Professor Paul Bardos is a Chartered Environmentalist with more than 30 years of experience in soil science and biology; contaminated land and brownfields, waste treatment and risk management, particularly biological treatment technologies, sustainability assessment, soil and water issues. and is Managing Director of r3, which he established in 1997.
Prior to 1997 he worked with Nottingham Trent University and before that a UK government research institute, the Warren Spring Laboratory. He has worked with a wide range of clients in worldwide including multinationals, businesses, stakeholder networks and government agencies.
A visiting professor at the University of Reading and a visiting researcher at University of Southampton, Paul is also co-chair of the Steering Group of the cross-sectoral Sustainable Remediation Forum in the UK (www.claire.co.uk/surfuk); an author of the European NICOLE road map on sustainable remediation (www.nicole.org), and was a contributor to the International Standard ISO 2017:18504 Soil quality -- Guidance on sustainable remediation. Paul now has more than 300 publications to his name.Â
Paul provides technical support on eco-efficiency evaluation of production value chains in China. He is also an expert consultant for the Government of China and the World Bank on sustainable and risk based remediation for the World Bank.Â
He has consulted for the government agency AIST (Tokyo) for the sustainable reuse of contaminated soil in the impacted areas of Fukushima and has carried out a number of remediation project evaluations and audits for various authorities, Public and Private Sector clients around the world, including remediation sustainability assessment in the UK, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and Poland.Â
Paul is a partner in several leading edge European (H2020 and HE) and Chinese R&D projects related to advanced bioremediation, production of biofibres on brownfields, re-use of soil and management of persistent organic pollutants.
Geoff Warren is a senior researcher with r3 Environmental Technology LTD and soil chemist with over 40 years’ experience in laboratory, glasshouse and field investigations of the biogeochemistry of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and potentially toxic elements.
He previously worked at the University of Reading, UK, where he collaborated with UK, EU and overseas institutions, executing and participating in research projects on topics including soil organic matter dynamics (UK / Kenya), remediation of arsenic and cadmium contamination (UK), recycling of P from bone (EU) and recycling cocoa production by-products (UK / Indonesia). He also ran teaching modules and classes and supervised MSc and PhD students, many from overseas.
Geoff's laboratory experience covers a wide range of relevant methods for the measurement of nutrients and contaminants in soil, water and plants, including continuous flow analysis, ICP and the use of stable and radioactive isotopes, along with experimental design, sample preparation and method development.
Working for r3, Geoff has carried out investigations of the availability to plants and leaching of nitrogen from CLO (Compost-Like Outputs from mechanical and biological treatment), and method development and testing for viability tests to assess the viability of roots of invasive plant species, for example Japanese Knotweed.
Samy Strola is an in-house consultant for r3 Environmental Technology LTD. He earned his PhD in Physics from the Polytechnic University of Turin / Italy, where he also started his career as a researcher before working in public and private organisations in Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France (ORCID ID 0000-0002-9996-9705).
He has progressively evolved towards project management, grant writing and funding management, with a clear focus on technological and innovation themes. Samy focuses on sustainability aspects with direct application in different domains such as environmental, nature-based solutions, soil pollution, green transition, low-carbon energies, materials science and healthcare. During the past 15 years, he has accompanied numerous R&D&I projects aimed at developing and implementing disruptive products and strategies.
Samy is enrolled at the Italian MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) as scientific expert for research projects, aiming to boost industrial competitiveness as well as societal development for the AAL funding programme (Active & Assisted Living) and for the EIT Manufacturing / EIT Urban Mobility programs. He also regularly acts as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals and as a technical board member for conferences such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, The Journal of Biomedical Optics, Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, Scientific Reports Nature Publishing Group, ERMSAR2024.
In 2024, he co-funded the EcoLife Alliance (https://www.ecolifealliance.org/): a non-profit association (French Law 1901) that aim at co-designing innovative approaches in and for sustainability and to promote greener practices for all life science players, from academics to pharma, biotech or medical device industry.
Helen McLennan is an experienced project manager, webmaster, and developer with an IT career spanning over three decades. With expertise in both digital media and project delivery, Helen specialises in problem-solving and implementing data-driven Open Source solutions. Originally from New Zealand, her professional journey in IT began in Sydney, Australia, where she worked on a variety of projects from game development to corporate tools. After relocating to France in 2001, Helen continued freelancing remotely, building strong relationships with clients across the UK, France, and Norway.
Helen's portfolio includes notable collaborations with CL:AIRE in the UK (2006 - 2023), where she developed CMS and LMS web applications and Aldi UK (2021 - ), where she develops and maintains an internal Health and Safety web application. Alongside her technical expertise, Helen has also previously been part of the team that developed a pilot symptom checker for NHS Direct and provided marketing support for the UK Department for Education's Teachers' TV initiative.
In addition to her professional work, Helen spent 10 years as a part-time primary school ICT facilitator and continues to expand her skillset through ongoing study in data science and machine learning. Fluent in both English and French, Helen holds permanent residency in France and remains committed to delivering tailor-made and economical solutions.
Helen's work with r3 (2022 - ) is wide-ranging, including developing and maintaining the r3 and other project websites and web applications and contributing to projects where data management knowledge and skills are required.