WP1 Plant species selection and testing for phytoremediation driven energy crops production at HMC sites

Title: Dr.

First name: Marta
Last name: Pogrzeba
Organisation:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationMain specialist in IETU in the area of Environmental Remediation senior scientist at Department for Research and Development
Phone No.:+48 32 254 60 31 ext. 252
Fax no. : +48 32 254 17 17
E-mail:m.pogrzeba@ietu.pl
My area of expertise:heavy metal polluted soils, phytoremediation, energy crop
What I do in my home organistion:Responsible for Reasearch and Deveolopment in the area of Environmental Remediation, especially research and development activities in the field of soil remediation:  phytoremediation ;energy crop cultivation; artificial soil construction, plant cover construction on brownfields
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:In the project I am a WP1 Leader - Energy crop production at heavy metal contaminated areas, plant growth and metal uptake, influence of contaminants on plants physiological parameters and participate in WP3 - the use of biomass gasification residues as potential soil fertilizers


Title: Dr.
First name: Jacek
Last name: Krzyżak
Organisation:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationSenior scientist at Department for Research and Development
Phone No.:+48 32 254 60 31 ext. 231
Fax no. : +48 32 254 17 17
E-mail:j.krzyzak@ietu.pl
My area of expertise:heavy metal polluted soils, phytoremediation, energy crop
What I do in my home organistion:Research and development activities in the field of soil remediation, especially phytoremediation (aided phytostabilization approach, energy crop cultivation)
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:In the project Jacek articipate in the WP1 –energy crop production at heavy metal contaminated areas, plant growth and metal uptake, influence of contaminants on plants physiological parameters and WP3 - the use of biomass gasification residues as potential soil fertilizers


Title: Dr.

First name: André
Last name: Gerth
Organisation:Vita 34 AG
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationCEO
Phone No.:+49 (0)341 48792-45
Fax no. : +49 (0)341-48792-39
E-mail:info@vita34.de
My area of expertise:business strategy, production, research and development, marketing and sales as well as investor relations; long-standing expertise in bio­technology and project management
What I do in my home organistion:Activities related to plant biotechnology, R&D and engineering services: design and management of scientific projects (biotechnology), acquisitions of grants for scientific projects, Design and management of international projects, Development and acquisition of international scientific projects
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Project management and controlling, scientific mentoring





First name: Anja
Last name: Hebner
Organisation:Vita 34 AG Business Unit BioPlanta
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationProjectmanager
Phone No.:+49 (0)341 48792-863
Fax no. : +49 (0)341 48792-39
E-mail:anja.hebner@vita34.de
My area of expertise:Environmental engineering
What I do in my home organistion:Development, planning and administrative control of national and international of commercial and R&D-projects focusing environmental biotechnologies; Development of feasibility studies and environmental risks assessments; Development of reclamation and remediation concepts; Organization and realization of professional symposia and workshops; Development of training and capacity building measures
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Dissemination, laboratory practice, test design, reporting, research methods, assessment




First name: Thomas
Last name: Fricke
Organisation:Vita 34 AG Business Unit BioPlanta
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationPhD student
Phone No.:+49 (0)341 48792-7580
Fax no. : +49 (0)341 48792-39
E-mail:thomas.fricke@vita34.de
My area of expertise:plant biotechnology
What I do in my home organistion:R&D: investigating the uptake of nanoparticles (TiO2 and CeO2) in agricultural and horticultural plants out of sewage sludge
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:laboratory practice, field trial investigations, statistics and evaluation of test results







First name: Kathrin
Last name: Kopielski
Organisation:Vita 34 AG Business Unit BioPlanta
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationProjectmanager
Phone No.:+49 (0)341 48792-869
Fax no. : +49 (0)341 48792-39
E-mail:kathrin.kopielski@vita34.de
My area of expertise:physical geography/ geoecology
What I do in my home organistion:Management and controlling of brownfield remediation measures, investigations on biological pollutant degradation, groundwater monitoring, design und development of field investigations
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:laboratory practice, field trial investigations, statistics and evaluation of test results, reporting, dissemination

Title:                                         M. Sc.

