Dr. Ales Hanc is Associate Professor at the Department of Agro-Environmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic. He is the guarantor of the bachelor's study program Landscape Protection and the Use of Natural Resources and the master's program Waste Technology. He teaches classes in the field of Agro-Environmental Chemistry, Plant Nutrition and Waste Management. His research and publication activities are focused on the management of biowaste and knowledge of processes during composting and vermicomposting (using earthworms). Individually or as a co-author He has published over 170 scientific and professional articles. More than 40 of them are displayed on Web of Science with 450 citations (without self-citations). H-index is 13. Researcher ID: U-8984-2019. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4291-8576 He presented selected papers orally at international conferences, e.g. in Hong Kong (2011, 2013, 2015 – Co-chairman of the Composting Section), China (Beijing, 2012, Shanghai, 2018), USA (2017), South Africa (2016), Malaysia (2018), Greece (2010 and 2018), Spain (2018), Hungary (2014), etc. He also participated in the creation and development of patents, utility models and industrial designs, certified methodologies, functional model and proven technology. He is a co-author of a book on composting and composting plants
Waste Management; biowaste; composting; vermicomposting; plant nutrition; fertilization