Scientific Committee WRF 2011
Prof. Ludwig has been elected to act as chair of the Scientific Committee of the World Resources Forum.
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The members of the Scientific Committee:
Richard V. Anthony began his career in Public Administration in 1971 as a manager of the California State University Long Beach Recycling Center and received a MS in Public Administration in 1974. Mr. Anthony has worked his entire career in environmental program management positions Richard Anthony is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the California Resource Recovery Association, the Grassroots Recycling Network, the Zero Waste International Alliance and Zero Waste San Diego. |
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Renato Bonora (D. Eng. PhD) is Professor of “Contaminated Site Remediation” at the University of Padua. He is chairman of the Unifront, spin-off of the University of Padua (Italy), a leading company in processes and plants for the disposal of stockpiled conventional and special ammunition and energetic materials. For many years he worked as consultant for an international company in the recovery and recycling of precious and strategic metals. He has patents and publications spanning in demilitarization processes and material and energy recovery. |
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Martin Charter is the Director of The Centre for Sustainable Design (www.cfsd.org.uk) at University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and a former Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at UCA before joining full-time. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including Save & Prosper Group, Reed International, Creative Marketing Group and Kiveton Park (Holdings) Ltd. Martin was the launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing, Marketing Director at the Earth Centre, former co-ordinator of one the UK's first green business clubs, more recently he ran a regional network on green electronics (www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba) and currently he directs a network focused on eco-innovation (www.cfsd.org.uk/eco-i-net). |
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Enrico Drioli's research activities focus on membrane science and engineering. Since 1981 he is Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Calabria and since 2010 WCU (World Class University) Distinguish Visiting Professor, Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul Korea. As of 2011 he is Founding Director of the Institute on Membrane Technology. He is involved in many International Societies, Scientific Committees, Editorial Boards, and International Advisory Boards. He is currently Chairman of the Section on “Membrane Engineering” of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is author of more than 600 scientific papers, 18 patents and Editor of 18 books in the field of Membrane Science and Technology. |
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Jess W. Everett is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Rowan University, US. Dr. Everett is a registered Professional Civil Engineer and is actively involved in environmental research and education, with interests that include solid waste management, site remediation, clean energy, sustainability, and water supply in developing countries. Dr. Everett received B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University in 1984, 1986, and 1991, respectively. |
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Hans de Groot, born 1946, has been working for 42 years with TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, where he held several positions in different research divisions. He is retired as of March 1, 2010. He is an internationally well-known expert in the field of environmental aspects and recycling of plastics and other waste. He has a broad experience in the field of project co-ordination and setting up research programmes in the field of recycling of plastic and other waste, inventories of waste streams, environmental impact of plastics, textiles and additives, as well as policy consultancy. He is specifically dealing with larger projects requiring a multidisciplinary expertise, often in co-operation with (inter)national partners on behalf of (inter)national companies, European Associations and the European Commission. He is also co-organiser of and moderator at international conferences like R’95, R’97, R’99, R’02, R’05, R’07 and WRF 2009 as well as the ENERO Conference on Environmental Sustainability. |
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Dr. Christian Hagelüken heads the department for business development & market research in Umicore’s Precious Metals Refining business unit. Before his present occupation he held various management positions in the precious metals department of Degussa AG. Christian has over 20 years experience in (precious) metals recycling and sustainable metals management and has made numerous contributions to professional books, journals and conferences. He represents Umicore in related associations, work groups and university co-operations, among others the UNEP-OECD Resource Panel and the EU Raw Materials Initiative. |
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Professor Kiichiro HAYASHI is the professor of the EcoTopia Science Institute of Nagoya University in Japan. He also works for Civil Engineering department of Graduate School of Engineering in Nagoya University. |