First name: Swantje
Last name: Prahl
Organisation:Vita 34 AG Business Unit BioPlanta
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationPhD student
Phone No.:+49 (0)341 48792-848
Fax no. : +49 (0)341 48792-39
E-mail:swantje.prahl@vita34.de
My area of expertise:plant biotechnology
What I do in my home organistion:Investigation and manipulation of plant secondary metabolites from bioreactors, greenhouse, in vitro and suspension cultures
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:laboratory practice, field trial investigations, statistics and evaluation of test results

WP2 Plant-microbes interactions: improving the biomass production and remediation


Title: Prof.





First name: Grażyna
Last name: Płaza
Organisation:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
Country:Poland
Position in my Home Organisation

Senior researcher in the Environmental Microbiology Group

Phone No.:+48 32 254 60 31 ext. 246
Fax no. : +48 32 254 17 17
E-mail:g.plaza@ietu.pl

My area of expertise:environmental microbiology
What I do in my home organistion:

(1) Biosurfactant mediated biosynthesis of selected metallic nanoparticles; (2)  Characterization of Bacillus strains producing biosurfactants; (3)

Biosynthesis of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) by Bacillus strains growing on agro-industrial wastes; (4) Detection of biosurfactants in Bacillus species: genes and products identification; (5)  Application of Biolog microarrays techniques for characterization of functional diversity of microbial community in phenolic-contaminated water; (6) Application of Biolog phenotyping microarrays for assessing the functional diversity of environmental strains of Bacillus; (7) Isolation and characterization of the antibiotic resistance bacteria; (8) Application of the BIOLOG system for characterization of bacteria isolated from onsite wastewater technology (OSWT)

What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:

Use of already commercially available inocula (ProBioEms); Identification and characterization of the rhizobateria and endophytes; Validation of the indicator system based on EcoPlates Biolog system; Develop the new bioinoculum composition and establish the application guidance


Title: Dr
First name: Ewa
Last name: Błaszczyk
Organisation:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationResearcher in the Department of Research and Development
Phone No.:+48 32 254 60 31 ext. 247
Fax no. :
E-mail:e.blaszczyk@ietu.pl
My area of expertise:Environmental toxicology
What I do in my home organistion:

The main area of interest: Biomonitoring and ecotoxicological studies

Other activities:

  • Researches on the environmental pollutants and their impact to health
  • Ecotoxicological studies based on the bacterial strains, plants and other biological materials
  • Cytogenetic analysis
  • Microscopic techniques
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Characterization of the rhizosphere and endophytic bacteria including:
  •  bacterial ability to move
  •  production of cellulolytic enzymes
  • phosphate solubilization activity
  • production of hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
  •  production of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA)

Theoretical and practical training of methods applied in ProBiotics for the microbial characterization tests


Title:
First name: Joanna
Last name: Chojniak-Gronek
Organisation:Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationResearcher in the Department of Research and Development
Phone No.:+48 32 254 60 31 ext. 119
Fax no. :
E-mail:

j.chojniak-gronek@ietu.pl


My area of expertise:biotechnology, environmental microbiology
What I do in my home organistion:

Biosynthesis of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) by Bacillus strains growing on agro-industrial media;

Toxicity of silver nanoparticles;

Characterization of bacteria isolated from onsite wastewater technology (OSWT) for optimizing the purification process;

Use the BIOLOG System for identification and characterization environmental bacterial strains 

What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:

Application of already commercially available inocula (ProBioEms)

Isolation and characterization of endophytic and rhizosphere bacteria

Testing different substrate variants for preparing a new inoculum

Developing a process for freeze-drying the strains that could be used in new inoculum



Title: Dr eng.
First name: Szymon
Last name: Powałowski
Organisation:ProBiotics Poland
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationR&D Manager
Phone No.:+48 604 649 873
Fax no. :
E-mail:sp@probiotics.pl
My area of expertise:Microbiology, lactic acid bacteria, probiotics, osmotic stress and dehydration process, starter cultures, bioprocess control, spray drying.
What I do in my home organistion:Monitoring of production process, assurance and quality control, new product development
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Managing of laboratory work, the new species isolation and testing their properties, task coordination, cooperation with partners in the task.


