Speakers

Keynote Speaker I

Biography: Dr. Sheffield served as a founding associate director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies during the first year of operation in 2005. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He served as the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy from 2019 - 2024, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He served as a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China teaching a graduate course on hydrogen energy technologies from 2019 - 2022. He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the "H2 JRP - Hydrogen Joint Research Platform" from 2022-2024. In 2022, he received the Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award from Purdue University. In 2023, he became a 2023 Energy Scholar at the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at Oklahoma University.

 

Keynote Speaker II

Biography: Viacheslav Burlov received the degrees of specialist in flight theory (1972), Doctor of Technical Sciences in cybernetics and systems analysis (1979), and Professor of technical sciences in cybernetics and systems analysis (1999). Burlov is a well-known scientist in the fields of management, systems research, artificial intelligence systems, security, and modeling of processes of various physical natures. He is the author of more than 15 peer-reviewed books and 350 articles in various publishing houses in Russia and abroad. He is guided by the principle of "The goal of science is the search for unity." Burlov developed a theory of system synthesis based on the law of preserving the integrity of an object. He is a certified expert in the quality of professional education of international class. He is particularly known for his work in theory of integrating processes of territorial development management in the interests of neutralizing the impacts of climate change.

 

Keynote Speaker III

Biography: I was born 43 years ago in Zakopane, Poland. As a kid I was very into plants, but as a pupil my interest has switched towards minerals and chemistry. I own a systematic mineral collection covering about 40% of the known species and am a discoverer and/or co-auhor of two new minerals and their original descriptions. After finishing studies (bachelor, M.Sc., Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, I moved to the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, where I work till this day. Both my Ph.D. and habilitation were devoted to transformational processes in burning post-coal-mining waste-rock heaps in the Upper Silesia area in Poland. The major part of my habilitation was related to an intense research of the chemical composition of the coal-fire gas phase and its spatiotemporal variations. This research included determination of compounds known for being crucial in the greenhouse effect, and ones known from or suspected to exist in some extraterrestrial environments. After researching mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry in this field I began switching towards understanding on the quality and composition of the vegetation coverage and adaptations, including studying polyextremophile fungi in the local fumaroles. After entering the topic of the heaps' geochemical influence to the local hydrosphere, I was happy to be included in palaeolimnological studies in Poland and Indonesia.

 

Keynote Speaker IV

Abstract: In this presentation I will examine existing and emerging technologies in solar PV and wind, their efficiencies and characteristics. I will discuss their commercial applications in two Caribbean countries - Jamaica and Barbados and effectiveness in meeting climate goals (Nationally Determined Contributions) . I will discuss issues in implementation such as geography, regulatory barriers and incentives, procurement, electrical infrastructure, compatibility, variability, storage and climate change issues and innovative approaches to achieve implementation goals in these countries.

Biography: Dr Ruth Potopsingh has a distinguished career as an energy and environment expert. She served as Group Managing Director of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica and was a key player in the advancement of Jamaica’s National Energy Policy 2009 -2030. At the Corporation she conducted research on Jamaica’s bioenergy resources and led the national energy efficiency and conservation program. She was one of the pioneers of Jamaica’s renewable energy transition beginning with commercial wind operations.
Transitioning to academia in 2010 she established the Caribbean Sustainable Energy and Innovation Institute at the University of Technology, Jamaica where she was Associate Vice President. Her passion for sustainable energy, research and innovation led to the development of a Master’s degree program in Sustainable Energy and Climate Change . At the university she managed a clean hydrogen project, a GEF global fuel economy project and introduced renewable energy applications at the campus. She supervised applied innovation research in sustainable development with graduate students. Importantly she introduced a program of volunteer student peer energy education, monitoring and mentorship . She is an appointed member of Jamaica’s Climate Change Advisory Board and now works as an independent consultant.
A graduate of the University of the West Indies and the University of London, she holds a PhD in Sustainable Development, an EMBA and an MSc in Urban Development Planning. A Commonwealth Scholar, her passion continues for sustainable development in the face of a global climate crisis and incresed geopolitical tensions. .

