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Prof. Bogusław Buszewski - Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland lecture on Tuesday entitled: "A new concept in metabolism study of toxins in environmental and biological samples" Professor Bogusław Buszewski is the head of the Chair of Environmental Chemistry & Bioanalytics at the Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University. He is also the president of the Central European Group for Separation Sciences and the chairmen of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences. Former, He was the president of the Polish Chemical Society and European Society for Separation Science. He was awarded by numerous national and international organizations. His main scientific interests are concerned with separation science including theoretical and practical aspects in chromatography and related techniques, adsorption, sample preparation, bianalytics and bioanalysis (metabolomics, proteomics, biomarkers), nanotechnology and chemometrics. He is authored or co-authored 15 books, patents and more than 567 scientific papers (over 11.000 citations, h = 51) and member of the editorial boards of 26 national and international journals in field of analytical chemistry and separation sciences. |
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Dr. Seppo Hellsten works as head of unit of Restoration Assessment at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) in Oulu, Finland lecture on Wednesday entitled: "Management and restoration of surface water bodies receiving mine waters – lessons learned from Talvivaara mine impacts in northern part of Finland" Dr. Seppo Hellsten until 2013 was professor and leading the unit Monitoring and assessment of SYKE in charge of monitoring of freshwaters of Finland. Dr Seppo Hellsten has a long term experience in both monitoring, management and research of the of lakes and rivers. Recently he has headed a large Interreg III B Baltic Sea Region projects WATERSKETCH and Baltic Sea Region project WATERPRAXIS with the main aim to improve possibilities and tools to create sustainable River Basin Plan. He has been researcher and principal researcher in several EU Framework projects (REBECCA, WISER, REFORM, MARS) with specific topic of ecological assessment. Currently he is co-heading the largest integrated LIFE Nature project FRESHABIT in Europe and BIOWATER – Centre of Excellence in Nordic bioeconomy with specific focus on assessment and monitoring. He has been member of several EU official working groups such as Pilot river basins, Heavily modified water bodies and Environmental flows. Seppo Hellsten has published 114 international scientific articles/reports and more than 100 Finnish scientific articles and professional report. H-index = 28; Citations = 2649 (Google Scholar 21.4.2019); 66 refereed publications. |
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Dr. Kurt Rosentrater - Associate Professor, Iowa State University. Executive Director of the Distillers Grains Technology Council, USA lecture on Thursday entitled: "Using Life Cycle Assessment to Better Understand Environmental Impacts of Bioprocessing Systems" Dr. Kurt Rosentrater is the Executive Director of the Distillers Grains Technology Council. He is also an Associate Professor in the Departments of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University. He is actively pursuing a research program to improve the sustainability of biofuel, grain, feed, food, and agricultural-based systems. He is developing sustainable, economical co-products and value-added products, such as enhanced feeds, foods, biofuels, bioplastics, biocomposites, industrial intermediates, and ingredients. A key component to these efforts is life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis in order to understand and improve environmental impacts as well as reduce costs. |