- November 17, 2022
Climate Change Challenges: Protection of resources
- Bucharest, Romanian National Institute of Statistics & online
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Panel I
* Confirmed speakers that already provided a photo
Moderator
Prof.
Laurențiu Ciornei
PhD
Researcher
Center of Biodiversity
Romanian Academy
Laurenţiu CIORNEI is a researcher at the Romanian Academy, being co-opted in the team of the Biodiversity Center, in September 2018. He is the president of the Alliance for the Forest, an association made up of researchers, scientists, doctors in various disciplines, teachers, various specialists and professionals. PhD in economics, degree in law, journalism and forestry, graduate of postgraduate studies in leadership and human resources management, respectively environmental management and sustainable development. Before entering the research, Laurenţiu Ciornei worked, for 25 years, in the media, being an expert in communication.
Laurenţiu Ciornei is the author and co-author of several specialty books. Through the Alliance for the Forest Association, he is dedicated in achieving the goals of sustainable development of forest ecosystems, circular economy, protection of biodiversity, early education and improving the environment quality. He wants to contribute to the awareness of the forests importance in Romanian society and the role of forests and forest science, in general, in the superior use of ecosystem services specific to the forestry sector, maintaining and improving the state of forest ecosystems and their capacity, in the context of rural areas, affected by the limitation of opportunities, for the construction of a sustainable society, based on a scientific narrative, which addresses in particular the media, decision-makers and young people, to educate them.
Speakers
Róbert-Eugen SZÉP
State Secretary in the
Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests
Virginijus Sinkevičius
European Commissioner for the
Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
Virginijus Sinkevičius is the present Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, at the European Commission. Mr Sinkevičius was from 2017 to 2019 Minister of Economy, and before he was leading the Committee of Economy at the Parliament of Lithuania. Mr. Sinkevičius was elected to the Parliament in October 2016. Prior, he was a Team Lead for Regulatory Affairs at Invest Lithuania. Mr. Sinkevičius holds BA in International Relations and Affairs from Aberystwyth University and Master‘s degree in European International Affairs from Maastricht University.
Mehdi Heydari,
PE, PMP, CFCM, CxA, SEP, LEED AP -
International Commissioning Market Leader
P2S Inc.
Mehdi Heydari
PE, PMP, CxA, SEP, LEED AP - International Commissioning Market Leader at P2S Inc.
Mehdi Heydari is international commissioning market leader with P2S. He has over 21 years of Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional (ICI) construction sector experience in cross-functional roles, primarily focused on creating custom sustainable and resilient solutions for his clients' needs and developing new markets.
Mehdi is a registered professional mechanical engineer in California, certified project management professional with PMI, an accredited commissioning service provider with ACG, certified sustainability excellence professional with GBCI, and a LEED accredited professional in building design and construction.
His hands-on experience in leading the commissioning process on new and existing buildings from the project schematic phase through the warranty walk-through has fused his knowledge of sustainability and his project management skills. This knowledge and experience have given him a natural ability to work across many verticals markets sectors.
He recently has challenged his vast knowledge of building performance, commissioning, and sustainability to utilize the building commissioning and implementing energy conservation measures for decarbonizing the built environment to move toward a sustainable future.
Octavian
Berceanu
Commisar Chief of
The National
Environmental Guard
March 2021 -
September 2021
Ștefan-Adrian Roșeanu
President of the
Romanian Railway Reform Authority,
Ștefan-Adrian Roșeanu is the President of the Romanian Railway Reform Authority, independent body under the coordination of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI).
With almost two decades of experience in rail and urban public transport, as well as project management, Mr. Roșeanu has worked in consultancy provided by companies in Romania and Austria. Many of the projects coordinated included services provided for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank.
Mr. Roșeanu has also served in management and advisory capacities for state entities. As such, he was CEO of SNTFC CFR Călători SA, the incumbent rail passenger operator in Romania and an advisor to the leadership of the MTI, as well as the Bucharest–Ilfov Public Transport Authority.
During his career, Mr. Roșeanu had multi-annual collaborations with professional bodies like the Romanian Association for Metropolitan Mobility, the Romanian Railway Industry Association and the Railway Pro platform of Club Feroviar. He is also a member of the UN ECE Working Party on Transport Trends and Economics.
