SPEAKERS
Aysun SOFUOGLU
Aysun Sofuoglu holds BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. She received MSc and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from University of Wisconsin at Madison and Illinois Institute of Technology, respectively. Dr. Sofuoglu joined Izmir Institute of Technology in 2000. She has been serving as a full professor since 2013, as founding head of Environmental Research Center since 2007, and as Dean of Graduate School since 2017. Her research interests include pollution prevention, waste management, air pollution, and indoor air quality.
Peter KURTH
Peter Kurth studied law and political science. He was State Secretary in the Senate Administration for Finance, then Senator in the Senate Administration for Finances. Then, he became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and of the Executive Board of ALBA AG. Since 2009, he has served as Acting President of the BDE, Federation of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry, and Vice-President of the Fédération Européenne des Activités de la Dépollution et de l´Environnement (FEAD).
Piotr BARCZAK
Piotr Barczak holds a Master’s degree in Geography specialised in Spatial Management and Regional Development. He worked for the Polish Ministry of the Environment/Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is now responsible for the waste policy at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) representing the voice of around 150 national NGOs dealing with environmental protection. He chairs the EEB Waste Working Group which consists of waste experts from Member States with hands-on experience in waste management and prevention measures.
Jean-Benoit BEL
Jean-Benoit is an environmental engineer holding a degree in general engineering from the École Centrale de Lille (France) and a Master degree in environmental engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He has worked for 9 years for the Paris Region Waste Observatory (ORDIF). He is now a Senior Project Manager and Senior Expert at ACR+, specialised in waste monitoring and benchmarking.
Terry L. TUDOR
Terry Tudor is biologist received an MSc in Sustainable Wastes Management from the University of Leeds, and a PhD from the University of Exeter. His PhD focused on sustainable waste management within the National Health Service (NHS) in Cornwall. He joined the University of Northampton (UK), in 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow, and now works as an Associate Professor in Wastes Management. His research and consultancy work focuses around the utilisation of more sustainable/circular approaches within both communities and organisations, globally.
Anne VANDEPUTTE
Anne Vandeputte was employed at the Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM) for 39 years as a project manager/policy adviser, playing a key role in the preparation of the Flemish policy on municipal solid and medical waste management by starting up schemes of source separated, extended producer responsibility collection, and creation of a network of reuse centres in Flanders. Involved in EU waste management projects in Hungary, Romania, South Africa, and Greece. She now acts as a Board Member Reuse Shop Hageland.
Nuri BASOGLU
Nuri Başoğlu is an industrial engineer holding MSc and PhD degrees in Business administration from Istanbul University. He worked as a professor at Bogazici University before joining Izmir Institute of Technology. His research and teaching are in Innovation and Technology Management, New Product/Service Design, Technology Adoption & Diffusion, Innovation process and organizations, e-Health Adoption, Mobile Services, Human-Computer Interaction, Project and Change Management, Simulation and Decision Support Studies.
Goran SCHMIDT
Goran Schmidt received BSc degree in Wood Science and Forestry Engineering at the University of Hamburg and the Federal University of Paraná, and MSc degree in Wood, Forest & Environmental Sciences at University of Hamburg and Federal University of Amazonas. He now serves as a Research Associate at Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute and about to finish his PhD degree at Universität Hamburg. He coordinates the BioHome project in the Sub-Sahara Program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
José ROBLES
José Robles holds a BSc in Industrial Technical Engineering at Polytechnics University, Valencia, Spain. He has been working in different start-up and large medical devices companies with a successful track record of overseeing top management, sales and marketing responsibility positions. Together with other activities, he is now Sales & Marketing Manager for Ecofragmentation Europe S.L., which is leading company partner in URBANREC H2020 project, developing laminating fragmentation technology to separate and obtain homogenous fractions from bulky urban waste components.
Funda TIHMINLIOĞLU
Funda Tıhmınlıoğlu received BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering at Ege University and PhD Degree in Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She joined İzmir Institute of Technology in 1998 as an Assistant Professor and works as a full professor since 2009. Her research interests are polymer processing and characterization, recycling, structure-property development for polymer micro and nanocomposite materials systems for various applications.
Ángel RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ
Ángel is an agronomist engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). Since 2011 manager of Consorcio Valencia Interior, administration responsible for the management of household waste in 61 municipalities in the province of Valencia. During this period, the Consortium has set up its own domestic waste treatment facilities (€ 40M investment), and completed the network of separate collection points, including a system of personal incentives to separate collection (my Environmental Account).
Koen SMEETS
Koen is an Agricultural Engineer holding a Master degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven. Koen has been working at the Flemish Public Waste Agency since 1997; as a statistician, responsible for the calculation of Flemish waste statistics and administrative process optimization until 2007, then as the lead of Research and Monitoring team, responsible for reporting of waste data and statistics, and for planning of Waste and Materials Department of OVAM.
Franciszek ŁAPECKI
Master of Law, Master of Administration, PhD in Law at the Krakow Academy, Poland. He was a member of task forces to develop and implement a purchasing procedures in the largest Polish railway industry companies. His scientific interests concentrate on the issues of public procurement in national and European terms. Author of many articles focused on the field of public procurement. Since 2018, he is the Director of the Waste Management Department of the City Hall of Warsaw.
Erdem MUHTAROGLU
Erdem has a Master degree in International Relations and working as an international relations specialist at the Foreign Relations Department of Bornova Municipality. His main responsibilities in the department include tracking national and international funds, developing and implementing projects targeted to strengthen relationships between European networks, cities and sister cities of Bornova Municipality which concern various issues including social development, sustainability, environment, and innovation.
