Prof. Petr Hlavínek

Prof. Ing. Petr Hlavínek PhD., MBA is a sanitary engineer with 30 years of professional experience in the field of wastewater collection and treatment. Professor Hlavinek lectures in wastewater collection and treatment at the Brno University of Technology. He has extensive supervisory experience, having supervised 12 PhDs to completion to date. He is a member of a number of professional organizations including the national committee of the International Water Association and Czech Wastewater Treatment Experts Association. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted with more than 250 municipalities in the Czech Rep. concerning sewerage and wastewater treatment. He is author and co-author of more than 200 papers in the field of wastewater collection and treatment. His experience also includes work as independent evaluator for the EC Directorate General Environment, as evaluating & monitoring agent for the Norwegian financial mechanism (environment sector), and as FIDIC engineer for ISPA and cohesion fund projects. He has experience with many trans-national & EU-funded research projects, most recently FP5 projects CARE-S & AQUAREC, FP6 projects AMEDEUS & MBR-train, CORNET project AOP4Water and ALBAPRO. Currently he is leader of EGAR research group in AdMaS research centre, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology.

Topic of Keynote: Microwave Induced Pyrolysis of Sewage Sludge

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Prof. Thomas Letzel

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Thomas Letzel is an analytical chemist with almost 20 years of professional experience in the field of analytical screening techniques using liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection. Prof. Letzel is head of the Analytical Research Group at the Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Currently, the key aspects in research cover technological, analytical-methological and analytical-chemical properties and can be applied in water and wastewater analysis as well as in other relevant environmental matrices, food analysis, beverage and plant extract analysis and others. New separation techniques like RPLC-HILIC-MS and SFC-MS allow the polarity extended separation and identification of organic molecules. A special focus is on the chemical analysis with simultaneous functionality analysis using mass spectrometric detection. He is author and co-author of more than 100 publications and two books. He has experience with many national and international research projects and he actively participates in international environmental initiatives like NORMAN Association and ESSEM COST Action ES1307.

Topic of Keynote: Unknown Molecules in Air, Water and Soil: Screening Strategies with LC-MS

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