Mr. Roșeanu holds a M.Sc.in Transportation Civil Engineering, from the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, as well as a BA and a MA in History, from the University of Bucharest. He is also the co-author of several publications related to investments in public transportation, urban planning and sustainable mobility.
Marco Pezzaglia
Founder and Principal of
Energy Professionals Group
Marco Pezzaglia is founder and principal of Energy Professionals Group. He’s graduated in electrical engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1993 and began his career in the field of modeling and studies of electrical systems to “Centro elettrotecnico sperimentale italiano” (CESI) dealing with issues related to the liberalization of the electricity system. In 2001 he joined the “The Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas” and in 2003, he was nominated as Head of the Electrical Networks dealing, in particular, with the terms and conditions for access to the electricity networks of production facilities and consumes (connection and dispatching rules) and network usage of interconnection with neighboring countries.
On January 1st 2007 he assumed the position of Head of the Renewable sources, energy production and environmental impact at the Department of Markets, where he worked actively on issues regarding the assessments on the development of renewable energy sources and access to system and electricity market in the production of electricity from renewable sources.
Since early 2010 performs professional and strategic advisory services in the energy sector, specifically on the major green economy associations, with particular relevance to the technical and regulatory issues. Marco Pezzaglia has a teaching experience as Visiting Professor at University Luiss Guido Carli of Rome and at Politecnico of Milan. Expert in Energy Management according to EN 11339.
Prof.
Alexandru Ozunu,
PhD
Babeș-Bolyai University,
Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering
Member of
Romanian Academy of
Technical Sciences
Alexandru OZUNU is a full professor at the Department of Environmental Analysis and Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, within the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Since 2017 he is a member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and since 2018 he is an associate professor at the University of the Free State, Disaster Management Training and Education Center for Africa (DiMTEC).
He developed the field of risk assessment and disaster management, publishing the first book on this topic in Romanian, "Elements of hazard and risk in polluting industries" (2000). The field of disaster management has materialized in the main objective of research/development within the Research Institute for Sustainability and Disaster Management based on High Performance Computing, of which he is the founder and coordinator.
The main didactic activities are related to the fields of environmental engineering and risk assessment. He is the organizer of the master's specializations "Risk assessment and environmental security" and "Sustainable development and environmental management" in English. Since 2009, he has been a doctoral supervisor at the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering. The guided doctoral theses fall within the current topic, related to disaster management and risk reduction.
The research activity has materialized through the publication of numerous scientific papers in the field of chemical engineering, environmental engineering, risk and disaster management, Natech risk reduction, vulnerability assessment and critical infrastructure protection. He has extensive international experience and throughout his career has coordinated several research projects at national and European level.
Since 2001, he has been the president of the Organizing Committee of the ELSEDIMA International Conference, which is in its twelfth edition in 2018.
Professor Alexandru Ozunu is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Research and Protection - ECOTERRA and co-editor of the Procedia Environmental Science, Engineering and Management Journal.
Alexandru Ozunu is a founding member of the Romanian Chemical Engineering Society and a member of the Romanian Chemical Society. He founded the APELL National Center for Disaster Management Foundation, of which he is the president. He is also a founding member of the National Society of Environmental Science and Engineering in Romania, of which he is currently the president.
Panel II
Prof. PhD. Habil.
Silviu Gurlui
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
Faculty of Physics
Prof. PhD. Habil. Silviu Gurlui
• has a research activity for over 25 years at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Faculty of Physics, being the director of the Atmosphere Optics, Spectroscopy and Lasers Laboratory(LOASL, http://spectroscopy.phys.uaic.ro/)
• coordinates research in areas including: air pollution, global climate change, optical spectroscopy: methods and instrumentation, applied spectroscopy, atmospheric optics, lasers, active optical / remote sensing (LIDAR), passive optical, laser ablation plasma , technologies for obtaining and characterizing thin layers obtained by laser ablation. Under his coordination, the LOASL laboratory became a national part of the first LIDAR systems network (RADO), member of ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure Network), member of FAIR-Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany and represents Romania, as an expert, at ESA (European Space Agency).
