The 9th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences
The 9th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences
Recent Advances in Water Sciences under a Variable and Changing Environment
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
21 September 2025
12 October 2025
9 November 2025
Water Quality, Ecohydrology, New Technologies in Water Sciences, Surface and Groundwater Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Policy, Floods, Droughts, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Agricultural and Urban Water Systems
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Welcome from the Chairs
S1. Hydrological Processes and Modelling;
This conference will be conducted entirely online so as to eliminate concerns about travel and associated costs for participants from across the globe. An online format provides a platform that enables rapid and direct exchange of the latest research achievements and innovative concepts.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas
Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Chair of the 9th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences
Program Overview
ECWS-9 Program (Day 1)
11th November - Morning
ECWS-9
Session 5. Extreme Hydro-meteorological Events: Sources, Mitigation and Adaptation
Date: 11th November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
11th November - Afternoon
ECWS-9
Session 8. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Date: 11th November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
ECWS-9 Program (Day 2)
12th November - Morning
ECWS-9
Session 3. River, Lake and Groundwater Hydraulics, Quality and Vulnerability
Date: 12th November 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
12th November - Afternoon
ECWS-9
Session 2. Urban Water Modelling and Management
Date: 12th November 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
ECWS-9 Program (Day 3)
13th November - Morning
ECWS-9
Session 4. Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance
Date: 13th November 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
13th November - Afternoon
ECWS-9
Session 1. Hydrological Processes and Modelling
Date: 13th November 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
ECWS-9 Program (Day 4)
14th November - Morning Parallel Session ①
ECWS-9
Session 6. Ecohydrological Approaches and Ecosystems Conservancy
Date: 14th November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
14th November - Morning Parallel Session ②
ECWS-9
Session 9. Agricultural Water Systems
Date: 14th November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 09:00 (CET, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 16:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
14th November - Afternoon
ECWS-9
Session 7. Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies in Water Sciences
Date: 14th November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CET, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
Conference Chair
 Prof. Dr. Athanasios Loukas Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
Athanasios Loukas is a Professor of Engineering Hydrology-Management and Development of Water Resources, Head of the Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering Department, Director of the “Hydraulic Works and Environmental Management” Lab, and Director of the Master’s Program “Water Resources” at the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018–today). Previously, he was affiliated with the University of Thessaly, where he served as a Professor, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering (2008-2012), Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (2015-2018), Laboratory Director, and Director of an international Master’s Program (2010-2018). He is a visiting professor in the U.S.A. and at European universities.
During his academic studies and career, he received numerous fellowships, prizes, and awards, such as the Fulbright Research Scholarship in 2013. He has delivered many keynote and invited talks.
Loukas is Section Editor-in-Chief of “Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance” within Water, Editor-in-Chief of European Water, and an Editorial Board Member of Water Resources Management and Scientific Review Engineering and Environmental Sciences. He has been an active reviewer for many international journals in the fields of hydrology, water resources management, GIS and remote sensing applications, environmental modeling and management, and others. He is a regular reviewer of national and European research proposals as well as an evaluator, and he is responsible for research project certification. He is affiliated with national and international scientific organizations such as EWRA and EGU.
His research activity focuses on hydrology, hydrological hazards, and risks (droughts and floods); climate change impacts; and water resources management. He coordinated and participated in numerous national and international research programs. In addition to his research activity, he participates in consistent outreach, and acts as a mentor of a high number of post-graduate and Ph.D. students.
Prof. Loukas is the author and co-author of more than 450 international journal publications, conference proceedings publications, books, and technical reports. His published work has received over 3100 citations, as indicated in the Scopus database, with an h-index=30 and over 5700 citations, as indicated in the Google Scholar database (h-index=39; i10-index=87). He is listed in the top 2% of the most influential scientists globally (according to his publications and the citations of his publications for his career until 2022, 2023) by Stanford University (2023, 2024).
