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Speaker Biographies
Mr. Florian Amlinger KEB Compost - Consulting & Development, Technical Office Agriculture Hochbergstr. 3,A-2380, Perchtoldsdorf, Tel.: +43 1 8656084, Fax: +43 1 8656084-2 Email: f.amlinger@kabsi.at
Florian Amlinger in 1997 founded a R & D Consulting Institute COMPOST-CONSULTING & DEVELOPMENT. Main national and international area of his research and development are biowaste management, separate collection, decentralised agricultural composting systems, compost process, quality and technology, legislation and standardisation in biowaste recycling and sustainable compost use including soil protection. Florian Amlinger works nationally and internationally as Consultant of the Ministry of Environment (Austria) and The Lower Austria Provincial Government in the range of Organic Waste Management, Composting and Soil Protection. In addition he is involved in various biowaste management projects in the Eastern European neighbour countries of Austria. As an expert Mr. Amlinger contributes to various international projects in the area of organic waste like the Working Group Organic Matter of the EU Soil Strategy, the CEN TC 223 for soil improvers and growing media and for “Analytical methods” and the project “HORIZONTAL” – Harmonisation of methods to analyse soil, waste and sludge. He’s currently the Vice Chair of European Compost Network ECN.
Mr. Gerry Bird OCAE Consultants, Ballinderry House, Enfield, Co. Meath, Tel: ++ 353 (0) 46 9555591 Fax: ++ 353 (0) 46 9555602, Email: GJbird@eircom.net
Gerry Bird is an Agricultural Science graduate. He has worked with Bayer, as Field trials and Technical manager. He then commenced his own independent Crop Consultancy and Field trials operation in 1986. He presently manages Crops and Landbank management on 9,000 ha of arable crops. He does contract field trials research on arable crops, amenity and forestry.
Mr. Josef Barth Managing Director of the European Compost Network ECN and the ORBIT Association, INFORMA Compost Consultants, Am Landhagen 64a, D-59302 Oelde, Germany. Tel.: + 49 (0) 25 22 96 03 41 Fax: + 49 (0) 25 22 96 03 43, Email: Barth@oelde.com, Web: www.compostnetwork.info
Josef Barth is senior consultant and an expert in the field of organic waste treatment, compost quality and compost certification. He has been working for both governments and industrial clients all over Europe. He works as Managing Director of the international scientific technical network ORBIT Association and of the European Compost Network ECN, an extensive Central and Eastern European network of practitioners in the field of biological waste treatment and related topics with more than 1,000 experts and treatment plants as members in 24 countries. He is an agricultural engineer by education and the founder of INFORMA Compost Consultants and is now working for information and consulting services governmental and commercial clients in the area of biological waste management all over Europe. Josef Barth has been invited many times as an expert to attend conferences and training courses in Europe, North America and Australia to report about up-to-date European development in biological waste treatment.
Ms Marion Bieker Humus & Erden Kontor GmbH, Marketing Division, Karlsbrunnenstraße 11, D- 37249 Neu-Eichenberg Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 5542 - 93 59 51, Fax: +49 (0) 5542 - 93 59 79 Email: marion.bieker@humus-erden-kontor.de Web: www.humus-erden-kontor.de
Marion Bieker has been working in the biological waste treatment and recycling sector since 1986. She joined Humus & Erden Kontor GmbH in April 2004 and is head of the Marketing Department Humus & Erden Kontor GmbH is a subsidiary of the medium-sized EKO-PLANT group. As specialists for innovative products and services in the soil and substrate sector, the company develops, produces and markets compost-based products for any type of horticultural application. This comprehensive portfolio is based on 25 years of experience gained by the leading team, numerous in-house research and development projects and the cooperation of leading research, development and advisory organisations. Besides its main business activities in Germany, the company also works for different partners in the international arena.
Dr. Enzo Favoino Working Group on Composting and Integrated Waste Management, Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, Viale Cavriga 3, 20052 Monza, Italy Tel. +39.039.2302660 Fax. +39.039.2327676E-mail: favoinomail@tin.it
Enzo Favoino works in the Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, where he co-ordinates the Working Group on Composting and Integrated Waste Management. He and his team have helped many Governmental Institutions and Local Authorities to implement waste management schemes, with a particular reference to options for the management of biowaste. The Working Group on Composting is involved across the world in scientific and technical issues related to optimisation of schemes for source segregation, process management, improvement of existing plants, marketing of composted products, role of mechanical-biological treatment for residual waste. He’s currently Chair of the WG on Biological Treatment at ISWA – International Solid Waste Association – and Vice Chair of ECN-European Compost Network.
