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Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Rome “Foro Italico” and Chief of the “Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biotechnologies” since 2002. Former academic positions as Dean of the Faculty, President of IRB committee, Coordinator of Master’s degree Courses. - Previously, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Hygiene of the Catholic University Medical School in Rome (1994-2002), serving as Director of the Laboratory of Genetic Epidemiology and Molecular Biology, involved in Surveillance and Hospital Hygiene for Policlinico “A.Gemelli”, and then in "Health Organization and Management". - Former research roles as Guest Researcher, PRI FCRDC, Frederick, MD, USA (1989), Fellow at the National Institute of Hygiene, Budapest, Hungary (1990); Fogarty fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, NCI, Frederick MD, USA (1991-1994); Visiting Scientist at The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA (1995); Visiting Scientist at Laboratory Genomic Diversity, NIH, MD, USA (1997); Associate Researcher at MIND, The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA (2005); Component, WHO panel on recreational water guidelines, Water and Sanitation Office, Bonn, Germany (2011-2013); Visiting Professor, University of Granada, (Spain 2019). - Prizes: SITI 2014 for studies on applications of microflora DNA analysis in Public Health; Prize ISRA-SITI 2002, “Crudeli-Del Vecchio Pioneers in Public Health” for a MIUR-project on the environmental microorganism Legionella pneumophila. Prize 1998 “M.L. Profeta”, for “Epidemiology and prophylaxis of infectious diseases”. Presently: Member of the ICSPS Scientific Committee on recreational waters and SPA; Editor in Chief for the “One Health” section of Water.

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More than 20 years of experience in project management, research and technological innovation, author of numerous scientific publications. In Industrie De Nora he collaborates in the development of technologies relating to water and wastewater treatment in particular concerning disinfection. Member of the scientific committee of Polo Agrifood, member of the Board of Directors of the International Ozone Association, Leader of the Water Europe Working Group Water and Public Health. Since 2017 he has collaborated with the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) for the monitoring of the Actions under Horizon 2020; currently external expert of the European Innovation Council and Executive Agency for SMEs (EISMEA).

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Paul van der Wielen is principal scientist Microbiology at KWR Water Research Institute, which is the research institute of the Dutch drinking water companies. Paul has 18 years of experience in all aspects of drinking water microbiology. One of the topics that he studies with his colleagues is the growth and control of opportunistic pathogens like Legionella pneumophila in drinking water systems, cooling towers and wastewater treatment plants. He works four days a week at KWR and one day a week at the Microbiology department of the Wageningen University.