 

Keynote Speaker V

Biography: Dr. Vishnu D. Rajput working as “Principal Scientist” and Head of ‘International Laboratory on Nanobiotechnology’ at Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. His ongoing research is based on the investigation of effective remediation approaches using biochar/nano-biochar based sorbents and nanomaterials. With long experience and experimental work, Dr. Rajput comprehensively detailed the state of research in environmental science about “how nanoparticles/heavy metals interact with plants, soil, microbial community, and the larger environment as well as possible remediation technology using nanoparticles/nano-biochar. In recent work, he is working on nano-bioengineering for soil rhizospheric microbes and enhanced remediation using nanotechnology, CRISPR and metagenomics. Dr. Rajput is included among the world’s top 2% scientists (Stanford University, 2023, 2024) and obtained 2nd top rank in Environmental and Earth Science in Russian Federation. He has published more than 300 research papers and scored 55 H-Index. Last five years, he received appreciation letters (Letter of Gratitude, Certificate of Honor, Diploma Awards) from the Rector of Southern Federal University for breakthrough research in environmental and soil science. Recent projects as a project leader, i.e., BRICS (partnering with India & China), Priority 2030 (Bioengineering of the rhizosphere) and a mega project funded by Russian Basic Science Foundation and participating in 18 national & international research projects. He is editorial board member of Biochar (ISSN: 2524-7867), Eurasian Journal of Soil Science (2147-4249) and Journal of Soil Science and Agroclimatology (ISSN 2356-1424).

 

Keynote Speaker VI

Biography: Visiting Professor at Ocean Engineering Department of the COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Member of the Offshore Renewable Energy Group (GERO) of the UFRJ. Director at Pan-American Marine Energy Association (PAMEC.Energy). Coordinator of the Brazilian Mirror Committee of the IEC-114 on Marine Energy. Member of the Technical Committee of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy of the Brazilian Society of Naval Engineering (SOBENA). He has a D.Sc. in Ocean Engineering from UFRJ and more than 15 years of experience in R&D in offshore renewable energy systems. His main research areas include the design and structural control of floating wind turbines and wave energy converters, wave-powered water desalination, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plants, and hydrogen from offshore renewable sources.

 

Keynote Speaker VII

Biography: Louis Angelo M. Danao is presently a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD). He is also a holder of the Scientist 3 Rank of the University of the Philippines and The Abba's Orchard Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He is the head of the Fluid Mechanics Research Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UPD. He obtained his PhD in 2012 from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, where he conducted experimental and numerical work related to the performance and aerodynamics of vertical axis wind turbines. Prior to this, he was involved in several solid mechanics research including the numerical analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysms and the deformation of external fixators for tibial fractures using finite element analysis. He also developed mathematical models for torsion of solid and hollow rectangular sections using analytical and FEA approach. Presently, he is carrying out work on design and performance analysis of horizontal axis tidal turbines using computational fluid dynamics. He has also extended his studies to offshore wind systems, techno-economic assessment of renewable energy systems including offshore wind and floating solar PV, suitability analysis of RE systems including concentrated solar and floating solar PV using GIS-MCDA, as well as design of steel and composite structures using finite element analysis.

 

Keynote Speaker VIII

Biography: Dr. Jasim received his B.SC. from Baghdad University, Iraq, and his PHD & MSC, from University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom. Serves as:
-President, SJ Environmental Consultants (Windsor) Inc., Windsor, ON
-Editor-in-Chief, Ozone News-International Ozone Association
-Adjunct Professor, University of Windsor-Teaching a Graduate Course (Masters) “Water Treatment & Reuse” Recipient of a total of 16 Awards, including but not limited to:
-Recipient of the 2025 CONSUMER CHOICE AWARD-BUSINESS EXCELLENCE-Category: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT
-Recipient of the 2023 Harvey Rosen Award for the paper published in the Ozone Science & Engineering Journal
-Recipient of the “2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA)-Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship”. Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
-Recipient of the Engineer of the Year Award, 2004, Professional Engineers of Ontario.
-First Canadian to serve as President of the International Ozone Association (2020-2022)
-Member of the Advisory Board for New York University-Abu Dhabi Water Research Centre (2022-25)
-President of the Multicultural Council Foundation, Windsor and Essex County, Canada (2025-2027)
-Introduced Ozone as Primary Disinfectant for drinking water in Windsor, the First City in Ontario in 2001 -Solved many challenges in drinking water quality, the latest was (2019) solving the Arsenic and Manganese problem in drinking water White Rock, BC
-Served as the Director, Great Lakes Regional Office-International Joint Commission (IJC) for Canada and USA.
-Founding CEO for the Walkerton Clean Water Centre following the outbreak tragedy in Walkerton.
-Designed and successfully implemented ozone application for water reuse for Green House operation in Leamington, ON, Canada. Submitted Patents for Design of Water Systems Member of the Editorial Board of Ozone Science & Engineering Journal
Supervised PHD and Master students at 3 different Canadian Universities, and published and presented many papers on water treatment and water quality

