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| 4th International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference 11–15 September, 2011 |
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Invited Speakers The first group of invited speakers for the 4th International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference has been confirmed. Further details of additional speakers will be posted to the website as information becomes available. Prof Jimmy Kao
Prof Paul Nathanail Professor Jimmy Kao, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Dr Roger Klein, UK
Dr Volker Birke, Ostfalia University, Germany
Arun Gavaskar, U.S. Naval Facilities Command Atlantic, USA
Dr Hashim is a research fellow and a professor of environmental health at the International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University (UNU). He was formerly a professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He obtained his undergraduate degree in biology and environmental studies, and his masters and PhD in environmental health from 3 universities in the U.S. He has been teaching, conducting research and consultancy in environmental and occupational health at UKM and UNU for the past 29 years. His research interests are mainly on the health effects of heavy metals, pesticides, solvents, air pollution, and recently, climate change. He has been the principal investigator of 9 research projects and co-investigator of another 5 projects, and has over 230 publications and presentations to date. Dr Jamal has been engaged as an environmental health consultant in over 50 local and overseas projects, primarily in the area of environmental health impact and risk assessment. He has also been consulted by the World Health Organization, Risk Science Institute in the U.S., the governments of Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia on various environmental health issues. He is a registered environmental impact assessment consultant with the Department of Environment, Malaysia, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in the U.K. Prof Irene Lo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Prof Paul Nathanail, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr Ajay Singh has a Masters and PhD in Biochemistry/Microbiology with a specialisation in applied/environmental microbiology, and fermentation process development. He has over 20 years of experience in industrial research/process development. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of Hannover, Germany, National Food Research Institute, Japan and is currently Director of Research and Operations at Lystek International Inc., Waterloo and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He has received a number of scholarships, awards and honors from various international scientific societies. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Biological Sciences and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and is an active member of many academic societies. Dr Singh has designed/developed various bioreactor - based processes related to bioremediation, fermentation and food industries, and managed numerous pilot / full commercial scale projects internationally. He is currently an advisor to various international environmental companies and academic organisations and is a reviewer of scientific papers for various international journals. Dr Singh has co-authored and edited 8 books in the area of biotechnology and bioremediation, published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and he holds 12 patents. James Stening, Orica Australia Pty Ltd James Stening is a Senior Environmental Engineer with Orica Australia Pty Ltd, based at the company's site in Botany, NSW. He has a Chemical Engineering background, and started working with Orica's predecessor company, ICI Australia Pty Ltd, as a process support engineer in 1988. Since that time, James has gathered two decades' of experience working in chemical manufacturing industry. The first half as a process support engineer in the manufacture of inorganic and organic chemicals and polymers. The latter half has been in environmental roles ranging across statutory compliance and liaison, environmental auditing, contaminated site investigation and remediation, and participation in community consultation. Recently James has also become Orica's Lead Environmental Auditor, which covers the full range of Orica's global manufacturing portfolio. Prof Rao Surampalli, US EPA, USA
Prof Ming Hung Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Dr Tian Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
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Professor
Kao holds a Bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering and a Masters and
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering. Professor Kao is currently the Professor and
Director of the Water Resource Research Centre, National Sun Yat-Sen
University, Taiwan. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers
and American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. He is also the Associate
Editor of the ASCE journal, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic &
Radioactive Waste (US) and WEF journal, Water Environment
Research (US), and an editorial
board member for the Taiwan Soil and Groundwater Environmental Bulletin
(Taiwan) and Journal of Environmental Engineering and Management
(Taiwan).
Dr Klein trained as a medical doctor, including a period doing
obstetrics during the Nigerian civil war in 1967, and as a physical chemist
at the University of Cambridge. His research interests cover aspects
of membrane and surface chemistry, the structure of water, mass spectrometer
gas-phase kinetics and quantum chemistry, especially investigations of
electron density topology and hydrogen bonding. Dr Klein also has 35 years
experience advising and working with the Fire Service both in the UK and
internationally, in areas that include hazardous materials (Hazmat and CBNR)
and decontamination issues, personal protective equipment (PPE), risk
assessment and management, incident command and control, and the impact of
fire service operations on the environment. 
Dr Birke has 17 years experience in organic and environmental chemistry,
particularly in green chemistry and the destruction of hazardous wastes and
toxic compounds in the environment. He has experience in remediation of
contaminated sites, hazardous waste management, and groundwater remediation,
and has also acted as the coordinator of the large-scale German R&D cluster
RUBIN for the application of permeable reactive barriers (PRBs). 
Mr.
Gavaskar is a senior scientist at the Navy’s Environmental Restoration
Branch, where he serves as an advisor for remediation project managers at
many sites across US, helping them select and
implement clean-up technologies for contaminated groundwater, soil, and
sediment. Mr. Gavaskar has worked as a private consultant for 20
years on innovative technology development and implementation projects at
contaminated sites in US, Europe and Asia. 
Dr
Jamal Hisham Hashim
Professor Lo is currently Professor in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, and Director of Environmental Engineering Program
at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is a
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and a Fellow of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She received both her M.S. and
Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is also an associate
editor of the Journal of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste. Professor Lo has edited 4 books
and published more than 250 journal and conference papers in the areas of
remediation technologies for contaminated soils and groundwater, magnetic
nano- and microparticles for environmental pollution control, carbon
footprint analysis and life cycle assessment of remediation technology,
waste containment facilities, and pollutant migration in soils. 
Paul
Nathanail is Professor of Engineering Geology at the University of
Nottingham and managing director of specialist contaminated land consultants
Land Quality Management Ltd. His interest in sustainable remediation stems
from a long track record in the broader field of sustainable urban land
management. The concept is 'trending' and in danger of losing its impact
through misuse on company websites and marketing literature. The plethora
of spreadsheets, programs and applets purporting to diagnose sustainable
remediation are in danger of cloaking a simple concept with overly
elaborate, time consuming and expensive procedures. The middle ground in
achieving a step change in how we remediate is to use simple tools and
approaches to help identify those remedies likely to deliver optimal net
social, economic and environmental benefits. 
Professor Surampalli received his MS and PhD
degrees in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Iowa
State University, respectively. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in
the branches of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and also a Board
Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of
Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and Diplomate of the American Academy of
Water Resources Engineers (DWRE). He has authored more than 500 technical
publications, including twelve (12) patents, eleven (11) books, 77 book
chapters, 203 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal articles, presented at more
than 200 national and international conferences, edited 13 refereed
conference proceedings, and given over 80 plenary, keynote or invited
presentations worldwide. Professor Surampalli is a Distinguished Member of American Society
Civil Engineers, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also
is Vice-Chair of Editorial Board of Water Environment Research Journal and
Editor of ASCE’s Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste.
In
his role as Chair Professor of Biology, Director of Croucher Institute for
Environmental Sciences, HK Baptist University, Professor Wong has established a multi-disciplinary team
including environmental
toxicologists, molecular biologists, analytical chemists, mathematicians,
medical professionals and environmental managers for tackling environmental
problems. He is recognised internationally for his work on environmental
impact assessment, and in particular, contaminant impact on environment
health. 
Dr Zhang is a Professor in the department
of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He
holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of
Cincinnati. Professor Zhang specialises in water and wastewater treatment,
biological wastes treatment, senior design and remediation of hazardous
wastes. His research involves water, wastewater, and stormwater treatment
and management, application of nanotechnologies, remediation of contaminated
environments, and detection and control of emerging contaminants in aquatic
environments. Professor Zhang is a member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American Society of Civil Engineers, the Water
Environmental Federation and the Association of Environmental Engineering
and Science Professors.