Prof. Dr. Eng. Samir AFIFI

Managing demolition and construction wastes created from natural disasters or man-made conflicts

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Prof. Dr. Eng. Samir Afifi is professor at the Environmental Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering, and International Project Coordinator at Sakarya University, Türkiye.

He is graduated from Kassel University, Germany (1990) and was director of Environmental and Rural Research Center from 1992 to 2002. Acting as professor in Environmental and Earth Science Department, Faculty of Science/ Engineering Faculty - IUG. Chairperson of National Steering Committee of Small Grand Program (SGP) of Global Environmental Facility (GEF) in Palestinian Authority Territories, hosted by UNDP and member of Regional Steering Committee of (SGP) of Global Environmental Facility (GEF) – Reference for Global Worming and Climate Change 1998 to 2010.Field of research concentrate on Integrated Resources management and specialized in Solid Waste / Wastewater treatment and reuse, Groundwater/Hydrogeology and Knowledge Management

Has experience in fundraising, projects managing and coordination (EU programs, UNDP FCM, Word Bank…) in the field of water, wastewater, solid waste and green Agriculture in addition to consultation and evaluation of research/ academic programs and a member of many academic and professional institutions. Has participated in many International and local conferences and workshops in the fields of water, wastewater and other environmental issues and has many scientific and technical papers published.

Has professional expert in Integrated Water Resources and Solid Waste Management with extensive experience in Capacity Building activities through planning and participation in short and long programs. During the last years increased has intensive experience with the development of professional networks (Knowledge networks and Communities of Practice) to activate and stimulate applied research and other collaborative work, like joint EU cooperation network project, special emphasis is on the Mediterranean and EU counters.

Prof. Mohammed EL GANAOUI

Toward Sustainable buildings by combining renewable energy mix and smart envelope

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Prof. Mohamed El-GANAOUI is a full professor at the University of Lorraine and researcher in the Jacques Villermaux Federation for mechanics, energy and processes (FR 28 63/LERMAB). He is heading the research in energy in the Henri Poincaré Institute of Technology in Longwy. Previously, he was an associate professor in the University of Limoges and the SPCTS UMR 6638 CNRS laboratory, where he was responsible for the Physics Department (2004-2010) and the international cooperation service (2006-2010) in the Faculty of science and technology. His research aims to understand heat and mass transfers through modeling and numerical simulation, with a specific activity in the field of the solid -liquid-vapor phase change. Applications concern materials and energy and benefit to energy systems, including phenomena for sustainable building (Eco-materials). He teaches the mechanics of continuous media, heat transfers, and numerical methods. He was advisor of more than 40 PhD Thesis with strong international interaction, noticeably in the Euro-Mediterranean context. He participated/managed the PAI Australia, Canada, L’Europe, le Maghreb (Tassili, Utique, Volubilis, ..), China (Xugangqi). El Ganaoui has participated in the Edition of more than 15 special issues and conference proceedings, co-authored over than 250 publications in journals (rank A) and participated in more than 120 international conferences, including ten he co-organized. He is member of many international scientific societies in mechanics and heat transfers.

Prof. Léo COURTY

Ignition and combustion of energetic materials and metal dust

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Prof. Léo COURTY is a full professor at University of Orléans, in France, working in Bourges University Institute of Technology and PRISME Laboratory.
He works for more than 15 years on heterogeneous combustion, both on liquids and solids and for various applications going from wild land fires to energetic materials combustion.
His PhD thesis was on the thermochemical hypothesis to explain accelerating forest fires. It was defended in 2012 in École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique (ENSMA).
His Master thesis (graduated in 2009 in Risk Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges) and first post-doctoral years were on confined fires studies.
His last years studies focus on ignition and combustion of energetic materials, mainly gun propellants and pyrotechnic compositions.

Prof. Dr. Erdem CÜCE

Low-cost, eco-friendly insulation plasters towards low-zero carbon buildings: An experimental and numerical research

Prof. Aïda BEN HASSEN TRABELSI

Waste-to-energy and waste-to-materials: sustainable path for circular economy implementation in Tunisia

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Prof. Aïda BEN HASSEN TRABELSI is Doctor Engineer in Bio-Geochemistry. She got her Engineering degree from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (Tunisia) in 2001, her Master Degree in 2003 and her PhD in 2007 from Orleans University (France). Since October 2009, she is working as a researcher at the Research and  Technology Centre of Energy (Technopark of Borj-Cédria, Tunisia). She is conducting research activities in many branches of the environmental sciences and mainly on Environmental management, Waste Management, Waste-to-Energy, Biofuels, Biochar, Sustainable Development, Climate change, Circular Economy, etc.