Peter Vanrolleghem
Keynote speaker

Prof. Peter Vanrolleghem obtained a MSc in Bio-engineering (1987) and a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences – Environmental Technology (1994), both from Ghent University in Belgium. His PhD dealt with monitoring, modelling and control of activated sludge processes, with special emphasis on model calibration and experimental design. He became associate professor at Ghent University (1997), initiating the BIOMATH research team that by 2006 had grown to 25 researchers focusing on modeling methodologies for bioprocesses, mainly in environmental systems, but also in agricultural systems, and food and fermentation technology. Since 2006 he holds the Canada Research Chair on Water Quality Modeling, and he moved to Université Laval in Québec where he started a new research group, modelEAU, that focuses on modeling, monitoring and control of water systems, from detailed process modelling to river basin management. His work is mainly methodological dealing with modelling methodology, experimental design, data quality assessment, system optimization and the software tools that support this work. He has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals and is very active within the International Water Association. For instance, he was one of the authors of the River Water Quality Model No 1 and is chairman of the IWA Specialist Group on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment.