KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Richard. J. (Dick) Haynes | The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Professor Haynes works in the areas of soil and environmental science. His present research interests are in the use and recycling of industrial, agricultural and municipal wastes and minimising their effects on the environment. He has extensive experience having worked as both an applied research scientist and as a university professor and has worked in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. He has published over 170 original research papers in international journals, over 20 review papers in international volumes as well as many conference and extension papers and contract reports. He has been an invited keynote speaker at 7 international conferences and has served on the editorial board of 4 international research journals. He has acted as principal supervisor and co-supervisor of PhD, MSc and honours students in both South Africa and Australia. Professor Haynes has carried out research in commercial horticultural, pastoral, arable and forestry production as well as in small-holder semi subsistence agriculture. He has also worked on bioremediation of soils contaminated with organic pollutants, rehabilitation of mined sites, application of organic and inorganic wastes to soils and the effects of heavy metal contaminants on soil processes. His research has been mainly in the areas of applied soil chemistry and soil microbiology/biology with links to soil physical properties and to pollution of air and water. He has specialised in working on applied problems and maintains strong links with industry. Major areas of research have included the role of grazing animals in the fertility of pastoral soils, N cycling and gaseous and leaching losses from arable and pastoral systems, soil quality and soil degradation under agricultural land use, effects of soil contaminants on soil processes, rehabilitation and remediation of contaminated, degraded and mined sites and use of wastes as soil amendments.
Muharrem Kemal OZFIRAT | Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Ozfirat has graduated from Dokuz
Eylul University Department of Mining Engineering in 1998. He has earned his
BSc and PhD degrees from the same department in 2001 and 2007 respectively.
He has earned Associated Professor Degree in 2013 and Professor Degree in
2023. He has been serving as the director of Dokuz Eylül University
Vocational School located in Bergama for the past two years. Due to the high
wind potential in the Bergama region, he has been working on wind energy for
the past year. His research focuses on the contribution of Bergama Wind
Power Plants to Turkey's overall energy consumption.
Prof. Dr. Ozfirat has conducted significant studies in the fields of
renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, excavation mechanics in mining,
rock mechanics, underground mining production methods, mining machines,
fuzzy logic, risk analysis and work safety and sustainable development. He
has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences.
His publications have made important contributions to Turkey's goals of
increasing energy diversity and security. He believes that the widespread
adoption of renewable energy sources is of strategic importance for Turkey.