Dr. Jeonghwan Kim is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at INHA University and Principal Investigator in Sustainable Environmental Membrane Technology Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005. Before joining INHA University in 2008, he worked as Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. His main research areas focus on resource recovery and water quality control by developing membrane technology and hybrid membrane-based processes. Particularly, he has been studying extensively for combining membrane technology with anaerobic bioreactors to achieve sustainable wastewater management and resource recovery. He has been leading fundamental studies and practical applications with anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactors (AFMBR) to recover bioenergy from municipal wastewater and other wastewaters. Especially, his research has been focused on biocarriers and membrane materials to enhance biological performances of AFMBR. To solve a major hurdle in membrane operation, he also has been elucidating fundamental mechanisms associated with membrane fouling experimentally and mathematically in various AnMBR systems. Recently, he has been working to develop a novel anaerobic electrochemical fluidized membrane bioreactor (AFEMBR) for enhancing methane production kinetics and antifouling efficiency electrochemically. He has been serving as Editorial Board Members in Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and Scientific Report. He won several prestigious awards such as Japan Society Water Environment-IDEA Award, Doosan Youngan Academy Award and Merit Award from Korea Society of Environmental Engineers. He has published 122 peer-reviewed journal articles with total citations >11,000, H-Index of 48 and 6 book chapters

Prof. Vincenzo Naddeo (納文 森) is the Director of the Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED) at the University of Salerno (Italy), where he leads research and academic activities in the frontier fields of Environmental Engineering. Prof. Naddeo also serves as an affiliate professor at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) and Tamkang University (Taipei, Taiwan).

Prof. Naddeo is the former CEO and co-founder of Sponge s.r.l., a University spin-off dedicated to environmental technology, and founder and general Chair of both the WaterEnergyNEXUS conference series and the UrbanWaterSECURITY Academy.

Prof. Naddeo holds 9 patents and has authored over 350 scientific publications (h-index 63 in Google Scholar), and he serves as an Editor for indexed journals published by Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. More info at: www.vincenzonaddeo.it

Professor Ho Kyong Shon holds the position of Director at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Nutrients in a Circular Economy (ARC NiCE Hub). Concurrently, he serves as the Head of Discipline for Environmental and Water Engineering and assumes the role of Deputy Director and Founding Member of the Center for Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment (CTWW) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). His extensive research journey, initiated in 2000, encompasses a diverse array of interests such as circular economy, membrane technologies, water treatment processes for water reuse and desalination, resource recovery, environmental nanomaterials, physico-chemical processes, and environmental applications.

Professor Shon is actively engaged beyond the university, contributing as an ARC College of Experts Member and holding the esteemed position of Editor-in-Chief of the Desalination journal and Executive Editor of the Desalination and Water Treatment journal. His scholarly impact is underscored by his co-authorship of one book, 31 book chapters, and over 550 refereed journal articles, along with three patents. This body of work has garnered significant recognition, accumulating over 32,550 citations and resulting in an impressive H-index of 91.

Dr. Chia-Hung Hou is a professor at National Taiwan University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from National Taiwan University and his PhD from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary research focuses on advanced carbon nanomaterials, electrochemical and membrane separation, desalination, water reclamation, and resource recovery. His research group is leading the development of pilot-scale studies for sustainable water-energy technologies, such as membrane capacitive deionization and membrane aerated biofilm reactor. Additionally, he has served in various international roles, including as a committee member for the international working group on CDI & Electrosorption, a management committee member for the International Water Association (IWA) Membrane Technology Specialist Group, and an editorial board member for Desalination and an editor for the Journal of Electrochemical Chemical Engineering and Desalination & Water Treatment. His outstanding research contributions have earned him several accolades, including the Academic Research Award from Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council.