Mr. Percy Foster Cré – Composting Association of Ireland, Business Innovation Centre, Institute of Technology Campus, Ballinode, Sligo. Tel: ++ 353 (0)86 8129260, Email: percy@cre.ie, Web: www.cre.ie
Percy Foster is the Executive Administrator of Cré – Composting Association of Ireland since March 2006. His role is the development of a sustainable composting industry in Ireland the co-ordinating the affairs of the association, participation in projects such as the compost standard project and the development of training courses. Percy Foster has Master of Science degree (by research) in composting and market development and an honours degree in Environmental Science and Technology. Previous to this role in Cré, Percy has also acted as a consultant on projects examining the operation and the assessment of an in-vessel composting system, and a feasibility study and composting trial of farmyard manures.
Mr. John Geraghty Geraghty Consulting, Kilsheelan, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Tel: +353 (0)52 33202 E-Mail:info@jgeraghtyconsulting.com Web: www.jgeraghtyconsulting.com
John Geraghty graduated with a Bachelor of Agriculture Science Degree (B.Agr.Sc.) from University College Dublin in 1992 and went on to complete a Masters Degree (M.Agr.Sc.) in Rural Development in 1995. He has worked in the area of agriculture research, extension and rural development since that time including periods in West Africa with the German Technical Co-operation Agency and Southern Africa with the United Nations World Food Programme. He was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 2003 and studied Conservation Agriculture developments throughout South America. He currently works as an agriculture consultant and is a lecturer in Sustainable Cropping Systems with Waterford Institute of Technology. He is General Secretary of Conservation Agriculture Ireland and National Representative to the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation.
Mr. Gerold Hafner Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality & Solid Waste Management - University of Stuttgart, Bandtaele 2, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany, Tel.: +49 (0) 711/6856 7635 Fax; +49 (0) 711/6856 5460 Email: Gerold.Hafner@iswa.uni-stuttgart.de
Mr. Hafner works as Project Manager in the area of comparison of recovery option at the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The institute is dealing with problems of water quality, water supply, wastewater disposal and solid waste treatment disposal since the Fifties. Nowadays it is an interdisciplinary institution within the Faculty of Civil- and Environmental Engineering of the University Stuttgart employing civil engineers, environmental engineers, biologists, chemists, process engineers, geologists and geographers. The main objectives of the institute are teaching, research and the assistance of federal and state ministries and agencies, and of communities and industries in solving practical problems. With 120 staff members the institute is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Dr. Dieter Horlacher Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Plant Nutrition and Fertilization, Albrecht-Thaer Weg 4 D-14195 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 (0)30-314-71480, Fax: +49 (0)30-314-71488 Email: dieter.horlacher@agrar.hu-berlin.de Web: www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/pflanzenbau
Dr. Dieter Horlacher works as research associate the Faculty of Agriculture at the Humboldt University Berlin in the department of plant nutrition and fertilisation.
Ms. Lorraine Herity RPS Consulting Engineers, Carnegie House, Library Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Tel: ++ 353 (0) 1 2020870, Email:Lorraine.Herity@rpsgroup.ie, Web:www.rpsgroup.com/ireland
Lorraine Herity is a senior project scientist in RPS Consulting Engineers. She joined RPS in 2003 after completing her Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from Queens University of Belfast. Since then Lorraine has specialised in waste management with her main focus on Biological Treatment of Waste. She has worked on a number of waste projects in composting, recycling, landfill, design of waste collection systems, stakeholder consultation and strategic planning. She is currently working on the procurement of two 45,000 tonne biological treatment facilities for the Dublin Region under PPP arrangement. Lorraine is also an active member of Cré - Composting Association of Ireland Teo, having filled the position of Secretary of Cré for three years. Lorraine now sits on the PR committee and the Board of Administrators of Cré.
