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Ilje Pikaar is a lecturer in environmental engineering at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research has a central theme: recovery of valuable resources from solid waste and “used” water with a special focus on nitrogen recovery and subsequent valorization into microbial proteins.

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Dr. Silvio Matassa is an environmental engineer at Avecom, Belgium. His main area of interest is within environmental biotechnology for resource recovery from used water, with a strong focus on microbial fermentation applied to the upgrading of recovered nutrients and carbon.

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Prof. Korneel Rabaey is professor in Technological Applications of Microbial Processes at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University. He is specialized in electricity driven treatment and production processes. An example is electrochemical recovery of ammonia from waste streams for further conversion to chemicals or biochemicals.

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Dr. Benjamin Leon Bodirsky is a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Designing quantitative models, he investigates the current state and plausible future developments of the agro-food system, with particular interest in long-term dietary change and the environmental consequences on the nutrient cycles and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Dr. Alexander Popp is a Senior Scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and leads a research group on Land-Use Management. His research focuses on future land transformations, competition for land, food and water security, biodiversity, climate change impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, land-based mitigation, and climate policy.

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Prof. Mario Herrero is Chief Research Scientist and Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader at CSIRO Agriculture and Food and Honorary Professor of Agriculture and Food Systems at the University of Queensland, Australia. A known team player, with an extensive network of partners and donors, he works all around the world in the areas of agriculture, food security and global change, sustainable development, climate change, and food nutrition.

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Willy Verstraete is emeritus Professor for Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology at the Ghent University. He keeps exploring the domains of Resource Recovery and Climate Change. Currently, he has set full focus on the topic of nitrogen recovery in general and the upgrading of mineral nitrogen to microbial protein in particular.