 

Keynote Speaker IX

Biography: Dr. Shahriar Shams is a Senior Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), where he has been a faculty member since 2012. He holds a PhD in Civil & Construction Engineering with a focus on Hydroinformatics from the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include water quality modelling, environmental flow, and smart water management systems, with over 90 publications and a Scopus h-index of 17. He has led and contributed to several research projects on climate resilience, aquaculture systems, and river modelling. Dr. Shams has also served as Deputy Dean at UTB and is an editorial board member of multiple international journals. He is a Chartered Engineer (IET, UK). Currently he is an Editorial Board Members of Scientific Reports, Springer Nature.

 

Keynote Speaker X

Biography: Prof. Dr. Eng. Ni Nyoman Pujianiki is a renowned expert in coastal engineering and water science, currently serving as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Udayana University and Deputy Director for Academic and Program Planning in the university's Postgraduate Program. Born in Singaraja, Bali, she earned her Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from Udayana University (1995), followed by a Master’s in Coastal Engineering from Gadjah Mada University (2000, World Bank scholarship) and another Master’s in Coastal Engineering and Port Development from IHE-UNESCO Delft (2005, Dutch government scholarship). She completed her Doctorate at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2013.
Her research focuses on shoreline monitoring, coastal protection, and remote sensing applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for detecting coastal changes. Prof. Pujianiki has led pivotal studies on shoreline erosion in Bali and is actively involved in international academic collaborations, including programs with Yamaguchi University, Japan. She is a respected member of PII, HATHI, and INACID, and has authored over 30 publications contributing to sustainable coastal and environmental engineering.

 

Keynote Speaker XI

Biography: Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the Department of Energy and Nuclear Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, at Ontario Tech University (UOIT), where he has established the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL), Smart Energy Systems Lab, and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. He is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is recognized among the top 2% of worldwide scientists with high citation in the area of energy. He Fellow IET (FIET) and Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE NPSS on Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems and Plasma-based Waste-to-Energy. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, energy safety and control systems, and waste-to-energy using advanced plasma technologies. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan). From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as an Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He also worked as process control, safety, and automation specialist in energy and oil & gas industries. Dr. Gabbar has more than 290 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal and conference papers.
Dr. Hossam Gaber has been collaborating with Japan and Indonesia to promote nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems, where he was invited to the panel discussions in Indonesia as part of IAEA and was the representative of Canada in IAEA to develop the roadmap of nuclear-renewable hybrid energy system deployments with different energy scenarios based on regional resources and requirements. Dr. Gaber developed novel integrated hybrid energy system simulator to synthesize and optimize different nuclear-renewable scenarios and evaluate different nuclear power plant and SMR technologies based on energy load profiles and local resources. Dr. Gaber prepared nuclear deployment strategies and training programs, and explored in different countries including Canada, USA, Indonesia, UK, Norway, South Africa, Brazil, Egypt, UAE, and Hungary. Dr. Gaber has presented his scholarly research in Wisconsin, Budapest, Tokyo, Cairo, Jakarta, and other cities around the world. Dr. Gaber is also leading national research related to radioactive waste for SMR deployment as part of University Network of Nuclear Engineering (UNENE), Canadian National Laboratory (CNL), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), and NSERC. His research led to patents and products in the market with industrial applications and projects.

 

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