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Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Tito Aronica
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Prof. Dr. Carmen Teodosiu
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Carmen Teodosiu is Professor and PhD supervisor in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Management from „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University Iasi (TUIASI), Romania. She obtained her Chemical engineering degree at TUIASI (1981), Postgraduate and Master of Science with distinction in Environmental Science & Technology (1994-1996), both at IHE Institute for Water Education Delft, Netherlands. Her Ph.D. title in Chemistry was awarded by TUIASI (1998). From 2008 to 2016, she was Vice-Rector for Research and Director of TUIASI Doctoral schools. Her research interests are Advanced wastewater treatment, Integrated water resources management and Environmental & Sustainability assessments. Prof. Carmen Teodosiu published more than 226 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 38 books/book chapters in international/national publishing houses, 10 patents, Hirsch index=35 (Scopus) and Hirsch index=43 (Google Scholar). She was involved, as coordinator/PI, in 308 research projects funded by European& National agencies or industries. Prof. Teodosiu is a PhD supervisor since 2005, with 16 PhD candidates who elaborated their thesis and received the doctoral titles under her supervision. She received the Doctor Honoris Causa award from Pannonia University Veszprem, Hungary and is the initiator and chairperson of the International Conference in Environmental Engineering and Management, in 2025 at its 13th edition (ICEEM, https://www.iceem.tuiasi.ro). She is a member of Editorial Boards of international journals: Sustainable Production and Consumption, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water, Environmental Engineering and Management journal, and Guest Editor of Special Issues of the journals: Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Water, Sustainability, Environmental Engineering and Management.
Dr. Lampros Vasiliades
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece
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Prof. Dr. Nicolò Colombani
Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
Prof. Nicolò Colombani holds a PhD in hydrogeology awarded by "Sapienza" Università di Roma in 2011and a PhD in geochemistry awarded by Università di Bologna in 2015. Now he is Associate Professor at the SIMAU Dept. of Università Politecnica delle Marche (IT), teaching Hydrogeological Risk and Applied Hydrogeology at the Master Degree of Environmental Engineering. His main research activity focuses on groundwater resources management of coastal alluvial plains via salinization processes quantification. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 international journal publications, conference proceedings and book chapters. His published work has received 4006 citations, as indicated on Google Scholar (h-index =36, i10-index =99). He participated at several EU projects and National projects.
Prof. Dr. Jianguo Zhou
Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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Prof. Dr. Dapeng Li
College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Professor Dapeng Li is a distinguished scholar in aquaculture at Huazhong Agricultural University. He serves as an expert on the Advisory Committee of the FAO Aquaculture Ecological Center and contributes to the China Agriculture Research System as a Position Scientist. His research specializes in fish environmental physiology and aquaculture engineering, with the ecological aquaculture technologies he developed being incorporated into China's National Agricultural Extension Techniques. Currently, he spearheads the integration of artificial intelligence into aquaculture operations and advances strategic water resource management for sustainable aquaculture development.
Prof. Dr. Abbas Roozbahani
Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway
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Prof. Dr. Luis Garrote
Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and Environment, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Dr. Nikiforos Samarinas
Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Dr. Hossein Bonakdari
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Hossein Bonakdar is a distinguished professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He is internationally recognized for his leadership in hydrological modelling and the application of advanced algorithms, including artificial intelligence, for extracting actionable insights from large-scale environmental datasets. Dr. Bonakdari is the author of six books, has published over 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed to more than 20 book chapters, and has given over 100 presentations at national and international conferences. His outstanding research contributions have earned him numerous accolades, including being named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University from 2019 to 2024.
Prof. Dr. Pingping Luo
School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China
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Prof. Dr. Guglielmina Diolaiuti
Department of Environmental Sciences and Policies, University Milano, Milano, Italy
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Dr. Qiang Liu
State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Prof. Dr. Yanfang Sang
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yanfang Sang is a Professor based at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Vise-President of the Tibet Nature Disaster Prevention Association in China; he is also a PI based at the Key Laboratory of Compound and Chained Natural Hazards Dynamics, Ministry of Emergency Management of China. He specializes in Hydroclimate, Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and Sustainable Urban Water Management. He is currently serving as principal investigators of several international and national projects focusing on the hydroclimate variability and related natural disasters, and their impacts and risk mitigation at global and regional scales. During his academic studies and career, he received numerous fellowships, prizes, and awards. He is an Editor serving for several international Journals including “Scientific Reports”, “Natural Hazards Research”, “Hydrology”. He has published more than 100 papers tier international peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, One Earth, Earth’s Future, Water Resources Research, etc. He is one of World’s top 2% scientists (Career-long) from 2022 recognized by Stanford University.
