The 10th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2024)

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Biography: Professor Wong is an advisor at the Education University of Hong Kong, Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Environmental Geochemistry and Health’ (Springer Nature) from 2002 to 2023. In addition to his PhD (Durham), he was awarded two higher Doctoral Degrees: DSc (Durham) and DSc (Strathclyde) in 1992 and 2004 based on publication. Under Environmental Science, he is ranked (career-long ranking) 6^th for 3 years and 8^th for 1 year globally (World’s Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, 2020-2023), and 1^st in China (Research.com's Best Researchers in Various Disciplines, 2023).

He was awarded the Croucher Senior Fellow (Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong) in 1997; the Royal Society Visiting Fellow (Royal Society, UK) in 2000; the Milton Gordon Award for Excellence in Phytoremediation (International Phytotechnology Society) in 2016; Fellow of the Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) in 2018; Silver Medal (Food Waste for Safe and Quality Fish Production) of the International Inventions (Geneva) in 2019.

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Biography: Ir Prof Irene Lo, JP is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is an elected Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She was appointed by HKSAR Government as Justices of the Peace (JP) in 2017. She was also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

She was the recipient of numerous prestigious international research awards, such as 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. In addition, she received the 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards in the Natural Science/Technology Advancement by Ministry of Education, China. She has been invited to give over 50 plenary/keynote/invited speeches at many international conferences in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Her research interests include advanced oxidation processes and nanoparticles/nanotechnology for environmental applications. Her citation is 18040+ with H-index 74, as reported by Google Scholar. She was recognized as "Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford university in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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Biography: Jack is a certified toxicologist (DABT - Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology) and is an Emeritus Professor. His major research themes include chemical speciation of arsenic species in environmental and biological media, bioavailability in relationship to toxicities using various animal models, carcinogenicity and mechanistic studies of chronic arsenic toxicity in both humans and animals. Other research interests include toxicity of mixed metals and organic pollutants, the transfer of heavy metals via the food chain from mine tailings and other mining wastes in addition to study on natural toxins in plants relevant to human health. Jack’s projects represent a combination of independent effort as well as linkages through national and international collaboration.

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Biography: Distinguished Professor Chih-Huang Weng is the Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at I-Shou University, Taiwan. He also served as Vice-President of North Kaohsiung Community University, Taiwan. Prof. Weng received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1994, respectively, from the Department of Civil Engineering of The University of Delaware, USA. He is serving as the Editor of Water (MDPI) and Editor of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer), and on the Editorial Board Panel Member of Coloration Technology (Wiley). He has also served as a Guest Editor of SCI journals, such as Agricultural Water Management (Elsevier) and Environmental ScPrience and Pollution Research (Springer). He has also organized and chaired several international conferences. Professor Weng was listed in the World’s Top 2% of Scientists (Stanford University, 2021 and 2022). His main research interests focus on using advanced oxidation processes and adsorption to treat wastewater and bacteria inactivation, groundwater modeling, and application of electrokinetic technologies to soil remediation/sludge treatment/activated carbon regeneration.