Professor at Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. Responsible for Veterinary Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Medicine.

Member of the Arctic Research Centre (ARC) Management Board, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University. Participating in Arctic Science Partnership scientific programs in Greenland and Canada.

Editor-in-chief, Environmental Pollution and Environmental Advances; Subject Editor, Wildlife Biology

Associate Professor Darren Delai Sun earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on nano-multifunctional membranes for clean water and energy generation, heavy-metal stabilization, and advanced nanomaterials such as nano-confinement catalytic oxidation membranes, TiO₂-based nanostructured/fiber/tube membranes, and 3-D printed nano-fiber NEWSkin for healthcare. He currently serves as Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford University, USA; Visiting Professor at Shandong University, China; and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. An IWA Fellow and Chair of the IWA Specialist Group on Chemical Industries, he is also a Fellow of IAAM and has received numerous accolades including the IWA Innovation Award 2008, Singapore’s Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008, Nanyang Award for Innovation and Research 2009, Tokyo University of Science President’s Award 2013, Institute of Chemical Engineering President’s Award 2019, and Best Innovation and Enterprise Awards 2021. Recognized among Stanford’s World’s Top 2 % Scientists in 2022 and 2023, he is an Editor of the Journal of Chemistry (Wiley) and Editor-in-Chief of Exploring Environment and Resources (AccScience).

Professor Su Shiung Lam is a leading environmental technologist at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), specializing in waste recycling and biomass utilization. His research centers on advanced pyrolysis and microwave heating technologies to convert waste and biomass into green energy and value-added products, encompassing microwave, co-, catalytic and vacuum pyrolysis, microwave torrefaction, steam activation and carbonization, as well as downstream green processes such as phytoremediation, aquaculture biorefinery, CO₂ conversion, anaerobic fermentation and contaminant studies on pesticides, mercury and lead. A Professional Technologist (Green Technology) certified by the Malaysian Board of Technologists and a DOE-accredited Environmental Professional in hazardous waste management, he holds leadership roles in the International Bioprocessing Association, Malaysia Carbon Management Society and Inter-University Biomass-to-Fuel Network, and serves on the editorial boards of seven international journals including Bioresource Technology and Journal of Sustainability Science & Management. Recognized with three concurrent professorships in China and extensive global collaborations, Professor Lam continues to drive innovation at the intersection of environmental protection, energy conversion and sustainable aquaculture systems.

Dr. Jiacheng Yang is an early-career researcher at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences whose scholarship centers on the rational design and mechanistic elucidation of heterogeneous catalysts for environmental remediation and energy conversion. Over the past decade he has published 20 SCI papers in top-tier journals such as Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy, Chemical Engineering Journal, Chemical Communications and Chemosphere, with a current Google-Scholar h-index exceeding 30. His work spans three interconnected themes: (i) single-atom and dual-atom catalysts (Mn-Ce, Co-Al, Co-Nx) tailored by electron/spin-state engineering for highly efficient ozone or peroxymonosulfate activation; (ii) hierarchical porous carbon and MOF-derived magnetic composites synthesized from biomass or waste feedstocks for capacitive deionization, Fenton-like processes and arsenic/lead removal; and (iii) mechanistic insights into radical vs. non-radical pathways, structure–activity relationships and the role of bicarbonate and surface oxygen groups in metal-free activation systems. Notable contributions include the first demonstration of spatially isolated CoNx quantum dots on carbon nanotubes enabling a radical-free Fenton-like process, and the elucidation of electron-complementary effects in Mn-Ce dual-atom monolithic catalysts for enhanced ozone catalysis. His research is characterized by a cradle-to-grave approach that integrates advanced material synthesis, in-situ/operando spectroscopy, kinetic modelling and life-cycle assessment, aiming to translate laboratory discoveries into scalable technologies for wastewater treatment, desalination and sustainable energy production.

Abdeltif Amrane is a distinguished French–Algerian professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (air and water treatment) at the University of Rennes 1 since 2018, where he holds the exceptional-class chair and serves as Deputy Director of the Chemistry Department. After graduating in chemical engineering from USTHB Algiers (1987) and obtaining his PhD (1991) and Habilitation (1998) in chemistry from the University of Rennes 1, he progressed from associate professor (1993–2001) to full professor (2001–present). Within the “Chimie et Ingénierie des Procédés” team of the ENSCR–CNRS UMR 6226, his research targets physico-chemical and biological treatment processes, with emphasis on fermentation, biodegradation and bioengineering for gaseous and aqueous pollutant control. He has led or co-led numerous national (ANR, ADEME, Brittany Region, CNRS) and international projects (EU LIFE Environment, CIFRE, and bilateral collaborations with 13 countries), and has directed or co-directed 29 PhD theses. With 6,021 Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 40 (Web of Science: 3,584 citations, h = 31), he is a prolific author whose work spans advanced adsorbents (biochar, activated carbon), membrane and electrocoagulation processes, antibiotic and dye removal, and green catalysis.

Giovanni Bacaro is a plant-community ecologist at the University of Trieste whose work centres on quantifying and predicting patterns of plant diversity across spatial scales. Using field inventories, remote sensing and advanced statistics, he investigates how climate, landscape heterogeneity and anthropogenic drivers shape the distribution of native and invasive vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens, with recent studies spanning Mediterranean coastal dunes, Alpine endemism hotspots and island systems such as Tenerife. His group develops efficient sampling protocols and rarefaction techniques for biodiversity monitoring, and has provided evidence that functional divergence and resource gradients govern community invasibility. Author or co-author of >30 high-impact papers since 2019 (open-access examples in Plant Ecology, Diversity and Journal of Vegetation Science), Bacaro co-leads research networks that link terrestrial and aquatic habitats, and collaborates internationally to translate ecological theory into management guidance for European habitats.

Konstantinos G. Beltsios is a Chemical Engineer who graduated from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Since September 2019 he has been Professor of “Composites, Membranes & Ceramic Materials” in the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA. Over his career he has supervised 8 completed PhD theses, 21 master’s theses and 59 diploma theses, authored or co-authored 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters and 1 international patent, and produced two widely used Greek textbooks on transport phenomena and composite materials. His research spans modern and ancient materials—ceramics, glasses, pigments and archaeo-metallurgy—focusing on microstructure–property relationships, and he has served as reviewer for 61 international journals

Essaid Bilal is a CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), leading work at the intersection of environmental geochemistry, biotechnology and circular economy. His research centres on developing clean processes for the recycling and valorisation of industrial wastes (notably phosphogypsum), the remediation of polluted soils and legacy industrial sites, precision agriculture, and the sustainable management of built heritage. He applies metrology, mineral processing and process-engineering tools to create pilot-to-industrial solutions that close material loops and cut environmental footprints. Internationally, Bilal serves as Senior Vice-President for R&D of the OCP Group (2015-2017) overseeing 176 staff and €86 M annual budget, chairs doctoral programmes and expert committees for UNESCO, the EU, Morocco and Romania, and is a permanent honorary member of the Romanian Society of Economic Geology. With an h-index of 40 (Google Scholar) and 210 journal articles, he sits on the editorial boards of five journals and has organised 20+ high-profile conferences bridging academia, industry and policy on smart environments, phosphate technologies, cultural heritage and sustainable development.

