The Project’s Principal Investigator and Head of the International Office at Mines Nancy (University of Lorraine) where he teaches Material Science  (Sustainable Materials by Design).

He conducts research on the synthesis of Nanoparticles at the Institute Jean Lamour. His initial field of expertise concerns plasma processes for materials processing such as Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Magnetron Sputtering and Electric discharges in Liquids.

He’s the leader of several projects integrating the Green Transition dimension in the engineering field of study such as GREENANO Erasmus Mundus Joint Master which aims to foster the development of Nanomaterials for Green and Digital Transitions and the international conference “Academia Stands for Green Deal” annually hosted at Mines Nancy, the University of Lorraine.

Director of Research at CNRS since 1987, at GeoRessources (UMR UL-CNRS). His expertise covers geology, geochemistry of ore deposits and ore mineralogy to ore processing.

He has strong experience in the management of European projects including NewOres (leader of the project devoted to a world-class Sn-W-Cu deposit- 2015-2018 ), and in charge of the UL part in the projects: Deasphor (alternatives for Phosphorus resources, 2018-2022), Mostmeg (Li-Nb-Ta-Sn deposits related to granite intrusions, 2020-2023)

European Projects Coordinator and International Promotion Manager at Mines Nancy.

With 10 years of experience in international education management, global communication and partnership development, she is responsible for the international communication and coordination of EU-funded projects including GREENANO Erasmus Mundus Joint Master, Future Networks Academy and Academia Stands for Green Deal international conference.

Key competencies: Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Web Scraping, Robotics

After working on the electrochemistry of lithium-ion batteries in France and the electrocatalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds in Canada, Prof. Alexandre Chagnes started a research activity in the field of hydrometallurgy between 2005 and 2016 at Chimie ParisTech (Paris) as Associate Professor. Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor at Université de Lorraine.

He was the former director of the national network on extractive metallurgy (Promethee) in 2014-2020, Director of the Industrial Partnerships between 2018-2022 at the Engineering School of Geology (Nancy, France), and he is currently the Scientific Director of the LabEx RESSOURCES21, which gathers nine laboratories involved in the value chain of metals for the energy transition.

Prof. Chagnes aims to develop fundamental research on the comprehension of the physicochemistry involved in processes for the recovery of metals from primary and secondary resources in order to develop new processes or improve existing processes. Presently, most of its research activities are focused on recycling of lithium-ion batteries and e-waste, and the production of metals for the energy transition.

He has published 154 papers, 7 books, 15 book chapters and 3 patents in solution chemistry, thermodynamic, electrochemistry or separation science and he has been given 168 talks in national and international meetings.

Key competencies: Mineral Processing and Metallurgy

Key competencies: Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Key competencies: Artificial Intelligence, Edge Computing, Distributed System

Key competencies: Mineral Resources for Energy Transition 

Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Forestry.

Her research is mostly related to the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods (AHP, ELECTRE, SAW, TOPSIS, PROMETHEE) on soil and water resource management and spatial modelling of land degradation in a GIS environment.

She has obtained a PhD thesis in the field of decision-making for natural resource (soil and water) management. She has been involved in a training course on soil-water conservation and ecosystem restoration in Jangling, China and NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training program for Land Monitoring Application. She has participated in the organization of numerous conferences, and on five projects related to natural resource conservation.

She is a member of the Serbia Chamber of Engineers, World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), a member of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).

A full professor at the Department of Ecological Engineering in Soil and Water Resources Protection and was head of this Department from 2012 until 2021. She was educated at the Faculty of Forestry in the field of soil erosion and torrent control.

Prof. Dragović has published more than 130 scientific papers so far, alone or in cooperation with other authors, in the following research fields: soil erosion and torrent control, the application of modern planning methods, project management in the field of torrent control, watershed management, research in erosion processes and sediment transport.

