Executive Directors

Raja Ben Amar is currently working as a Full Professor in the chemistry department of the Faculty of Science of Sfax, University of Sfax (Tunisia), and Director of the Research unit ‘ Advanced Technologies for Environment and Smart Cities. Her main research interests are wastewater treatment using hybrid processes, water desalination, wastewater treatment, development of new porous ceramic membranes from natural and hybrid materials. Pr. Raja Ben Amar has supervised to completion several masters (56 candidates) and doctoral candidates (27 Ph.D. candidates). She has also mentored 5 postdoctoral fellows. Currently, she supervises more than 10 postgraduate students in her areas of interest. She is involved in many projects in the frame of cooperation programs such as joining project of differents countries ( India, France, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Spain, Poland...), and European projects (ERANETMED, PRIMA). She is also Principal Investigator for several national projects supported by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Tunisian Ministry of Industry in collaboration with industrial companies; Valorisation des Résultats de la Recherche (VRR); program and; Programme National de recherche et d’ innovation (PNRI) related to the integration of membranes processes in water treatment and reuse.

Edward Nxumalo is a full professor at the Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in the city of Johannesburg (South Africa). He works largely under the thematic area of Membrane Science and Technology and leads various research on advanced nanomaterials including nanostructured flat sheet and hollow fiber membranes and their application in various fields including energy, water treatment, desalination and ultra-, and nano-filtration, etc.

GEBREYOHANNES is a highly-skilled scientific researcher with more than 10 years of experience in Membrane Technology. Successful at independently completing diverse research efficiently and disseminating it through various high-level scientific journals and recognized international conferences.

Professor of CAMES in Food Processing Engineering. Head of the Continuing Education Laboratory in the Food Industries of ESP. Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Senegalese Network for Innovation in the Agrifood and Agro-Resources Sectors, Vice-Chairman of the West African Chemical Society (SOACHIM).

Abdoulaye (Ablo) leads the Strategic Planning/Technology Development programs at Donyatek, a startup which he co-founded in 2018 and established to supply clean water treatment systems in Mali - factories, cities, and essential services. Earlier, he directed technology programs in the R&D organization of Hollingsworth & Vose (Virginia, US, 2010/2021) and Pall Corporation (New York, US, 1998/2009), two global leading manufacturers of filtration and energy products. His key accomplishments include the development and commercialization of nonwoven air filters, wettable fluoropolymer membranes for the semiconductor industry, new protocols for fabricating/testing of synthetic membranes for bio-separation, and design of low-fouling nanofiltration membranes and modules for municipal water treatment. He is the inventor of 19 internationally patented technologies, has developed numerous trademarked filtration products and written about 50 technical publications. Ablo is past president of the African Membrane Society (2014/2021) and has been a committee member of the Filtration chapter for the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (USA) between 2012 and 2019. He is a research and teaching instructor at the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques (FST) and the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs of Mali since 2006. Ablo has co-advised one doctoral thesis at Mali FST (Chemistry Department) defended in 2016. He is a founding member of and active contributor to the Malian Society of Applied Sciences http://www.msas.ml/ He holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry, earned at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France.

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