Laura Bulgariu is a Full Professor (habil.) of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Romania. After earning degrees in chemical physics (1996) and molecular dynamics (1999) from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, she obtained her PhD in 2006 on solvent extraction of toxic metal ions and her habilitation in 2013 on green methods for heavy-metal removal from water. She advanced from preparator (2000–2002) to lecturer (2014–present) in the Department of Environmental Engineering & Management, where she teaches analytical chemistry, quality control, and life-cycle assessment at both undergraduate and master’s levels. Bulgariu has authored 167 scientific publications, including 51 ISI-indexed papers (33 as first author), 67 BDI-indexed articles, and 18 book chapters, accumulating 241 citations and an h-index of 9. She has directed nine research contracts out of 18 total grants, received 15 national and international awards, and actively serves on the editorial boards of two BDI journals while reviewing for 43 ISI journals.

Mingzhe Chen is a full professor and PhD supervisor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Nanjing University of Science & Technology (NJUST). He earned an M.Eng. from Sichuan University (2015) and a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia (2019), followed by post-doctoral training at Wollongong and a Korea Research Fellowship at Korea University (2019-2021). A 2021 awardee of China’s National High-Level Overseas Talent Youth Programme, he heads NJUST’s “Overseas Academic Partners” project and the Solid-State Physics & Energy Storage group. His research focuses on the design, synthesis and first-principles-driven understanding of next-generation battery electrodes and interfaces, covering anionic redox, high-entropy rock-salt cathodes, multi-anion doping, sodium-ion phase-transformation kinetics and solid-state electrolytes. He has published >40 first-/corresponding-author papers in Nat. Commun., JACS, Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and Adv. Energy Mater., co-authored 90+ papers, filed 5 patents and amassed ~5 000 citations (h-index 37). He currently leads five national, provincial and industry-funded projects and serves on editorial boards of Energy Environ. Mater., eScience and other journals, while reviewing for AEM, AFM and Small.

Prof. Chrysikopoulos has taught in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine (1991-2004); Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (2004-2013), and in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece (2013-2022). He has over 128 peer-reviewed international journal publications. His h-index is 46 (Scopus), 55 (Google Scholar). He specializes in experimental and theoretical aspects of contaminant transport in porous media and environmental systems. He has participated in numerous research projects funded by USA and EU. Also, he is currently on the editorial board of several international journals.

Philippe Le Coustumer is a French environmental geochemist and materials scientist at the University of Bordeaux who specializes in solid–liquid interfaces, trace-element fate in waters and waste-matrix interactions. After degrees in geography and composite-materials engineering and a 1991 PhD in physico-chemistry, he conducted post-doctoral work on carbon-fiber nanostructure with Elf and Toray. Since 1993 he has held faculty positions at Poitiers and Bordeaux, where he directs the Virtual University for Environment & Sustainable Development (UVED) and has led the Erasmus Mundus master in Marine Environment Resources. Holder of an HDR (2003), he has coordinated two EU INTAS projects on Central-Asian water bodies and served as expert for DIN-AFNOR, ANR, Swiss and Slovak science funds. His 30+ years of interdisciplinary research and teaching combine hydrosciences, materials science and digital pedagogy to address heavy-metal and actinide storage, nanoparticle behaviour and sustainable development.

Yanshan Cui is a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences whose research centers on the environmental geochemistry of toxic metals and metalloids. Employing advanced speciation models, in-vitro digestion/Caco-2 cell bioaccessibility assays and the SHIME gut-microbiota simulator, he investigates the release, transformation and human uptake of arsenic, lead, cadmium and other contaminants from soils, food and water. His 35+ high-impact papers (Nat. Commun., Environ. Sci. Technol., J. Hazard. Mater., Food Chem.) detail how soil properties, plant–microbe interactions and human gut microbiota govern metal bioavailability and health risk, and he actively translates these findings into remediation and food-safety strategies.

Hongjie Dai is an associate professor and “Bayu Scholar” at Southwest University’s College of Food Science. A 2015 B.Sc. (Hainan), 2015 M.Eng. (Zhejiang Gongshang) and 2018 Ph.D. (South China University of Technology) holder, he specializes in valorizing food proteins/polysaccharides, designing colloidal delivery systems and fabricating functional hydrogels/emulsions from agricultural by-products. With 120+ papers (40+ first/corresponding in SCI-1 journals, h-index 41, >5200 citations), five patents and global “Top 2 % Scientist” status (2021-2024), he directs national and provincial grants on nanocellulose-based carriers and eco-friendly food-packaging materials while serving on editorial boards of seven SCI journals and acting as reviewer for >20 others.

José Darrozes received the graduate degree from Montpellier II University (France), in 1997. His Ph. D. research focused primarily on remote sensing and wavelet signal processing in Earth Sciences. Since 1998, he works as associate professor in GNSS and remote sensing at the Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France). He obtain his HDR in 2009. Since 2011 He works in geodesy and more specifically on GNSS-Reflectometry. He is currently working with the reflectometry group hosted in the GET laboratory (Toulouse, France) and the GRACE/GRACE FOLLOW ON team.

Claudio Di Iaconi is a senior researcher at IRSA-CNR, Italy, internationally recognized for inventing and scaling-up the SBBGR (Sequencing Batch Biofilter Granular Reactor) technology that drastically reduces sludge production while treating municipal and industrial wastewaters. Awarded “Best LIFE Environment 2009” by the European Commission and the 2005 CNR Prize for Excellence, he couples granular biomass systems with ozonation to eliminate persistent pollutants, and his >20 high-impact papers (Water Research, Bioresource Technology, ES&T) have helped establish aerobic granular sludge as the next-generation wastewater treatment platform.

Prof. Dr. Lóránt Dénes Dávid, academician, is a Hungarian scholar. After earning his PhD from the University of Debrecen, Hungary in Geography (Earth Sciences) in 2001, he completed the habilitation processes in 3 disciplines (Management and Business Administration, Environmental Sciences, and Regional Sciences. He has become an internationally recognized researcher and professor in the fields of geography and tourism, and holds full-professor positions in Poland, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, and Hungary. 

