Green Energy Harvesting from Waste Resources

Dr. Srijan Aggarwal is a Professor of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where he has served since 2013. His research focuses on topics ranging from development of water treatment technologies for removal of emerging contaminants, biofilms and pathogens in drinking water, Arctic water quality issues, biological remediation and/or resource recovery from waste materials, evaluation of oil spill response chemicals in the Arctic, and particulate impacts on outdoor/indoor air quality in cold regions. His research was recognized with the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2018, and by a National Academies early-career fellowship also in 2018. His work has resulted in 50 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at several conference venues. He currently serves as an associate editor Spring journal Biodegradation.

Vemula Madhavi is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Chemistry at BVRIT Hyderabad College for Women, Hyderabad, India. Her areas of interests are nanotechnology, green synthesis, and applications for environmental remediation.

Dr. Gangaraju Gedda works as a Brain Pool Research Professor at Chuang Ang University in South Korea. He also holds the position of Associate Professor at K S Hegde Medical Academy, NITTE University, India. He obtained his PhD from National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, and thereafter pursued a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He has been awarded the esteemed Brain Pool Fellowship (South Korea) and the MOST-Taiwan PDF Fellowship. He has authored 35 research papers in esteemed international publications and 10 book chapters. He has edited the book series "Futuristic Trends in Chemical Material Sciences & Nano Technology," published by Iterative International Publishers (IIP). He is now acting as an Academic Editor for the Journal of Nanotechnology, published by Wiley, and as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Drug Delivery. He has been working as a reviewer for reputable international journals. Additionally, he organized and acted as the resource person for numerous international conferences. His research interests involve the green synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications in biomedical and environmental applications.

Vineet S. Sikarwar is a scientist at the Department of Plasma Chemical Technologies, Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and a researcher in the Department of Power Engineering at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic. His work spans experimental and theoretical studies in thermal plasma–assisted waste valorization, methane pyrolysis for clean hydrogen production, and the development of value-added carbon materials. Before moving to the Czech Republic, he conducted research on conventional gasification and biofuel synthesis at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China.

Dr. Sikarwar’s broader scientific interests include integrating CCUS with thermal plasma systems, biofuel synthesis, climate and sustainability studies, and solar desalination technologies. He has authored more than sixty-five publications indexed in Scopus, with over 4,400 citations and an h-index of 25. He serves as a regular reviewer for leading journals across major publishers, including ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and MDPI.

A recipient of several distinguished fellowships and scholarships, he began his professional journey as a project engineer in a major heat-exchanger manufacturing company in India.