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General Chair of UWS

Provides strategic leadership and international positioning, ensuring coherence across the Academy, Symposium activities and the wider UWS mission. The General Chair also serves as President of the Academic Team.

GENERAL CHAIR

Vincenzo Naddeo

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Director of the Academy

Provides academic stewardship of the UWS Academy

DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMY

Vincenzo Belgiorno

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Chairs of the Academy

Support scientific steering and thematic curation, contributing to topic selection and multidisciplinary integration. Listed below are the Chairs who have served in one or more Academy editions.

ACADEMY CHAIR

Vincenzo Naddeo

University of Salerno
/ Italy

ACADEMY CHAIR

Kwang-Ho Choo

Kyungpook National University (KNU) / South Korea

ACADEMY CHAIR

Shadi
Hasan

Khalifa University
/ UAE

ACADEMY CHAIR

Dimitri
Lekkas

University of the Aegean
/ Greece

Academic Team Honorary Members

Distinguished experts who have contributed to teaching and programme development in one or more Academy editions.

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Damià
Barceló

University of Almeria
/ Spain

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Dionysios Dionysiou

University of Cincinnati
/ USA

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Zhen (Jason)
He

Washington University in St. Louis / USA

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Gerasimos Lyberatos

National Technical University of Athens / Greece

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Rodolfo M. A. Napoli

Founder of SEED at University of Salerno / Italy

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Susan Richardson

University of South Carolina
/ USA

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Mohammad Taherzadeh

University of Borås
/ Sweden

Honorary Academic MEMBER

Johannes Vrouwenvelder

King Abdullah University of Science & Tech / Saudi Arabia

Academic Team Members

Globally renowned experts driving forward the boundaries of water science, lending their distinguished expertise to the Academy across one or multiple editions.

Academic Team

Maria Antioniou

Cyprus University of Technology / Cyprus

Academic Team

George Arampatzis

Technical University of Crete
/ Greece

Academic Team

Florencio Jr. Ballesteros

University of the Philippines Diliman / Philippines

Academic Team

Giorgio Bertanza

University of Brescia
/ Italy

Academic Team

Joanna Boguniewicz-Zablocka

Opole University of Technology / Poland

Academic Team

Antonio Buonerba

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Academic Team

Maria Teresa Cuomo

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Academic Team

Carlo Di Costanzo

Webuild S.p.A.
/ Italy

Academic Team

Polycarpos Falaras

National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos / Greece

Academic Team

Changseok Han

Inha University
/ South Korea

Academic Team

Sanghyun Jeong

Pusan National University
/ South Korea

Academic Team

Nabil Khelifi

Springer Nature
/ Germany

Academic Team

Gregory Korshin

University of Washington
/ USA

Academic Team

Chi-Wang Li

Tamkang University
Taiwan

Academic Team

Carol Sze Ki Lin

City University of Hong Kong
/ Hong Kong

Academic Team

Antonia Longobardi

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Academic Team

Elena Lopez-Gunn

ICATALIST
/ Spain

Academic Team

Claudio Lubello

University of Florence
/ Italy

Academic Team

Giorgio Mannina

University of Palermo
/ Italy

Academic Team

Raul Muñoz

Valladolid University
/ Spain

Academic Team

How Yong Ng

National University of Singapore / Rep. of Singapore

Academic Team

Hyun-Suk Oh

Seoul National University of Science & Tech / South Korea

Academic Team

Maria Papadopoulou

National Technical University of Athens / Greece

Academic Team

Ilias Pechlivanidis

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Academic Team

Francesco Pirozzi

University of Naples Federico II / Italy

Academic Team

Alfieri Pollice

National Research Council
/ Italy

Academic Team

Elisabetta Preziosi

Water Research Institute
/ Italy

Academic Team

Sebastia Puig

University of Girona
/ Spain

Academic Team

Paolo Roccaro

University of Catania
/ Italy

Academic Team

Shaista Shafiq

University of Faisalabad
/ Pakistan

Academic Team

Jaroslav Slobodnik

Environmental Institute
/ Slovakia

Academic Team

Nikolaos Thomaidis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Greece

Academic Team

Michele Torregrossa

University of Palermo
/ Italy

Academic Team

Federico Vagliasindi

University of Catania
/ Italy

Academic Team

Jean Venables

Venables Consultancy
/ UK

Academic Team

Paola Verlicchi

University of Ferrara
/ Italy

Academic Team

Boyan (Jason) Xu

Beijing Normal University
/ China

Academic Team

Zhugen Yang

Cranfield University
/ UK

Academic Team

Ngai Yin Yip

Columbia University
/ USA

Academic Team

Maria Chiara Zanetti

Polytechnic of Torino
/ Italy

Academic Team

Tiziano Zarra

University of Salerno
/ Italy

Academic Team

Antonis Zorpas

Open University of Cyprus
/ Cyprus

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