Jiaqiang E is a full professor of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics at Hunan University, holding the Yuelu Scholar Distinguished Chair and recognized as a global Highly Cited Researcher and China’s Highly Cited Scholar (h-index 68, >11 000 SCI citations, top 2 % scientist). With degrees from Jilin University (BEng 1997) and Central South University (PhD 2004), he has spent two decades at Hunan University, leading 20+ national and provincial projects on high-efficiency combustion, micro-scale combustion, battery thermal management, pollutant control and renewable energy systems. He has published 270+ SCI papers, 12 monographs and holds 11 patents; his work on catalytic converters, particulate filters and low-grade energy recovery has earned two provincial second prizes and four third prizes for science/technology. A prolific educator, he teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer and diagnostics to >200 students annually and has supervised 15 PhDs, 6 postdocs and 117 master’s theses; he also serves on 30+ editorial boards and review panels, contributing to national standards and talent awards.

Dr. Essa received his B.Sc. with honors (1997), an M.Sc. (2001) and a Ph.D. (2004) in Geophysics from the Faculty of Science, Cairo University. He joined the staff of Cairo University (1997) and was appointed a research Professor of potential field methods in the Department of Geophysics (2014). He has authored more than 80 technical papers and affiliated to post-doctoral visits to University of Lorraine, France (2020-2021), Strasbourg University, France (2018-2019), Charles University in Prague, Czech (2014-2015) and in Western Michigan University, USA (2006-2007) and served as an Editor and external reviewer for many top journals. He attended several International Geophysical Conferences in USA, Australia and France. He was a member in SEG, AGU, AAPG, EAGE and EGS. Also, he is a member of the National committee for Geodesy and Geophysics, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt (2020-2023) and member of the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Research Council, Sector of Quality Councils, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt (2018-2028). He has given Award of the Prof. Nasry Matari Shokry in Applied Geology, Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (2017) and Award of Cairo University for Scientific Excellence in Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary and Future Sciences (2017). He was selected among Stanford University's list of the top 2% scientists in the world in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Dr. Diana Francis is an internationally-renown Atmospheric Scientist and a well-established Environmental expert. She holds a Master degree in Physics, a Master degree in Environmental Sciences and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences from Sorbonne Universités – Paris, France. 

After her PhD, Dr. Francis worked for more than 10 years as a research scientist in different prestigious research institutions in Europe. In 2016, she joined the Research Institute at New York University Abu Dhabi (UAE) as a research scientist and team leader where she led a team of 8 researchers to develop research activities on climate change. In 2020, she joined Khalifa University as Head of the Environmental and Geophysical Sciences (ENGEOS) lab.

For more than 10 years, Dr. Diana Francis has successfully conducted, managed and delivered scientific projects on a wide range of topics related to environmental and atmospheric sciences. Her scientific achievements have been communicated to the international community through numerous publications in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals and many international conferences and media outreaches. The significance of her findings and international reputation are reflected in her publication record and her strong international network of collaborators that she is been always keen to expand and maintain. 

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla is Full Professor and Head of the Mining & Civil Engineering Department at the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT). An Architect and Civil Engineer with a PhD in Urban Planning (Polytechnic University of Valencia), an MBA (ESIC) and an MSc in Public–Private Concessions (UPM), he leads the POTEPAPI research group on territorial policy, environmental planning and infrastructure. Listed in Stanford’s global top-2 % most-cited scientists, he has >50 JCR/SJR papers, 15 books and extensive EU and national projects, directs two endowed chairs (GIS-AI and Sustainable Urban Mobility) and supervises numerous master’s and doctoral theses. He has served as Director-General of Transport, Coasts and Ports for the Region of Murcia, coordinated post-earthquake reconstruction in Lorca and advised governments worldwide, while maintaining visiting positions at MIT, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Imperial College and other leading universities.

Dr. V.K. Garg completed his Ph. D. in 1992. He is presently working as professor in the department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India since March 2016. Prior to this he has worked as Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar 125001, Haryana , India since March, 2004.
He has published more than 250 research papers in different journals.
His area of specialization are pollution monitoring and abatement, solid waste management, radioecology, Bioeconomy, sustainability etc.
His Scopus H-index is 61 and Google scholar H-index is 72. he has more than 11000 citations for his research work in Scopus and 17500 in Google Scholar.

Dongxing Guan, PhD, is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor in the College of Environment & Resources at Zhejiang University, specializing in environmental soil science and environmental geochemistry.

Dr. Guo joined the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. Her research interest mainly lies in Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health, and Biostatistics. Dr. Guo has published more than 70 journal articles in peer-reviewed prestigious journals, including Circulation, Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, Diabetes Care, British Journal of Sports Medicine and eClinicalMedicine as first/corresponding author. Her research is based on both local and global health systems to contribute scientific findings to the improvement of human health and living environments. Her research enhances governmental guidelines on air pollution control and health improvement as well as helps general population to modify their lifestyle. Dr. Guo’s research findings have been reported by a series of newsletters. Dr. Guo also serves as an (youth) editor board member of a few journals, a member of ISEE and ACSP. She further constantly serves as a reviewer of several top journals.

Professor Huang Liang has long been dedicated to the preparation of two-dimensional materials, their electrochemical properties, and micro-/nano-scale sensing research. To date, he has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, and Nano Energy. Among these, 12 are ESI Highly Cited Papers and 3 are ESI Hot Papers, collectively accumulating over 13,000 SCI citations (H-index = 63). He holds 10 authorized Chinese patents. Professor Huang has led or is leading projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program and Youth Fund), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (First-Class and Special Grants), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province. He has received numerous honors, including IAAM Fellow (2023), the 2022 Young Investigator Award in Nanomaterials, the 2021 IAAM Young Scientist Award, the Hubei Province “Chutian Scholar” (2017), and the Huazhong University of Science and Technology “Distinguished Scholar” (2019). He currently serves as a young editorial-board member for journals such as eScience, Nano Materials Science, Battery Energy, ECO Energy, and Progress in Natural Science: Materials International.

Kwun Nam Hui is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau. He earned his B.S. in Physics from HKUST (2003), M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (2006, 2009), followed by post-doctoral work at Rutgers University. Between 2009 and 2017 he held faculty positions at Pusan National University (ROK), rising from Assistant to Associate Professor, before joining UM in 2017. His research focuses on nanomaterials—especially graphene—and electrochemical energy storage and conversion, including Na-ion batteries, flexible supercapacitors and fuel cells, with 70+ high-impact papers and several in Materials Horizons, Energy Storage Materials and Small. A recipient of the ICAE Best Paper Award (2010) and multiple IEEE/IET prizes, he serves as Associate Editor for four journals and sits on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Materials and The Scientific World Journal, while chairing or organizing numerous international conferences.