Dr. Dominic Hogg Eunomia Research & Consulting, 1 Kings Court, Little King Street, Bristol, BS1 4HW, UK Tel.: +44 (0) 117 945 0100, Fax: +44 (0) 117 945 0550, Email: DominicHogg@eunomia.co.uk Web: www.eunomia.co.uk
Dr Dominic Hogg has an Honours Degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Economics. He has been involved in environmental issues for almost twenty years, as campaigner, academic and consultant. Before setting up Eunomia in 2001, he was Deputy Director of ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd., where he was responsible for the company's environmental policy and economics research. With Eunomia, he has worked on numerous international projects related to the development of public policy for the environment, mostly in waste management. Studies for the European Commission have included those on Refuse Derived Fuel, and on the Costs of Municipal Waste Management. In the UK he has worked on projects for the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit, for Defra, for the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management, for the Environment Agency and as Technical Advisor to the House of Commons Environment, Committee's and ongoing for the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Waste Strategy issues. He was also involved on projects for Non-government Organisations, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF International.
Dr. Karl Kellner European Commission, Adviser DG ENERGY AND TRANSPORT (DG TREN), New and Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Efficiency and Innovation Rue de Mot 24, Floor 4/101, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel.: + 32 2 2952410, Fax: + 32 2 296 83 54 Email: karl.kellner@ec.europa.eu
Dr. Karl Kellner is head of the Unit for New and Renewable Energy Sources in the Energy and Transport Directorate-General of the European Commission.
Ms. Ulla Koj (Consultant) Ingenieurgemeinschaft Witzenhausen Fricke & Turk GmbH, Bischhäuser Aue 12 D-37213 Witzenhausen Germany. Tel.: +49-5542-9308-22. Fax: +49-5542-9308-20, Email: u.koj@igw-witzenhausen.de Web: www,igw-witzenhausen.de
Ulla Koj is an agricultural scientist and environmental engineer, graduated from the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen, Germany. Within the department of renewable raw materials at the company IGW Fricke & Turk GmbH she has been involved in numerous projects in the field of biomass. The most recent projects include web based knowledge platform on applying renewable resources, the preparation of a biomass inventory and development of strategies for further deployment in the federal state of Hesse and feasibility studies on the use of biomass from nature conservation, landscape conservation and biofuels.
Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Kunter Product Manager, KOMPTECH GmbH, Kühau 37, 8130 Frohnleiten, Austria. Tel.: +43 3126 505-530, Email: a.kunter@komptech.com, Web: www.komptech.com
Mr. Andreas Kunter studied Technical chemistry and started working for KOMPTECH in the field of process engineering. He is now responsible for product management and technical marketing of all KOMPTECH products. KOMPTECH is a leading international supplier of technology for machines and system technology for the mechanical and biological treatment of solid wastes and biomass. The product portfolio comprises more than 20 different machine types covering the key process stages in modern waste treatment – shredding, separation and biological treatment.
Professor Stephen Nortcliff Head of Department Soil Science, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6DW, United Kingdom Tel: (44) 0118 3786559, Fax: (44) 0118 3786666, Email: s.nortcliff@reading.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Nortcliff is Professor of Soil Science and Head of the Department of Soil Science at the University of Reading and also Adjunct Professor of Soil Science at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Since 2002, Professor Nortcliff has been Secretary General of the International Union of Soil Sciences, succeeding Professor Winfried Blum. Professor Nortcliff has worked across many areas of Soil Science but in recent years has focussed on the broad area of contaminated land and organic additions (sewage sludge and compost) to soil. In this context he is currently involved in the European Commission Project Horizontal, coordinating work on the sampling of sludges and biowastes. Professor Nortcliff has had a very active involvement in the work on the EC’s Thematic Strategy for Soil Development, co-chairing the Working Group on Organic Matter and Biodiversity.
Mr. Luca Marmo European Commission, Environment Directorate-General Agriculture, Forests and Soil Unit, Avenue de Beaulieu, 5, B - 1160 Brussels (Auderghem), Belgium. Tel +32-2-299.63.61, Fax +32-2-298.88.41. Email: luca.marmo@ec.europa.eu
Luca Marmo was born in Sanremo (Italy) in 1966. He graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa and joined the European Commission in 1997 to work on technical and legal issues concerning waste, in particular sewage sludge and biowaste management. His work in the Waste Unit of the Environment Directorate-General has also included the development of a proposal for a Directive on mining waste and the preparation of a European policy on natural resources. Since November 2005 Luca Marmo has joined the Soil Unit and participated in the development of the Soil Thematic Strategy.
