Georgie Schofield is the Events and Partnerships Manager at the University of Bradford. In this role she leads the University of Bradford’s corporate, public and internal engagement events team and portfolio of work and supports the University’s city, civic and corporate partnership development. Georgie works to ensure the University is connected to its City and Region and responds to the challenges and opportunities by looking to form mutually beneficially partnerships or host events that meet the needs of the City. Prior to her current role Georgie has worked in community engagement, leadership development, graduate enterprise and hospitality. Georgie worked alongside the previous Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford to initiate and develop the World Technology Universities Network and has played a key role since its inception in 2016. She currently manages and hosts the WTUN Coordinating office at the University of Bradford.
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Dr. Gerald Reisinger
Dr. Gerald Reisinger is president of University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria since 2004, Austria’s leading University of Applied Sciences
His education at the military academy and his degree in law took him to previous stages in his career to the Austrian ministry for national defence as regular officer and head of studies at the military academy, to consulting companies and building project organizer as manager, CEO or partner and member of the supervisory board. Since 2004 Mr. Reisinger is president of University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
Mr. Reisinger is since 2014 member of the IAUP – International Association University Presidents – board, and from July 2017 to July 2021 in the role of acting Secretary General.
Mr. Reisinger has titles of honorary professor conferred by the Kharkiv National University of Economic, of honorary Doctor conferred by the Caucasus University.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Bryniok
Dieter Bryniok graduated as a micro-biologist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Tuebingen, Germany with a doctoral thesis on the immuno-enzymatic detection of methanogens in biogas producing microbial consortia. Between 1985 and 2017, he worked for the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), Stuttgart, Germany as a scientist, research group leader and vice department leader, initially in the chemical microbiology (CMB) department. He has been vice department leader of the institute’s environmental biotechnology and biochemical engineering department (UBT) since 2001. Previously, he worked as senior project manager in the fields of biodegradation of hazardous substances, water management, bio-energy, sustainable development, industrial biotechnology and bio-economy. Byniok headed the Fraunhofer Demonstration Center for Process Integrated Environmental Technology for six years (1995-2001) He was also responsible for establishing the Fraunhofer Center for Energy and the Environment in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, between the years of 1998 and 2001. Furthermore, he was managing director of the Fraunhofer Water Systems Alliance – a network of up to 13 Fraunhofer Institutes working in the field of water supply and wastewater management – for ten years from 2007 onwards. Bryniok held a professorship in environmental biotechnology from 2010 to 2022 at the newly founded Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) in Hamm, Germany, where he worked full-time from November 2017. He headed two research fields for bioenergy and bio-economy. Since 2018, he was Vice President for Research and Transfer, before he retired in August 2022.
Ms Annika Alke
Annika Alke is the Personal Assistant to the President of Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. In March 2015, Annika joined Hamm-Lippstadt from the University of Münster.
Ms Joanne Dobson
A senior leader with a background in strategy development, collaborative working and knowledge management. At Coventry University Jo is the institutional lead on national and international policy engagement. She is responsible for coordinating our engagement with relevant bodies, national regulatory bodies and HE networks such as University Alliance and the World Technology Universities Network (WTUN). Through her work she has a wide network of HE, industry and policy contacts. Jo has led on a number of organisational change programmes within the university, the two most significant involved (i) establishing two new professional services departments to support our growing research aspirations, as well as our continued engagement with industry and (ii) the launch of a formal Location Independent Working programme. She is a CMI accredited coach and supports colleagues with their personal development through our university’s coaching and mentoring academy. Jo strongly believes that collaborative working is key to economic and societal growth and that the Higher Education sector has a key role as a catalyst for collaboration. Experience: HE policy in the UK; developing business cases for investment; chairing and facilitation of large and small groups; public speaking; networking and building influence; project management; public funding bid writing and development; flexible working practices; business-university collaboration; public funded research and enterprise programmes; business and enterprise support; managing complex budgets; information and knowledge management.
