Proceedings of the 8th International Conference
of Recent Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering (RTESE 2024)
June 04 - 06, 2024 | Carleton University, Ottawa, CAriyaada
The Plenary and keynote information for the 8th International Conference on Recent Trends in Environmental Science and Engineering (RTESE 2024) is as follows:
Plenary Speakers
Dr. Chris Bauch
University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Amarjeet Bassi
Western University, Canada
Dr. Stan Kubow
McGill University, Canada
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh
McGill University, Canada
RTESE 2024 Plenary and Keynote Speakers
Dr. Chris Bauch
University of Waterloo, Canada
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 Plenary: Frontiers of Mathematical Modelling In Environmental Sciences: Social Dynamics, Tipping Points, And More
Dr. Amarjeet Bassi
Western University, Canada
Dr. Amarjeet Bassi is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair Professor & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University. He has ample experiences on hydrology, water resources management in China and international since 1987, severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009-2012), Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council for Water Programme (2004-2010), Bureau Member of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG, 2019-2024) etc. He was awarded “International Hydrological Prize -Volker Medal”, given jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO in 2014, the 2017’s State Natural Science Award in China, 2019’s IUGG Elected Fellow and 2022’s ICWRER Lifetime Achievement Award.
Topic of Plenary: Nature Inspired Approaches for Carbon Sequestration and Eco-plastic Production
Dr. Stan Kubow
McGill University, Canada
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
Dr. Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh
McGill University, Canada
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.
Topic of Keynote: Multifunctional Metamaterials: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Energy Production