Conference Secretariat
Ass. Prof. Pantelis Sidiropoulos
School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Pantelis Sidiropoulos is an Assistant Professor of the Simulation and Management of Groundwater Resources of Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering Dept., Lab of Hydraulic Works and Environmental Management, and the Master’s Program “Water Resources” at the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2023–today). He was a Lecturer with the Civil Engineering Dept. of the University of Thessaly (2015-2023) and with the Civil Engineering Dept. of the University of Applied Science of Thessaly (2015-2018). He is a registered, professional civil engineer in Greece and is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Association of Civil Engineers of Greece, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, the Greek Committee for Water Resources Management, the Hellenic Hydrotechnical Association, and the Hellenic Ecological Society. He has participated in eleven national and European research projects and in seven hydrological and hydraulic studies and water resources management projects. He is a Topical Advisory Panel Member of the Civil Engineering Section of Applied Sciences (MDPI), a Topical Advisory Panel Member of Hydrology (MDPI), an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Technology, Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Groundwater Pollution: Sources, Mechanisms, and Prevention" (Second Edition) of Hydrology (MDPI), and a reviewer of twenty-one international scientific journals. He is the author and co-author of more than one hundred referred international journal publications, conference proceedings, books, and technical reports. His published work has received 463 citations, as indicated on Google Scholar (h-index =12, i10-index =14); 231 citations, as indicated in the Scopus database, with h-index=9; and 235 citations, as indicated on the Web of Science database (h-index=9). Teaching Activities: Undergraduate Program: Water Resources Management; Groundwater Hydraulics; River Hydraulics and River Training; Water Supply and Sewerage Networks. Graduate Program: Groundwa
Event Committee Members
Department of Civil Engineering Polytechnic School, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Croatia
Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Sustainable Water Resources Management, Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Ionia Magnisias, Greece
Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Department of Civil Engineering and Construction, Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland
Environmental & Resource Management Program, Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
Hydraulic Engineering Area, IGA Research Group, Higher Polytechnic School of Ávila, University of Salamanca, Avda, Spain
School of Social & Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, Dumfries, UK
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization, Thessaloniki, Greece
School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Melbourne, Australia
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Institute of Water Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, USA
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, “Cristofor Simionescu” Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
School of Environment Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Department of Geoinformatics, Surveying and Hydraulic Modelling, Division of Strategic Planning, Hydraulic Works and Development, Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewerage Company S.A. (EYATH S.A), Thessaloniki, Greece,
Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Barreiro School of Technology, Rua Américo da Silva Marinho, Lavradio, Portugal
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain
Applied Research, International Clean Water Institute, Manassas, VA, USA
College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University, China
Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and of Natural Resources, Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
Project Development Director, International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), C. General Oraá, Madrid, Spain
Retired Research Scientist, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, Canada
Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit (UREP), French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Clermont-Ferrand, France
Hydro-Environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff, UK
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Wim Cornelis (1969) is Full Professor in Agro-Environmental Soil Physics at Ghent University (UGent), Belgium, where he leads the Soil Physics Team at the Soil-Environment Systems Exploration & Engineering Group within the Department of Environment. He is Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Eremology and serves as Academic Coordinator of the International Erasmus Mundus MSc in Soils and Global Change, coordinated by UGent, in partnership with Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Göttingen (Germany) and BOKU University (Austria). He is treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Soil Conservation (ESSC) and Secretary of the Working Group on Visual Soil Examination and Evaluation of the International Soil and Tillage Research Organization (ISTRO). He has led or contributed to numerous soil-water and soil-health related national and international research projects on all continents, securing over 100 research grants. He has published widely in soil science, agricultural science and water resources journals. As of June 2025, he has (co)authored 240 refereed papers (223 indexed in Web of Science SCI-Expanded), 21 book chapters, over 300 conference contributions and has edited 6 books. His Web of Science h index is 47 (6,650 citations) and his Google Scholar h index is 62 (12,117 citations). Prof. Cornelis has supervised 40 PhD dissertations (17 ongoing) and over 150 MSc dissertation. He currently serves as editor of Soil Use and Management, and has been guest editor for Catena, Water, and Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.
