R. J.
(Dick) Haynes
The University of Queensland,
Australia
Biography: Professor Haynes works in the areas of soil and environmental science. His present research interests are in the use and recycling of industrial, agricultural and municipal wastes and minimising their effects on the environment. He has extensive experience having worked as both an applied research scientist and as a university professor and has worked in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. He has published over 170 original research papers in international journals, over 20 review papers in international volumes as well as many conference and extension papers and contract reports. He has been an invited keynote speaker at 7 international conferences and has served on the editorial board of 4 international research journals. He has acted as principal supervisor and co-supervisor of PhD, MSc and honours students in both South Africa and Australia. Professor Haynes has carried out research in commercial horticultural, pastoral, arable and forestry production as well as in small-holder semi subsistence agriculture. He has also worked on bioremediation of soils contaminated with organic pollutants, rehabilitation of mined sites, application of organic and inorganic wastes to soils and the effects of heavy metal contaminants on soil processes. His research has been mainly in the areas of applied soil chemistry and soil microbiology/biology with links to soil physical properties and to pollution of air and water. He has specialised in working on applied problems and maintains strong links with industry. Major areas of research have included the role of grazing animals in the fertility of pastoral soils, N cycling and gaseous and leaching losses from arable and pastoral systems, soil quality and soil degradation under agricultural land use, effects of soil contaminants on soil processes, rehabilitation and remediation of contaminated, degraded and mined sites and use of wastes as soil amendments
Sunil Herat
Griffith University, Australia
Program Director of the
Master of Environmental
Engineering and Pollution
Control
Biography:
Sunil Herat is an Associate
Professor in Waste Management
and Circular Economy at Griffith
University, Brisbane, Australia.
He is the Program Director of
the Master of Environmental
Engineering and Pollution
Control. He is a member of the
Expert Subsidiary Group of
Regional 3R and Circular Economy
Forum of Asia and Pacific,
managed by the United Nations
Centre for Regional Development.
A/Prof Herat has over 20 years'
experience in waste management,
particularly on issues and
challenges related to developing
economies. He is an expert on
training programs in municipal
solid waste management,
hazardous waste management and
cleaner production and
eco-efficiency, and circular
economy and has extensive
experience in training waste
management professionals within
Australia and around the world.
He has conducted training and
capacity building programs in
Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore,
India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan,
Thailand, and Pacific Islands
(Fiji). His latest training
programs involve tackling marine
pollution issues through plastic
waste management and waste to
energy for Indonesia's
government officials. He is also
actively engaged in the revision
of environmental regulations in
Vietnam.
A/Prof Herat has an active
research interest in solid and
hazardous waste management,
especially in developing
countries. He is an adviser to
the United Nations on issues
related to managing electronic
waste (E-waste) in developing
countries with a particular
focus on policy development and
regulatory aspects. He is also
researching issues associated
with implementing 3R (Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle) activities in
developing countries primarily
related to E-waste and plastic
waste regarding policy aspects
such as Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR). He is also
a contributor to the United
Nations publication GEO 6.
Yu Hong
Beijing Forestry University, China
Biography: Hong Yu, Professor, obtained her bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2003, and doctorate from Tsinghua University in 2008. She was a visiting scholar with the CSC fund to conduct academic research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2016). Her main research directions include microalgae-based wastewater treatment into resources and carbon emission reduction, environmental functional materials, environmental risk substance toxicity assessment. She has presided over several national-level and provincial S&T projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Science and Technology Star Program. So far, more than 80 academic papers have been published, including 52 SCI papers, and obtained 14 national invention patents. She successively undertakes the Youth Working Committee of Algae Branch of the China Algae Industry Association, the Water Treatment and Reuse Committee of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and some academic journals’ reviewers, etc. She has won the Beijing Science and Technology Nova Star, the China Environmental Science Society Youth S&T Award, the Water Treatment and Reuse Annual National Excellent Journal Paper Award, the leader 5000 The top paper awards of China's fine S&T journals, outstanding doctoral thesis of Tsinghua University, etc.