Title: Dr

First name: Joseph
Last name: Nesme
Organisation:Helmholtz Zentrum München
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationPostdoc researcher
Phone No.:+49 89 3187-3482
Fax no. :
E-mail:joseph.nesme@helmholtz-muenchen.de
My area of expertise:Microbial Ecology
What I do in my home organistion:As a postdoc researcher at HMGU, my work consists in designing and supervising research project experiments, analyze data and write publications and reports based on obtained results.
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:In the frame of the P2E project, my work consist in #1 Determine heavy-metal contaminated soil microbial community composition and changes over phytoremediation period #2 Obtain and analyze genomes from the same soils isolates that could be used as plant-growth promoter inoculum #3 Use these results to propose biomarkers of phytoremediation and heavy-metal contamination.



Title: M.Sc.Eng.

First name: Izabela
Last name: Krzymińska
Organisation:Probiotics Poland
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationTechnology consultant
Phone No.:+48 668-173-656
Fax no. :
E-mail:biuro@probiotics.pl
My area of expertise:Microbiology; Bioprocess control; Microbial interactions
What I do in my home organistion:Monitoring of production process; Microbiological quality control; Product development research
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Develop new bioinoculum composition; Research under product quality and stability


Title:

First name: Urska
Last name: Zadel
Organisation:Helmholtz Zentrum München
Country:Germany
Position in my Home OrganisationPhD student
Phone No.:+49 89 3187-3242
Fax no. :
E-mail:urska.zadel@helmholtz-muenchen.de
My area of expertise:Microbial ecology
What I do in my home organistion:Plant-associated microbial community and its response to metal stress
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Performance of greenhouse experiment and determination of changes in microbial communities when exposed to metal stress. Sample and analyze changes in microbial communities in field samples.

WP3 Biomass valorization and use as local energy carrier


Title: PhD, DSc (Eng)

First name: Sebastian
Last name: Werle
Organisation:Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Thermal Technology
Country:Poland
Position in my Home OrganisationAssistant Professor
Phone No.:+48 32 237 29 83
Fax no. : +48 32 23728 72
E-mail:Sebastian.werle@polsl.pl
My area of expertise:fossil fuels and biofuel combustion and gasification, waste-to energy processes and low-emission combustion processes
What I do in my home organistion:Responsible for students teaching in the field of thermodynamics, combustion and gasification processes. Responsible for research activities in power engineering and environmental engineering area. Participation extensively as a partner and coordinator in European and national research projects. Author over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. I’m Member of the Polish Section of the Combustion and Thermodynamics Committee Polish Science Academy and Polish Section of the Combustion Institute, Member of the Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society and World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. I’m an editorial board member of: Journal of Power Technologies, International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering and International Journal of Waste Management and Technology.
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:WP3 Leader - Biomass valorization and use as local energy carrier in gasification process.



Title: Dr. eng.

First name: Daniel
Last name: Bisorca
Organisation:Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Country:Romania
Position in my Home OrganisationMechanical engineer; Design engineer; Technology project manager
Phone No.:+ 40 372821627
Fax no. : + 40 256492088
E-mail:daniel.bisorca@ispetm.ro
My area of expertise:Feasibility study of the power plants; Fossil fuels and biomass combustion and gasification; Safe and clean technology for ash and slag disposal; Flue gas desulfurization for the combustion process; Air quality measurement and modeling;
What I do in my home organistion:Activities related to the design work and management of the projects in the Power Plants; Development of feasibility studies and environmental risks assessments; Responsible for research activities in power engineering and environmental engineering area; Responsible for students practice in the ISPE.
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:WP3 - Development of a cost effectives and environmental benefits analysis for gasification of HMC biomass; Identification of areas for Gasification proces of biomass operations improvement; Gasification tests of biomass.