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Stefanie Hellweg is full professor for ecological systems design at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of ETH Zurich (Switzerland). After completing her Ph.D. on the environmental assessment of thermal waste treatment processes she worked as a post-doc and senior scientist at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH Zurich. Between 2004 and 2005 she was a visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2006 she holds the Chair for Ecological Systems Design at ETH Zurich. Her research group currently consists of 12 PhD students and PostDoc assistants. Her main research interests are the environmental assessment of products and processes, e.g. food products, chemicals and waste treatment technologies. Together with her collaborators, she is developing methods for Life Cycle Assessment, e.g. for regionalized inventory and impact assessment. |
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PD Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann holds a doctor degree in mechanical engineering / production engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Technische Universität Braunschweig and is Privatdozent (assoc. Professor) at Technische Universität Braunschweig. Since August 2009 he is scientific director and member of the executive board of the Niedersächsisches Forschungszentrum Fahrzeugtechnik (Automotive Research Center Niedersachsen), Germany. He is member of the board of the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, and head of the research group “Product- and Life-Cycle Management”. Together with Prof. Sami Kara from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, he is leading the Joint Research Group „Sustainable Production and Life Cycle Management“. |
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Friedrich Hinterberger, born in 1959, is the founding President of SERI. Studies of national economics at the Johannes-Keppler University Linz. 1985-1991 scientific member at the Justus-Liebig University Gießen. Since 1985 he has been teaching at universities both in Austria and abroad. 1993-2000 leader of the working group Ecological Economics and Ecological Economical Policy at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Since 1999 founding president of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute. Board member of the Austrian Chapter of the Club of Rome. Work focus: Ecological Economics, Scenarios for sustainable economies and societies, Quality of Life Research. |
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Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty is professor of Informatics at the University of Zurich (UZH) and Head of the Informatics and Sustainability Research Group which is shared between UZH and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include the assessment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with regard to sustainability, ICT applications in the contexts of energy and the environment, as well as basic methods and principles that lead to sustainable solutions. |
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Dr. Hideaki Itoh is Emeritus Professor of Nagoya University, and Chairman and CTO of Raremetal Recovery Institute, Inc., Japan. In 1999-2007, he was a full professor of the ResCWE and a Vice Director of the EcoTopia Science Institute (ESI) of Nagoya University. He is an author of about 270 papers relating to new materials processing and waste treatment technology. |
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Dr. Florian Kongoli (BSc, MSc (Canada), PhD (Japan)) is CEO of FLOGEN, a leader in sustainable technologies incorporated in USA and Canada. He has about 20 years of experience in literally all continents where he has worked with about 50 well-known chemical and metallurgical companies and universities. Dr. Kongoli has published/edited 13 books and about 70 scientific articles in the last 5 years and has delivered around the world about 130 plenary, keynote and invited presentations as well as articles, technical reports and research presentations. He has served in leadership positions in about 20 national and international organizations committees, has been chairman of about 35 technical sessions and member of Organizing or Scientific Committees of about 40 Professional International conferences. He is Editorial Board member of 6 well known professional journals around the world. He has organized several major successful International Symposiums in the last years such as the Sohn International Symposium, Yazawa International Symposium, and is currently organizing Fray International Symposium in Cancun, Mexico Nov 27-Dec 1, 2011. |
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Luciano Morselli is full Professor on Environmental Chemistry at |
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Daniel B. Müller is a professor in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He received a M.Sc. in rural engineering and a Ph.D. in technical sciences from ETH Zurich. Prior to his appointment at NTNU, he was a post-doc at TU Delft and an associate research scientist at Yale University. He is a lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), WG III (Mitigation). He is chair of the section “Material Flow Analysis – ConAccount” of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE). He is a member of the steering committee of the Swiss National Research Programme 65 “New Urban Quality”. He is a member of the advisory board of the journal ISIJ International. |
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Jinghai Li, vice president of Chinese president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, chemical engineer engaged in research on multi-scale methodology, computational sciences and clean coal technology. |
