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Associate Professor Bill Clarke is Director of the BioMass BioEnergy (BmBe) Group at UQ and Program Director of Environmental Engineering. The BmBe Group currently has 10 researchers consisting of PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and academics. His research is focused on integrated food waste and wastewater treatment in decentralised systems and energy recovery from organic waste, particularly looking at hydrolysis and hydrogen production.

Full Professor of Solid Waste Management at the University of Padua and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Land Planning Engineering at the same University.
Researcher at the Institute of Sanitary Engineering, Technical University of Milan from 1974 to 1984, then Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sanitary Engineering, Technical University of Milan. Associate Professor of Waste Management and Technologies, Technical University of Milan from 1984 to 1986. Full Professor of Environmental Engineering from 1986 to 1998, and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Land Planning Engineering at the University of Cagliari from 1994 to 1997.
Editor in chief of Waste Management, International Scientific Journal on waste management edited by Elsevier, Amsterdam and Editor of the Italian Journal “RS-Rifiuti Solidi”.
Member of the Editorial board of the Journal “Ingegneria Ambientale” and Member of the Editorial board of the Journal “Ingegneria Sanitaria”, official Journal of ANDIS (Italian Association of Environmental Sanitary Engineering).
Italian Coordinator of the Governmental Agreement on waste management between Italy and Japan.
Coordinator for the Italian side of the EU Programme PSDSWEP on solid waste disposal in Russia. Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the “Sardinia” International Symposia on Sanitary Landfill, held every two years in Sardinia, Italy. Sponsored by WHO, EU and US-EPA, the latter represent the main event in the field with more than 1000 delegates from 72 different countries. Lecturer in waste management topics in more than 50 courses and seminars.
Speaker in numerous (more than 100) conferences, congresses and symposia all over the world, on waste management and wastewater treatment topics.
Author of more than 150 scientific pubblications and five international books on waste management.

President of CalRecovery, Inc. Dr. Diaz has more than 30 years of experience in the waste management industry. He has managed, as well as participated in, solid waste management projects for public agencies in the United States, as well as for different agencies of the United Nations in particular the World Health Organization and for international lending institutions. He has conducted training courses on various aspects of waste management in Europe, Asia, North America, South America and the Caribbean. Dr. Diaz is the former Editor-in-Chief of Waste Management.

Toshihiko Matsuto is Professor of Solid Waste Disposal, Graduate School of Engineering at Hokkaido University. He is a member of Organizing committee of ICLRS (Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium) since 2000, and a member of Scientific Advisory Committee of IWWA. since 2006. His main fields of interest are Life cycle assessment of solid waste management; System analysis and evaluation of solid waste facilities; solid waste generation and recycling.

Michael Nelles is Director of the Institute of Environmental Engineering and full professor of Waste Management and Material Flow at the University of Rostock, Germany. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the German Biomass Research Centre and of different national and international conferences and journals. He is author of over 150 articles and chapters in books and journals since 1994. His research activity is oriented to: fundamental and applied aspects of waste management, with focus on technological, environmental and economical aspects to mechanical, biological and thermal treatment systems of waste and biomass in different recycling and recovery routes.

Rainer Stegmann was Professor from 1982 to 1990 at the Institute of Environmental Protection and from 1991 to 2008 Head of the Institute of Waste Management at the Technical University of Hamburg, Germany. He retired in March 2008. He is one of the prominent researchers in the field of waste management and provided in particular fundamental scientific contributions on sustainable landfilling, anaerobic digestion, biogas generation and control, treatment of contaminated soil. He co- ordinated several international and national research projects, and was member of the environmental advisory board of Shanks. He co-founded and currently leads the 3RC Research Center at the Nanyang University, Singapore. He is co-organiser of several national and international conferences and has published more than 300 scientific papers and several books. Since 2008 he is the chairman of the IWWG (International Waste Working Group).