Organisation

Organizing Committee Scientific Committee
Young Water Professional Committee
Supporting Organizations

Organizing Committee
Peter Vanrolleghem
Imre Takács
Evangelina Belia
Yves Comeau
Ronald Droste
Stéphane Déléris
Xavier Flores Alsina
Bruce R. Johnson
Marc-André Labelle
Philippe Kouadio
Günter Langergraber
Paul Lessard
Jan Oleszkiewicz
Wayne Parker
Leiv Rieger
Oliver Schraa
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada (chair OC)
EnviroSim Europe, Bordeaux, France (co-chair OC)
Primodal Inc., Hamilton, Canada
École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Anjou Recherche – Veolia, Paris France
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
CH2M Hill, Denver, CO, USA
École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada
Réseau Environnement, Quebec, Canada
BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
EnviroSim Associates Ltd., Flamborough, Canada
Hydromantis, Hamilton, Canada

Scientific Committee
To foster young water professionals and to introduce them to the work of scientific committees, every senior member has been invited to nominate a young and promising water professional to be connected to him/her within the program committee. These two have to come up with a single answer to questions related to the programme set-up and they also have to write the reviews together.
Senior Member Young Water Professional
Leiv Rieger: Canada (chair SC) Dirk Muschalla: Canada
Bruce R. Johnson: USA (co-chair SC)
Marc Neumann: Canada
Eduardo Ayesa: Spain
Paloma Grau: Spain
Damien Batstone: Australia
Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez: UK
Joshua P. Boltz: USA
Kelly Martin: USA
Ken Brischke: USA
Cameron Staib: Australia
Joaquim Comas: Spain
Lluís Corominas: Canada
Yves Comeau: Canada
Dwight Houweling: Canada
John Copp: Canada
Monica de Gracia: Spain
George Ekama: South Africa
Ana Julia Pena-Tijerina: USA
Sylvie Gillot: France
Hélène Hauduc: France
Ulf Jeppsson: Sweden
Kris Villez: USA
David J. Kinnear: USA
Anne-Emmanuelle Stricker: France
Henryk Melcer: USA
Jose Jimenez: USA
Eberhard Morgenroth: Switzerland
Doris Brockmann: France
Sudhir Murthy: USA
Katya Bilyk, USA
JB Neethling: USA
Nicolas Rios, Belgium
Ingmar Nopens: Belgium
Marc-André Labelle: Canada
Adrian Oehmen: Portugal
Sebastià Puig: Spain
Heather Phillips: USA
Baneeta Sabherwal: USA
Diego Rosso: USA
Marie Sedran Burbano: USA
Oliver Schraa: Canada
Hank Andres: Canada
Andrew R. Shaw: USA
Carlos Lopez: USA
Hansruedi Siegrist: Switzerland
Markus Gresch: Switzerland
Gurkan Sin: Denmark
Pascal Boisson: France
Kim H. Soerensen: France
Julie Jimenez: France
Jean-Philipe Steyer: France
Albert Guisasola: Spain
Imre Takács: France
Alexandre Galí: Spain
Mark van Loosdrecht: The Netherlands
Eveline Volcke: Belgium
Peter Vanrolleghem: Canada
Victoria Ruano García, Spain

Young Water Professional Committee
To further improve our YWP program, a special committee will organize a pre-seminar workshop to network and discuss YWP related issues:
Ingmar Nopens
Joshua P. Boltz
Heather Phillips
Marc-André Labelle
BIOMATH, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium (chair)
CH2M Hill, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Black & Veatch, Kansas City, USA
École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada

Supporting Organizations
Supporting WEF committees
• Modelling Expert Group of the Americas (MEGA, chair: I. Takács) as a sub-committee of the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee (MWWTDC, chair: J. Sandino)
Supporting IWA Specialist and Task Groups
• Hosted by the Specialist Group on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment (SAIA, chair: P.A. Vanrolleghem)
• Specialist Group on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA, chair: Z. Yuan)
• Specialist Group on Nutrient Removal and Recovery (chair: J.A. Oleszkiewicz)
• Specialist Group on Anaerobic Digestion (chair: J. Van Lier)
• Specialist Group on Activated Sludge Population Dynamics (chair: P.H. Nielsen)
• Specialist Group on Biofilms (chair: Z. Lewandowski)
• Task Group on Good Modelling Practice – Guidelines for Use of Activated Sludge Models (GMP, chair: L. Rieger)
• Task Group on Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants (BSM, chair: U. Jeppsson)
• Task Group on Uncertainty Evaluations in WWTP Design and Operations DOUTGroup, chair: E. Belia)
Local Professional Associations

• Réseau Environnement, Québec, Canada
• Canadian National Committee of the International Water Association (CNC/IWA)