UK Coordinator Dr. Jhuma Sadhukhan Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK.

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1 UK Coordinator Dr. Jhuma Sadhukhan Dr. Jhuma Sadhukhan is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Scientist (CSci), Senior Academic at Surrey, a Visiting Academic at Imperial College, London and was previously a Lecturer in The University of Manchester, UK. With extensive industrial experience as Systems Engineer with MW Kellogg Ltd. and Technip, she brings unique expertise in sustainability and engineering systems. She is a Principal Investigator of this British Councils UK/Malaysia Researcher Links Workshop and previously UK/Mexico Workshop and Sustainability theme leader in numerous UK Research Councils grants. She is a founder of the Institution of Biorefinery Engineers, Scientists and Technologists (IBEST: She authored more than 100 peer-reviewed Title of Your papers Presentation and a Wiley s 1100 pages seminal textbook: Biorefineries and Chemical Processes: Design, Integration and Sustainability Analysis. Jhuma is the recipient of the IChemE Moulton Medal 2010, Hanson medal She was with Nottingham Malaysia a Finalist in WBM Bio Business Award Secretary and Workshop Programme Leader Dr. Kok Siew Ng kok_siew@hotmail.com / k.ng@surrey.ac.uk Dr. Kok Siew Ng is a Research Fellow at Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK. He completed his MEng Chemical Engineering with Chemistry at the University of Manchester in He later gained his PhD from the Centre for Process Integration, The University of Manchester in He has industrial experience as a consultant for 2 years in Process Integration Limited, UK. He is the co-author of Biorefineries and Chemical Processes: Design, Integration and Sustainability Analysis. Kok Siew was awarded the IChemE Junior Moulton Medal (2011) for the best publication. He was Guest Editor for two IChemE special issue journals: Chemical Engineering Research and Design and Sustainable Production and Consumption. Kok Siew is enthusiastic in establishing research collaboration at international level. He is the co-founder of IBEST (The Institution of Biorefinery Engineers, Scientists and Technologist). He has organised the UK-Mexico workshop (2015) and UK-Malaysia workshop (2016) under the British Council Newton Fund Scheme.

2 Workshop Session Manager Dr. Elias Martinez Hernandez University of Oxford/University of Bath, UK. Dr. Elias Martinez Hernandez is a Chemical Engineer by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. At Oxford, he is currently looking at interactions between technological and ecological processes and at the food-energywater nexus to identify ways to meet human needs sustainably. He has published on process integration and sustainability of biorefineries, impact of bioenergy production on ecosystem services and urban biorefinery for waste processing. He co-authored the game-changer textbook Biorefineries and Chemical Processes: Design, Integration and Sustainability Analysis for training the next generation of biorefinery engineers. Dr Elias Martinez pioneered the promotion of biorefinery research and collaboration between UK and developing countries and he masterminded the workshop held in Mexico last year, a prequel of the workshop in Malaysia. He is seeking collaborations on bioenergy, biorefineries and renewable energy integration, life cycle assessment, foodenergy-water nexus, waste processing and circular economy. He enjoys developing software and website applications to implement analysis tools and to communicate results to wider audiences. Advisor Professor Richard Murphy Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey rj.murphy@surrey.ac.uk Prof. Richard has a BSc in Botany with Zoology from King's College London and a PhD in Plant Sciences from Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials and is Professor of Life Cycle Assessment and Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at Surrey. His main research interest is on plant-based materials and bio-energy using labbased experimentation, LCA and Techno-Economic assessment to evaluate their sustainability. His research is funded by BBSRC, EPSRC, UK government, the EC and industry and he enjoys extensive international collaborations. He has authored/co-authored about 150 scientific papers, supervised over 40 PhD and post-doctoral research studies and founded two spin-out companies (Mycologix Ltd and LCAworks Ltd) in the 2000s. Prof Richard has advised the UK Climate Change Committee on LCA, was appointed to DEFRA s Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee and has given evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee s enquiry into Waste Opportunities.