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Dr. Martin Patel is assistant professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands where he is with the Department of Science, Technology and Society /Copernicus Institute. Before joining Utrecht University in 2001, Martin was with the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe, Germany. At Utrecht University, Martin is co-ordinating the research cluster “Energy and Materials Demand and Efficiency”. The cluster deals with the techno-economic and the environmental assessment of industrial energy efficiency measures and of bio-based plastics/chemicals. |
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Dr. Tim Prior is a social scientist and Research Principal with the Institute for Sustainable |
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Helmut Rechberger is a professor of resource management at Vienna University of Technology. His research interests are the further development of evaluation methods and concepts in waste and resource management, the introduction of mathematical-statistical tools into MFA, and the identification and characterization of the urban stocks and flows. |
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Armin Reller is Professor of the Chair of Resource Strategy at the University of Augsburg; Chairman of the Environmental Science Center (ESC) and member of the board of the AMU (Application Center for Materials and Science) at the University of Augsburg and Professor of Solid State Chemistry, Institute of Physics, at the University of Augsburg |
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Markus A. Reuter (D.Eng., Dr. habil. (Aachen), PhD) is a Director - Technology and Product Management in Outotec (www.outotec.com), a globally leading technology provider. He has worked for Mintek and Anglo American Corporation in South Africa. He has worked with Volkswagen and other OEMs in Europe, the European metallurgical and recycling industries during his tenure as Professor (now Emeritus) at Delft University (Netherlands) since 1996. He was Professor and now Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University (Australia) since 2005. He has over 370 publications covering his work on recycling, design for recycling, simulation, process control and extractive metallurgy; and written a book on recycling, metallurgy and design for “sustainability”, “Metrics of Material and Metal Ecology”. He will be lead author of a UNEP report on recycling technology and systems due 2012. |
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Mathias Schluep is senior scientist at the Technology and Society Lab at Empa in Switzerland, a research institution belonging to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) domain. He is leading Empa's e-waste related research and is responsible for several cooperation projects with developing countries in e-waste management in Africa and Asia. His special focus is in Africa, where he was implementing various e-waste projects for the Swiss States Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO), Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, UNIDO, UNEP, the Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the European Union. |
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Dr. Simon studied chemistry in Frankfurt/Main (diploma 1985) and Mainz (Ph.D. 1989) and gained a master's degree in business engineering (AKAD Zurich, 1997). He joined BAM as Head of Division in 1998 after working for eight year in an industrial research centre in Switzerland. Scientific activities: Research on thermal waste treatment, groundwater remediation, all aspects of resource productivity. |
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Walther Stahel is Alumni of ETH Zurich, where he received his diploma in architecture in 1971. He is founder-director of the Product-Life Institute, Geneva, since 1983; Vice-Secretary General and director of risk management research, since 1986, of The Geneva Association, the leading international insurance ‘think tank’ researching strategic insurance and risk management issues www.genevaassociation.org. In addition he is visiting professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, since 2003 and guest lecturer at Tohoku University, Japan, since 2005. |
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William Worrell is a professional engineer with 33 years of experience in solid and hazardous waste management. He has been the Manager of the San Luis Obispo County, California USA Integrated Waste Management Authority since 1995. Prior to San Luis Obispo he was responsible for solid and hazardous waste programs in San Diego and Miami. Mr. Worrell received a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree in Engineering from Duke University. He is a coauthor of the college textbook entitled "Solid Waste Engineering" and has authored and/or presented 47 professional papers. |
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Ron Zevenhoven is professor at Åbo Akademi University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Thermal and Flow Engineering Laboratory, in Turku Finland, chair of Engineering Thermodynamics and Modelling, since 2005. He holds an MSc (Chem Eng) and PhD (Eng) from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; he is in Finland since 1993. Current fields of research are mainly CO2 capture and storage using mineral carbonation, energy recovery and passive cooling based on thermal radiation, and multi- phase flow dynamics. Zevenhoven was one of the authors of the 2005 IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, and of the UNEP study of the Mercury Programme published in 2009. He so far supervised ~ 30 MSc thesis works and ~ 10 post-graduate thesis works, and currently supervises eight PhD thesis candidates, some as “double degree” or other cooperation with institutes in Portugal, Singapore and Canada. He has (co-)authored a book on gas clean-up, eight book chapters, ~125 peer reviewed papers and (co-)holds a handful of patents/patent applications. |
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