Plenary/Keynote Speakers
8th International Conference of Recent Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering (RTESE 2024)
We are pleased to announce the plenary and keynote speakers for the 8th International Conference of Recent Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering (RTESE 2024) :
Dr. Chris Bauch
University of Waterloo, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Chris Bauch is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He studies coupled human-environment systems in ecology, environmental sciences, epidemiology and climate science. Study systems include coupled social-climate systems, forest-grassland ecosystem mosaics, and vaccine scares, among others. He also conducts research on data-driven dynamical systems with a specific focus on hybridizing dynamical systems and deep learning to predict and characterize tipping points. His work has reached a wide public audience through the media, having been covered in The New York Times, Scientific American, USA Today, BBC News and other sources. His research has been published in journals such as Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA, and has been funded by organizations such as the World Health Organization, the United States Food and Drug Administration, DARPA, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Topic of Keynote: Frontiers of Mathematical Modelling In Environmental Sciences: Social Dynamics, Tipping Points, And More
Plenary Abstract
Dr. Amarjeet Bassi
Western University, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Amarjeet Bassi is Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, His research program is in biochemical and bio-environmental engineering and resource recovery using microbial solutions. To-date, Bassi has trained over 100 HQP and his HQP are well placed and some are at senior positions in industry and academia. Amarjeet Bassi has published over 180 refereed publications, proceedings. He has co-edited two books on Smart Biosensor technologies and holds several patents . He has ~$1.5 million in research funding over the last 6 years from various programs including NSERC, OMAFRA, , industry and government. has demonstrated his experience in moving research innovation to practice. Technology patented in the Bassi lab is now under commercialization by Renix Inc. (London, Ontario). Dr. Bassi has previously served a 5 year term as Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs) Faculty of Engineering at Western. Dr. Bassi is also the past President of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.
Topic of Keynote: Nature Inspired Approaches for Carbon Sequestration and Eco-plastic Production
Plenary Abstract
Dr. Stan Kubow
McGill University, Canada
Plenary Speaker
Stan Kubow is an Associate Professor at the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University and an honorary Associate Professor at University of Hong Kong and The University of Queensland. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed research articles focused primarily on the impact of food components, diet, and nutrition in a variety of human diseases and environmental pollutant exposures. His research involves cell and tissue culture, animal models and clinical intervention trials to evaluates the health modulating properties of prebiotics and probiotics, peptides and a wide variety of phytochemicals against metabolic and neurological disorders and environmental pollutant toxicities. This research involves assessment of biomarkers of redox status, inflammation, metabolomics and the gut microbiome to explore mechanisms of action. He is ranked among the list that represents the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists in the world according to the composite citation index released by Stanford University. He serves on the editorial boards of Microorganisms, Nutrients, and Foods and participates as a grant panel member of Tri-council funding agencies including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is recruited regularly by industry to support nutritional, toxicological, biochemical research investigations via grant and research contract support.
Topic of Keynote: The Protective Role of Nutrition Against Environmental Pollutant Toxicities Plenary Abstract
Dr. Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh
McGill University, Canada
Keynote Speaker
Professor Hamid Akbarzadeh (PhD, PEng, CRC) is a Canada Research Chair in Multifunctional Metamaterials, an Associate Professor in Bio-inspired advanced materials and structures in the Bioresource Engineering Department, an Associate Member in Solid Mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and the Director of Advanced Multifunctional and Multiphysics Metamaterials Lab (AM3L) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is also the recipient of CSME’s I.W. Smith Award in 2023 from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. Professor Akbarzadeh joined McGill as an Assistant Professor in 2015 after two and half years of research on architected cellular solids as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Departments at McGill University and the University of New Brunswick. He completed his PhD studies in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Brunswick in 2013 working on the multiphysics simulation of smart advanced materials. Prior to his PhD, he received his MSc in the Mechanical Engineering Department (Solid Mechanics) at Amirkabir University of Technology in 2009 and his BSc degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department (Solid Mechanics) at Isfahan University of Technology in 2007.
Professor Akbarzadeh exploits Fundamentals of solid mechanics, Computational multiscale and multiphysics simulation, and Advanced manufacturing (3D printing and laser engraving) to develop the next generation of architected multifunctional materials and structures with unrivalled multiphysical properties. His research and training program at AM3L is aligned with systematic design, multiscale multiphysical modeling, and 3D printing of programmable and smart multifunctional metamaterials and metastructures. To date, his contributions have led 6 patent applications/reports of invention and 124 published articles in high-impact journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Nature Communications, Energy Storage Materials, Nano Energy, Carbon, and Acta Materialia.
Topic of Keynote: Multifunctional Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Energy Production Keynote Abstract
Registration fee includes the following:
- Publication of 1 accepted paper in the proceedings. Publication of each additional paper requires a $300 CAD registration
- Buffet lunch for each day of the conference
- 2 coffee breaks for each day of the conference
- 1 banquet dinner OR cruise tour
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Co-authors, regardless if 1 author is attending, must pay the full registration fee.
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Virtual registration fee includes the following:
- Publication of 1 accepted paper in the proceedings. Publication of each additional paper requires a $250 CAD registration
- Access to all the sessions of the conference