Prof. Dr. Phang Siew Moi is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Ocean & Earth Sciences, University of Malaya. She had served as president of the Asian-Pacific Society of Applied Phycology, Asian-Pacific Phycological Association; member of the International Phycological Society Board of Directors; and Overseas Vice-President of the British Phycological Society.  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), and Fellow of the Marine Biological Association, UK. Her involvement in Biogeosciences research is focussed on the production of volatile halogenated compounds of marine biogenic origins, and their contribution to the global halocarbon budget.  Her achievements include 246 papers in international journals, patents and research awards like the Newton Prize 2017, British High Commission.  Prof. Phang is Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Phycology. Prof. Dr. Phang Siew Moi is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Ocean & Earth Sciences, University of Malaya. She had served as president of the Asian-Pacific Society of Applied Phycology, Asian-Pacific Phycological Association; member of the International Phycological Society Board of Directors; and Overseas Vice-President of the British Phycological Society.  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), and Fellow of the Marine Biological Association, UK. Her involvement in Biogeosciences research is focussed on the production of volatile halogenated compounds of marine biogenic origins, and their contribution to the global halocarbon budget.  Her achievements include 246 papers in international journals, patents and research awards like the Newton Prize 2017, British High Commission.  Prof. Phang is Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Phycology. 

Paul Alexandre studied geology at the Université de Lyon, France, before obtaining a PhD at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, in geochronology and thermochronology applied to tectonic evolution. Between 2000 and 2015, he worked at Queen’s University, Canada, teaching geochemistry and conducting research in geochronology, economic geology, and mineralogy. Since 2016, he is professor at Brandon University, Canada, teaching a variety of courses and conducting research in economic geology and mineralogy. Paul is an accomplished educator and researcher, with numerous peer-reviewed papers, conference presentations, and a textbook to his credit. He is guest editor and associate editor of several publications and a councilor of the Geological Association of Canada.

Dr. Muhittin GORMUS has MSc degree from the Selcuk University in 1986 and PhD degree from the Hull University supervised by Dr. Martin Brasier in United Kingdom in 1990. He worked in the Akdeniz and Suleyman Demirel Universities from 1991 to 2012, and has been working in the Ankara University since 2012 as a teaching staff-member and researcher. He has organised national and international symposiums, workshops, i.e. 4th EMMM, 15. and 16. PCG, and edited an electronic journal SDUGEO between 2009 and 2012 when he was the head of geological department in SDU.

Research interests: He is a general geologist, micropaleontologists, stratigrapher and specialist on late Cretaceous benthic foraminifera and microborings. He has research articles and presentations over one hundred and translated the Sedimantology book by Boggs into Turkish and edited some proceedings of national and international symposiums. He has carried out his studies in various localities of Turkey and Iraq.         

Director of Engineering Studies, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction - ICLR
Professor Emeritus, Facility for Intelligent Decision Support - FIDS , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Chairperson, Ad Hoc Committee, International Conference on Flood Managment - ICFM.

From the nomination for the Felowship of the Royal Society of Canada: "Slobodan P. Simonović is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on application of Systems Analysis to water and environmental management. He advanced the understanding of water and environmental systems, by providing decision-makers with tools to support their sustainable management. He provides unparalleled contributions to global and local management of water that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. His work has a significant impact on our understanding of system linkages between humans, and build and natural environments that lead to sustainable water resources management and resilience as a new development paradigm."

I am also carrying out consulting activities through my consulting company Slobodan P. SIMONOVIĆ, Consulting Ltd. and serving water resources engineering needs of Canada and the World since 1997. Drawing upon my broad experience in all aspects of water resources, including evaluation, engineering, and capacity building, Slobodan P. SIMONOVIĆ Consulting, Ltd. constructs teams of water experts to work side-by-side with clients on large, complex projects in developing innovative solutions to meet specific client needs. Company’s primary strength is in the application of systems approach to, and development of the decision support tools for, management of complex water and environmental systems.

Joan Garcia (1966) is Full Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Joan obtained his degree in Biology in 1990 at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in 1991 started to work as Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering at UPC. Joan presented his PhD on wastewater treatment engineering in 1996 at the UB, while at the same teaching at the Civil Engineering School of the UPC. He has been a postdoc research visitor at University of California at Berkeley (2001), and University of Ghent, Belgium (2005). For his contributions to water resources research and wastewater engineering Joan received in 2008 an award of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the Intensification of Research Activity. In 2018, Joan was awarded with a Fulbright Comission mobility grant to develop a research stay in the Everglades Wetland Research Center, Florida Gulf Coast University, Naples, Florida, US. He has written over 250 articles in scientific as well as technical journals and proceedings. H = 46.
Joan carries out interdisciplinary research on the development and improvement of environmental technologies that mimicking nature and maximizing eco-efficiency allow treatment of wastewaters and other kinds of wastes. In particular research is currently conducted on systems for wastewater treatment and at the same time materials and energy recovery, like constructed wetlands and microalgae photobioreactors.

Abdelkabir Maqsoud completed his undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco in 1989. He earned his MSc. (1991) and PhD (1996) from university of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France studying the karst development in Paris Basin. During his postdoctoral training in Canada, he studied water movement under unsaturated conditions and was recruited in 2002, as Research Scientist. Currently, he is a professor in mining hydrogeology in the Research Institute - Mines and Environment of the Quebec University in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada. Gross' research areas include: mine site reclamation, water movement under unsaturated condition including hysteresis effects, hydrogeology and hydrochemistry of porous and karstic aquifers.