Professor Ana Elena Mallet is an independent curator specializing in modern and contemporary design, and cultural management. She has taught History of Design, Art as well as Contemporary Photography in various institutions and universities throughout Mexico and has overseen the creation and planning of academic programs in different institutions. Since 2018, she is a guest curator at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, in charge of putting together the first-ever public Mexican Design collection in the country.

She has held curatorial positions at Museo Soumaya, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and was Programming deputy Director at Museo Tamayo. She has curated exhibitions in Mexico, Europe and the US in museums such as Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City), MARCO (Monterrey), Musée National des Artes Modéstes in Sète, France; the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Craft Contemporary (LA), among many others. She was a member of the London Design Biennale for the 2016 and 2018 editions.

Her research varies from the famous Mexican intricate woven looms to the core of Mexican design itself.

Professor Ana Mallet is Distinguished Professor in Design for the School of Architecture, Art and Design. 

• Master in Art History with a specialty in Curatorial Studies, Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM
• Master in Museology, Centro de Arte Mexicano
• Bachelor in Latin American Literature with a specialty in Art and Knowledge, Universidad Iberoamericana

• In 2020 she published the book La Vida en el Arte. Writings by Clara Porset (Editorial Alias) and the book Felix Tissot Lo eterno y lo moderno (Fauna); in 2017 the book Silla Mexicana (Arquine / Conaculta) and in 2014, La Bauhaus y el México Moderno. The design of Van Beuren (Arquine / Conaculta).

Dr. Frank Loge is currently Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Center for Water Energy Efficiency, and member of the Secure Research Commuting Environment in the University of California Davis (UC Davis). In addition, he is member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Water Efficiency in Chicago and former member of the Governor Newsom’s Water Resilience Initiative Portfolio, from the Governor’s Office in Sacramento, California.

His research involves green engineering and environmental sustainability with a focus on water, waste, energy, and built environment systems; risk analysis of engineered and natural systems focusing on water and health relationships; water and energy conservation, and resource use efficiency.

Dr. Loge is working on biomarkers of exposure to hazardous substances for the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Center (US). In addition, he has worked on projects such as a multi-community intervention with UV light disinfection for estimating the risk of gastrointestinal illness from drinking groundwater for the US Environmental Protection Agency, and an environmentally benign manufacturing process utilizing renewable biopolymers to manufacture natural fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites for the National Science Foundation (US), among others.

Professor Loge has over 100 publications on subjects related to leak reduction and water management; water distribution system optimization; utility-specific water loss reduction standards, to name a few, on publications such as Environmental Research Letters; Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management; 2021 IEEE Visualization (conference paper), among others. 

Dr. Loge has been awarded the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Award (2015 & 2017); the Ray B. Krone Endowed Professorship of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at University of California Davis (2013 - present); he has also won the People Prosperity and Planet (P3) Award five times from 2007 to 2012 in several categories and has also been recognized by the National Science Foundation with the CAREER Award (2001-2006).

Professor Frank Loge joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis
• M.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of California Davis
     

• Rupiper, Amanda & Weill, Joakim & Bruno, Ellen & Jessoe, Katrina & Loge, Frank. (2022). Untapped potential: Leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool. Environmental Research Letters. 17. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac54cb. 
• Li, Yiran & Musabandesu, Erin & Fujiwara, Takanori & Loge, Frank & Ma, Kwan-Liu. (2021). A Visual Analytics System for Water Distribution System Optimization. 126-130. 10.1109/VIS49827.2021.9623272. 
• Rupiper, Amanda & Guilliams, Mackenzie & Bush, Micaela & Jessoe, Katrina & Loge, Frank. (2021). Assessing Data Adequacy for Determining Utility-Specific Water Loss Reduction Standards. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 147. 05021011. 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001419. 

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Dr. Frank Loge is currently Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Center for Water Energy Efficiency, and member of the Secure Research Commuting Environment in the University of California Davis (UC Davis). In addition, he is member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Water Efficiency in Chicago and former member of the Governor Newsom’s Water Resilience Initiative Portfolio, from the Governor’s Office in Sacramento, California.

