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The International Symposium for Green Solutions, ISGS 2022 aims to address the significant issue of sustainable development through the promotion of safe practices & effective technologies.

The ISGS 2022 will provide an opportunity to bring together scientists & professionals from government departments, industries, municipalities, private institutions, research & education institutions, being a forum for the exchange of the most recent ideas, techniques & experiences in all areas of Chemistry, Food Technology, Biotechnology and Environment Engineering. This is an opportunity to experience excellent presentations and thought provoking ideas at Ho Chi Minh City, one of the most dynamic cities in the world. Please feel free to forward this call for papers to your students and colleagues whom may be interested in participating. We look forward to seeing you here.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

1/ Prof. Dr.Bernard Tychon

 Liege university, Belgium

Bernard TYCHON, agronomist and PhD in Environmental Sciences is Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Management of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Liège. Since 2017, he is also director of the SPHERES Research Unit that includes 140 researchers.

For 22 years, he has been leading a research group in Agrometeorology. Topics studied in his group concern the relationship between agriculture and the physical environment. More specifically, the main activities are related to the needs and requirements of water, radiation and temperature of crops and their associated diseases, at different latitudes, to predict the levels of agricultural production.

In particular, his research group contributed to the establishment of crop yield forecasting tools, operational warning systems for cereal diseases and integrated water management tools in different countries. In addition to the international trainings he has conducted on these tools, B. Tychon recently created a spin-off in precision farming.

He is a lecturer in agrometeorology, data processing and modeling, remote sensing and geographic information systems and diffuse pollution. He has published more than 250 scientific papers (books, research reports, conference proceedings, national and international scientific journals).

For more information, see : https://orbi.uliege.be/simple-search?query=author_authority%3A%28p004277%29&lang_code=en

2/ Prof. Francesca De Filippis

 University of Naples Federico II

Francesca De Filippis is a microbial ecologist with a background in Food Science. Her research interests span from food microbiology to the inter-connections among diet-human microbiome-health. She is expert in the study of microbial ecology in complex environments through the application of metagenomics and metatranscriptomics and in bioinformatics and biostatistics applied to high-throughput sequencing data.

She got the PhD in Food Science at the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2015. Afterwards, she was Post-Doctoral researcher (2015-16), Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (2016-2022) and Associate Professor of Food Microbiology in the same institution. She also carried out research activity at APC Microbiome Institute of the University College of Cork (Ireland) and Argonne National Laboratory (USA). She participates as PI or team member into several National and European projects aiming at investigating microbial dynamics during food fermentation or spoilage. She is member of the Managing Board of the Task Force on Microbiome Studies of the University of Naples Federico II and member of the Board of Professors of the PhD School in Food Science. Her research activity is condensed in > 90 international publications since 2012, with an H-index of 40 and > 5,000 total citations (source: Scopus).

3/ Dr. Vo The Ky

Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City

Dr. Vo The Ky graduated from the Kyung Hee University of Korea in 2018,  a post-doc researcher at Kyung Hee University from 2018-2019. He works in the Chemical Engineering Department, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH), Vietnam.

The research interests of Dr. Ky cover the development of MOF-based materials and their applications for the environmental treatment, including the storage and separation of CO2, CO, N2, VOCs, and adsorption-photodegradation of organic pollutants. Another research field is bio-energy, which involves biomass conversion and catalytic upgrading of bio-oil. The research direction focuses on exploring pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass to biofuel and on developing catalysts for upgrading biofuel using continuous flow syntheses (spray pyrolysis, spray dying, microwave-assisted continuous flow).https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7IybQkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

4/  Prof. Takashi Yamashita, PhD  

Dean of School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

Prof. Takashi Yamashita, PhD graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1984. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo 1988-1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996-1997, Tokyo University of Science 2000-2013, Tokyo University of Technology 2014-. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.

Research interest of Prof. Yamashita covers the development of polymeric materials for sustainable society. One research topic is fundamental and application of polyimides including the study on the charge transfer of polyimides, development of transparent polyimide, electrodeposition materials, and polyimide/inorganic composites. Another topic is the development of stimuli-responsive materials such as photo-mechanical materials, photochemically manipulation of organic aggregates, and photosensitive materials. The third topic is development of novel techniques for material revolution from petroleum to naturally occurring resources such as lignin or bio cells.

5/ Venkatesh Meda Ph.D., P.Eng., MBA (CED), FCSBE

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Food and Bioprocess Engineering) University of Saskatchewan, CANADA (E-mail: venkatesh.meda@usask.ca)

 Dr. Venkatesh Meda, P.Eng., is currently a Professor at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department of College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He began as a faculty member in 2002 after completing his post-graduate degrees in bioresource engineering (M.Sc: 1996; Ph.D: 2002) from McGill University, Canada.

He has established his research and development effort on ‘post-harvest and value added processing’ of agri-foods including biological materials through the utilization of electro-technologies and enhanced inter-disciplinary collaboration at UoS. His expertise in utilization of microwave, infra-red, and UV energy in agri-foods has been recognized worldwide. He has established leadership in areas related to ‘microwave material processing’ (e.g, drying) research capabilities, globally. He has supervised over 25 graduate students, PDFs, visiting faculty/scholars from India, Brazil, Iran, China, and Turkey.

Example of projects that Dr. Meda has provided leadership role are:

a) value-added engineering of agri-foods, farm machinery;

b) thermal and non-thermal (minimal) processing of agricultural, food and bioproducts;

c) utilization and processing (drying, extraction) of plant, agri-food by-co-products

d) process optimization for food/feed safety & quality; and

e) Innovative technology for food waste reduction and bioeconomy management & entrepreneurship strategy

He is recognized for his expertise in providing strategic leadership, business entrepreneurship education, International R & D partnerships and Innovation Enterprise skills related to Agri-food and material processing sector (plant based proteins) in the overall value-chain economy. He is recognized as a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering (CSBE).

6/ Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Pfennig 

Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Pfennig studied mechanical engineering with a specialization in chemical engineering at RWTH Aachen University. After a research stay of more than one year in Berkeley with Professor Dr. John M. Prausnitz, he obtained his PhD at RWTH Aachen University. He habilitated at the TU Darmstadt and became full professor at RWTH Aachen University in 1995. After a three-year stay at TU Graz, Austria, he took up his last position at the University of Liège in 2014. His research interests are in the areas of extraction, reactive extraction and phase separation together with the underlying fundamentals such as thermodynamics of complex systems and mass transfer. He has also been working in the field of sustainability for more than 15 years and is an associate with Scientists for the Future, Germany since 2019.

7/ Prof. Célia Joaquim-Justo 

University of Liège