Jibran Iqbal is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, with a Ph.D. in Environmental Analytical Chemistry from East China University of Science and Technology (2012) and postgraduate training in circular economy, nanotechnology and sustainability. His research focuses on water security, circular chemistry, advanced nanomaterials and clean energy, leading to >40 peer-reviewed papers in Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Chemical Engineering Journal and other Q1 journals, and contributing chapters to international handbooks. Since 2015 he has secured and managed multiple UAE-funded projects, supervised award-winning students, and serves as guest editor, reviewer and evaluator for leading journals and funding agencies. A Fellow of Advance HE (UK) and Certified Circular Economy Specialist (France), he has held editorial roles in Journal of Chemistry, chairs the university’s Environmental Health & Safety Committee, and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chinese Chemical Society.

Soteris Kalogirou, Ph.D. (Glamorgan, 1995) & D.Sc. (2011), is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cyprus University of Technology, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy. Internationally renowned for solar thermal collectors, PV/T hybrids and AI-driven energy-system modeling, he has authored >270 SCI papers, 54 book chapters, 4 books and edits Renewable Energy and Energy.

Dr. Manoj Khandelwal is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate and Postgraduate Program Coordinator of mining engineering at Federation University Australia and is an Australian Endeavour Fellow. Before joining Federation University Australia, Dr Khandelwal worked as an Assistant Professor of mining engineering at Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, India. Dr Khandelwal was a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University, Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Dhanbad, India. Dr Khandelwal has more than twenty years of research and teaching experience in Australia and India. Dr Khandelwal has been recognized as a leading expert in mining geomechanics and rock blasting.

Jamal Khatib is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and Professor of Civil Engineering (Construction Materials) at the University of Wolverhampton. A globally top-2 % researcher (Stanford, 2020-2022) with >600 publications, 14 000 citations and an h-index of 53, he is a pioneer in sustainable construction, focusing on waste-derived and low-carbon cementitious materials—metakaolin, fly ash, MSWI bottom ash, recycled aggregates, geopolymers and bio-based additives. His work spans mechanical/durability testing, life-cycle assessment, thermal-cracking prediction and pavement engineering, supported by >£1 million in EU, British Council and industry grants and >25 PhD supervisions. Author/editor of key texts including McEnvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Engineering, he serves on 20 journal editorial boards, reviews for 67 others, and holds visiting/honorary professorships in China and France while advising governments and industry on circular-economy construction strategies.

Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kwangwoon University

Aleksei Konoplev is a dual-doctorate environmental radiochemist (Ph.D. Chemistry 1983, Dr.Sc. Radiobiology 1998) and Professor at Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity. Beginning with upper-atmosphere chemistry, he pivoted in 1986 to emergency response and long-term studies on Chernobyl radionuclides, later extending this expertise to Mayak and, since 2013, Fukushima. His research deciphers the speciation, solid-liquid partitioning (Kd), and watershed-scale transport of radiocesium, revealing that higher sorption and faster natural attenuation occur in Fukushima than in Chernobyl or Mayak owing to climate, soil and biological factors. An Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and recipient of USSR and Russian federal honors, he collaborates globally on radioecology, POP and heavy-metal fate assessments.

Christopher Koroneos is a chemical engineer. He did all his studies at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering of Columbia University in New York, USA, where he was a professor and now RA at the Earth Eng. Center. He is Associate Professor having the chair of Renewable Energy and Energy Management at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece. He is teaching at the Interdisciplinary Program of Post Graduate Studies ‘‘Environment & Development’’ of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests are in Renewable Energy, Exergy Analysis, LCA and Sustainable Development. He has more than 90 papers in Scientific Journals and more than 220 in proc. of Intern. conferences. He is in the editorial committee of 50 scientific journals.

Narendra Kumar is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor (Docent) in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. With a Dr. Techn. in Chemical Engineering (1996) and over 30 years of experience, he has contributed to 235 peer-reviewed publications, holds 2 patents, and maintains an h-index of 32. His expertise spans zeolite and mesoporous catalyst synthesis, biomass valorization, green chemistry, and drug delivery systems, reflected in his supervision of 20+ doctoral and numerous master's theses. He has led or participated in 21 major projects funded by the EU, Academy of Finland, and industry partners like Neste Oil and Solvay. Recognized with awards including the Eurand Grand Prize for Innovation (2007) and “Most Cited Author” by Elsevier (2009), he serves on editorial boards and reviews for top journals. Fluent in five languages and trained in intercultural communication, he actively collaborates internationally across Europe, Asia, and North America.

Marco Lezzerini is Associate Professor of Mineralogy in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Pisa, specializing in mineral resources and petrographic‐mineralogical applications for the environment and cultural heritage (GEO/09). After graduating with honors in Geological Sciences in 1991 and earning a PhD in Earth Sciences in 1997 with a thesis on ancient mortars, he has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers on analytical methods, very-low-grade metamorphism, and the physical properties of building materials and cultural-heritage conservation. Active in the CNR’s “Progetto Finalizzato Beni Culturali,” he studied the Garfagnana “Macigno” sandstone and medieval stones used in Pisa. He has also designed and implemented innovative instruments and protocols to measure stone thermal dilatation and apparent density via mercury immersion, and developed experimental methods for assessing mortar composition and properties.

Xin-Gui Li is a professor-level researcher at Tongji University’s College of Environmental Science and Engineering whose work centers on functional polymers for environmental and sensing applications. Since 2013 he has led a National Natural Science Foundation project on pyrene-pyrrole copolymers for heavy-metal detection, and he has published more than 10 high-impact papers in journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Chemical Science and Advanced Functional Materials on mercury, iron and explosive sensing, polyaniline nanofiber membranes, and fluorescent chemosensors. He has co-authored two books—including an engineering monograph on advanced liquid-crystal polymers—and holds 15 patents covering fluoranthene, aniline and pyrene copolymers, polyanthracene materials, lead-ion sensors and graphene nanocomposites. His achievements have earned him four Shanghai Natural Science Awards (2007, 2010, 2015), one Ministry of Education Natural Science Award (2009), an ACS Membership Award (2015) and an ISI Citation Classic Award (2000), underlining his sustained impact on polymer synthesis, environmental remediation and analytical technologies.

Professor Yubao Liu is a distinguished academic based at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). He earned his degree in atmospheric sciences from the same university in 1983 and currently holds the position of Professor and doctoral supervisor. Prof. Liu leads the Center for High‑Resolution Regional Earth System Modeling and Informatics at NUIST, where he directs research in atmospheric physics and regional climate simulation .

Guangyang Liu is a Doctor and Associate Researcher (with PhD supervision qualifications) at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IVF-CAAS), based in Beijing. Born in April 1987 in Liaocheng, Shandong, he completed a BSc in Chemistry at Liaocheng University (2006–2010), earned an MSc in Marine Chemistry from the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, CAS (2010–2013), and received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology (2013–2016). Since July 2016, he has held successive researcher roles at IVF-CAAS—intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher (2020), and researcher (2022–present). His research focuses on vegetable product nutritional quality and safety control, using multidisciplinary approaches (analytical chemistry, nanoscience, material science, horticulture) to create novel porous organic nanomaterials for contaminant detection/removal, nutrient enhancement, and nano-delivery systems. He has led several national and municipal grants, authored 116 academic publications (77 SCI papers, 47 as first or corresponding author, including works in high-impact journals like Nano Today, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and Nano Letters), holds an H‑index of 32, and has applied for 26 invention patents of which 22 are granted. He has also edited three monographs and contributed to one, participated in setting an agricultural industry standard, and received multiple honours—including national innovation awards, a first‑class national science and technology progress award, and recognition among top global scientists—while serving in several academic committees and editorial positions.

