As a research professor at VTT, my work consists about supervising of graduate students (just now four, as three had just defended their thesis), applying and coordinating publicly funded projects (like H2020 Euratom and KYT2022) and developing and leading international and domestic contract research projects. I am currently leading EJP EURAD HITEC Work package started June 2019 and ending summer 2023. I had a role in EC BEACON (Bentonite Mechanical Evolution). A selection of the several closed ones are MIND -The Microbiology in Nuclear waste Disposal, THERAMIN - Thermal treatment for radioactive waste minimisation and hazard reduction, FUNMIG, CROCK and BELBaR.

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Godfrey Arinze Uzochukwu, PhD, Professor, is the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute (WMI) of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). Dr. Uzochukwu worked tirelessly and creatively with his colleagues to establish the university-wide Interdisciplinary WMI with a $1.4million dollar grant, which he sought and received from the United States Department of Energy, Savannah River Office. The mission of the Waste Management Institute is to "Enhance awareness and understanding of global waste management issues and develop programs needed to improve the quality of life and protect the environment". The WMI’s interdisciplinary programs are based on creativity and innovation. Dr. Uzochukwu has successfully integrated environmental and waste management issues into sciences, engineering, technology, business, education,health, and humanities at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Uzochukwu completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Oklahoma State University and his PhD degree at the University of Nebraska. He was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at Texas A&M University before joining the faculty of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He teaches geology, mineralogy, soil genesis & landuse, environmental science and has worked closely with more than 9,500 students from different disciplines at North Carolina A&T State University.His students are bright, confident, and committed to excellence.

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N.M. Ravindra (Ravi) is Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He was the Chair of the Physics Department & Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering at NJIT. Before joining NJIT in 1987, Ravi had been associated with Vanderbilt University, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), North Carolina State University, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP- Trieste), Politecnico di Torino, CNRS associated labs in Paris and Montpellier.

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Dr. Priscilla P Nelson is Professor and Head of Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She previously was Provost at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), program director and senior advisor at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and Professor in Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She has an international reputation in geological and rock engineering, and has been involved in the underground construction industry for over 35 years. She worked for the US DOE and the State of Texas on the Superconducting Super Collider project, and she has served two terms on the U. S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, appointed by Presidents Clinton and Bush.

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Massoud Aghamirian, Principal Metallurgist – Mineral Processing, SGS Canada Inc. SGS Minerals Services, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Applied Science, he published 15 articles.

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Professor emeritus of Extractive Metallurgy at Laval University in Quebec City, born in Minia, Egypt on October 9, 1928. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cairo, a Dr. techn. degree in Inorganic Chemical Technology from the University of Technology in Vienna, and honorary degrees from the Technical University of Oruro in Bolivia, the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute in Russia, National Technical University in Lima, and San Marcos University also in Lima. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Mining,

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Vahid Ebrahimipour is currently collaborating as an associate professor in Polytechnique University of Montreal in Canada. He is a co-founder of Laboratory of Asset Integrity Management (L-AIM) in department of Industrial Engineering & Mathematics. The main purpose of the Lab-AIM is to be a center of excellence in North America to provide a forum that fosters research study towards “Equipment Health Management Modeling to Support Sustainable Production in Multi-disciplinary System Considering Environmentally Conscious Production”. Also, He has been serving as reliability engineering advisor and data scientist to Chevron Canada and Cenovus Co. in North America.

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José Adilson de Castro, Universidade Federal Fluminense | UFF Professor (Associate),degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (1993), a Master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Fluminense Federal University (1996) and PhD. D in Engineering with a focus on process simulation at Tohoku University Japan, Member of the Editorial Board of the Collection of Books Metallurgy and Materials (2006- 2014) and as refferee of top journals in the metallurgy field. He is full professor of the Fluminense Federal University. He has experience in the area of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy with emphasis on Steel working mainly on the following topics: Process simulation, Blast Furnace, Sintering, Environment. He acts in the development and application of softwares focused on the analysis of steel making processes, environmental impacts and alternative sources of energy. Young scientist from the State of Rio de Janeiro (2008) and Scientist from the State of Rio de Janeiro (2014). He has more than 150 papers published in ironmaking journals and 250 coference papers on the field. He has supervisioned 22 Ph.D. theses and 45 Master dissertation. Nowadays occuping the head of the graduate program on Metallurgical Engineering and the key laboratory of multiphase system at the Federal Fluminense University, he published 145 articles.

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Dr. Giulio Timelli received his M. S. and the Ph. D degrees from University of Padova on 2004 and 2008, respectively. On 2003, he worked at the Component Technology Department of the School of Engineering at the Jonkoping University (Sweden) on gradient solidification and heat treatment of light alloys. He worked at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU (Norway). He is Associate Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Padova (Italy), where he is lecturer for the Courses of Metallurgy and of Innovation in Metallurgical Production. On 2008 and 2011, he won the “A. Daccò Prize” for the best Italian papers on the solidification and foundry topics.

