Prof. Anurag Mudgal is a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), Gujarat, India. He has more than 21 years of teaching and research experience and more than four years of experience in the industry. He is a Mechanical Engineer with a Master’s degree in Thermal Engineering. He has also completed his MBA in operation management. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. His research interests include water desalination, application of renewable energy, heat transfer systems, cooling, food preservation, and other sustainable environmental issues. He has published more than 60 papers in journals and conferences. He has handled more than nine projects from the Department Of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and various other institutes across India. He is currently working on two internationally collaborative projects entitled 'bIo-mimetic and phyto-techNologies DesIgned for low-cost purficAtion and recycling of water (INDIA – H2O)’ under Indo-EU Horizon 2020 scheme and DBT and ‘Going global project – Pilot for Master’s in Circular Economy’ funded by the European Commission and one national project entitled ‘Low-Cost Renewable Energy Driven (LC-RED) water treatment solutions centre’ under DST, India. Prof. Philip Davies is currently a Professor of Water Technology and a Professorial Researcher at the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK). His areas of research include water purification and the water-energy-food nexus. He completed his BSc (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and gained his DPhil in biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford. He has extensive publications and has led R&D projects. He has more than 35 years of academic and industrial research experience. His research areas include desalination and water re-use, solar-powered cooling using seawater, seawater greenhouse technology and negative emissions technologies. He participates in several international collaborations in regions including North Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Prof. Maria Kennedy is the Professor of Water Treatment Technology at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. She has completed her BSc (Hons.) in Industrial Chemistry and PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has 12 years of research experience and currently specializes in research and development in the field of membrane technology, including microfiltration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and electrodialysis for potable and industrial water treatment and water reuse. Her main research areas are membrane fouling (indices), membrane scaling and cleaning. Professor Kennedy is also involved in international training projects in Israel (West Bank) in the field of desalination of brackish/seawater. Dr. Guillermo Zaragoza is a Senior researcher in CIEMAT (Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research), at the Department of Energy of CIEMAT, where he is Head of the Solar Thermal Applications R&D unit of Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), Spain. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Granada in 1996. At PSA, he leads the research group on solar desalination, and his particular expertise is on the topic of membrane distillation. He possesses an extensive publishing record of 100 papers, 5 books and 11 book chapters, He also has extensive experience in international R&D projects. He leads the Working Group on Renewable Energy Desalination at the Water Europe platform. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Water Process Engineering. Dr. Kiho Park is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He was awarded his B.S., Masters and PhD degrees in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Korea University. He worked as a research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham and a Research Professor at Korea University. He was honoured with the Hoimyung Graduate Research Award at KIChE during the 2017 Fall Meeting. Dr. Park has published more than 45 research papers in journals and conferences. He has more than five years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include desalination, crystallization, water purification technologies, seawater desalination, membranes, membrane distillation and modelling.