Malik Maaza is a distinguished Algerian–South African physicist and UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology. After earning a Ph.D. in neutron wave-matter optics from Paris VI & CEA-France (1991) and degrees from Oran University, he held postdoctoral and research posts at Columbia University and CUNY before joining the University of South Africa as Extraordinary Professor and later Vice-Principal for Teaching, Learning & Community Engagement. His research spans nanophotonics, smart IR coatings, biogenic nanoparticles and green nanochemistry, yielding >140 papers—including Physics Reports, Nature Scientific Reports and Solar Energy—with work adopted in the IEEE 1906.1 standard and covered by MIT Technology Review and Scientific American. He is a recipient of the 2019 Galileo Galilei Award, 2018 World Award of Education, AU Nkwame Nkrumah Excellence Award, South Africa’s Presidential Mapungubwe Silver Order, and numerous NRF and international honors, and serves on editorial boards while supervising doctoral students across Africa.

 Professor, Associate Senior Researcher at National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Department of Palermo, Italy.

Yiannis G. Matsinos is a Professor in the Department of Environment University of the Aegean (Lesvos, Greece) since 1997. He holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), on theoretical Ecology, a M.Sc., on BioMathematics (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and a B.Sc. on mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His fields of research expertise are, Acoustic Ecology, Soundscape Ecology, Ecoacoustics, Computational Ecology – Mathematical Modelling, Risk Assessment, Statistical and quantitative methods for wetland management (Everglades NationalPark), Landscape Ecology, Mathematical Biology, Quantitative Conservation Ecology, Development and application of individual based models in Population Biology, Dynamical Systems Theory and Modelling for Sustainable Tourism. His teaching and professional experience regards Structure, Dynamics and Management of Ecosystems with emphasis on Statistical methods.

Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada is a full professor of agroforestry at the University of Santiago de Compostela and directs the Agroforestry Research Group (AFORUSC); she leads Horizon Europe, COST Action and FAO projects on agroforestry, ecosystem services and circular bioeconomy, has authored more than 200 SCI papers (H-index 50), co-edits multiple journals and handbooks, and coordinates the EURAF Iberian and Spanish Agroforestry Associations.

Dr. Santanu is currently working as associate professor at MS Swaminathan School of Agriculture in Shoolini University. He has obtained his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) degree from the University of Bonn, Germany and worked as a guest scientist in FZJ, Germany. He was a visiting researcher in SREL, USA. After returning India, he worked as a DST-SERB NPDF fellow in IIT-Gandhinagar. He is the recipient of multiple accolades of national and international repute to name a few the ICAR-International Fellowship, India-Japan Hiyoshi Young Leaf award, EGU-Young Scientist Travel Award, Early Career Travel Grant by the The Geochemical Society (GS) and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), ISES Early Career Scientists travel award, Early Career Travel Grant by the The Geochemical Society (GS) and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), ICAR international fellowship, Hutchison Young Scientists Foundation Awards, DST-SERB-GOI Fellowships, UCSI-REIG Malaysia grant, DST-SERB TARE grant, DST-SERB Start-up grant, GRIFA (Italian Pesticide Agency) grant and EU-COST action biochar grant. He is the selected member of INDIAN NATIONAL YOUNG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. His research interest includes the fate of emerging contaminants, biogeochemical transformation of nutrients, and the role of dissolved and particulate organic matter in deciding contaminants' fate in the environment. He is serving as an editorial board member of Biochar, guest editor of Sustainability journal, reviewer of many Scopus indexed journals, have also edited three books, and published many peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (Google Scholar h-index- 21, citations->1200).

Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering

Dr. Rajamohan is working as a professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Sohar University, Oman, and is presently leading the Environment Research theme at Sohar University. His research interests are: Novel technologies for pollution control, Biofiltration, Biofuels, Carbon capture and Sustainable food technology. He has completed several major research grants as PI, which include a UK-Gulf Institutional Links Grant on Sustainable Food Production, funded by the UK government (0.5 million USD), and three ORG/RG funded by the Research Council of Oman. He has published more than 135 high-impact research articles in various international journals. He has mentored more than 15 URG/FURAP/GRG projects. He is an industrial consultant working with leading industries like Sohar Port, Majis Industries, etc. He has won several prestigious research awards, including the Outstanding Researcher Award at Sohar University.

Dr. Zeeshan Nawaz is Lead Scientist at SABIC Technology & Innovation. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering & Technology from Tsinghua University (2007-2010), preceded by an M.Sc. from the University of Engineering & Technology (2003-2006) and a B.Sc. from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (1999-2003). His research focuses on catalytic dehydrogenation of light alkanes to olefins, catalyst development, and reactor design, with over 25 peer-reviewed papers featuring SAPO-34, Pt-Sn systems, fluidized-bed technologies, and biodiesel synthesis.

nastasia Nikolaou, faculty member in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of the Aegean, specializes in developing and validating analytical methods for detecting toxic substances in waters and sediments, assessing water and wastewater quality, and investigating the fate and toxicity of organic pollutants, including disinfection by-products; she has authored more than fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and an equal number of conference papers and has participated in numerous national and European projects monitoring organic contamination in aquatic systems. She teaches Chemical Oceanography, Sampling and Sample Treatment Methodologies, and Environmental Chemistry, co-teaches Marine Pollution, contributes to Analytical Chemistry laboratory sessions, and supervises graduate research in Environmental Chemistry.

Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan is a PhD-level Research Scientist in the Kolodkin-Gal Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she studies the assembly and disassembly of microbial biofilms.

Dr. Mohammad Oves, Ph.D. (Microbiology), is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has ten years of research experience on the different environmental-related research projects like SWINGS (Safeguarding Water Resources in India with Green and Sustainable Technology) International FP-7 funded project of the European Union) and green synthesis of nanoparticles from the plant and bacterial extract funded by ICMR and CSIR funding bodies of the Indian government. He has published more than 95 scientific papers, including original research articles, review articles, and book chapters in various international publishers. He has also gained 34 H index and more than 6750 citations on Google scholar. His interest in various aspects and application of Microbiology coupled with Environment, Nanoscience, and Biomedical Sciences. He is intensely involved in research activities focusing on Environmental and Medical Microbiology, Nanotechnology, Heavy metals bioremediation, and Antimicrobial microbial activities of newly synthesized drugs and nanomaterials.

