Advisory Board and Editors Environmental Contamination & Remediation
Valsaraj KT
Former Vice President for Research & Economic Development, currently the Charles and Hilda Roddey Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and Ike East Professor in Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University. Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Recipient of AIChE/ACS Charles E Coates award in 2012. Research area is in environmental chemical engineering. He has broad research experience in wastewater treatment, atmospheric chemistry and, modeling the fate and transport of contaminants in all three environmental media (air, water and soil/sediment). Present research is concerned with the transformations of pollutants on atmospheric aerosols (fog, rain, ice and snow), mercury sequestration in sediments and, studies on chemical dispersant design for sub-sea oil/gas spill. He is the author of 1 widely accepted textbook (with four editions), 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, 27 book chapters and 2 U.S. patents. He has made over 250 national and international presentations and 28 invited seminars and plenary lectures on his research. His research has been supported by the NSF, EPA, DOE, DOD, USGS and several private industries.
Mohammed Kuddus
Dr. Mohammed Kuddus is working as a Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry Department at University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. His main research area includes Molecular biology, Industrial enzymes, Extremophiles and Extremozymes, Microbial biotechnology, Food biotechnology, Waste utilization, Value added products, Bioremediation, Biopolymers and Bioplastics. He has published more than 75 research articles in reputed international journals along with 8 books and 22 book chapters; and presented more than 40 abstracts in national/international conferences/symposia. He has been serving as an Editor / Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of various international reputed journals. He has been awarded Young Scientist Projects from the Department of Science and Technology, India and International Foundation for Science, Sweden.
Susanta Lahiri
Professor Susanta Lahiri is a highly visible radiochemist of international fame. He has made pioneering contribution in heavy ion assisted production of clinically important radionuclides. However, his interest has been diversified in the areas of environmental radioactivity, green chemistry, cosmochemical analysis, bioaccumulation studies, speciation studies, as well as trace analysis. Currently he is working as Senior Professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. He received a doctorate degree from the University of Calcutta in 1994 and the University of Calcutta conferred upon him a D.Sc degree in 2009.
Professor Lahiri received the highest international honour in the field of Nuclear and Radiochemistry, the Hevesy Medal Award in 2015 and became the first Indian to receive the award in the history of ~50 years. The award was instituated in 1968 in honour of Nobel Laureate George de Hevesy. Earlier he received the prestigious associateship of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) twice. He also received Professor J. C. Ghosh Memorial Award (2014) by Indian Chemical Society.
Professor Lahiri is the editorial board member of JRNC and Radiochimica Acta. He is also the member of CERN Medicis programme. He has more than 220 publications in international peer reviewed journal and 270 reports in international and national conference. He has guided 13 Ph. D students (including on board students).
Max R Lambert
I'm an ecologist and environmental scientist who studies a diversity of conservation and restoration issues for biodiversity and ecosystems.
Efi Levizou
Associate Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. My research interests lie in the field of Plant Stress Physiology and I’m particularly interested in studying how plants cope with degraded irrigation water and soils. Focus is given on the effects of cyanotoxins-rich irrigation water on plant function as well as on how enhanced levels of potentially harmful trace elements in soil affect plant performance, in the phytoremediation context. Recent research projects include the study of crop function and the identification of possible stress factors in aquaponics production systems.
Xiaomin Li
Professor of Environmental Science at SCNU Environmental Research Institute (SERI) in South China Normal University (SCNU).
She was the awardee of Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA, 2015) from Australian Research Council, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017), and Guangdong Special Support Plan for High-Level Young Talents of Science and Technology Innovation (2017).
Her research areas include biogeochemistry, environmental microbiology, and soil pollution control. She has been committed to the transformation mechanisms of organochlorines and arsenic in soils driven by microorganisms, and their coupling processes with transformation of carbon, iron, and nitrogen.
Dongming Li
Dongming Li is a Professor at the College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University. His research focuses on the mechanisms of how animals adjust their morphology, physiology, and behavior to respond to the changing (or extreme) environments in free-living animals, especially birds.
Ana Teresa Teresa Lombardi
Ana Teresa Lombardi, professor of Plant Physiology and coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar - Brazil). Member of the Brazilian Society of Ecotoxicology and SETAC. Visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 2008-2009. Graduated in Biological Sciences at UFSCar; Master in Ecology and Natural Resources Dalhousie University (Canada)/UFSCar (Brazil). PhD in Chemistry at UNICAMP (Brazil)/ Istituto di Biofisica (Italy). Postdoctoral at the Phycology Laboratory (UFSCar) and at the Biohydrometallurgy Laboratory (UNESP, Brazil).
My research interests are in the areas of Microalgae ecotoxicology and physiology (production of biomolecules, photochemistry of photosynthesis, fixation of CO2, effect of residues on algal physiology) related to contaminants; Environmental Chemistry specifically related to the interactions of metals and nanoparticles with microalgae.
Barbara J MacGregor
Research Asst. Professor, Marine Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2003-2017); Postdoctoral fellow, MPI – Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany (2000-2003); Research assistant and postdoctoral associate, Civil Engineering Dept., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (1994-1999); PhD, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1994); BS (1984) and MS (1986), Biology and Marine Microbiology, University of Massachusetts - Boston.
Research projects include: new methods to directly link species identity with carbon source utilization; direct profiling of microbial communities without PCR; direct detection of microbial enzymes in environmental samples.
Julia Martín
Julia Martín obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2012 at University of Seville (Spain). She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry (University of Seville) since 2013. Her principal research interests fall into the three interrelated areas of environmental, analytical and water sciences. She is particularly interested in the development of new methodologies for the determination of majority and emerging pollutants in environmental and biological matrices. These methodologies are then applied to evaluate the occurrence and fate of pollutants to obtain information about their potential toxicological effects to the ecosystems. Her interest is also focused on the history of chemistry and on the methodological aspects of analytical science. She is a co-author of more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 20 book chapters, H-index 18 and 875 citation.
Enrique Mateos Naranjo
Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville (Spain). Past postdoctoral researcher activities at School of Biological Sciences (University of East Anglia, UK), Faculty of Biology (University Illes Balears, Spain) and Faculty of Agronomic Sciences (University Nacional de Rosario, Argentina). Past PhD student at University of Seville (Spain).
Nicolas Mazzella
My work focuses on analytical chemistry with the development of methods for the analysis of organic micropollutants. I am also interested in passive sampling techniques to characterise the exposure of aquatic organisms (microalgae, biofilms).
In addition, I am carrying out analytical developments in the field of lipidomics to propose biomarkers of toxic effects in aquatic plants and marine or freshwater fish.