Sustainability Webinar | 2025 Sustainability Best Paper Award Ceremony
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Branislav Olah
Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia;
Branislav Olah is an accomplished expert in landscape ecology and environmental sciences. He is currently an associated professor at the Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 2008. His courses cover a wide range of topics, including landscape ecology, cultural landscape development, and ecosystem services.
Previously, Olah served as a seconded national expert and project manager for land use analysis at the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen from 2009 to 2013. He has also been involved in various national and European projects related to land cover analysis, ecosystem mapping, and landscape fragmentation.
Olah holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the Technical University in Zvolen and a Docent degree from Constantine the Philosopher’s University in Nitra. He is proficient in multiple languages, including English, Czech, and Slovak, and has a working knowledge of Russian and Danish.
In addition to his academic and research contributions, Olah has demonstrated strong organizational and managerial skills, leading interdisciplinary research teams and serving in various leadership roles within academic and environmental organizations. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Memorial Medal of the Slovak Ecological Society.
Ms. Alessa Jasmin Truedinger
Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning, University of Stuttgart, Germany;
Alessa Truedinger joined the Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning at the University of Stuttgart as a research assistant and doctoral candidate in 2022 and has been the deputy head of the institute since October 2024. Her research focuses on climate adaptation and spatial risk prevention, as well as resilience building after disasters, particularly after floods and heavy rainfall events such as the floods in Central and Western Europe in July 2021.
Dr. Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce
Faculty of Business, Athabasca University, Canada;
Dr. Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce is a management engineer working in the areas of strategic management, sustainability, partnerships, and business ethics. Currently, Dr. Ordonez-Ponce’s areas of research involve the study of multinational corporations’ sustainability strategies in the context of developing countries, B-Corps, sustainability partnerships, sustainability teaching and research in HEIs, and business contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Ravjit Khangura
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Australia;
Dr. Ravjit Khangura has more than 23 years of experience, predominantly in canola pathology research and developing the best disease management practices for a wide range of canola and mustard diseases in India at Punjab Agricultural University and Australia at DPIRD. Before joining DPIRD in 1995, she worked at Murdoch University investigating mechanisms of resistance to jarrah die back and then at UWA exploring endophyes in native grasses. Her expertise includes developing sustainable disease management approaches encompassing cultural, host resistance, epidemiological and chemical control techniques, host – pathogen interactions, disease diagnostics, and extension. Her epidemiological research has led to the development of the ‘Blackleg Sporacle’ model in collaboration with DPIRD’s modeling team. She completed three year’s of research on the surveillance of cereal root disease pathogens in the Western Australian Wheatbelt, highlighting the importance of several root diseases impacting cereal production.
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18th Sustainability Webinar
2025 Sustainability Best Paper Award Ceremony
We are pleased to invite you to the Sustainability Best Paper Award Ceremony, featuring our winners from 2023, which will be held online at 2:00 PM CEST on June 18, 2025.
The Sustainability Best Paper Award recognizes applicants with high-quality papers of significant scientific merit and impact. During the ceremony, we will have the opportunity to learn more about the four award winners and hear their presentations on their recent research in the field of sustainability and sustainable development.
Date: 18 June 2025
Time: 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 pm CST (Asia) | 8:00 am EDT
Webinar ID: 856 9633 8208
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Sponsored by MDPI journal Sustainability, this award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. All papers published in the Sustainability journal are eligible for this award (both regular and Special Issue submissions), and all applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen.
More information can be read here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/awards/3165.
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