Marcin Pietrzykowski, Head of the Department, is a Professor of Forest Sciences (Ph.D. 2005, habilitation 2011, full professorship 2016). He is a Fulbright Scholar (2013/2014) and the 2015 European recipient of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation’s Cultura Prize for his contribution to research on the environment and the development of ruderal areas, awarded at the University of Göttingen. His expertise lies in forest ecology and forest ecosystem restoration, as well as the reclamation and remediation of post-industrial lands. He has authored over 180 scientific publications, numerous book chapters and monographs, and has written and edited several books published by Springer and Elsevier. He is also the inventor of patents and the author of practical implementations in land reclamation and remediation, and has developed concepts for the restoration and management of large post-mining sites. He created innovative educational programs in Ecological Engineering for forestry students focused on restoring and enhancing ecosystem services. He collaborates with institutions in the Czech Republic, the United States, Germany, China, India, and other countries worldwide.

Dr. Jason Jieshan Qiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering. He is an internationally recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 980+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun.,  ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, etc., with a citation of 73670+ times and h-index of 135 (Google scholar), and his work has been featured on 70+ covers of high profile journals. He has been invited to give 180+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and in universities and research institutes. He has filed 180+ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has won 30+ prestigious awards and prizes including the 1st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded from the Education Ministry of China and Liaoning Province. He is a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2024 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2024 in the field of chemical engineering science, Stanford University World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 and 1960-2024 Career-long Impact Scientists. Right now, he is the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley), Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier), Carbon Innovation (Wiley) and Carbon & Hydrogen (Wiley).

Ren Xiuyan is Associate Professor in the College of Geo-exploration Science and Technology and Deputy Head of the Department of Geophysics at Jilin University. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Geophysics from Jilin University in 2013 and completed her Ph.D. in Geo-exploration Information and Technology in 2018, during which she spent 2017–2018 as a joint Ph.D. student at RMIT University in Australia. Her research focuses on airborne and satellite electromagnetic (EM) sensing theory and methodology from mobile platforms, global EM induction, time- and frequency-domain EM data processing, EM numerical modeling, and optimization algorithms. Over the past five years she has led ten projects funded by the NSFC General Program, NSFC Young Scientists Fund, civil space pre-research programs, National Key S&T Special Project on Deep Resources, Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Development Program, the Australian SEG Research Fund, and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Plan. She has also participated in more than ten additional projects under the NSFC General and Key Programs and National Key R&D Projects. She has published over 40 high-level papers in journals such as Geophysics, GJI, IEEE TGRS, and IEEE J-STARS. Her awards include a Geophysics “Hot Paper” (2018), the Chen Zongqi Outstanding Paper Award from the Chinese Geophysical Society (2018), the CGS Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019), the CGS Second-Class Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (2020), the ASEG Shanti Rajagopalan Memorial Award (Highly Commended, 2021), and the Excellent Paper Award in Engineering Geophysics (2019–2021). From 2021–2023 she was selected for Jilin University’s “Lixin Outstanding Young Teacher Development Program” and in 2024 for the university’s “Excellent Young Talent Development Program.” She currently serves as a reviewer for Geophysics, IEEE TGRS, Geophysical Prospecting, JAG, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, and several other journals.

Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, DSc, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, Fellow of IETI is a Distinguished Professor at Johannesburg University, South Africa. Miklas is the Head of the Department of Water Management at the District of Herzogtum Lauenburg, Germany. He is a Technical Specialist for Nexus by Sweden and a Hydraulic Engineer at Kunststoff-Technik Adams, Germany.

Prof. Scholz has shown individual excellence evidenced by world-leading publications, postgraduate supervision and research impact. His main research areas in terms of publication output are as follow: treatment wetlands, integrated constructed wetlands (ICW), sustainable flood retention basins (SFRB) and urban water management.

Dr. Maulin Pramod Shah is an Environmental Microbiology Consultant based in Ankleshwar, India, who earned his B.Sc. from Gujarat University (1999), M.Sc. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) from Sardar Patel University. Internationally recognized for research at the intersection of microbiology, nanotechnology and environmental engineering, he has (co-)authored more than 25 influential publications since 2021 that advance the bioremediation of heavy metals and organic pollutants, microbial fuel cells, CRISPR-based biofortification, nano-enabled water treatment and sustainable biomass valorisation. His work appears in high-impact journals such as Environmental Science & Pollution Research, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Frontiers in Microbiology and Bioresource Technology, and it is widely cited as documented by his Google Scholar profile. Over the past two decades he has served as principal investigator or key expert on numerous national and international projects, translating laboratory discoveries into patented technologies and full-scale implementations for industrial wastewater treatment, electronic-waste metal recovery and post-mining land reclamation. Dr. Shah is a frequently invited speaker, editorial-board member and peer-reviewer for multiple journals, and he continues to advise governmental agencies and industry on sustainable environmental management strategies.

Dr. Maulin Pramod Shah is an Environmental Microbiology Consultant based in Ankleshwar, India, who earned his B.Sc. from Gujarat University (1999), M.Sc. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) from Sardar Patel University. Internationally recognized for research at the intersection of microbiology, nanotechnology and environmental engineering, he has (co-)authored more than 25 influential publications since 2021 that advance the bioremediation of heavy metals and organic pollutants, microbial fuel cells, CRISPR-based biofortification, nano-enabled water treatment and sustainable biomass valorisation. His work appears in high-impact journals such as Environmental Science & Pollution Research, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Frontiers in Microbiology and Bioresource Technology, and it is widely cited as documented by his Google Scholar profile. Over the past two decades he has served as principal investigator or key expert on numerous national and international projects, translating laboratory discoveries into patented technologies and full-scale implementations for industrial wastewater treatment, electronic-waste metal recovery and post-mining land reclamation. Dr. Shah is a frequently invited speaker, editorial-board member and peer-reviewer for multiple journals, and he continues to advise governmental agencies and industry on sustainable environmental management strategies.

Shen Jiangnan, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral supervisor recognized as a Second-Level Talent under Zhejiang Province’s “151 Talent Project” for the new century. He is a professor in the College of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Technology from Zhejiang University in 2005. His research focuses on membrane separation technologies and wastewater resource recovery. He has conducted postdoctoral and visiting scholar research at Zhejiang University of Technology and KU Leuven, Belgium. Over the years, he has led or participated in more than 50 projects, including sub-projects under the National 863 Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Projects, key projects from the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology on municipal wastewater upgrading and retrofitting, Sinopec’s key special project on cooling and circulating water utilization, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, and numerous industry collaborations. In recent years, he has published over 150 SCI-indexed papers in international journals such as Advanced Materials, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Membrane Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Crystal Growth & Design, Separation and Purification Technology, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, AIChE Journal, and Scientific Reports. He has co-authored five monographs and applied for more than 109 national invention patents, of which over 40 have been granted.