His research involves green engineering and environmental sustainability with a focus on water, waste, energy, and built environment systems; risk analysis of engineered and natural systems focusing on water and health relationships; water and energy conservation, and resource use efficiency.

Dr. Loge is working on biomarkers of exposure to hazardous substances for the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Center (US). In addition, he has worked on projects such as a multi-community intervention with UV light disinfection for estimating the risk of gastrointestinal illness from drinking groundwater for the US Environmental Protection Agency, and an environmentally benign manufacturing process utilizing renewable biopolymers to manufacture natural fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites for the National Science Foundation (US), among others.

Professor Loge has over 100 publications on subjects related to leak reduction and water management; water distribution system optimization; utility-specific water loss reduction standards, to name a few, on publications such as Environmental Research Letters; Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management; 2021 IEEE Visualization (conference paper), among others. 

Dr. Loge has been awarded the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Award (2015 & 2017); the Ray B. Krone Endowed Professorship of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at University of California Davis (2013 - present); he has also won the People Prosperity and Planet (P3) Award five times from 2007 to 2012 in several categories and has also been recognized by the National Science Foundation with the CAREER Award (2001-2006).

Professor Frank Loge joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis
• M.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of California Davis
     

• Rupiper, Amanda & Weill, Joakim & Bruno, Ellen & Jessoe, Katrina & Loge, Frank. (2022). Untapped potential: Leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool. Environmental Research Letters. 17. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac54cb. 
• Li, Yiran & Musabandesu, Erin & Fujiwara, Takanori & Loge, Frank & Ma, Kwan-Liu. (2021). A Visual Analytics System for Water Distribution System Optimization. 126-130. 10.1109/VIS49827.2021.9623272. 
• Rupiper, Amanda & Guilliams, Mackenzie & Bush, Micaela & Jessoe, Katrina & Loge, Frank. (2021). Assessing Data Adequacy for Determining Utility-Specific Water Loss Reduction Standards. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 147. 05021011. 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001419. 

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Dr. Manish Kumar serves as a full-time Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, he directed the Sustainability Cluster within the School of Advanced Engineering at UPES in Dehradun, India, and held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tezpur University in Assam. He is a fellow of prominent organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). His research is on elucidating, expanding, and developing multiple aspects of the fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in water.

He has authored more than 250 SCI/SCIE articles, which have collectively been cited over 13,000 times. With an h-index exceeding 60 and an i10 index surpassing 200, Manish Kumar has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally, as published by Elsevier based on the ranking algorithm from Stanford University.

His academic and research training encompasses institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He led the team that was the first to identify the SARS-CoV-2 gene in Indian wastewater. He served on the expert panel on antimicrobial resistance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led projects funded by organizations like UKIERI, UNICEF, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). His research has been featured in the EU newsletters, WHO reports, and the U.S. EPA research calls. He provides editorial services to journals such as Elsevier and Springer.

Manish Kumar joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.Phil. and M.Sc., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• B. Sc., Chemistry, Lalit Narayan Mithila University

• Mootapally, Chandrashekar & Sharma, Parth & Dash, Siddhant & Kumar, Manish & Sharma, Shiksha & Kothari, Ramesh & Nathani, Neelam. (2025). Microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles in deep sediments of the Kathiawar Peninsula Gulfs of India. Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178609. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178609. 
• Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Manish & Bahukhandi, kanchan Deoli & Zang, Jian. (2024). Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104398. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104398. 
• Torres-Martínez, Juan Antonio & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish & Loge, Frank & Kaown, Dugin. (2024). Advancing groundwater quality predictions: Machine learning challenges and solutions. Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174973. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174973. 
• Sudarsan, Jayaraman & Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Rakesh & Raval, Nirav & Leifels, Mats & Mukherjee, Santanu & Trivedi, Mrugesh & Jain, Shirish & Zang, Jian & Barceló, Damià & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Tricks and tracks of prevalence, occurrences, treatment technologies, and challenges of mixtures of emerging contaminants in the environment: With special emphasis on microplastic. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104389. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104389. 
• Park, Kyu-hyun & Furumai, Hiroaki & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Suburban Runoff Modeling for Seasonal Water Management in Rice Paddy Fields: An Elaborated Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry. ACS ES&T Water. 4. 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00124. 

