Sustainable and Circular Management of Resources and Waste Towards a Green Deal

Marzena Smol heads the Division of Biogenic Raw Materials in the Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGSMiE PAN). She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Protection and International Project Management and PhD in Environmental Engineering from Częstochowa University of Technology in 2015. Expert in the field of biogenic raw materials management in the context of sustainable development (SD), circular economy (CE) and strategies for the Green Deal. She participated in the development of the Roadmap Transformation towards circular economy in Poland. Holder of the Minister’s Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists. She is author and co-author over 100 papers. She is holder of Springer Nature 2020 Highlights in category “Water for publication on CE in water and wastewater sector.

Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.