Prof. Anurag Mudgal is a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), Gujarat, INDIA. He has more than 26 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 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 published more than 45 papers in journals and conferences. He handled more than nine projects from DST, DBT, and various institutes across India.
Prof. Philip Davies is currently a professor of water technology and professorial researcher at the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK where he is pursuing research topics and innovations in the areas of water purification and the water-energy-food nexus. He qualified with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College. He gained D.Phil. in biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford. He has extensive publications and leading R&D projects. He has over 35 years of academic and industrial research experience. His research areas include desalination and water reuse, 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 (B.Sc. (Hons.) in Industrial Chemistry and Ph.D. from the University of Limerick, Ireland) is a professor of Water Treatment Technology at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. She has 11 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 of interest 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 Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (CIEMAT), at the Department of Energy of CIEMAT, where he is the head of the Solar Thermal Applications R&D unit of Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA), Spain. He obtained Ph.D. in Physics (University of Granada, 1996). At PSA, he leads the research group of solar desalination, and his particular expertise is on the topic of membrane distillation. 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 Chonnam National University, South Korea. He was awarded his B.S., master, and Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Korea University. He worked as research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, and a research professor at Korea University. He was honoured with Hoimyung Graduate Research Award at KIChE in 2017 Fall Meeting. He published more than 41 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.