Professor Gareth Pender
Gareth Pender was appointed as Deputy Principal (Research and Innovation) in October 2016, previously he was Head of School and Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of the Built Environment. He is a civil engineering graduate of Strathclyde University, Glasgow and upon graduation in 1984 took up a post as design engineer with Couch and Hogg Consulting Civil Engineers working on a variety of civil engineering projects. In 1989, he joined Glasgow University, as a Lecturer, in the Department of Civil Engineering. In 2000, he moved to the Chair in Environmental Engineering at Heriot Watt University, and was appointed Head of School of the Built Environment in 2008. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Professor Iqbal Mujtaba
Iqbal M. Mujtaba is a Professor of Computational Process Engineering and is currently the Associate Dean (Learning, Teaching & Quality) of the Faculty of Engineering & Informatics at the University of Bradford. He was Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Bradford from 2016-2018. He obtained his PhD and DIC from Imperial College London in 1989. He is a Fellow of the IChemE, a Chartered Chemical Engineer, and the Chair of the IChemE’s Computer Aided Process Engineering Special Interest Group. He was the Chair of the European Committee for Computers in Chemical Engineering Education from 2010-2013. He is currently an Associate Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, South African Journal of Chemical Engineering and an Editorial Board Member of the journals Processes, Energies and Desalination. Professor Mujtaba leads research in dynamic modelling, simulation, optimisation and control of batch and continuous chemical processes with specific interests in distillation, industrial reactors, refinery processes, desalination, wastewater treatment and crude oil hydrotreating focusing on energy and water. He has managed several research collaborations and consultancy projects with industry and academic institutions in the UK and abroad. He has published more than 300 technical papers and has delivered more than 70 invited lectures/seminars/plenaries/keynotes/short courses around the world. He has supervised 31 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 10 PhD students. He is one of the co-editors of the books (1) ‘The Water-Food-Energy Nexus’, CRC Press, 2017, (2) ‘Water Management: Social & Technological Perspective’, CRC Press, 2018.
Dr. Frank Dwomoh
Dr. Frank Agyen Dwomoh is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Koforidua Technical University (KTU) and he is also the Director of Research and Innovation. He was previously the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Frank specializes in Fluid Mechanics and Machinery as well as in Water Resources Engineering and Management. He has served on several national and institutional committees, boards and accreditation teams. He is also the current Managing Editor of the International Journal of Technology and Management Research. He has a couple of research publications in reputable journals in his area of specialization to his credit.
Professor Smile Dzisi
Prof. Smile Dzisi is the former Vice-Chancellor/Rector of Koforidua Technical University. She was the first female to be appointed a Rector of a Polytechnic in Ghana. She ably led the transition of her Polytechnic into a Technical University. Prof. Dzisi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; a Master of Public Administration degree from University of Ghana and a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia where she also received an award for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis. Prof. Dzisi is the first female to serve as chair of the Vice-Chancellors of Technical Universities of Ghana. She has provided consultancy to the DAAD, UNFPA, Commonwealth of Learning and the World Bank. She champions entrepreneurship education, women empowerment, as well as technical vocational education and training (TVET) and was recently selected as a model for TVET by COTVET/GIZ.
Prof. Dzisi served on the Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa Board as West Africa Coordinator of Women in Technical Education and Development. For her outstanding competency, innovativeness, commitment and passion for excellence, Prof. Dzisi received the Name in Science and Education Award from the Academic Union and the Club of Rectors of Europe, United Kingdom in 2019, Ghana Women of Excellence Award in 2019 and the Daasebre Silver Jubilee Award of Excellence in 2017. She is currently the President of Data Link Institute of Business and Technology, a private university college in Tema, Ghana.
Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi Director Indian Institute of Technology Madras Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi got his B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D is Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 1982 and 1985 respectively. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of IIT Madras, his alma mater, in 1986. He took over as Director, IIT Madras in September 2011. His areas of specialisation are Communications and Signal Processing. His research work is in Wireless Networks, Modulation, Wireless Data, and Audio and Video Compression. He is a founding member of the TeNeT group of IIT Madras, active in developing telecom and networking technologies, and incubating companies to develop and market products based on these. He is currently also honorary Director of the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, a public-private initiative at the IIT-M Research Park to make India a wireless technology leader. He is on the Board of Bharat Electronics Limited. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy. He was awarded the Vasvik Award for Electronic Sciences and Technology for the year 2000, the Tamil Nadu Scientist Award for Engineering and Technology for the year 2003, India Semiconductor Association TechnoVisionary Award for the year 2011, Doyens of Madras Award for the year 2014 and ACCS–CDAC Foundation Award for the year 2015.