Dr. Giorgio Mannina is Full Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Engineering Department of Palermo University – Italy. He is the Director of the Water Resource Recovery Facility at Palermo University, including the Water & Resource Recovery Lab. His research interest and focus are on advanced wastewater treatments (MBR, MBBR, hybrid processes, IFAS, Granular systems, etc..), BNR processes, environmental water quality mathematical modelling, etc. He is the author of more than 400 papers, of which >180 are on ISI Journals, and the Editor of around 12 books with more than 40 authored chapters. He has been invited to give several plenary/keynotes and invited talks, seminars, and lectures at international conferences as well as at universities/research institutions. Prof. Mannina has been visiting Professor/Researcher at several Universities: Columbia University, New York (USA), Tongji University (Shanghai, Cina), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (Belgium), Laval University (Canada), The University of Queensland, Australia, Gdansk University (Poland). Prof Mannina is the recipient of several international awards, including the prestigious prize: Biennial Medal Award 2022 from the International Environmental and Software Society in recognition of his “Exceptional Research Contributions”.
Prof. Mannina is Associate/Guest Editor of multiple ISI Journals: Journal of Bioresource Technology, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hydrology etc. He is Chair of the International Water Association (IWA) Task Group on Membrane Bioreactor modelling & control and Member of the IWA Specialist Group "Membrane Technology". Prof. Mannina is a Fulbright Research Fellow at Columbia University (New York, USA)- 2018. He is/has been Chair of International Conferences, seminars and Advanced courses supported by the International Water Association - IWA. He is IWA Fellow.

Pierre Le-Clech is an Associate Professor at the prestigious UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales. Since 1999, he has specialized in membrane processes for water and wastewater applications, with a particular focus on membrane bioreactors (MBRs). Pierre has significantly contributed to our current understanding of reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration membrane ageing, and its impact on water quality. His research has expanded to address health risks associated with pathogens, particularly Legionella, in water and wastewater treatment, through ongoing collaboration with Water Corporation in Western Australia.
Pierre was instrumental in developing the Australian validation guidelines for MBR systems used in water recycling and is currently leading projects aimed at refining guidelines for MBR and ultrafiltration systems.
Beyond his research, Pierre serves as an Associate Editor for Desalination and Water Treatment and is the inaugural Deputy Head of School-Engagement at the School of Chemical Engineering. In this role, he fosters connections with stakeholders, including future students, alumni, and industry partners.

Dr. Tae-Hyun Bae is an Associate Professor at the KAIST Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department (joined in May 2019). Tae-Hyun Bae received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Biological Resources and Materials Engineering of Seoul National University. Then, he moved to the USA and earned his second Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. Following a postdoctoral experience at the University of California, Berkeley, he had worked at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2013 to 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Bae has extensive research experience in nanoporous materials and membrane technology used in various chemical and environmental engineering processes. He has published more than 130 research papers in reputable journals including Chem. Rev., Energy Environ. Sci., Sci. Adv., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. and Adv. Mater. and his papers have been cited more than 18000 times (Google Scholar; >100 times/paper). He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Membrane Science, a leading journal in the field of membrane science and technology.

Dr. Jongho Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He earned his PhD from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014). Before he came to UBC, Dr. Lee was a postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. He received his B.S (2003) and M.S (2007) from the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea. He has been elected and serving as an early-career editorial board member in Journal of Membrane Science, as a sole Canadian member. Primarily using membrane-based technologies, Dr. Lee is solving a wide range of problems in the water and energy nexus, including desalination, resource harvesting from wastewater, energy conversion from wasteheat, and biomimicking water treatment processes.

Dr. Zhiwei Wang is a Professor and Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University, China. His research focuses on membrane-based technologies for desalination, water and wastewater treatment, and energy and resource recovery. He has authored three books and published over 300 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Science Advances, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, and others. His work has been cited more than 20,000 times, and he holds an H-index of 86. Dr. Wang has been awarded over 50 invention patents. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Gold Prize at the 49th Geneva International Invention Exhibition, the First Prize of the 2024 Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the 2023 Huaxia Construction Science and Technology Award, and the First-Class Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017. In 2019, he received the National Distinguished Young Scholar Fund of China. Dr. Wang currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Energy & Environmental Sustainability, Associate Editor of Water Research, Secretary of the Management Committee of the IWA Specialist Group on Membrane Technology, and was elected a Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA) in 2022.

Dr. Katsuki Kimura is currently a Full Professor at Division of Environmental Engineering of Hokkaido University. He received his doctoral degree from Hokkaido University in 2000, and then did his post-doc at University of Colorado at Boulder. His research areas include characterization of foulants in membrane processes, modification of MBR technology, development of new membrane cleaning methods and resource recovery from wastewater using membrane technology. He has been serving as a chairman of the IWA Particle Separation Specialist Group, a member of Management Committee of the IWA Specialist Group on Membrane Technology and Treatment of Industrial Waters, and an associated editor of Water Research. He has been an active member of IWA, which promoted him to be an IWA Fellow in 2018.