Dr. Florian Kongoli holds 3 degrees: a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science/University of Montreal, Canada and a Doctor of Science Degree/Tohoku University, Japan. Since 1996 he is CEO of FLOGEN Technologies Inc.,(www.flogen.com) a Sustainable High Tech applied research institute
Georgios N. Anastassakis is Professor at National Technical University of Athens, School Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, in the field of Mineral Processing. He graduated from NTUA and got his Doctoral degree in 1989. He started his career in 1989 as university teaching-associate by contract (1989-92), employed in LARCO GMMSA Ferronickel Co. (1992-94), and elected Lecturer in NTUA in 1994. Since then, he was successively promoted to Assistant, Associate and first-rank Professor in 2009. He served as Vice-Rector of the School (2014-2020), Head of the Division of Metallurgy and Materials Technology (2010-14) and member of several academic administrative committees. He has been involved in more than 40 research projects. The results of his research have been presented in more than 75 papers, published in referred scientific journals, Congress Proceedings volumes, and chapters of international books. He has served as reviewer of approximately 45 international journals, several Congresses Proceedings volumes, and reviewer of international research proposals.
Prof. Dr. Ljubiša Andrić, full member of AINS, principal research fellow at the Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials in retirement since 2022, was born on the 6th of April 1957, in Zemun. Ljubiša Andrić enrolled to the Faculty of Mining and Geology, from which he graduated in 1984. He defended his MSc thesis in 1993. Ljubiša Andrić defended his doctoral dissertation (PhD thesis) from scientific area of materials at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, in 1999. In 1986 he started his employment at the Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials, going through all phases of researcher’s titles (from year 2004 he has been a Principal Research Fellow) and manager positions (since 2009 until retirement he had been an Assistant Director and the Chief of the Sector for Mineral Processing and Inorganic Technologies). Since 2014, Ljubiša Andrić has been a Full Professor at the Technical Faculty in Bor, Faculty of Bor, at the Department for Mineral and Recycling Technologies. Due to his overall research activities and his scientific profile and affinities, Ljubiša Andrić has been involved in fundamental, developing, and applicable investigations in preparation of metallic and non-metallic mineral raw materials. During the period 1986-1990, he participated in wear-in of several industrial and semi-industrial facilities. During a period 1990-2022, in scientific and researching activities of the Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials, his work is aimed towards achieving and developing new scientific themes in preparation of mineral raw materials, and improving of the process of micronization, mechanical and mechano-chemical activation and their application on preparation of new materials. During that period, he accomplished important international collaboration with Slovakia (Mineral Processing, Institute of Geotechnics Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice), Russia (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS Novosibirsk), Turkey (Mineral and Coal Processing Section-Mining Faculty, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul), Bulgaria (University of Mining and Geology, Sofia), etc. During the period 1986-2022, he participated and/or managed 38 projects funded by Ministry of Science, Ministry of Environmental Protection, etc., and on 83 pre-investment studies, projects, and project revisions. From projects in which he participated or which he managed, ten MSc theses and nine PhD theses have been produced. He is a co-author of 33 technical solutions. He participated in preparation of the books: “Mining Engineers in 19th and 20th century” (2004), and in 2006 he published a monograph under the title “Mica: Preparation and Application”, while in 2013 he published “Grinding Milling - Micronization, Mechanical and Mechanochemical Activation by Milling“, and in 2014 he was an editor of the chapter “Exploitation of non-metallic mineral raw materials” in the monograph “Serbian mining and geology in the second half of the 20th century”. He published a textbook under the title „Management and Waste Treatment“ in 2014. During the period 1998-2022, with his associates he published eleven chapters in Serbian and international monographs. Prof. Dr Ljubiša D. Andrić has published 410 scientific and technical papers in national and international journals, and in proceedings of the national and international conferences. He was an editor in chief of Proceedings of the XVI и XIX symposium of PMS with international participation. Since 2010 he is a full member of the Balkan Academy of Sciences for Mineral Technology, Istanbul, Turkey. Since 2012 he is full member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He has been a member of the redaction board of the journal “Recycling and Sustainable Development” since 2008, and since 2010 he is a member of redaction board of the Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, Section A: Mining. Since 2011, he is vice-president of the Balkan Congress for Preparation of Mineral Raw Materials. During the period 2010-2022, he held seven invited lectures.
Prof. Konstantinos Aravossis is Professor and UNESCO Chairholder on Green Innovation and Circular Economy at the NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) and Professor at the ATHENS MBA (NTUA - Athens University of Economics) since 1997. He is the Coordinator of the “Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development Research Group” of the Sector of Industrial Management and Operations Research of the Mechanical Engineering School.