Mr. Julian Martin Agrilife Ltd., Tworin, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. Tel: ++ 353 (0) 58 52795, Email: julian@agrilifeltd.com
Julian Martin studied Agricultural Science in Gurteen Agricultural College in Ireland and Harper Adams College in the UK between 1973 and 1978. He subsequently spent a ten year period as Farm Manager for a large tillage enterprise on Tourin & Moorehill Farms in Waterford, South of Ireland. He emigrated to Saudi Arabia in 1989 and became Farm Manager for Masstock Saudia for a two year period before becoming Regional Manager for the Enterprise in 1990. In 1994 he returned to Ireland and became Founder and Director of Agrilife Limited an organization that specializes in recycling co-products to agriculture.
Dr. Wolfgang Müller (Senior Consultant) Ingenieurgemeinschaft Witzenhausen Fricke & Turk GmbH, Bischhäuser Aue 12,D-37213 Witzenhausen Germany, Tel.: +49-5542-9308-13, Fax: +49-5542-9308-20, Email: W.Mueller@IGW-Witzenhausen.de Web: www,igw-witzenhausen.de
Dr. Wolfgang Müller has worked at the forefront of advanced solid waste treatment technology for the past 15 years and is now Head of international projects within IGW Fricke & Turk GmbH. He was awarded a doctorate at Kassel University on mechanical and biological waste treatment. He has subsequently carried forward this in depth knowledge into the development of practical methods of assessing the performance of waste strategies and treatment technology both in his native Germany and more recently in the UK with IGW´s sister company Organic Resource Agency (ORA). His areas of expertise include the optimisation of composting, AD, MBT and RDF utilization technology, facility planning, concept design, environmental and cost analysis. Wolfgang has an in-depth knowledge of recycling and recovery activities across Europe and his ground breaking work has been widely published.
Dr. John O’Neill Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Custom House, Dublin 1. Tel: ++ 353 (0) 1 8882000 Email: john_o'neill@environ.ie
Dr. John O’Neill is an inspector within the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dublin, Ireland, where he works on the development of National Waste Policy and in particular with respect to the management of Biodegradable waste, providing input to the organics element of the Market Development Programme and related environmental research under the ERDTI Programme. Previous to this, John spent several years working within the private sector where he was involved in the environmental management and planning aspects of developing various large-scale infrastructure projects and area plans.
Ms Anne O’Brien Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), The Old Academy 21, Horse Fair, Banbury Oxfordshire, UK, OX16 0AH, Tel: +44 1295 819914, Fax: + 44 1295 819911 Email: anne.o’brien@wrap.org.uk Web: www.wrap.org.uk
Anne O’Brien works as Key Account Manager at the Organics, Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) since its inception in 2001. Previously she was employed in a range of business development and consultancy roles in the waste management and recycling industry. Anne has been involved with many of the commercial and operational aspects of recycling, including the development of Materials Recycling Facilities, kerbside collection systems, composting facilities and the acquisition and expansion of a national packaging recycling programme. Consultancy projects focused on options for re-use of packaging, waste minimisation, increasing recycling rates for major retailers and co-ordinating regional Market Development initiatives. Anne was responsible for launching and implementing the first phase of the Organics Programme at WRAP and now focuses exclusively on market development activities within agriculture, horticulture and landscaping.
Mr. Per-Erik Persson Vafab Miljö AB / Svensk Växtkraft AB, Nyängsleden, Norra Gryta, SE-721 87 Västerås Sweden, Tel.: +46 21 39 35 65, Fax: +46 21 33 51 50Email: per-erik.persson@vafabmiljo.se Web: www.vafabmiljo.se
Per-Erik Persson works as development director for more than 10 years at Vafab Miljö, the regional municipal solid waste management association in Västmanland with 300.000 inhabitants and 10.000 commercial operations. Since 2003 he is in addition the Chief Executive of the Växtkraft Project, a biogas plant for source separated household waste, ley crops and other organic wastes which is an integrated common project of the regional waste management association, the local energy supplier and the National Federation of Swedish Farmers. The biogas is upgraded as biofuel for municipal buses.