Also, she participated in 11 national and 6 international projects, of which she is the coordinator of two international projects: “Natural Resource Management in the SEE countries: Assessment and Recommendations” and the Erasmus + K2 project “Soil Erosion and Torrential Flood Prevention: Curriculum Development at the Universities in Western Balkan Countries (SETOF).

She is a member of WASWAC (World Organization for Soil and Water Conservation) and the national coordinator for Serbia.

Key competencies: Environmental studies, relation between soil, plants, and pollution

Dr. Ratko Ristić completed his habilitation at Belgrade University in 2000 on the Hydrology of Torrential Flows. He is a full Professor at the Faculty of Forestry and a correspondence member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AINS). He was a vice-dean for research and development (2009-2015) and dean (2015-2021) at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade.

He has been an invited lecturer at universities in Russia, Macedonia, Canada, Morocco and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He has published 143 scientific papers dealing with soil erosion control, torrential flood prevention,
hydrology, sustainable watershed management and natural disaster prevention. Prof. Ristić was a designer for more than 140 projects related to erosion and torrent control in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

In 2017, he was appointed the representative of Serbia in the Committee on Science and Technology, at UNCCD (United Nations Convention Combat Desertification). In 2020, he was elected as a Vice President of the UNCCD Bureau of Science and Technology

Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Ecological Engineering in Soil and Water Resources Protection at the Faculty of Forestry.

Her research interests include erosion and torrent control research, sustainable land management, socio-demographic aspects of land degradation, social, economic and ecological effects of erosion and torrent control, soil conservation, ecosystem services.

Dr. Todosijević has published more than 70 bibliographic units so far, alone or in cooperation with other authors. Also, she participated in 8 national, 9 projects in the economy and 5 international projects. She is a member of WASWAC (World Organization for Soil and Water Conservation).

Key competencies: Protective forest belts (PFBs), agroforestry, wind erosion, land degradation, ecosystem services

Full Professor of Nanosciences, and specialist in plasma physics, material research, composites and gas sensors. He is also Head of the IPS Commission for Quality, a member of the ECS (Electrochemical Society) executive board, Division for Dielectric Science and Technology and the chair of the executive committee of Plasma Nanoscience. He is an ERUDITE professor in India and a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Dr Cvelbar’s bibliography contains more than 150 international scientific papers, 78 invited talks, and 16 patents. He works as a guest editor of the Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys., ECS Transactions, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, and is associated editor of journals Nature Scientific Data, Frontiers in Materials and Frontiers in Energy Research for Nanoenergy technology and materials section. He has a significant international impact reflected in over 7000 citations and H-index 53.

Assistant Professor at the International Postgraduate School Jožef Stefan (since 2020) and Senior Researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, leader of the joint laboratory “Extreme Energy Materials” between Max–Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (Germany) and Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).

He finished his PhD in 2013 in “Investigations of twinning and phase transformation in iron sulphides”, and completed his postdoctoral research at Max–Planck–Institute für Eisenforschung (MPIE) in Düsseldorf.

He is an instrumentalist, with expertise in nanomaterials, applied crystallography and analytical transmission and scanning electron microscopy, with a special focus on analytics and in–situ methods. He authored > 60 SCI papers and was involved in several students’ training and education processes, research and industrial projects.

Research Scientist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg. Before that, he was an Associate Professor at the Research Center for Automatic Control of Nancy (UMR 7039) at the Université de Lorraine (France), a Research Associate at SnT (2015-2017) and a Post-doc at Aalto University (2013-2015). He was awarded the best Thesis in Automatic Control from the IFAC French Workgroup GdR MACS/Club EEA.

Over the past decade, he had around 1200 hours of teaching experience at both Bachelor (BSc) and Master (MSc) levels, including in the EMJMD GENIAL programme.

His key expertise is in Multicriteria Decision-Making Analysis, as well as in renewable energy technologies during the operational phase. The research team of Prof. Yves Le Traon (in which Dr. Sylvain Kubler is involved) pays increasing attention to taking into consideration sustainability, whether in renewable energy systems or manufacturing (Industry 4.0).