VALENTIN ALEKSEEVICH Chanturiya, (Moscow, Russia, 1938). Mineral processing engineer, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Professor, Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), recognized leader in the field of mineral processing. He completed his education in the field of mineral processing in 1962 at the Faculty of Non-ferrous and Rare Metals of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. Head of the Laboratory (1977-1993), Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources (IPCON RAS) (1993-2003), Director of IPCON RAS (2003-2011), Chief Researcher at IPCON RAS and Adviser to the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011 – present).
Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou is a Professor in the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (SNA&ME) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and since Nov 2023 he is the Rector of NTUA. He graduated from SNA&ME in 1990 and was awarded his PhD in 1997. He joined the faculty of SNA&ME in 2001. He was elected full Professor of NTUA in 2016. He teaches in both the Undergraduate and the Postgraduate programs of SNA&ME. His research interests include: linear and nonlinear hydrodynamics of floating structures, violent hydrodynamic slamming, hydroelasticity, wave-current interaction with structures, environmental loading on floating bodies, dynamics of slender structures, dynamics of pipes with internal flow, analysis and design of mooring systems, hydromechanic analysis of moored floaters and sustainable energy production systems from the sea environment. He worked as a Visiting Professor in NTNU (2016), Ecole Centrale Marseille (2008 & 2011), University of East Anglia (2014-2016). He was awarded the Marie Curie Research Fellowship for outstanding researchers (2014) and for 2020, 2021 and 2022, he was included in the list of the 2% of top researchers worldwide. He is a member of several national and international professional and scientific societies, member of editorial boards in international journals, reviewer in more than 70 journals and reviewer for book publishers. He has published more than 170 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes. He authored the books, "Analytical Methods in Marine Hydrodynamics" (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and "Dynamics of Pipelines for Marine Applications (Springer International Publishing, 2023). He participated in the execution of numerous funded research projects. He is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Floating Structures and Mooring Systems. During Oct 2019 - Nov 2023, he was the Vice Rector of NTUA responsible for Research and Lifelong Education.
Prof.–Dr. Andrey N. Dmitriev is a noted scientist in the field of the development of a scientific basis for the complex use of mineral raw materials. He studies the basic scientific direction, development, and perfection of mathematical models and their use for the analysis and optimization of processes involving ores. For the first time, he has developed and introduced a method of analytical research for blast furnace smelting on the basis of complex two-dimensional mathematical models that essentially supplement the experimental methods used in practice. He has also developed the scientific basis for the application of computer methods for the analysis and perfection of pyrometallurgy processes; an original technique for the influence estimation of iron ore raw materials and coke quality as indicators in blast furnace smelting; and an original technique for the monitoring system of the firebrick lining state of the blast furnace hearth intended for emergency prevention. The scientific ideas and development stemming from his work are used to create and perfect technologies for the processing of titan-ferrous magnetite, chromic iron ores, silicate-nickel iron ores, siderite iron ores, leucoxene concentrates used for the elimination of the existing deficiency in the Ural of the steel-making iron ore raw material, and the raw materials for manufacturing the pigment dioxide of titan and scrap.
Metallurgical Engineer from Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (1993), master's at Material and Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1996) and Ph D from Tohoku University (2001). Has experience in Material and Metallurgical Engineering, focusing on Pyrometallurgy, acting on the following subjects: blast furnace, computational simulation, process modeling, sintering, refining, hot metal working, multiphase flows heat and mass transfer on oil and gas industry. Environment impacts and alternative sources of energy.
Douglas W. Fuerstenau is P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus of Mineral Engineering in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 1949 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering, followed by a M.S. degree in Mineral Dressing from the Montana School of Mines in 1950. He received his Sc.D. degree in Mineral Engineering in 1953, under Prof. A.M. Gaudin, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After teaching at MIT as an Assistant Professor and working in industry for Union Carbide as section leader in the Metals Research Laboratory and for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company as manager of Mineral Engineering, he joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1959 to teach courses and conduct research on Mineral Processing and surface properties of materials. Through his inspiration, numerous students have achieved notable distinction in careers in academia, industry and government worldwide. Over the course of his academic career, he guided the thesis research of more than 70 M.S. students and more than 60 Ph.D. students.
