scientists worldwide according to the Stanford University and Elsevier Global Ranking. He gave several invited and keynote lectures at international conferences (e.g., ICOBTE/ICHMET, AquaConSoil etc.) and is currently a member of the editorial board of Environmental Pollution, Carbon Research, Frontiers in Environmental Science, and Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology where he obtained the Excellent Editorial Board Member Award in 2022.

Shicheng Zhang is a full professor at the department of environmental science and engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and the director of Shanghai Technical Service Platform for Pollution Control and Resource Utilization of Organic Wastes. He currently serves as a core group member of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU SWMP), a scientific committee member of World Society of Engineering Thermochemistry (WSETC), a fellow member of Australasia Practical Zero Emissions Society (APZES), etc. His research group is focusing on biomass waste and organic waste utilization by chemical, biological and biochemical methods, especially hydrothermal conversion of organic waste to high value-added products. Prof. Zhang has published 9 book chapters, more than 220 journal papers with SCI citations over 12000 times (H index 62), and 16 patents. He serves as an associate Editor of Environmental Engineering Research and npj Sustainable Materials, etc. He has been recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientist (2020 - 2023) and the Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field (2023).

Shuhe Wei is a professor in Key Lab of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering at Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2004. He obtained his PhD from Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang in 2004. He was served as the Member of Council of Environmental Science Society of China and the President of Pollution Ecological Committee of Ecology Society of China, and now serving as the Member of Council of Ecology Society of China and Vice president of Soil Environment Committee of Soil Science Society of China. He has been working on the remediation and safe utilization of contaminated soil, including consummated the main judge standard of hyperaccumulator, proposed the theory that hyperaccumulator can also be found in unpolluted site, and systematic studies on contaminated soil phytoremediation based on weed species in China.

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Dr. Zongsu Wei is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the group leader for Water Engineering Innovation Lab and secured 36.5 million Danish kroner (~5.3 million USD) funding from Danish and EU agencies. His research focuses on PFAS degradation, photocatalysis, sonochemistry, and water chemistry. He has published more than 100 peer- reviewed papers (h-Index: 52, Cited: >7500 times, Google Scholar), among which 22 papers are recognized as the ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper and ESI 0.1% Hot Paper. Since 2021, Prof. Wei was recognized as Stanford’s TOP 2% Scientists in Environmental Science and received the prestigious Sapere Aude Research Leader Award from the Independent Research Foundation Denmark in 2021. Professor Wei is currently serving as the Associate Editor for Water Research (Elsevier Publishing), Editor for Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier Publishing), and Editor for Water Science and Technology (International Water Association Publishing).

Dr. Michel Mench (PhD, Research Director at French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Bordeaux, UMR BIOGECO INRAE 1202, Pessac, France) is involved in remediation of damaged and contaminated soils s, using phytotechnologies and phytomanagement. He has published 174 peer-review international papers and 39 book chapters. He developed his skill on selection of plant species, plant-tolerance to metal(loid) excess, (phyto)management of field trials for demonstrating the benefits and side-effects of phytotechnologies. He is expert for the EU COST, the French Research Agency and French Agency for Environment & Ecological Transition. He has led work-packages in EU projects: Greenland (2010-15), Intense (2016-19), PhytoSUDOE (2016-18). Currently he contributes to the EU projects BioFoodonMars, Phy2SUDOE, and GOLD. He is member of the Int. Soc. Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), the Int. Phytotechnologies Society, Int. J. Phytoremediation editorial board, the COST Action PlantMetals, and the INRAE Ecotox network.

Dr. Xiao Yang’s academic background covers both soil chemistry and environmental quality monitoring and assessment. His research interest focuses on environment-benign materials (Iron minerals, biochar etc.) for their use in soil remediation or wastewater purification, spatial analyses of environmental variables, especially for visualizing spatiotemporal variation of metals and nutrients in soils using GIS, geostatistics and other related advanced AI algorithm, as well as novel technology for valorisation of biowaste into value-added products. Dr. Xiao has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, most of which are in mainstream environmental engineering and chemistry journals including Environ. Sci. Technol., Water Res., and J Hazard Mater etc., and 7 of which have been recognized as Web of Science ESI top papers, namely Highly Cited Paper. He has been served as a member of editorial board in Biochar and Carbon Research since 2020 and be horored with “2022 World Top 2% Scientists”. He also regularly reviews manuscripts in academic journals for environmental science (Environ. Sci. Technol, Environ. Pollut., Sci. Total Environ.), environmental engineering (J. Hazard. Mater., Chem. Eng. J., Bioresour. Technol.).

Professor Wei Qiao is currently a full professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the College of Engineering, China Agricultural University. His research focuses on the anaerobic digestion of organic waste, including agricultural waste, food waste, and sewage sludge, for bioenergy production and environmental sanitation. He works on both developing innovations in biological processes and demonstrating pioneering technologies in the industry. Since 2001, he has been researching anaerobic digestion, including high solids AD, plug flow AD, anaerobic membrane bioreactors, biohydrogen production, biogas bio-desulfurization, and pathogen and antibiotic elimination. He has published over 100 SCI articles and holds 10 patents. He is a member of the European Biogas Association, representing his institute, and has been an international member of the Japan Society on Water Environment since 2016. He has served as a technical expert in the ‘Biogas’ working group at the International Standardization Organization since 2015 and became a technical expert in the working group of ‘biogas’ in the National Standard Organization of China in 2021. In 2024, he received the Pandey Research Excellence Award from the International Bioprocessing Association for his contributions to anaerobic digestion biotechnology.

