MEET THE EXPERTS OF THE 3RD WORKSHOP
We present the profiles of the experts who will give lectures at the third PhosV4 workshop "Inventory of phosphorus raw materials in V4".
Prof. Jiří Jaromír KLEMEŠ is Head of a Centre of Excellence “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL”, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology – VUT Brno, Czech Republic, and Emeritus Professor at “Centre for Process Systems Engineering and Sustainability”, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary. Previously the Project Director, Senior Project Officer and Hon Reader at Department of Process Integration at UMIST, The University of Manchester and the University of Edinburgh, UK Founder and a long-term Head of the Centre for Process Integration and Intensification – CPI2, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. Awarded by the EC with Marie Curie Chair of Excellence (EXC). Track record of managing and coordinating 96 major EC, NATO, bilateral and UK Know-How projects. Research funding attracted over 42 M€. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cleaner Production and Chemical Engineering Transactions, Editor in Chief Cleaner Technologies and Engineering and Cleaner Chemical Engineering (Elsevier); Subject Editor of Energy and Emeritus Executive Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering. Managing Guest Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. The founder and President for 24 y of PRES (Process Integration for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction) conferences. Seven years Chairperson of CAPE Working Party of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, a member of WP on Process Intensification and of the EFCE. A Member of the IChemE, UK, Sargent Medal International Committee on CAPE. Invited lecturer at 62 universities worldwide. He has many years of research and industrial experience.
Prof. Marzena SMOL is the Head of the Division of Biogenic Raw Materials at the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (MEERI PAS). She completed a master’s degree in Environmental Protection at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa and a master’s degree in International Project Management at the Częstochowa University of Technology. She completed the PhD in technical sciences – Environmental Engineering, 2015, Częstochowa University of Technology. Manager and contractor in national and international projects in the field of biogenic raw materials management in the context of the implementation of the principles of sustainable development (SD), circular economy (CE) and the strategies for the Green Deal in the water and sewage, fertilizer and agri-food sectors. Founder of the Division of Biogenic Raw Materials at MEERI PAS, member of the Scientific Council of MEERI PAS. She participated in the work on the preparation of the Roadmap Transformation towards circular economy in Poland (Ministry of Development). Holder of the Minister’s Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists.
Julia TANZER is Junior Consultant at Proman Management GmbH. She is Ph.D. in water quality and resource management. Her PhD-Thesis was "Coupled assessment of phosphorus and nitrogen management in Austria". She has 3 years of experience in complex system analysis, mass flow analysis, resource and water management for regional and national governments in the context of municipal policies towards higher resource efficiency.
Ph.D. Zoltán Tóth earned his MSc in Agronomy at Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences in 1955. He received a Ph.D. degree in Crop and Horticultural Sciences at University of Veszprém in 2021. His teaching activity includes soil management and land use, crop production, sustainable agricultural production, basics of agriculture and consequences of field technologies in plant protection. Research activities of Tóth Zoltán are connected with long-term field experiments (fertilization, residue management, soil tillage and rotation), impact of soil management on soil physical, chemical and biological properties, mitigating the effect of abiotic stress on crops by field technologies. Moreover he is partner in H2020 projects: iSQAPER, SOILCARE, LEX4BIO, SOILGUARD.
Dr. Sebastián HREUS is researcher and lecturer at Technical University of Košice (Slovakia), Institute of Geosciences. He worked 7 years for company Colas CZ, a.s. in field of mining, processing and quality control of construction aggregate. He succesfully registered basic silicate rock powder Brozit for its utilisation in forestry and agriculture. Research activities of Sebastián Hreus are connected with mineralogy and economic geology of granitoid rocks, greisens as well as hydrothermal veins.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of the Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