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Zhu Yao Hua served as a professor in research institutes and Universities. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 1983, in Metallurgy and Material Science, and was conferred Doctor of Science (DSc), 2006, in Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University, UK.

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Lawyer, PhD in Law, Master in Economic Law and Specialist in Taxation, with more than twenty-five years of academic and professional experience, with emphasis in Economic Law, Law of Regulation, Law of Public Services, Mining and Energy Law and Law of the Infrastructures. Since 1999, I have been directing the Department of Energy Mining Law of the University Externship of Colombia.

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Roberto Guglielmo Citarella; Associate professor at the University of Salerno, Faculty of Engineering, dept. of Industrial Engineering; Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the faculty of Engineering, University of Naples FEDERICO II; Master in Business Administration (V MBA) at the school master STOA’ (certified ASFOR), Naples – Italy; PhD title at the faculty of Engineering, University of Naples FEDERICO II, with a thesis entitled “Contact and fracture mechanics analysis by Boundary Element Method (BEM)" ; he published nearly 105 articles

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Prof. Sousa has more than 45 years of engineering experience. He has extensive international experience (16 countries) on a range of projects including dams, foundations, tunnels, and other underground structures. His technical areas of expertise include concrete dams; rock foundations of dams and other structures; tunneling for subways, roads, railways and hydraulic projects; underground storage; mining; petroleum engineering; rock mechanics; tests; and numerical modeling. He was Full Professor at the University of Porto in Portugal, conducting research on risk management for geotechnical systems. Prof. Sousa is multilingual, speaking English, Spanish, French and Portuguese; he has authored or co-authored over 20 books and hundreds of journal articles, presentations and reports. He was very active in a number of professional societies and has served as President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society and Vice-President at Large for the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) from 2003 to 2007. He was also the Chairman of the 2007 ISRM Congress in Lisbon, Portugal and he was President of SKEC Engineering Consulting. He is consultant for Laboratory of Deep Underground Engineering, Beijing. He was awarded by the Chinese Foreign Experts Bureau as a renowned foreign expert in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014, and he is a researcher at SKL-GDUE. Now he is also Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai and member of the Council of IULEE.

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Alex Guskov was born in 1947 in the city of Kuibyshev. After graduating from school in 1966 he entered Kuibyshev polytechnical institute. At the institute he studied electronic devices. After the graduation in 1972, A.Guskov worked at the same Institute as the research scientist and the docent till 1977. One of the interesting problems being solved in this period was the problem of stability of nonlinear electronic system. In 1977 A.Guskov entered the Institute of metallurgy of A. Baykov of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a postgraduate student. In one of his problems he has found a resonance between the velocity of evaporation of solid from a surface of a material and frequency of modulation of the laser radiation operating on this surface. He received a Ph.D. degree in 1982 in Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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He had served on the Editorial Board of Thermochimca Acta (an Elsevier Publication) for 16 years (1981 through 1997). Presently working as a board member of the Ocimum Science publication “Advances in Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry”. He also worked as Senior Staff Scientist for the Thermal and Elemental Analysis Department of the Perkin-Elmer Corp (Norwalk, CT) from 1978 through 1985. Perkin-Elmer designs, manufactures, and sells modern analytical instrumentation. He had published extensively in the areas of Thermal analysis of Clays, minerals coals and oil shales. He had several books and many papers published on the subject. He was a native of the Warrior Coal Fields of Northwest Alabama (Goodsprings, Al.), where coal mining and coal-fired power plants were the local economic sources. He received the BS in Chemistry (1964) and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (1970) from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). His Ph.D. research, with Prof A. F. Findeis, was one of the first to employ the use of thin-film thermocouples (Aluminum/Gold in our studies) for differential thermal analysis (DTA) measurements

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Ajay Kumar Mishra is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africaand also a “Fellow” member at “Royal Society of Chemistry” UK. He received his B. Sc, M. Sc., degrees in 1997 and 2001 respectively from Purvanchal University Jaunpur, India and M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from The University of Delhi, India. From March 2006 to September 2009, he was postdoctoral fellows at various South African Institutes/Universities. In addition, he was appointed as “Senior Lecturer” in October 2009 at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa where he was promoted to “Associate Professor” in November 2011 until December 2014.

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Prof. Shivani Bhardwaj Mishra is currently working as Professor at Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability (NanoWS) Research Unit, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prof. Mishra accomplished her PhD in Chemistry in 2003 from Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India where her research theme was based on treatment and utilization of industrial waste. Prior to this, she obtained her MSc in organic chemistry and BSc chemistry from University of Madras, Chennai, India. After her PhD, she took up the position of Senior Research Fellow [2002-2005] at National Physical Lab, CSIR, New Delhi where her research focus was on removal of toxic poly aromatic hydrocarbons from coal tar pitch and she also developed her skills for sol gel derived and polymer blend technique to produce nonmaterial’s and nanocomposites

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