3 Lead Facilitator Miss Ida Fahani Md Jaye / Ida Fahani is a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey. Her research is to optimise the usage of palm oil mill residues for local decentralized electricity generation in Peninsular Malaysia. She is an Electrical Engineer by training with a Master in Electrical Engineering from Tun Hussein Onn University, Malaysia. Her research interests are evolve on utilising the local available renewable resources to provide reliable, affordable and clean electricity to the users. Facilitator Miss Melissa Yuling Leung Pah Hang mely.lph@gmail.com Melissa is a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey. She is currently working on the design of local production systems based on renewable resources. She has a BEng in Chemical and Renewable Energy Engineering from University of Mauritius and a Master in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London. Her research interests are focused on renewable energy systems analysis, optimisation, sustainability assessment and food-energy-water nexus.

4 Malaysia Coordinator Dr. Mimi Haryani Hassim Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Dr Mimi Hassim is a senior lecturer of chemical engineering at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai. She is a Chartered Engineer with the IChemE. She received her BEng degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MSc degree from Loughborough University, UK and doctoral degree from Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland. She is an established and world pioneer researcher working on inherent occupational health studies of chemical processes. She published more than 60 journal and indexed papers. She is the subject editor for the Process Safety and Environmental Protection and technical English editor for The Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (JSDEWES). She has been invited as keynote speaker in several conferences. She has received the best paper award in two important congresses. Mimi is a member of the Global Young Academy and General Secretary of the Malaysian Young Scientist Network. She is also a treasurer of the IChemE Engineering Education Group and General Secretary of the Islamic Development Bank Malaysian Alumni Association. Advisor Professor Denny K. S. Ng Denny.Ng@nottingham.edu.my Prof. Denny K. S. Ng is Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director of Centre of Sustainable Palm Oil Research, Campus. His areas of specialisation include energy management, resource conservation via process integration techniques, synthesis and analysis of biomass processing and integrated biorefineries. Dr Ng is well-published and wellcited for his age (over 90 papers with an h-index of 25) and presented more than 150 papers in various conferences. He was the recipient of various international and national awards, i.e., Global IChemE Young Chemical Engineer of the Year 2012, Three Outstanding Young Persons of Negeri Sembilan (3OYP.NS) Awards, Junior Chamber International (JCI), 2014 and Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) Young Engineer Award Prof Ng has received more than RM2million research grants from government and industries to develop his research and commercialise the outputs.

5 Facilitator Mr. Viknesh Andiappan Viknesh Andiappan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia. He is currently an associate member of IChemE and a student member of IEM. His PhD research focuses on the development of systematic design approaches for biomass energy systems. In particular, his research aims to integrate design and operational considerations simultaneously to synthesise biomass energy systems. His research interests also include synthesis and analysis of energy systems via Process Integration techniques (pinch analysis and mathematical optimisation), synthesis of integrated biorefineries, energy economics as well as energy planning for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Viknesh has also worked and collaborated with well-known international researchers from the Philippines, India, Taiwan and Qatar. He was the recipient of the Dean PhD Research Scholarship in Facilitator Ms. Yoke Kin Wan wanyokekin@gmail.com Yoke Kin Wan was a technical lead engineer for industrial wastewater and water solution. Her expertise includes organic wastewater treatment process design, detailed engineering process design, and tender proposal preparation. Since year 2013, she started her PhD in The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, under Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) scholarship via CFFRCPLUS postgraduate studentships (BioP1-003). Her background is in chemical engineering and her PhD project title is synthesise a sustainable sago industry. Several novel synthesis approaches have been developed to improve sustainability of an industry. During these three years, a total of 7 journal papers have been published in tier one journals and a total of 7 conference papers have been presented in local and international conferences. Yoke Kin s research interest includes sustainable process synthesis and design, process optimisation, process integration, biomass processing and integrated biorefineries, sustainable resource management, sustainable value chain synthesis, life cycle optimisation, and waste recovery.