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Dr. Manish Kumar serves as a full-time Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, he directed the Sustainability Cluster within the School of Advanced Engineering at UPES in Dehradun, India, and held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tezpur University in Assam. He is a fellow of prominent organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). His research is on elucidating, expanding, and developing multiple aspects of the fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in water.

He has authored more than 250 SCI/SCIE articles, which have collectively been cited over 13,000 times. With an h-index exceeding 60 and an i10 index surpassing 200, Manish Kumar has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally, as published by Elsevier based on the ranking algorithm from Stanford University.

His academic and research training encompasses institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He led the team that was the first to identify the SARS-CoV-2 gene in Indian wastewater. He served on the expert panel on antimicrobial resistance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and led projects funded by organizations like UKIERI, UNICEF, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). His research has been featured in the EU newsletters, WHO reports, and the U.S. EPA research calls. He provides editorial services to journals such as Elsevier and Springer.

Manish Kumar joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.Phil. and M.Sc., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• B. Sc., Chemistry, Lalit Narayan Mithila University

• Mootapally, Chandrashekar & Sharma, Parth & Dash, Siddhant & Kumar, Manish & Sharma, Shiksha & Kothari, Ramesh & Nathani, Neelam. (2025). Microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles in deep sediments of the Kathiawar Peninsula Gulfs of India. Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178609. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178609. 
• Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Manish & Bahukhandi, kanchan Deoli & Zang, Jian. (2024). Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104398. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104398. 
• Torres-Martínez, Juan Antonio & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish & Loge, Frank & Kaown, Dugin. (2024). Advancing groundwater quality predictions: Machine learning challenges and solutions. Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174973. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174973. 
• Sudarsan, Jayaraman & Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Rakesh & Raval, Nirav & Leifels, Mats & Mukherjee, Santanu & Trivedi, Mrugesh & Jain, Shirish & Zang, Jian & Barceló, Damià & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Tricks and tracks of prevalence, occurrences, treatment technologies, and challenges of mixtures of emerging contaminants in the environment: With special emphasis on microplastic. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104389. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104389. 
• Park, Kyu-hyun & Furumai, Hiroaki & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Suburban Runoff Modeling for Seasonal Water Management in Rice Paddy Fields: An Elaborated Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry. ACS ES&T Water. 4. 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00124. 

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Dr. Rob Roggema was a landscape-driven design and sustainable urban environments professor at three universities in the Netherlands and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is a visiting professor in Landscape Urbanism at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University in Australia, and a Distinguished Global Professor at KEIO University in Japan.

He is the founder of Cittaideale, an office for adaptive design, spatial planning, and design research for regenerative urban environments and landscapes. Some of the design concepts he has developed are FoodRoofRio, a rooftop garden with an aquaponic system that provided food for families in the Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moeder Zernike, a regional long-term regenerative plan for the northern part of the Netherlands; and Nature Rich Netherlands,
a national plan to convert Dutch land use to 50% nature while solving problems related to climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, and housing.

For his Ph.D., he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a new method for planning and responding to climate adaptation and spatial design. Rob Roggema’s research interests are in creating innovative spatial solutions for regenerative urban landscapes. He has facilitated over 40 design charrettes in the Netherlands, Japan, Mongolia, China, Jordan, India, Australia, and New Zealand, engaging communities, academics, governments, and industries in complex design processes to address wicked problems.

Rob Roggema joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Regenerative Cultures for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Swarm Planning: The development of a methodology to deal with climate adaptation, Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research
• M.Sc., Landscape Architecture, Wageningen University & Research
   

• Roggema, R.; Chamski, R. The New Urban Profession: Entering the Age of Uncertainty. Urban Sci. 2022, 6, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010010

• Roggema, R. (2022). Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes: Rebalancing Human Impact and Natural Environment (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking) (English Edition). Springer.

• Roggema, Rob. (2021). TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization. 10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Nature Driven Urbanism. 10.1007/978-3-030-26717-9. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Designing Sustainable Cities. 10.1007/978-3-030-54686-1. 

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