Maxime Pontié, born on March 14, 1968, in Montauban, France, is professor and works at the University of Angers since 2004. He received a DSc degree under professors Lemordant and Rumeau in 1996 from the University Francois Rabelais in Tours, France. After a postdoctoral research study with professor R.W. Bowen, Swansea University of Wales, UK, with a research topic dedicated to mass transfer mechanism in nanofiltration. His current research interests is water desalination membrane processes with a way to intensified the processes in a sustainable development approach. He has over 100 publications that have been cited over 100 times, and his publication H-index is 35 and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. He was a board member of the European Desalination Society for 2012 to 2017.

Water desalination membrane processes

P. Millet is an electrochemical engineer, Professor of physical-chemistry at the University of Paris-Sud. He graduated in 1986 from the French “Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrochimie et d’Electrométallurgie de Grenoble” (ENSEEG) at the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG). He completed his PhD thesis on water electrolysis in 1989, at the French “Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble” (CEA-CENG). He is currently heading the “Laboratory of Research and Innovation in Electrochemistry for Energy applications” (http://www.icmmo.u-psud.fr/Labos/ERIEE/index_eng.php), at the French “Institute of Molecular Chemistry and Material Science” (Paris-Sud university). His research activities focus on water electrolysis, water photo-dissociation, carbon dioxide electro- and photo-reduction, hydrogen storage in hydride-forming materials, hydrogen compression and hydrogen permeation across metallic membranes. He is the author of more than 150 research papers and book chapters and has presented over 150 oral communications at national and international conferences.

Water electrolysis, Water photo-dissociation, Carbon dioxide electro- and photo-reduction.

Gassan Hodaifa is a Food Engineer (Albaath University, Syria), Chemical Engineer (Granada University, Spain) and Dr. by Jaén University (Spain) in the Doctoral Program: Biotechnology and Agricultural Engineering. His research began in the year 1997 with a Doctoral Scholarship to perform in Spain, has joined to the research group “Bioprocesses TEP-138” (Government of Andalusia) and he work in the research lines of Biotechnology of Microalgae, Industrial and Urban Wastewater Treatment, Chemical Oxidation, Membrane Technology, Adsorption processes, Pesticides Removal, Biotechnology of Enzymes and Nematode biomass production. Participated in over 21 research projects (European, National, regional, and with companies), with which it has signed several contracts for research. As a result of this research activities has been published 40 articles in journals all included in JCR, 1 patent, 3 books, 24 book chapters, and has participated in 80 Congresses and Conferences. It has been repeatedly Associate Professor (University of Jaén), and Assistant Professor at the University of Jaén (05/06) and the Complutense University of Madrid (06/09). Now he works in Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain) in the Chemical Engineering Area as Full Associate Professor.

Industrial and Urban Wastewater Treatment, Chemical Oxidation, Membrane Technology, Adsorption processes, Pesticides Removal, Biotechnology of Enzymes and Nematode biomass production

Vandré Barbosa Brião is food engineering and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in membrane separation processes. As engineer, he was operator of a RO system for water desalination in a dairy industry. Professor at University of Passo Fundo since 2000, Mr. Brião has been researched MF/UF/NF/RO in food and water/wastewater applications. The water reuse has been the goal seeked in him work and the researches has been focused in post-treatment of water/wastewater with hybrid systems by coagulation-electrocoagulation-adsorption coupled with membrane separation.

MF/UF/NF/RO in food and water/wastewater applications

Christoph Brepols is the Project Manager for Planning of Municipal Wastewater Facilities and Deputy Head of the Wastewater Planning Department at Erftverband. He has been responsible for the completion of the company’s three full scale membrane bioreactors. Currently he is In-charge of the company’s Masterplan Wastewater 2025. He holds a Dipl-Ing in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Applied Science Aachen, Germany. He has joined the Erftverband in 1994. Since then he has been involved in several international R&D projects concerning MBR Technology and is Author and Co-author of several books and articles on MBR.

Wastewater Treatment

Prof Yaroshchuk Andriy Born on 7 March 1959 in Kiev, Ukraine. Candidate of Sciences (equivalent to PhD) in Colloid Chemistry, A.V. Dumanskiy Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 1983. Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Institute of Physical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1992. ICREA Research Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, since 2007. Invited researcher/professor at Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria; École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (France); École Supérieure Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon (France); Universität Duisburg - Essen (Germany); Paul-Scherrer-Institute (Switzerland), etc. Member of Editorial Board of Desalination and Water Treatment (Taylor & Francis UK). Published 122 papers on theoretical and experimental studies of membranes, colloids, porous media and micro-/nano-fluidic systems.

Membrane, Nanofiltration, Nanofluidics, Electrokinetics, Electrochemistry and etc.