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He has about 300 publications/communications, which include 62 patents, 10 books, 170 original and review papers, etc. He has won two Second Prizes of State Science and Technology Award in 2006 and 2012. He has been conferred Honorary Doctorate degree from Jiangnan University, China.

He has been much involved in the analysis of the relationships, which exist between the physiological responses of microorganisms and bioreactors environment. He has a strong experience in mathematical modeling and simulation of biological kinetics, of thermodynamic equilibrium properties of aqueous solutions and of reactor characteristics.

He has a track record experience in the mathematical modeling and knowledge models for various processes and complex systems. He is involved in the development artificial ecosystems, particularly in the Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, (MELiSSA) ecosystem, which is the life support system developed by European Spatial Agency (ESA) for long duration space missions. His main domain of expertise covers all the chemical engineering aspects of bioreactor design, modeling, scale-up and control and of downstream processes. His interests have been extended to biofuels production processes and assessment of environmental impact of biological processes. The results of these research works have been published in 150 papers. He has supervised 30 PhD students and 70 MSc lab works.

She is currently the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment (HIT) of Ministry of National Science & Technology. From 2009, she began to be Visiting Professor in Penn State University of USA. She was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist in China in 2011 and was one of top 100 Excellent Young Teachers in Universities in China in 2003. In the past 10 years, she has carried out 20 scientific projects as a principal investigator and was awarded 9 scientific rewards, including the national invention prize. Her research interests include Bio-energy/Resources Recovery from Waste Streams, Environmental Electrochemistry, Microbial Electrochemistry System, Environmental Risk Assessment and Removal Technology for Emergent Toxic Substances in Urban Water System.

She has authored 1 book, 17 book chapters, 260 journals with overall citation of 6777 (h-index = 39, Google Scholar on 20 Mar. 2018). She is currently serving as Editor of Bioresource Technology Report (Elsevier), Associate Editors of Journal of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste (ASCE), Editor for Journal of Water Sustainability (UTS and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology), and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Chemistry (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA). She has also been Guest Editor for Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), Membrane Water Treatment (Techno-Press, Korea), etc.

In 2007, he obtained a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University based on the thesis “CO2 sequestration by mineral carbonation" in a collaboration with the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and Delft University of Technology, both in The Netherlands. Currently, he works at Royal COSUN R&D on the development of biorefinery processes using residual biomass streams and crops for both food and non-food applications. He is co-inventor of 6 patent applications and (co)author of over 30 scientific publications.

She has also developed and applied novel spectroscopic techniques for lignocellulosic biomass characterization, specializing on Raman spectroscopy. Currently, she is leading and conducting several research projects on biomass fractionation and valorization.

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His research interest and focus is on: advanced wastewater treatments (MBR, MBBR, hybrid processes, IFAS, Granular systems etc..), BNR processes, mathematical modelling, water quality issues related to integrated urban drainage systems. He is authors of more than 250 papers of which >90 on ISI Journals. He is Editor of three books on advanced wastewater treatment, mathematical modelling and frontiers in urban drainage. He is Editor/Associate Editors/Host Editors of multiple ISI Journals: Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Environmental Management, Water Science and Technology, Water Supply, Environmental Engineering etc. He is Chair of the IWA Task Group on Membrane Bioreactor modelling and control. Currently, prof. Mannina is Fulbright research Fellow at Columbia University. He is/has been Chair of International Conferences, International seminars and Advanced course supported by IWA.

He has 1 book (published by Springer), 1 Patent, 76 peer-reviewed publications with >4380 citations (h-index 35) and 20 book chapters to his credit. He is a member of several scientific communities including ISMET, ISE, BES, BRSI, IFIBiop and AMI. He serves as Editorial board member for the Journals: ‘Bioresource Technology’, ‘Electronic Journal of Biotechnology’, ‘Biofuel Research Journal’, ‘Heliyon’ and ‘Frontiers in Environmental Science’. He served on the scientific committee for 5^th MFC conference (ISMET 5, Arizona, 2015) and EU-ISEMT 2016 (Rome). He also organized a symposium on “Electrochemistry, Photo-Electrochemistry and Bioelectrochemistry of Artificial Photosynthesis” at the annual meeting of International Society for Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2016, The Hague, Netherlands. He collaborates with researchers all over the globe and count over 109 co-authors spread across 30 institutions/universities. Currently, he is supervising one PhD student on microbial electro-synthesis and previously supervised 2 PhD student on microbial fuel cells. He was a promoter for two Marie Curie Post-docs on Microbial and Enzymatic Electro-synthesis on conversion of CO₂to value-added chemicals. He also contributes to scientific reviewing activities and reviews proposals for European Commission (Horizon 2020) and national funding programs of Spain, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Germany and India. He is also a member of the EPSRC expert college.

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He graduated as MSc in mechanical engineering in 1994 and worked for VITO - a Belgian research institute - from 1996 until 2017 as project manager on the topics of alternative transport fuels and drivetrains, biofuels, bioenergy and biobased economy.

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She has worked at CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her major research interest is in the areas of microbial and enzyme technologies, with current focus on biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. She has 33 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals and 19 book chapters along with several conference communications to her credit. She has edited a book ‘Waste to Wealth’ from Springer. She is the recipient of Elsevier Best Paper award in 2007, AU CBT Excellence award of BRSI in 2008 and IFIBiop Young Scientist award for the year 2013. She has been conferred Best Reviewer certificate from Bioresource Technology journal for three years. She is an Editor of ‘Bioresource Technology Reports’ an Elsevier journal. She has served as guest editor of Renewable Energy journal for a special issue. She is an editorial board member of Biofuel Research Journal and JEES.

Dr Singhania has more than 3900 citations and an h index of 24 (Google scholar). She has received prestigious ‘DBT- Energy Bioscience Overseas Fellowship’ from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India to work on Bioenergy in India.

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She is also Vice-coordinator of the Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Graduation Program at UFPR. Dr Vandenberghe obtained her PhD degree in Génie de Procédés Industriels - Biotechnologie from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (1999), France. Her areas of interest include Bioprocess Engineering & Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology, with focus on valorization of solid and liquid residues for biomolecules production and submerged and solid-state fermentation for the production of industrial enzymes, organic acids, biopolymers, etc. She has published 76 papers, 44 book chapters and 16 patents (h index 18, 1386 citations). She is Associate Editor of Bioresource Technology Reports (Elsevier).