Dr. Munoo Prasad Bord na Mona, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Tel: 045- 439742. Email: munoo.prasad@bnm.ie Web:ww.bnm.ie
Dr. Munoo Prasad was
chief scientist in Bord Na Mona Horticulture till 2006. Dr. Prasad is Head
of the Cré Technical Committee. He has carried out much research,
particularly on composting of forestry, garden, abattoir and fishery waste
in relation to their use as a growing media and soil amendment both in
Dr. Stefanie Siebert German Compost Quality Assurance Organisation, Bundesgütegemeinschaft Kompost e.V. (BGK) Von-der-Wettern-Str. 25, D-51149 Köln–Gremberghoven, Germany, Tel.: +49-2203-34837-50 Fax: +49-220335837-12, Email: S.Siebert@kompost.de, Web: www.kompost.de
Dr. Stefanie Siebert studied Applied Physiological Geography and Soil Science and finished her PhD Study at the University of Bochum with the thesis: Characterization of soil nitrogen after the addition of biowaste composts to arable and recultivated soils.
Until 2005 she worked as a consultant of the Association of Humic Substances and Soil Substrates Economy of Germany (BHE) e.V. and as a regional quality assurance advisor for German quality compost plants. Since 2006 she is consultant of the Bundesgütegemeinschaft Kompost e.V. responsible for European affaires and public relations. In addition she is the editor of the Compost Quality Management Handbook for the European Quality Assurance System (ECN-QAS) of the European Compost Network ECN. She contributes as an expert to various European associations and activities like Working Group Organic Matter of the EU Soil Strategy, the ECN WG2 “Standardisation and Quality assurance”, the CEN TC 223 for soil improvers and growing media and for “Analytical methods” and the project “HORIZONTAL” – Harmonisation of methods to analyse soils, wastes and sludges.
Mr. Michael Weber MSc. Institut für Energetik und Umwelt gGmbH, Bioenergiesysteme, Torgauer Straße 116 , D-04347 Leipzig Germany, Tel. +49 341 2434 447, Fax +49 341 2434 433, Email: michael.weber@ie-leipzig.de Web: www.ie-leipzig.de
Mr Michael Weber has a diploma degree in civil engineering and finished an international MSc Study Course "Energy Conversion and Management" in 2004 with the Master-Thesis "Comparison of the bioethanol production in Germany and Brazil“. Since 2005 Michael Weber works as Project Leader at the Institute for Energetic and Environment responsible for German and international projects in the area of liquid bioenergy sources and bioenergy markets. The Institute for Energy and Environment (IE) is an interdisciplinary research company working on all topics in the fields energy (bioenergy, biogas ...) and environment both theoretically and practically. This includes feasibility studies, reports, surveys and impact assessment under technological, economical and environmental criteria as well as scenario analyses and life cycle assessments. Further topics are modelling and simulations as well as experimental examinations from the laboratory level to pilot projects.
Dr. Dieter Horlacher Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Plant Nutrition and Fertilization, Albrecht-Thaer Weg 4 D-14195 Berlin, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)30-314-71480, Fax: +49 (0)30-314-71488 Email: dieter.horlacher@agrar.hu-berlin.de, Web: www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/pflanzenbau
Dr. Dieter Horlacher works as research associate the Faculty of Agriculture at the Humboldt University Berlin in the department of plant nutrition and fertilisation.
Mr. Warren Phelan RPS Consulting Engineers, Carnegie House, Library Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Tel: ++ 353 (0) 1 2020870, Email:warren.phelan@rpsgroup.ie, Web:www.rpsgroup.com/ireland
Warren Phelan is a Senior Engineer with the Waste Section of RPS Consulting Engineers. Warren is a qualified Civil Engineer with a Masters degree in Environment and Water Engineering from University College Dublin. Since joining RPS in early 2001, Warren has specialised in waste management policy and planning, waste awareness, and waste strategy. In the area of organic waste management, Warren was project co-ordinator for the ERTDI Study, which investigated organic waste management at apartments and examined the Use of Food Waste Disposers. Warren is also working with Forfás on their Waste Benchmarking Analysis of the waste sector and he is also the on-going project manager for www.DublinWaste.ie, the Dublin regional waste awareness website, and created the FREE TRADE initiative for the Dublin Local Authorities.
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