Sunil Herat
Griffith University, Australia
Program Director of the
Master of Environmental
Engineering and Pollution
Control
Biography:
Sunil Herat is an Associate
Professor in Waste Management
and Circular Economy at Griffith
University, Brisbane, Australia.
He is the Program Director of
the Master of Environmental
Engineering and Pollution
Control. He is a member of the
Expert Subsidiary Group of
Regional 3R and Circular Economy
Forum of Asia and Pacific,
managed by the United Nations
Centre for Regional Development.
A/Prof Herat has over 20 years'
experience in waste management,
particularly on issues and
challenges related to developing
economies. He is an expert on
training programs in municipal
solid waste management,
hazardous waste management and
cleaner production and
eco-efficiency, and circular
economy and has extensive
experience in training waste
management professionals within
Australia and around the world.
He has conducted training and
capacity building programs in
Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore,
India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan,
Thailand, and Pacific Islands
(Fiji). His latest training
programs involve tackling marine
pollution issues through plastic
waste management and waste to
energy for Indonesia's
government officials. He is also
actively engaged in the revision
of environmental regulations in
Vietnam.
A/Prof Herat has an active
research interest in solid and
hazardous waste management,
especially in developing
countries. He is an adviser to
the United Nations on issues
related to managing electronic
waste (E-waste) in developing
countries with a particular
focus on policy development and
regulatory aspects. He is also
researching issues associated
with implementing 3R (Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle) activities in
developing countries primarily
related to E-waste and plastic
waste regarding policy aspects
such as Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR). He is also
a contributor to the United
Nations publication GEO 6.
Roland
Kallenborn
Norwegian University of Life
Sciences, Norway
UArctic Chair in
Arctic
Environmental Pollution Research
Biography:
Professor Roland Kallenborn is a
senior scientist and university
teacher in the field of organic
analytical chemistry,
environmental chemistry and
environmental risk assessment.
Kallenborn is also affiliated as
adjunct professorship in Arctic
Technology to the University
Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) and as
external supervisor for graduate
and post graduate students, to
the Harbin Institute of
Technology (HIT, China).
– The steadily increasing number
of priority pollutants in the
Arctic requires new analytical
methods and detection
strategies. The UArctic network
will help to coordinate and
harmonize current international
efforts to investigate today’s
pollutant profiles in the
Arctic, says Kallenborn.
As UArctic chair for
Environmental pollution
research, Kallenborn will focus
on developing circum-Arctic
academic networks for graduate
and post -graduate education of
future experts in Arctic
environmental chemistry. His
scientific focus will be on fata
and distribution profiling of
organic Arctic pollutants
including Chemicals of Emerging
Arctic Concern (CEACs).
Yu Hong
Beijing Forestry University,
China
Biography: Hong Yu, Professor, obtained her bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2003, and doctorate from Tsinghua University in 2008. She was a visiting scholar with the CSC fund to conduct academic research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2016). Her main research directions include microalgae-based wastewater treatment into resources and carbon emission reduction, environmental functional materials, environmental risk substance toxicity assessment. She has presided over several national-level and provincial S&T projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Science and Technology Star Program. So far, more than 80 academic papers have been published, including 52 SCI papers, and obtained 14 national invention patents. She successively undertakes the Youth Working Committee of Algae Branch of the China Algae Industry Association, the Water Treatment and Reuse Committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and some academic journals’ reviewers, etc. She has won the Beijing Science and Technology Nova Star, the China Environmental Science Society Youth S&T Award, the Water Treatment and Reuse Annual National Excellent Journal Paper Award, the leader 5000 The top paper awards of China's fine S&T journals, outstanding doctoral thesis of Tsinghua University, etc.