Department of Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
South Asia Institute, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, USA
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
IPC-ESAC—College of Agriculture of the Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
Earth and Environmental Science Department, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Douglas, Australia,
School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia,
Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Faculty of Hydrometeorology, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Department of Soil and Agri-Food Engineering, Universite Laval, Québec, Canada
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Florida, USA
Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
Invited Speakers
Research Centre in Environmental Science and Engineering, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Innovative electrochemical approaches for sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse
Prof. Dr. Florica Manea is the Head of Research Centre in Environmental Science and Engineering from Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. Her scientific work has resulted in more than 175 scientific articles, 125 publications in impact factor journals, 15 national and international books/ chapters’ books and 4 national patents. Research interests: • engineering of water/wastewater treatment processes; • carbon based materials as catalyst/(electro)(photo)catalyst for environmental applications; • advanced combined oxidation processes; • innovative electrochemical hybrid processes for circular water management (electrochemical filtering systems, waste-derived contact electrocoagulation) • electrochemical sensors for environmental, food and health application.
Emerging Materials from Municipal Wastewater Treatment: Current Status and Challenges
Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIN), University of Salerno (UNISA, Italy), Sabino DE GISI carries out teaching and research activities in the fields of Materials Science and Technology. He holds the courses “Technology of Applied Chemistry” and “Smart polymers and additive manufacturing” at the Chemical Engineering and Smart Industry degree courses of UNISA and is member of the board of the IETIS (Innovative Engineering Technologies for Industrial Sustainability) PhD programme. Former researcher at the Politecnico di Bari (Italy), he has expertise ranging from materials to environmental engineering. He is currently interested in technologies for recycling waste to obtain end-of-waste materials, the development of bioplastics for packaging as well as the study of the behaviour of post-consumer bioplastics, both conventional and innovative, in typical anaerobic digestion and composting plants when they are treated together with the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. In terms of cross-cutting competences, he is interested in Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) intended as tools to support public/private decision-makers. He is the author of more than 150 publications (102 of which are indexed on Scopus), he has more than 4500 citations in ISI-ranked journals, H-Index of 31 (www.scopus.com) and is part of the World’s Top 2% Scientists according to Stanford University for the year 2024. He has been a consultant for public and private companies operating in Italy.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Only strings in the urban fabric? Integrated multi-infrastructure asset management from a water perspective
Franz Tscheikner-Gratl has a Master in Civil Engineering (2011) and a PhD in Technical Sciences (2016) from the University of Innsbruck. After his PhD he was part of the Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies (QUICS) FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) at TU Delft. In 2019 he joined the Water and Wastewater Group at NTNU. In 2013 he was awarded with the Eduard-Wallnöfer-Price of appreciation of the Tyrolean Industry and in 2016 with the Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. He is currently secretary of the working group for Urban drainage asset management (UDAM) of the Joint committee on Urban Drainage (JCUD), where he is also a part of the leadership team. Furthermore, he is an active reviewer for several scientific journals and a member of the editorial board of Urban Water Journal.
Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS), Guangzhou, China
Effects of Hydraulic Retention Time on Performance, Mechanisms, and Microbial Communities in a Multi-stage Constructed Wetland for Treating Aquaculture Tailwater
Dr. Wangbao Gong is a Professor of Aquaculture at the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Innovation Team for Ecological Environment Regulation in Freshwater Pond Aquaculture at the CAFS. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted research as a Visiting Scholar at Virginia Tech, USA. Her research primarily focuses on developing biologically driven solutions for challenges related to aquaculture water and tailwater treatment, with particular emphasis on engineered biofilm systems, aerobic denitrification, biological nutrient removal, as well as the design and process control of bioreactors. By integrating microbial ecology with process innovation, her work promotes resource circularity and contributes to the sustainable development of aquaculture.
Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA
Microbial ecology in aquaculture wastewater treatment systems
Dr. Yale Deng earned his PhD in Aquaculture from Wageningen University in 2022. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota until 2025. His research focuses on aquaculture wastewater treatment, microbial interactions within aquaculture systems, and the fish gut microbiota. He specializes in examining the complex interactions between the environment, hosts, and microbes, using metagenomics and bioinformatics. His work aims to reduce the environmental impact of aquaculture while optimizing the growth of aquatic animals. Dr. Deng has authored and co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed publications, which have collectively received more than 1,400 citations, as indicated by Google Scholar (h-index = 21). He has also served as a guest editor for special issues in journals such as Sustainability and Frontiers in Marine Sciences.
