Prof. Wouter Schroeyers is the head of the educational management team of Nuclear Technology in the Faculty of Engineering Technology of Hasselt University (UHasselt). He is a member of the research group NuTeC (Nuclear Technological Center), which is part of the larger research institute, Center of Environmental Sciences.
For several years, he has been working as a radiation protection expert and trainer for the nonnuclear industry, in particular for industries processing naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs). He was involved in several research projects to study the presence and reuse of NORM in several industrial sectors and this is also his key research interest. He is the chair of the European COST network “NORM4building” (TU1301).
Prof. Konstantin Kovler is the Head of the Department “Building Materials, Performance and Technology,” National Building Research Institute, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
His research interests include recycled industrial by-products in construction, radioactivity of building materials, and radon mitigation. Kovler is a Fellow of RILEM (International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures) and the Editor of Materials & Structures, Cement & Concrete Composites. He Chairs committees “Ecological Aspects of Construction” and “Radioactivity of Building Products,” the “Standards Institution of Israel.” Kovler is currently the Director of Technion Recycling Initiative.
Prof. Francisca Puertas belongs to “Cement Chemistry Group” at “Cements and Recycled Materials” Department at The Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science-IETcc (http://www.ietcc.csic.es) (a body of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research—CSIC (http://www.csic.es)). Her work focusses on the physical chemistry of cement manufacture. She has also been intensely involved in the development of new (alkali activated) cements obtained under more favorable environmental conditions.
Prof. Francisca Puertas is author for more than 140 papers published in high-impact Journals (with a H=29, Scopus). She has been the supervisor of seven PhD students and is the coowner of four patents. She is also the Editor-in Chief of the international scientific Journal “Materiales de Construccion,” and Editorial Board member of other journals such as “Cement and Concrete Composites,” “Cement, Wapno and Beton” and “Waste and Biomass Valorization.”
Cristina Nuccetelli has a master's degree in Physics from the “Sapienza” University of Rome. After some years of working at the “Sapienza” University and the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics), from 1990 she was employed at the ISS (Italian National Institute of Health) in the environmental radiation protection field. For more than 20 years she has been involved in research activities related to building materials, in particular: the development of experimental/computational methods to evaluate dose contributions from building materials; the creation of a European database of radiological characteristics of building materials, elaboration of models and tools to individuate building materials of radiological concern.
Dr. Harry Friedmann was born 1949 in Vienna and studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/harry.friedmann/). He received his PhD (PhD “sub auspiciis praesidentis”) in 1975 with a thesis in nuclear physics. He had a fruitful career as a scientist at the University of Vienna. He was Nuclear Physics group leader in 2008 and retired from University in 2015 but is still giving lectures and participating in research projects. His main research interests are Nuclear reactions, natural radioactivity and related software development.
Dr. Tibor Kovács is the Head of Institute of Radiochemistry and Radioecology at the University of Pannonia. His research activities include nuclear measurements, radon emanation capability of soil, water, construction materials, and industrial by-products, inspecting radionuclide concentration in NORM, TENORM materials. He has several years of experience in the fields of nuclear accident prevention, radioactive waste management, and placement. He has more than 100 papers published in high-impact journals and is the editor of several journals including “Scientific Reports,” “Radiation Emergency Medicine.”
Prof. João A. Labrincha is Associate Professor at the Materials and Ceramics Engineering Department of the University of Aveiro. He is the leader of the research line on Wastes Recycling and Sustainable Use of Resources. Labrincha has registered 22 patent applications (two of these as International PTC), and has over 340 publications (240 included in the Science Citation Index), with H=32 (in Scopus). He is author/coauthor of six book chapters and coeditor of seven books (http://store.elsevier.com/Jo%C3%A3o-Labrincha/ELS_1169622/). He is also the Associate Editor of Clay Minerals and Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy.
Prof. David S. Kosson is Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he has appointments as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on energy and water sustainability, management of nuclear energy production and industrial wastes, including leaching assessment and contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment, waste, and cementitious materials systems.
Dr. Hans van der Sloot has been a private consultant since 2010 after retiring from ECN (Petten, The Netherlands). He is involved in standardization of leaching tests for waste, soil, and construction products at national and international level (CEN, ISO, US EPA). van der Sloot is the associate editor for Waste Management. He is involved in environmental studies on alternative materials in cement production and soil amendment, hazardous and nuclear waste characterization for treatment and disposal. He is the codeveloper of LeachXS with ECN and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, United States).
Rob Wiegers has a master's degree from the TU Eindhoven in the field of building materials. After several years in applied research at the National Institute of Applied Physics, he became a manager at a building product consortium where he was responsible for product quality as well as R&D and was involved in product launching. Since 1994 he is the coowner of an engineering bureau on product development and specialist in the field of NORM aspects for which he is member of several (inter)national gremia.