Remediation and Carbon Capture in Mining Sector

Dr. José Marrugo-Negrete is Director & Senior Professor in Instituto Regional del Agua (IRAGUA) and Applied Chemical and Environmental Water Research Group, as well as Regional Director of SUE Caribbean master degree program in Environmental Sciences of Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia. He is Senior Researcher recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Colombia. His areas of interest include the dynamics of heavy metals in the environment, impact on human health and environmental remediation. Dr. M.P. Jonathan is Professor in Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (CIIEMAD), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico City and is a member of National Researchers Scheme—Level 3. His research includes Environmental Geochemistry focussing on metal cycling in water, sediment, air in continental/coastal environments and paleotsunami studies.  Studies on mega and microplastic in beaches, coralline regions, commercial fishes, crocodiles, sea lions have been initiated. He is serving in the Editorial Board of Environmental Pollution (Elsevier Publs.,), Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Journals (Springer-Verlag) and has published over 150 research articles.Dr. AL. Ramanathan is Professor in School of Environmental Sciences (SES) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He was in top 2% in the field of Environmental Sciences in the world list from 2019. He has published over 250 research papers and his research includes river sciences, groundwater hydrology, mangrove ecosystem biogeochemistry, and Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayan research. He has been awarded the INSA teachers, Young Scientist Award—DST, Government of India; Young Scientist Award Lineaus-Palme Fellow, FORMAS Fellow—Sweden; SIDA Fellow—Sweden; CIFIPRA Fellow—France.Dr. S. Chidambaram is Senior Research Scientist at Water Research Centre, Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait. He is gold medalist in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He served as Professor & Head from 2015-17 with 19 years of research experience and graduated 18 postgraduate, 18 doctorate students. He published around 250 research articles and 10 books. He served as guest editor for VSI in different journals and as Associate Editor in Kuwait Journal of Science. Computer programs WATCLAST and CHIDAM were developed for Hydrogeochemical studies.  He has undertaken training in IAEA programs and as expert for various missions.Dr. R. Nagarajan is Professor in Department of Applied Geology, Dean R&D and Director of Curtin Malaysia Research Institute. His research interests and capabilities include applications of geochemistry to various evolution of sedimentary systems, petroleum geology, environmental geosciences and biogeochemistry. He has published over 100 indexed publications (Journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters). His current research focusses on geochemistry of Oligocene to Neogene sedimentary/metasedimentary rocks and recent sediments of Borneo. He has more than 10 years leadership experience in the above administrative positions with Curtin University.Dr. Pankaj Kumar is currently working as Research Manager in the field of water resources and climate change adaptation at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. In addition, he is also working as Head of IPBES-TSU on Scenarios and Models. He has work experience with different global assessments like IPCC AR5, AR6; IPBES NEXUS assessment, GEO7 etc., as Chapter Scientist and lead authors, respectively.

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