Speakers

CSIR@80 | G-STIC Conference

8 - 10 October 2025

Confirmed State Officials and Representatives

Prof. Blade Nzimande

Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation

Government of South Africa

Confirmed Speakers

Tatiana Marrufo

Coordenadora do Programa de Saúde e Ambiente, incluindo a Saúde do Trabalhador

Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)

Dr. Ousmane Ndiaye

Director General

African Center of Meteorogical Application for Development (ACMAD)

Prof. Izael De Silva

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation & UNESCO Chair on Climate Change Resilience and Sustainability

Strathmore University

Rashid Abdallah

Executive Director

African Energy Commission

Mamohloding Maahlo-Tihagale

Acting Executive: Stakeholder and Communications

Water Research Commission

Sylvain Tusanga

Executive Director

Lake Tanganyika Authority

Prof. Luiz Paulo Assad

Professor

University of Rio de Janeiro

Dr. Thulani Dlamini

CEO

CSIR

Dr. Vibha Dhawan

Director-General

TERI

Inge Neven

CEO

VITO

Dr. Paulo Gadelha

former President of Fiocruz

Coordinator of the Fiocruz Strategy for 2030 Agenda

Dietrich Van der Weken

General Manager G-STIC

VITO

Confirmed Top experts (alphabetically)

Anshuman

Director Water Resources

TERI

Paul Campling

International Business Development

Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO)

Fangming Jiang

Scientific Coordinator

Laboratory of Advanced Energy Systems, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Dr. Danielly Magalhães

Senior Project Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

Columbia University

Carlo Mol

Project Manager Energy Technology

VITO/EnergyVille

Dr. Nthabiseng Motete

Executive Cluster Manager: Advanced Agriculture and Food

CSIR

José Luís Moutinho

Chief Business and Network Developer

Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre)

Dr. Jabu Mtsweni

Chief researcher & Information and Cybersecurity Research Centre Manager

CSIR

Katrien Van Hooydonk

Project Lead Strategic Partnerships and Internationalisation Water4All

VITO

Dr. Coralie Van Reenen

Research Group Leader

CSIR

Prof. Luiz Paulo Assad

Professor

University of Rio de Janeiro

Dr Luiz Paulo Assad holds a degree in Oceanography from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1996), a master's degree in Physical Oceanography from the University of São Paulo (2000) and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate Studies and Engineering Research (2006). He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Meteorology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and also a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Meteorology of the aforementioned department.

Researcher and technical coordinator of the Environmental Modelling Centre of the Laboratory of Computational Methods in Engineering (COPPE) and collaborating professor in the Civil Engineering Program at COPPE. He has experience in the area of Physical Oceanography, with an emphasis on computational ocean modelling, working mainly on the following topics: global and regional computational ocean modelling, climate modelling, ocean-atmosphere interaction processes, characterization and analysis of meteorological, oceanographic and environmental data, Renewable Marine Resources and sustainability.

Paul Campling

International Business Development

Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO)

Dr. Paul Campling is a hydrologist, specialised in the domain of land and water management and policy assessment. He is currently International Business Development Manager at VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research) coordinating the acquisition and management of European environmental projects. Previously he worked as a Project Manager at the European Environment Agency (Copenhagen) coordinating the IRENA project to develop and report on agri-environmental indicators for the European Union. He also spent 5 years in Nigeria working on a research project concerned with water resources development, for which he completed his PhD. In the last 25 years he has managed several environmental projects addressing different environmental concerns for the European Space Agency (flood monitoring), DG Eurostat (landscape indicators), the Joint Research Centre (permanent grasslands, nitrogen balances), and DG ENV (cost benefit analysis of the Water Framework Directive, alternative water supplies, market-based instruments for reducing air pollution, soil organic matter – best practices and tradeoffs). Paul was coordinator of the Pavitra Ganga project in India that demonstrated improved solutions for waste water treatment, resource recovery (energy and materials) and smart water management (sensors and ICT). Paul is an expert in European environmental policy. Paul originates from the United Kingdom but is now also a Belgian national.