CERIS—Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
When Saving Water Sinks the Land: The Hidden Side of Modern Irrigation in the Nile Delta
Alban Kuriqi earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Lisbon, specialising in River Restoration and Management. His extensive research interests and expertise encompass a wide array of areas, including renewable energy, with a particular focus on hydropower and complementary resources, as well as the impacts of hydropower. He is well-versed in river restoration and management, e-flows, floods, droughts, climate change, fluvial hydraulics, and sediment transport in open-channel flows. Furthermore, his expertise extends to embankment structures, hydraulic structures, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), long-term meteorological and hydrologic trends, variability analysis, eco-hydraulics, ecohydrology, and the application of artificial intelligence in the fields of hydraulics and hydrology. Alban Kuriqi's dedication to his field is underscored by his numerous achievements, including multiple scientific awards and fellowship grants. He has played an integral role in organising and participating in five international conferences. With a prolific research output, he has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers and five book chapters, in addition to presenting more than 20 communications at international conferences. Notably, he serves as a reviewer for several international ISI journals and conferences, and is part of international research project proposal evaluation panels, including those for Horizon Europe. He has also been actively involved as a member of the Editorial board in several journals.
Hydrological Feedback of Methane Cycling Under Climate Warming
Xiaofeng Xu is a global change ecologist with strong quantitative skills. He is passionate about how terrestrial ecosystems respond and feed back to the climate system. He is currently focusing on microbial macroecology and applications of ecological and evolutionary theories to understand microbial contributions to the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas flux in an Earth system modeling framework. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the ESA Asian Section Early Career Award. He has been included in Sandford University’s list of the World’s Top 2% scientists every year since 2022.
Artificial Intelligence for Flood Resilience: Bridging Models, Data, and Forecasting
Dr. Isa Ebtehaj is a researcher in the Department of Soil and Environment at Université Laval, specializing in artificial intelligence and statistical learning for water resources and environmental engineering. His research advances flood forecasting, hydrological modeling, and climate change impact assessment, with a focus on machine and deep learning for real-time monitoring and risk management. He is the author of Machine Learning in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Elsevier, 2023), and has published over 140 journal articles, more than a dozen book chapters, and delivered 30+ presentations worldwide. Internationally recognized for his leadership in AI-driven hydrology, he serves on the IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics. His contributions have earned multiple awards, including several best thesis and distinguished researcher awards, the ASCE-EWRI Best Discussion Award (2023), and recognition among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University (2019–2024).
Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Florida, USA
Conversational AI and Remote Sensing for Agro-Environmental Monitoring
Nikolaos Tziolas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Florida, where he leads the Soil Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His expertise lies in soil science, Earth observation and explainable artificial intelligence, with over ten years of experience in research and innovation projects focused on developing new observational modalities for soil monitoring and decision support. He has contributed to projects on precision agriculture, land degradation neutrality, and the water–food–crop nexus. His current research emphasizes democratizing Earth Observation through AI-driven conversational platforms and decentralized systems, making geospatial intelligence more accessible to diverse stakeholders.
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Advancing the Understanding and Management of Hydro-Meteorological Extremes: Challenges and Prospects Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Giuseppe Del Giudice is Full Professor of Hydraulic and Maritime Constructions and Hydrology at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He earned his degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics) with honors in 1990 and received his PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1995 at the same university. His academic career has spanned over three decades, progressing from research fellow to associate professor and, since 2018, full professor. He teaches courses in aqueducts and sewer systems, water resources management, hydraulic works design, and smart energy water systems. His research focuses on hydraulic constructions, river hydraulics, water distribution networks, physical modeling of hydraulic structures, stormwater management, soil and infrastructure vulnerability, and hydraulic energy production. Prof. Del Giudice has authored numerous scientific publications and contributes actively to advancing the field of water sciences.
