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Experience in general practical applied research with flowering and green pot plants, ornamentals, vegetables and ingredient plants like vanilla, black pepper, papaya, passionfruit, herbs, medicinal plants, perfume plants (former) specialist on growth and development on various pot plants especially on flowering of for instance Begonia, Hydrangea, Kalanchoë. Also involved in experiments with crop health (botrytis), substrates, fertilization (effects of low phosphate), (diffuse) light.

Prof. Sanem Argın is the co-founder and CEO of Kiana Agriculture, a science-driven company focused on advancing regenerative and climate-resilient agricultural technologies. Her interdisciplinary background has shaped her work in developing innovative solutions to address global agricultural challenges, including soil degradation, climate change, and pollution. Before founding Kiana, she held academic and industrial positions across Europe, North America, and Asia, where she contributed to peer-reviewed articles, a patented antimicrobial formulation, and a commercial encapsulated product. She currently collaborates closely with stakeholders across the agricultural sector, fostering science-society partnerships to build resilient food systems and ecological balance through evidence-based innovation.

Prof Dr Ir Wim de Vries is professor at the Earth Systems and Global Change Group of Wageningen University, where he holds the chair "Integrated nutrient impact assessment”. He is a researcher in the field of biogeochemistry with special reference to nutrient cycling, soil acidification, greenhouse gas emissions and metal pollution. His research is organized around large scale impacts of the elevated use of nutrients (especially nitrogen and phosphorus) in agriculture on air-, soil - and water quality and related boundaries in view of those impacts. Wim de Vries wrote more than 600 publications as an author or co-author on the above mentioned topics, with more than 250 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including high impact journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Food and Global Change Biology. Wim de Vries - Google Scholar Citations. He belongs to a list of most frequently cited scientists (one in every thousand) published annually by the American company Clarivate Analytics https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/. More details on his work and research can be found on: https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Wim-prof.dr.ir.-W-Wim-de-Vries.htm https://research.wur.nl/en/persons/wim-de-vries

Geert Houben is Principal Scientist Food Allergy and Immunotoxicology at TNO and Professor of Food-borne Risk Factors for Allergic and Inflammatory Diseases at the University Medical Center Utrecht and the Utrecht University. Geert was trained as a Biologist and Toxicologist and did his PhD in food immunotoxicology. His major scientific specializations are food allergy, food and feed toxicology and immunotoxicology, and particularly risk assessment in these areas. In the early years of this century, he was the first to pioneer in the development and application of probabilistic risk assessment principles in food allergy and his team has been world leading in this area since then. Geert is or was a member of tens of expert groups and advisory boards in the area of toxicology, food safety, immunotoxicology, and food allergy. Among others, he was a member of the WHO/IPCS Expert Group for the Harmonized Guidance Development for Immunotoxicity Risk Assessment, the Ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens, and several Health Council committees in the Netherlands.

Nate Blum serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BlüMilo and the Sorghum United Foundation. As a passionate advocate for sustainable agriculture, Mr. Blum leads the Foundation in advancing education, markets, and economic opportunities for sorghum and millets, empowering local communities to thrive in high-value markets. His dedication stems from a deep commitment to food security, nutrition, environmental sustainability, and reducing rural economic disparities and issues that sorghum and millet offer viable solutions for.

Greg Keeffe is an academic and urban designer with over 30 years of experience in sustainability, energy use, and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. He is a professor of architecture and urbanism at Queens University, School of Architecture, Belfast, UK. Previously he held the prestigious Downing Chair of Sustainable Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture. Greg has extensive experience working closely with architects and planners to develop exciting ways of re-invigorating the city through the application of innovative sustainable technologies, informing his work on the sustainable city as a synergistic super-organism. In this way, he has sought to develop a series of theoretical hypotheses about our future existence on the planet, through a series of technological and spatial interventions. Most of his work comes out of a free-thinking open-ended discussion about how things should be.

