Assoc. Prof. Sunil Herat
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Sunil Herat is an Associate Professor in
Waste Management and Circular Economy at Griffith University, Brisbane,
Australia. He is the Program Director of the Master of Environmental
Engineering and Pollution Control. He is a member of the Expert Subsidiary
Group of Regional 3R and Circular Economy Forum of Asia and Pacific,
managed by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development. A/Prof
Herat has over 20 years' experience in waste management, particularly on
issues and challenges related to developing economies. He is an expert on
training programs in municipal solid waste management, hazardous waste
management and cleaner production and eco-efficiency, and circular economy
and has extensive experience in training waste management professionals
within Australia and around the world. He has conducted training and
capacity building programs in Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Sri
Lanka, Bhutan, Thailand, and Pacific Islands (Fiji). His latest training
programs involve tackling marine pollution issues through plastic waste
management and waste to energy for Indonesia's government officials. He is
also actively engaged in the revision of environmental regulations in
Vietnam.
A/Prof Herat has an active research interest in solid and hazardous waste
management, especially in developing countries. He is an adviser to the
United Nations on issues related to managing electronic waste (E-waste)
in developing countries with a particular focus on policy development and
regulatory aspects. He is also researching issues associated with
implementing 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) activities in developing
countries primarily related to E-waste and plastic waste regarding policy
aspects such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). He is also a
contributor to the United Nations publication GEO 6.
Assoc. Prof. Lovorka Gotal Dmitrović
University North from Croatia, Croatia
Associate Professor, Lovorka Gotal
Dmitrović from the University North from Croatia, deals with environmental
informatics. She has been involved in environmental protection since high
school, with a special emphasis on water protection.
She graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology,
University of Zagreb, Croatia, on the subject "Examination of the
physical-chemical and bacteriological characteristics of drinking water with
reference to the amount of nitrates".
During her post-graduate studies, she started to deal with simulation
modeling, she obtained the title of Master of Science on Faculty of
organization and informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia, with the thesis
"Simulation modeling of ecological phenomena", and the title of Doctor of
Science with the thesis "Development of Complex Engineering Systems for
Water Purification" on same faculty.
She is the author of about 40 scientific and professional papers and the
university textbook "Chemistry for Construction", the manual "Data
Processing Manual with Solved Problems in Statistics and Probability Theory"
and the scientific book "Modeling Information Systems for Surface Water
Protection".