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Advancing the Understanding and Management of Hydro-Meteorological Extremes: Challenges and Prospects Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Dina Pirone is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II. She obtained her PhD in Civil Systems Engineering with a dissertation on probabilistic rainfall nowcasting using machine learning models. Her work initially focused on urban flooding, stormwater management, and the hydraulic performance of sewer and drainage systems. More recently, her research has expanded to groundwater vulnerability and the role of emerging contaminants in urban hydrology. She integrates hydrological modeling and data-driven approaches to better understand and mitigate the impacts of extreme hydro-meteorological events. Dina Pirone is the winner of the Hydro-Crysis prize for young researchers, awarded for excellence in hydraulic and civil engineering with particular reference to hydrogeological risk.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Hydrological modeling to support sustainable agricultural management.
Prof. Chiarelli is a Senior Researcher (RTDB) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on hydrological modeling and its applications to water and food security assessment within a Water–Food–Energy–Ecosystem Nexus perspective. Prof. Chiarelli has contributed to the development of a spatially distributed hydrological model, WATNEEDS, designed to quantify crop water demand. Ongoing studies aim to expand the model’s functionalities to simulate innovative and sustainable agricultural systems (e.g., hydroponic farming) and alternative boundary conditions (e.g., the use of brackish water in agriculture), including climate change scenarios and adaptation strategies. The model has been applied to various case studies, enabling the analysis of water competition and Water–Energy–Food Nexus dynamics across production sectors. His work supports the identification of environmentally sustainable, co-created, and participatory solutions in line with FAO’s sustainable development guidelines. To date, Prof. Chiarelli has authored 47 peer-reviewed publications indexed in Scopus, with over 2,700 citations (H-index = 21).
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Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Groundwater: Pressures, Challenges, Best Practices
Dr. Konstantinos Voudouris is Professor at the Department of Geology; Director of Laboratory of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology and Mathematics from the University of Patras and a PhD degree in Hydrogeology from the Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece. His primary research interests are in Groundwater Water Quality, Field Hydrogeology, Aquifer Vulnerability to Pollution, Groundwater Management, Environmental Hydrogeology, and History of Water. He is a professional member of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Hellenic Committee of Hydrogeology and European Water Resources Association. He has participated in a lot of European and National projects during the last years. From 2016-2021 and 2024- is the President of the Hellenic Committee of Hydrogeology (Hellenic National Chapter of International Association of Hydrogeologists, IAH) and a member of the Administration Council of UNESCO Centre (Cat. II) on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management. Furthermore, is Guest Professor from the University of Hubei, China (2019). He has a number of papers (220) published in the proceedings of international conferences and international scientific journals. He also published the books “Environmental Hydrogeology”, “Engineering Hydrogeology” and “Exploitation & Management of Groundwater” (in Greek) and is the editor of the books “Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment” and “Ecological Water Quality”. His published work has received more than 2600 citations in the Scopus database with an impact index h-index=30. In the years 2020, 2022 and 2024, he is included in the list of the 2% of the world's leading scientists, according to the assessment of Stanford University.
Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Sessions
S2. Urban Water Modelling and Management
S3. River, Lake and Groundwater Hydraulics, Quality and Vulnerability
S4. Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance
S5. Extreme Hydro-meteorological Events: Sources, Mitigation and Adaptation
S6. Ecohydrological Approaches and Ecosystems Conservancy
S7. Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies in Water Sciences
S8. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
S9. Agricultural Water Systems
S10. Glacier Hydrology and Climate Change
Registration
The registration for ECWS-9 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 9 November 2025.
Instructions for Authors
ECWS-9 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadline
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 21 September 2025
2. Abstract acceptance notification: 12 October 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
- You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. Water Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Water (ISSN 2073-4441, Impact Factor 3.0), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 9th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences in the Environmental and Earth Sciences Proceedings (ISSN: 3042-5743); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4–8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the ECWS-9 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings submission deadline: 31 December 2025
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title;
Full author names;
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses;
Abstract;
Keywords;
Introduction;
Methods;
Results and Discussion;
Conclusions;
Acknowledgements;
References.
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Environmental and Earth Sciences Proceedings.
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Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
Sponsors and Partners
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Organizers
Co-organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ass. Prof. Pantelis Sidiropoulos
Ms. Ann Li
Mr. Russell Wang
Ms. Chloe Lv
Email: ecws@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
