Dr. Francisco Pedrero Salcedo is an Agriculture Engineer and scientist affiliated with the Irrigation Department of CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain). Worked for the last 15 years on the use of non-conventional water resources in agriculture, having written more than 80 SCI papers and numerous communications to national and international conferences (> 40). He developed a multidisciplinary scientific work in this field, collaborating with other institutions, departments and companies, working in California, Portugal, Denmark and finally as a postdoctoral in Italy. Currently, he is researcher as Project coordinator in CEBAS-CSIC and i has participated in more than 20 international, national and regional research projects in close collaboration with private enterprises. He is one of the Editors of the new guideline from FAO-IWMI “Water Quality in Agriculture”.

From Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) Berlin, Dr. Jens's main expertise is in plankton ecology (freshwater and marine), with a focus on process studies and experimental quantification of population dynamics and trophic interactions from individual to ecosystem-scales, in response to environmental forcing in a changing world. He has three decades of experience in designing and leading international mesocosm experiments. Dr. Jens develops new approaches ranging from molecular and video-based in situ techniques to international networks of large-scale mesocosm experimentation. In His lab, they presently focus on the development of in situ and laboratory video systems using deep learning algorithms to enable automatic zooplankton detection, sizing and enumeration at high spatial and temporal scales, as well as determination of zooplankton feeding based on molecular gut content analyses.

Massimo Del Bubba is an Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence, Italy. He graduated in Chemistry in 1996 and obtained his PhD in “Environmental Sciences” in 2000. He is the author of 142 papers published in "peer-reviewed" international journals indexed on Scopus with 4705 citations and an H-index of 37. His teaching disciplines include Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Analytical Chemistry. His research interests mainly include the development and application of different methods of extraction of organic compounds from the matrix and their analysis using gas and liquid chromatography coupled with various types of mass analysers. These techniques have been successfully used for method development and application in multiple areas, including various environmental matrices (e.g., wastewater, environmental water, and sludge), foods (e.g., fruits, clams, and fish) and biological fluids (i.e., human milk, urine, and blood). He is President of the Tuscany Section of the Italian Chemical Society and a member of the Editorial Office of the journal “Separations”. He is and has been the coordinator of the European Research Project in the ERANET-MED and FOSC Partnerships.

Professor at the Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management at the University of Jordan, Jordan. A former Director of Water and Environmental Research and Study Center (WERSC) at the University of Jordan and Head of Dept. of Agr. Econ.& Agribusiness Management. My academic interests include Natural Resource Economics, Project Appraisal, Financial Analysis, Water Economics, Environmental economics, Risk analysis and economics of Integrated Water Resource Management.

Research Associate at the Chair of Wood Science at the Technical University of Munich. With 15 years of demonstrated experience in conducting sustainability assessments, expertise in bioenergy and a consistent drive to pioneer innovative solutions in the sustainability sector, I am passionate to apply my talents wherever possible and drive the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Salah Er-Raki is actually a Full Professor of Applied physics at Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco. He received his PhD in “crop water requirements estimate through combining the modeling, in situ measurements and remote sensing” in 2007, and an ACR (Ability to Conduct Research) in 2014 from Cadi Ayyad University. His main research interests include the application of multispectral remote sensing observations (optical, radar and thermal data) in land-surface-atmosphere models for high spatio-temporal resolution monitoring of crops water needs especially in arid and semi-arid regions. He also contributed in developing a software named « SAMIR, Satellite monitoring of irrigation”, which such basic concepts are based on his thesis work. He also participates in several international experiments (e.g. Yaqui-2006-2008 in Mexico) and he was a co-leader of the joint international laboratory "Télédétection et Ressources en Eau en Méditerranée semi-Aride", LMI-TREMA (www.lmi-trema.ma). Salah Er-Raki has published more than 130 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, which have been cited more than 4000 times and brought him an H-index of 35 (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7801628091). He supervised and co-supervised 8 PhD students and he coordinates several research projects (e.g. PHC Maghreb, PRIMA, H2020 RISE action,…).

Mrs. Laila Mandi is a Professor of Water and Environmental Sciences at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco). From 2001–2016, she was the coordinator of the Pole of Competencies on "Water and Environment" (PC2E). Since 2008, she has been the Director of the National Center for Studies and Research on Water and Energy at Cadi Ayyad University. She has coordinated several funded research projects at the national and international levels. She supervised more than 30 Ph.D. theses. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. She has been a guest editor of two special issues of Water Journal: "Cyanobacteria Harmful Bloom Remediation: Enabling Eco-Technology for Water Reclamation" and "New Insights into Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse". She is also the topic editor for the collection titled "Quality of Water Used for Irrigation Purposes" for Frontiers in Water Journal. Since 2014, she has been a member of the France Water Academy. In 2015, she was awarded the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Prize for Women’s Contribution to Development in recognition of her outstanding research work and contribution to water resources management. In 2017, she became a member of the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC). Currently, she is a member of the International Water Association (IWA).

Dr. Lahouari Bounoua joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Biospheric Sciences Branch in 1993 as a member of one of the finest and largest (1991-2000) Earth Observing System (EOS) Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) group – The Sellers-Mooney ‘Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions’ group to work on the second generation of the NASA’s Simple Biosphere model (SiB2). Dr. Bounoua’s role was to realign the aerodynamic formulation and turbulent processes in SiB2 to account for the simultaneous coupling of the carbon-water-energy cycles and to implement it in a Global Climate model to assess the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on global climate. A unique feature of that work was the a-priori incorporation of satellite observations into the land surface model formulation and data stream, explicitly accounting for fourteen land cover classes completely characterized by satellite data. The model has been used extensively to elucidate the role of terrestrial vegetation on water, energy and carbon cycles. I will present some of the advances made in the domain of irrigation and efficient water use in agriculture.

Dr. Hicham ELARROUSSI is Head Scientist in Algal Biotechnology. With 17 Years’ experience on natural resources valorization using biotechnological tools, his research team was involved during last 10 years in several projects related with microalgae production and valorization in different applications such as applied environment, agriculture, bioenergy.
Dr. ELARROUSSI’s research focuses on based microalgae plant biostimulant, their effect on plant growth, plant tolerance to abiotic stress, nutrients uptake in plants and the management of nutrients in agricultural ecosystems, and studies mechanism of action of plant biostimulant using physiologic, metabolomic and transcriptomic approach. Dr. ELARROUSSI is researcher with important contributions include several international patents and publications in microalgae biotechnology for bioproducts and new process development in different field such as wastewater treatment and bioproducts development for sustainable bioeconomy. Dr ELARROUSSI has set up and led several projects on a national and international scale. Dr. ELARROUSSI is researcher in microalgae valorization for the last 14 years Author or co-author of many JCR scientific articles, book chapters and 10 international patents. Dr. Elarroussi is the founder of TECALGA, an innovative startup focused on the development and production of plant biostimulants based on microalgae biotechnology