Giuseppe Suaria is a Senior Scientist at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Marine Science (CNR-ISMAR), specializing in oceanography and marine science research.

Wenjie Sun is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NC State University and an Assistant Professor at SMU, contributing to higher education. Their background reflects a strong focus on academic research and instruction.

At NC State University, Wenjie contributes to lecturing and mentoring. Their experience at NC State also includes a role as a Research Scholar, where they were involved in environmental research. This role included data collection and experiment design.

Prior to this, Wenjie held multiple positions at the University of Arizona, including Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate, and Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant. These roles involved academic research and instruction.

Liming Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at South China University of Technology. He obtained his B.Sc. from Fudan University in 1991, M.Sc. from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (CAS) in 1994, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2002, followed by post-doctoral work at Emory University (2002–2003) and a Research Fellowship at Leeds University (2003–2005). His research centers on environmental chemistry of organic pollutants and chemical reaction kinetics, integrating ultra-sensitive optical techniques (CRDS/CEAS) for trace-gas detection, laboratory and theoretical studies of terpene oxidation mechanisms leading to secondary organic aerosols, RRKM/master-equation modeling of atmospheric and combustion free-radical reactions, and advanced NMR methods (DOSY) for comprehensive characterization of organic aerosol constituents. He has led projects funded by the NSFC and China’s Ministry of Education and, since 2000, has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed papers in J. Phys. Chem. A, Environ. Sci. Technol., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. and other leading journals.

Dr. Zhen Wei is a tenure-track associate professor at Beijing University of Technology. His research spans environmental catalysis, advanced oxidation processes, reactive-oxygen-species engineering, photo(electro)catalysis for H₂O₂ synthesis, water splitting and CO₂ reduction, and the mechanistic exploration of these processes through ultrafast, time-resolved and in-situ spectroscopy. Dr. Zhen Wei has published more than 40 papers in journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Catalysis B, ACS Energy Letters and ACS Catalysis, including one ESI Hot Paper and eight ESI Highly Cited Papers, accumulating over 3,200 citations. He was selected for the 2023 global Top 2% Scientists list, appointed as a Young Distinguished Expert under Beijing’s Haiju Talent Program, and enrolled in Beijing University of Technology’s Outstanding Talent Scheme. He serves as an editorial board member for Nano Materials Science (2023.7.25–2025.7.24), Green Carbon (2023.10–2026.05) and Science for Energy and Environment (2023.10–2025.10), and as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry (2023.10–present), and he is also a guest editor and reviewer for multiple other journals.

Youcai Xiong is a Professor and doctoral supervisor in the College of Ecology at Lanzhou University, whose research centers on agro-ecology and sustainability science.

Dr. Xiaomin Xu is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Western Australian School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE) at Curtin University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Curtin University under the supervision of Prof Zongping Shao. His research interests are mainly focused on the development of functional materials for applications in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, with a special focus on water electrolysis, CO2 conversion, and metal-air batteries. He has received many prestigious awards, including the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Curtin University Aspire Award 2023 (Business Events Perth), and 2022 EDRACI Young Electrochemist Award (Metrohm ANZ). He also received the 2023 Early-Career Research Award in the 2023 Science and Engineering Pro Vice-Chancellor Staff Excellence Awards Ceremony. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley) and a Youth Editorial Board Member for several journals like Carbon Energy (Wiley), Energy Reviews (Elsevier), and Frontiers in Energy (Springer).

Xu Linyu is Professor, Party Secretary and Vice Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences at Beijing Normal University, a Senior Visiting Scholar at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and recipient of the National High-Level Talent Award, the Ministry of Education’s New-Century Excellent Talent Program, the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award, the Ministry of Education’s Ideological & Political Education Famous Teacher Award, the Beijing Higher-Education Teaching Master Award, and the Qian Yuan Education Fund Excellent Teacher Award. She teaches the undergraduate courses Introduction to Environmental Science, Environmental Ecological Risk Assessment and Environmental Ecological Planning, as well as the postgraduate course Urban Ecological Planning. Introduction to Environmental Science is recognized as a National First-Class Undergraduate Course and a Beijing High-Quality Undergraduate Course; Urban Ecological Planning is a National Ideological & Political Demonstration Course and a National First-Class Online Course; and the virtual-simulation experiment Water-Environmental Ecological Risk Early-Warning and Emergency Management is a Beijing First-Class Undergraduate Course. She received the second-class National Science & Technology Progress Award (rank 3), the first-class Ministry of Education Science & Technology Progress Award (rank 4), the second-class Environmental Technology Progress Award (rank 1), and the first- and second-class Beijing Higher-Education Teaching Achievement Awards (ranks 4 and 1, respectively). She has led or completed eight National Key R&D Program ecological projects, National Science & Technology Support projects and NSFC projects, and more than ten provincial/ministerial projects. She has authored two national-level high-quality textbooks and eight monographs, and contributed to two English-language monographs. Her work has appeared in Nature Communications, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Energy Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae and Acta Ecologica Sinica, among others, and she holds eleven software copyrights.

Dr. Chong Xu is a Research Professor and Director of the Geological Hazards Research Center at China’s National Institute of Natural Hazards (Ministry of Emergency Management). He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geological Engineering from Xi’an University of Science and Technology (2004) and the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS (2010). Since 2010 he has held successive positions with the China Earthquake Administration and, since 2020, leads the Institute’s center devoted to earthquake- and rainfall-triggered landslides, hazard chains and risk assessment. Xu has been PI or topic leader for more than twenty national projects, including four NSFC grants, key tasks of the National Key R&D Program, and emergency-management and trans-boundary mega-projects along the Sichuan–Tibet Railway corridor. He has published >220 papers (>100 SCI, 8 highly cited; >6,600 citations) and developed twelve registered software packages for automatic landslide mapping and cloud-based management. A board member of ten journals (e.g., Engineering Geology, Journal of Mountain Science), he also sits on the Central and State Organs Youth Federation and several professional committees. Honors include the ICGDR Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2019), the Chinese Geological Society Silver Hammer Award (2015), and multiple ministerial science & technology prizes.

Yang Xiaohu received his B.E. and Ph.D. in engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and has since remained on the faculty of the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering. His research focuses on phase-change thermal-storage materials and phase-change energy-storage air-conditioning systems, hybrid energy storage for new power systems, multi-energy complementary and synergistic energy systems, urban building energy-consumption forecasting, hydrogen energy, clean-energy planning for rural revitalization, and campus-level energy planning coupled with carbon-emission accounting and forecasting. He has led numerous research projects and has published over 200 papers in leading journals such as Progress in Materials Science (IF 39.58), Applied Energy, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Physics of Fluids, and Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, including more than 100 as first or corresponding author and several listed as ESI highly cited (top 1%). In addition, he has filed more than 30 national invention patents.