Yongfeng Guo got his PhD degree in Horticulture from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before joining the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He is currently a professor and director of the Biotechnology Research Center at the Tobacco Research Institute, CAAS. His research interest includes molecular regulation of leaf senescence, plant peptide signaling, and plant molecular pharming. He has authored more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the editor of the book “Plant Senescence – Methods and Protocols” published by Humana Press in 2018. He currently serves as associate editors/editorial board members of a number of scientific journals including Molecular Horticulture, Frontiers in Plant Science, and Scientific Reports. He is also a member and vice chairman of the Special Committee of Flowering, Maturation, and Senescence, Chinese Society for Plant Biology.

Dr. Shuisen Chen is a Professor of Remote Sensing in environment & precision agriculture and the Director of Center for Engineering Technology Application Research of Remote Sensing Big Data, Guangdong Province of China at Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences. He specializes in remote sensing-based spatiotemporal analysis and modeling for coastal and water environment, precision agriculture, dual carbon big data, and is the doctoral supervisors at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the Associate Editors：Frontiers in Environmental Science. Dr. Chen gained the doctor degree in Institute of Remote Sensing Application of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is the Nanling Team Leader of Shaoguan Talent Project "Double Carbon Space Big Data" of Guangdong, China.

Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ is affiliated to Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering, KTO Karatay University, where Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ is currently working as Professor. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also working as a reviewer for reputed professional journals. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ is having an active association with different societies and academies around the world. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ made his mark in the scientific community with the contributions and widely recognition from honourable subject experts around the world. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ has received several awards for the contributions to the scientific community. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ major research interest involves Materials Science and Nanotechnology.

Dr. Heba Al-Fares was born in Jordan in 1973. She has two daughter. Dr. Alfares earned her Ph.D. in Horticulture and field crops with emphasis on quantitative genetics from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, 2010. She was the chairman of plant production and protection department, teacher and the coordinator of plant production master program at An Najah National University during the 2013-2016 where she has been a staff member since 2010. As a researcher Dr. Al-Fares focus on increasing crops production using applied and basic sciences. Over the years, she has supervised many thesis and graduate projects related to crop production and stress tolerance. In addition to her active membership in many scientific committees, she participated in EU H2020 proposals evaluation and listed as expert in her field of study. At social level she has great interest in human rights and gender equity enforcement. In 2017-2018 she acquired certificate as TOT in gender equity.

Cagdan Uyar is a multidisciplinary researcher who works on quantitative analysis in the field of law. She holds bachelor's of science degree in forest engineering, and associate’s degree in justice. She has MSc degree on wildlife inventory & protected areas and PhD degree of environmental and forest law.

Mr. Mansoor Hayat is a Master's Research Scholar at the Key Laboratory of Forest Pathology, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, China. His research primarily focuses on plant-pathogen resistance mechanisms and forest plant protection, with an emphasis on forest management and molecular plant pathology. He specializes in advanced molecular techniques such as transcriptomics and metabolomics to explore the complex interactions between forest plants and pathogens. His current work investigates stress responses and resistance in fungal pathogens affecting forest ecosystems. Mr. Hayat is committed to developing innovative strategies for sustainable forest health and disease management.

Rahim Zahedi is an Assistant Professor of the department of energy governance, University of Tehran, Iran. Rahim has a PhD in energy systems engineering from University of Tehran. He has a BSc in mechanical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and MSc in energy systems engineering from the same University. He got the highest score in energy systems engineering PhD entrance exam of Iran in 2020 and became the first rank in the country. His field of interest is energy modeling and he has published more than 120 ISI papers in this field. He was recognized as author of the most cited article in Energy Science & Engineering journal in WILEY from January 2021 to December 2024. He is assigned 2023 JTACC-V4 Young Scientist Award, the best worldwide young scientist in the field of thermal sciences, in the Conference: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Conference (JTACC) and 9th V4 (Joint Czech-Hungarian-Polish-Slovakian) Thermoanalytical Conference (JTACC+V4 2023), Balatonfüred, Hungary. He has won the National Renewable Energy Award and is chosen as the national best young researcher in the field of energy. He obtained the first rank of the country's best industrial plan in the national oil and gas event and received a certificate of appreciation for the best researcher in the field of petroleum engineering. He is also assigned 2024 Alborz Prize (Iranian Nobel Prize), as the best young scientist of the country. He has done a lot of research in terms of energy and environment and his research area is dedicated to them. He has been in the list of top 2% scientists in the world from 2023 until now by Stanford University and also his research interest area is BEM and LCA.