Dr. Amey S. Tilak currently works in University of Limerick and previously worked in Technological University of Shannon: Midlands and Midwest in Research and Development Unit
(RDI) in the area of peatland carbon sequestration. He previously worked as a Visiting Scientist (full-time) at the ICRISAT Development Centre, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), a United 
Nations organization located in Hyderabad, India on “Designing and Monitoring Constructed and Floating 
Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment”. Dr. Tilak also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of 
Birmingham, UK on Modelling Hydrology of Canadian Peatlands.
Dr. Tilak completed his PhD degree from North 
Carolina State University, USA on “Modelling the Hydrology and Nitrogen Dynamics of Two Riparian Buffers located in Eastern North Carolina”. He completed his Master’s degree from University of Mississippi, USA and
Bachelor’s degree from University of Mumbai, India.

Prof. Dr. Ken Byrne is the mentor on the EPA funded CH4 Peat project. Dr. Ken Byrne is a Associate Professor in University of Limerick and has extensive experience in peatland GHG 
monitoring and soil carbon sequestration. Dr. Byrne major research focuses on the impact of land use and land use change on soil carbon stocks and GHG emissions. Other interests include carbon storage in harvested wood products, forest ecosystem services and nutrient stores in forest biomass. He has supervised several postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers and authored 62 articles
(> 3900 citations,
a h-index of 26 and an i10 index of 46). He is author of three IPCC reports (2003 GPG for LULUCF; 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories; 2013 wetland Supplement) and recently authored IPBES reports. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the recently launched journal, PLOS Climate.

Dr Matthew Saunders is Assistant Professor in Plant Sciences in TCD, he has extensive experience in measuring 
Carbon and other GHG dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems and has worked extensively on peatland restoration and ecosystem
service provision. He is also directly involved with the development of the International Carbon Observation 
System (ICOS) and is leading/working on EPA, DAFM and EU H2020 projects in this area.