Doctor and Master Science in Materials Engineering and Metallurgy by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil. Now is a Senior Researcher Professor at Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering Department of College of Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering - FIGMM of the National University of Engineering-UNI and Chief of Ironmaking and Steelmaking Researcher Group FIGMM UNI. Prof. Gomez-Marroquin is the founding partner and the first president of the board of directors of Metallurgy, Materials and Minerals Peruvian Association-APMMM. Today, she is working in characterizations of different nature biomass such as biochar from olive stone and chicken eggshell for recovering heavy metals from mining wastes. Has been working on the following subjects: recovering metals of Linz Donawitz sludge (LDS), Electric Arc Furnace Dusts (EAFD), and Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) using techniques of self-reduction and carbothermic reduction. Also, she had worked in reduction by CO-CO2 mixtures gases of zinc ferrite pure and zinc ferrite present into Electric Arc Furnace Dusts - EAFD using different techniques as such: X-Ray Diffraction (using the Rietveld method), Transmission Electron Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy. About ZF pure and present into EAFD, she has researches that had been onsets with the characterization of the compounds present in EAFD - Iron (III) oxide, zinc oxide & zinc ferrite - using techniques, methodologies, and equipment for thermal characterization (DTA-TGA), structural (XRD), microscopic (SEM-TEM coupled to EDS), physical (briquette porosity, specific gravity, average size & particle specific surface) and chemical analysis by Absortion Atomic and Fluorescence Spectrometer.
Yakov graduated as a Metallurgical Engineer from the Ural State Technical University in Russia, where he also obtained his Ph.D and Doctor of Technical Science Degrees. Professor of Metallurgical Furnaces Department from 1974 to 1995, Consultant at Hatch Iron & Steel business unit from 1996 up to now, where he holds his current position as Technical Director - Ironmaking.
Madali Naimanbayev, Ph.D. (1985), member of the International Professorial Association (1997), member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (2017).
Vladko Panayotov (born 7 May 1950, Pavlikeni) is a scholar and Bulgarian member of the European Parliament who sits on the committee for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms party of Bulgaria and in the European Union he is part of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
Fmr. Chief Scientist, & Advisor Management and Prof. Academics of Scientific and Industrial Research University at National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jmshedpur 831007, India, received his B Tech (1974), M.Tech (1976 Dissertation: Non-Newtonian Fluids flow past a sphere) in Major Chemical .Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Benaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. He began his career working (1976-79) for Heavy Indian Chemical Industries as Production, Planning, and Process Control Engineer at Gujrat and subsequently (1980) as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur , India, before Joining (1981) National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) at Jamshedpur as Scientist. The Dissertation on the research project: “Non-isothermal kinetics of Iron ore reduction” awarded him PhD (1988) in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Further his R&D Activities at NML involved conducting and guiding researches in smelting reduction of pre- and direct reduced iron processes, mathematical modelling of silicon control in blast furnace, assessment of performance characteristics of iron making raw materials under simulating conditions of various ferrous processes. He as Academic Visitor (1991-93) at Imperial College of Science, Engineering and Medicine London UK studied Computational fluid dynamics of some essential features of Basic Oxygen Furnace steelmaking reactors (British Steel UK) to ameliorating the fluid flow phenomena in steel bath to improve process efficiency and product quality.
Julius Rubinstein is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated in 1962 from the Institute of Steel and Alloys of Moscow, Russia with M.S. and B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering. In 1967, he obtained his PhD from the Mining Institute of Moscow on Mineral Processing Research and Design. In 1982, he became Doctor of Sciences (Academic Degree for Post-Doctoral research) for his Dissertation on Flotation Process Modelling and design of Pneumatic Flotation Apparatus. In 1985, he became Professor of Sciences, which is Academic designation for scientific achievements. Since 1995, he has been Academician of the Russian Academy of Mining Science. Over the course of his academic career, he guided 23 Ph.D. students.
Prof. Tsepelev Vladimir was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia on January 10th, 1949. Received Doctor Degree in Metallurgy of Ferrous and non-ferrous metals from Boris Yeltzin Ural Federal University on 1998, with major field of study was Material Engineering, Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials. In 1998, as director Tsepelev Vladimir headed Research Center of Liquid Metal Physics. In 2000 he was Full Professor of Chair Health and Safety Department of Fundamental Education Boris Yeltzin Ural Federal University. In In 2002 he was elected an Academician of the Engineering Academy named after A.M. Prokhorov. His research interests cover subjects such as, waste recycle, metallurgy, composite, renewable energy, environmental friendly manufacturing, study the physical properties of liquid metal at high temperatures, the development of technologies for the production of amorphous and nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials with unique magnetic properties, the preparation of amorphous high-entropy solders. Tsepelev Vladimir has a Diploms of the winner of the international exhibitions and scientific competitions, the title of the Veteran of Labour, Diploma of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of higher school Russian Federation. Winner of the prize-medal named after Professor A.S. Popov. He was awarded the Orders of the first and second degree "A.M. Prokhorov". In 2020, he was awarded the Honorary Badge "Knight of Science and Art" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
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