Title: Eng

First name: Alexandru-Andreas
Last name: Pahopol
Organisation:Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Country:Romania
Position in my Home OrganisationMechanical engineer; Design engineer; Technology project manager
Phone No.:+ 40 726113011
Fax no. : + 40 256492088
E-mail:andreas.pahopol@ispe.ro
My area of expertise:Engineering and consultancy in energy field
What I do in my home organistion:Thermomechanical engineering
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:In the project I am ESR2 - Biomass valorization and use as local energy carrier in gasification process.



Title: M.Sc. Dipl. Eng.

First name: Ioana-Cristina
Last name: Dima
Organisation:Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Country:Romania
Position in my Home OrganisationProject manager - Engineering Department - Studies/Projects Financing
Phone No.:+ 40 21 206 11 96
Fax no. : + 40 21 210 12 55
E-mail:cristina.dima@ispe.ro
My area of expertise:Specialist in process engineering for opportunity, pre - feasibility and feasibility studies in the energy field
What I do in my home organistion:Involved in several knowledge sharing activity to increase efficiency and further develop renewable sources of energy and improve the efficient use of energy through reducing emissions from fossil fuels and minimise environmental damage.
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:Final lab tests and analyses of biomass as biofuel feedstock according to the defined control parameters. Analysis results of control parameters in HMC biomass.


Title: Researcher, PhD engineer

First name: Valentin
Last name: Rusu
Organisation:Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Country:Romania
Position in my Home OrganisationResearcher
Phone No.:+ 40 212 06 12 79
Fax no. : + 40 256 49 20 88
E-mail:valentin.rusu@ispe.ro
My area of expertise:

Preparing designing documentation for all stages – study of solution, prefeasibility studies and feasibility studies, basic design and bid documents (specifications), detail design, as-built documentation – for waste integrated management (collecting, conveying, sorting stations, transfer stations, composting stations, MBT, waste-to-energy, domestic waste landfills, non-compliant dumps closing).

Expert in environmental legislation in Romania and implementing EU directives especially related to air quality, atmosphere protection and climate changes

Expert in strategic environmental assessment for plans and programmes

Expert in environmental impact assessment studies and environment balances required to  obtain environment approvals and operation authorizations for various objectives
What I do in my home organistion:

Waste management consulting

Support activities for the clients in order to obtain the environment integrated permit and also countenancing the designing solutions in front of the public, agencies and/or state authorities in the field of environmental protection

Preparing documentations necessary to acquire environmental permits and authorizations
What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:

WP3 - ER5 – Experienced researcher fellow from Industrial Partners

WP3 - Biomass valorization and use as local energy carrier

WP4 - Dissemination & outreach




 
Title: M.Sc. Dipl. Eng.


First name: Elena-Cristina
Last name: Tomescu
Organisation:Institute for Studies and Power Engineering
Country:Romania
Position in my Home OrganisationDesign engineer; Assistant Project Manager
Phone No.:+40 212061398
Fax no. : +40 212103440
E-mail:cristina.tomescu@ispe.ro
My area of expertise:Specialist in biomass valorization; Specialist in remediation  technologies for contaminated soils and groundwater; Specialist in solid waste landfill closure and monitoring
What I do in my home organistion:

Activities related to the design work and management  for biomass valorization, waste management  and contaminated sites projects

What I do in the Phyto2Energy Project:I am ESR2 - Biomass valorization and use as local energy carrier in gasification process











European Community

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 610797.