Dr. Zhibin Ye is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University and a former Canada Research Chair (Tier II, 2011-2020). After obtaining his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. from McMaster University, he held successive faculty positions at Laurentian University (2004–2017) before joining Concordia in 2017. Internationally recognized for pioneering work in polymer nanomaterials, nanocomposites, and nanostructured carbon and metal catalysts for energy storage, energy conversion, and biomedical applications, he has secured over CAD 4.8 million in research funding as principal or co-principal investigator from NSERC, CFI, provincial agencies, and industry partners such as Imperial Oil and Barrick Gold. A prolific scholar with more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, recipient of the 2018 Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award and the Concordia Provost’s Circle of Distinction, and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals while teaching thermodynamics and polymer engineering.

Tao Zhang is an Associate Professor and doctoral supervisor in the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences at China Agricultural University. He obtained his B.Eng. in Urban Construction and Safety from Nanjing University of Technology (2005) and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Nanjing University (2011). His research focuses on the treatment and resource recovery of agricultural waste as well as wastewater treatment and reuse.

Dr. Weilan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at University at Albany. Dr. Zhang joined the University at Albany as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2018, then as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2021. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Additionally, Dr. Zhang is a registered professional engineer.

Professor in School of Environment, Nanjing University

2020 China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award

2015 National Tech-Invention Award (State Council of China)

2013 Sci-Tech Award of the State Education Commission (Ministry of Education, China)

2005 Sci-Tech Award of Chinese Petroleum & Chemical Industry Association

2000 Sci-Tech Award of the State Education Commission (Ministry of Education, China)

Yongcai Zhang is a full professor and graduate supervisor whose primary research focus is photocatalysis. He is the co-inventor of eight granted invention patents and has authored more than 200 papers indexed in SCIE, which have collectively received over 11,800 citations and earned him an h-index of 60 (Scopus). He has been consecutively listed among the world’s Top 2 % scientists by Elsevier and received the 2024 Excellence in Review Award from Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Photocatalysis and sits on the editorial boards of Materials Letters and other journals.

Deputy Director and Associate Professor of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University
Editorial Board Member of Water and  Chinese Chemical Letters
World's Top 2% Scientists 2020-2024

Yongcai Zhang is a full professor and graduate supervisor whose primary research focus is photocatalysis. He is the co-inventor of eight granted invention patents and has authored more than 200 papers indexed in SCIE, which have collectively received over 11,800 citations and earned him an h-index of 60 (Scopus). He has been consecutively listed among the world’s Top 2 % scientists by Elsevier and received the 2024 Excellence in Review Award from Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Photocatalysis and sits on the editorial boards of Materials Letters and other journals.

Kamran Heydaryan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Dr. Jin Hu is a scholar specializing in environmental and energy economics. Dr. Hu is a researcher and an expert in econometric analysis, proficient in tools such as Stata, Python, and R. He has contributed significantly to peer-reviewed journals and serves on several editorial boards. 

Rajneesh Kumar is currently a National Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, working under Prof. R. S. Singh. He received his Ph.D. from the Centre for the Environment at IIT Guwahati, where he was jointly supervised by Prof. Mohammad Jawed (Civil Engineering) and Prof. Gurvinder Kaur Saini (Biosciences & Bioengineering). His doctoral research centered on biological wastewater treatment, specifically investigating the impacts of toxic pollutants—such as Cu(II), amoxicillin, chlorpyrifos and piggery effluent—on aerobic sludge biomass, and developing tools to assess biomass recovery. Building on prior work using natural biosorbents to remove Cr(III)/Cr(VI), he now integrates environmental microbiology and biotechnology to understand how emerging contaminants affect microbial communities, enzyme activity and overall reactor performance. Proficient in water-quality analysis (AAS, HPLC, IC) and experienced in monitoring biomass morphology and microbial shifts, he aims to deepen the link between microbial responses and engineered systems for more resilient wastewater treatment.

Dr. Anand Kushwah is an Asst. Professor in Mechanical Engineering Dept. NIET Greater Noida.

He has 01years of industrial experience and 02 year of teaching experience. He did his B.Tech from RGTU and M.Tech from RJIT B.S.F Acedemy Gwalior and Ph.D. from Delhi Technological University, Delhi. He has puslished more than 20 SCI/Scopus index journal reserach papers, and also published 02 patents. His areas of interest include solar thermal energy, thermodynamics, heat transfer. 

Dr. Godfred Safo-Adu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Education, Winneba (UEW). He holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering and Management, MPhil in Environmental Science, BSc in Chemistry and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Institution. Currently, he is the Postgraduate Coordinator for the Department of Agricultural Science Education and Environmental Science, UEW. Previously, he served as an Examination Officer for the Department of Agricultural Science Education, Environmental Health and Sanitation Education and Environmental Science, UEW. He worked as a Process Plant Chemist at Zeal Environmental Technologies and a Process Plant Supervisor at Zoil Services Limited, an Integrated Oily Waste Treatment Facility in the Western Region of Ghana for over four years. He has published in reputable peer-reviewed journals locally and at the international level in Environmental Sustainability Science. He is a reviewer for several journals including Cleaner Waste Systems and Journal of Environmental Engineering and Management. His research interest includes atmospheric particulates characterisation and source apportionment modelling, waste recycling and water quality modelling.

Qiqi Shi earned his Ph.D. from Hebei University of Technology, and his research focuses on pollution control during energy utilization processes.

Dr. Yifu Yang is a lecturer in the School of Economics at Shanghai University. He holds a Ph.D. and specializes in environmental and resource economics, econometrics, and sustainable development. 

Ao Yu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environment Science at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Management from the University of Energy and Natural Resources, an M.Phil. in Environmental Science, and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Ghana. His research focuses on air-particle characterization, source apportionment, waste recycling, water-quality modelling, exposure-risk assessment, and soil analysis, with publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals. He currently serves as a reviewer for Cleaner Waste Systems (Elsevier) and Discover Public Health (Springer).

Liang Zhang is a Lecturer and Master’s supervisor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering at Bohai University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Electronics from Jilin University in 2021 and joined Bohai University in July of that year. He is an expert reviewer for the National Undergraduate Thesis (Design) Sampling Review Expert Database. His research focuses on designing highly sensitive electrochemical sensors and electrochemical detection of common water pollutants. He has led four research projects, including a startup project from the Liaoning Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Bohai University. He has published nearly 20 papers in SCI journals such as Journal of Hazardous Materials and Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and has applied for three Chinese invention patents, with one granted. 

Zhao Peng is a lecturer who obtained his Ph.D. from Hebei University of Technology in 2023. His research focuses on the resource recovery of solid waste and nanostructured energy storage materials. He has published three SCI papers as the first author.