• has been a visiting professor at several universities and research centers in Europe: Orsay, Paris XI (France), CNRS Orléans (France), University of Angers (France), University of Science and Technology, Lille 1, (France), Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck Experimental Plasma Physics Group, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• won through research, as project director, 15 research projects worth over 3 million euros. As a partner or member in other projects, Silviu Gurlui has contributed to the success of other projects, whose total value exceeds 20 million euros.
He developed two new technologies in the field of spatio-temporal resolved laser spectroscopy. The first consists in the realization of a laser installation that allows chemical identification, spatial and temporal characterization, analysis of physical transformations in the free atmosphere. This installation can identify traces of high altitude pollutants, analysis of physico-chemical phenomena over very short time intervals. The second installation is one dedicated to the research of the interaction of high power laser pulses with matter in various states of aggregation, in conditions of controlled atmosphere (simulation chamber). The installation allows the spectral characterization of laser ablation particle species with high spatial and temporal resolutions, obtaining thin layers with special physico-chemical properties (required in high energy accelerators at FAIR, Germany). These two research directions related to climate, environment and pollution, respectively the obtaining and characterization of new materials with applications in nanotechnologies and high energy particle physics, are found in several ongoing research projects, as well as in various publications, in important ISI-listed journals: 115 ISI papers, 1200 citations, H-index = 20.
Paula Munteanu
Executive Director
”Alianta pentru padure”
Paula Munteanu-director executiv Alianță Pentru Pădure
Paula Munteanu has graduated economics studies, completed a doctorate in economics - sustainable development, obtained a master's degree in international accounting, is a graduate of law and international courses in insurance, reinsurance and project management, accountant, member of CECCAR - Bucharest Branch. It operates in the private sector, within a multinational financial company with over 147,000 employees, in over 70 countries. She is the executive manager of Alianță Pentru Pădure Association. She has a rich accounting, economic and technical expertise, more than 20 years leading internationally developed departments and projects. She is the author and co-author of several scientific papers, participating in scientific communications at internal and external conferences.
Filip Cârlea
Director
CPEREE
Romanian Academy
Filip Cârlea works as a senior researcher at the Centre for Renewables Energy Promotion and Energy Efficiency from National Institute for Economic Research, Romanian Academy. Filip Cârlea is graduated with a BA from Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University, with a specialization in electric engineering and afterwards obtained a degree in Leadership Management at the Academy of Economics Studies and he received his postdoctoral school at National Institute for Economics Research from Romanian Academy. He is associate professor at the Oil and Gas University from Ploiesti. He was selected by Romanian ministry of energy to represent the Romania as the advisory subject matter expert on alternative, which is essential to the Romanian renewable energy development. F. Cârlea worked as program officer for the national energy strategy. He also has experience in appraisal in compliance with the international standards. Filip Cârlea sustains the priorities of the Romanian energy sector in Romania being actively involved in organizations dedicated to Romanian energy sector issues, such as Romanian National Committee of World Energy Council; he is civil expert of NATO for energy security and renewable energy field and expert approved by the Committee of the Regions from European Union.
Prof.
Laurențiu Ciornei
PhD
Researcher
Center of Biodiversity
Romanian Academy
Laurenţiu CIORNEI is a researcher at the Romanian Academy, being co-opted in the team of the Biodiversity Center, in September 2018. He is the president of the Alliance for the Forest, an association made up of researchers, scientists, doctors in various disciplines, teachers, various specialists and professionals. PhD in economics, degree in law, journalism and forestry, graduate of postgraduate studies in leadership and human resources management, respectively environmental management and sustainable development. Before entering the research, Laurenţiu Ciornei worked, for 25 years, in the media, being an expert in communication.
Laurenţiu Ciornei is the author and co-author of several specialty books. Through the Alliance for the Forest Association, he is dedicated in achieving the goals of sustainable development of forest ecosystems, circular economy, protection of biodiversity, early education and improving the environment quality. He wants to contribute to the awareness of the forests importance in Romanian society and the role of forests and forest science, in general, in the superior use of ecosystem services specific to the forestry sector, maintaining and improving the state of forest ecosystems and their capacity, in the context of rural areas, affected by the limitation of opportunities, for the construction of a sustainable society, based on a scientific narrative, which addresses in particular the media, decision-makers and young people, to educate them.