Prof. Honghong Lyu is a faculty member at the School of Energy & Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, China. Her research focuses on biochar applications and composite materials for environmental remediation, water and soil pollution treatment, biomass pyrolysis and gasification for functional materials, and VOC pollution control.

Dr. Xiaoguang Duan is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering of the University of Adelaide. His research areas focus on environmental science and technology, green catalysis, and nanotechnologies. Dr Duan has produced over 200 publications on Nature Water, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Angew Chem Int Ed, Chem Rev, Environ Sci Technol, including over 80 ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). Duan has received an h-index of 103 and a total of 40,000 citations (Web of Science). He was recognized as a Global Highly Cited Researcher in Environment/Ecology and Chemistry in 2022-2023 and in Cross-Field in 2020-2021. He has been awarded the ACS Catalysis Early Career Award, ES&T Jame J Morgon Award, and MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Award.

Gayoung Yoo is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Kyung Hee University. She obtained her B.S. in Biology Education and M.C.P. in Environmental Planning from Seoul National University in 1994 and 1996, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. in Soil Ecology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2004. During her career as a research associate at the Korea Environment Institute (2006-2009), Dr. Yoo conducted significant research on climate change, focusing on nature-based mitigation options and national adaptation policies. In 2009, she joined Kyung Hee University, where her research has concentrated on soil-based greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. Her work includes exploring biochar amendments, enhanced rock weathering to increase soil inorganic carbon capture, and agricultural management practices to augment soil organic carbon sequestration. Dr. Yoo is also leading the carbon absorption component of the Korea Carbon Project (funded at $28 million, over five years), which aims to develop a hybrid inventory of national greenhouse gases by integrating AI modeling with statistical analysis methods. Additionally, she serves as the Chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Subcommittee of the National Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth Commission, where she oversees research on sectoral vulnerabilities and the assessment of loss and damage.

Woo Hyoung Lee is an associate professor in the UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering. He received his doctoral degree in environmental engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2009, his master’s degree in environmental engineering from Korea University in 2001 and his bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Chonnam National University in 1996. Before joining UCF, he was an ORISE postdoctoral research fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Ohio. To date, his professional work and research have encompassed the development and use of electrochemical sensors for water quality monitoring and smart water/wastewater treatment and management using environmental nanotechnology and biotechnology. He is a registered professional engineer. He has been an Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Fellow at the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Carderock Division. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Board of Scientific Counselors Social and Community Science Subcommittee.

Stephan Clemens studied biology. After his PhD in plant biochemistry he worked as a postdoc at the University of California in San Diego where he pioneered work on plant cadmium transporters and metal tolerance mechanisms. Back in Germany, Stephan started his own group at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle, continuing to work on plant metal homeostasis, now including the metal hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri as an additional model species. In 2006, he became chair of plant physiology at the University of Bayreuth. From 2017 to 2022, Stephan guided as founding dean the establishment of a new faculty of Life Sciences that focuses on Food, Nutrition and Health.

Prof. Sang Soo Lee is a distinguished scholar in environmental engineering, currently serving as a faculty member at Yonsei University's Mirae Campus affiliated with the Division of Environmental Energy Engineering. Prof. Lee earned his Ph.D. in 2009 from the Department of Soil, Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Throughout his career, Prof. Lee has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) from 2020 to 2023, placing him among the top 1% of researchers worldwide in terms of citations. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, he was appointed as an Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University during the same period. Additionally, he has been honored with the Yonsei Yoon-Jae Lee Fellowship as a Rising Fellow for the term 2023-2026. Prof. Lee's research interests includes environmental energy engineering, with a focus on sustainable practices and innovative solutions to environmental challenges. His extensive publication record and numerous accolades reflect his commitment to advancing knowledge in his field.

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Dr. Binoy Sarkar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Future Industries Institute of University of South Australia. Dr. Sarkar’s research focuses on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing carbon in soil, increasing crop production, and improving environmental quality and health. Dr. Sarkar’s published work features in Nature, Nature Plants and Nature Reviews Earth and Environment journals including others. He has published 214 peer reviewed papers with h-indices 81 and 71 on Google Scholar and Scopus, respectively. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2023.

Dr. Sarkar serves in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee of the Mineralogical Society of the UK and Ireland. He is a Council Member and Trustee of the Society. He serves as an Associate Editor of European Journal of Soil Science and Clays and Clay Minerals.

Dr. Sarkar was conferred with an Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian Government, an Emerging Researcher Award by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Sustainable Waste Management Program, a Diploma Calidad de Professor Visitante from University of Chile, and GeofProudfoot Award by Australasian Soil and Plant Analysis Council.