Hydrology: Current Research

Professor Berrin Tansel has received her PhD in environmental engineering from University of WisconsinMadison in 1985. Currently she is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Florida International University FIU in Miami Florida. Before joining FIU Dr Tansel was a project manager at Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. She has also worked at the Center for Environmental Management at Tufts University. She has authored over 200 research papers reports and professional practice publications. Dr Tansel is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE and elected Diplomate of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. She is a member of Water Environment Federation Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. She is the associate editor of Journal of Environmental Management and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Water Air Soil Pollution and Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering.

Physical and chemical treatment processes
Membrane technologies
Surface interactions
Anaerobic digestion

Dr. Adewuyi is a Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University Cum Laude and MS and PhD 1985 in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Iowa Prior to joining NCAT in 1994, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston College and the University of Illinois in Urbana and Senior Staff/ Research Engineer at Mobil RD Corporation. He is the past President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers AICHE Triad Section Secretary of the AICHE Environmental Division and Chair of AICHE Minority Affairs Committee MAC. He received the MAC’s Excellence and Service Award in 2005 and Distinguished Service Award in 2006. He received NCAT 2010 College of Engineering Senior Researcher of the Year Award and Chemical Engineering Teacher of the Year Award in 1994 and 1997. He is serving as an editorial board member of three journals and reviewer of over 25 reputed journals.

Environmental & Energy Science Technology
Environmental,Energy & Bioengineering Applications
Solid-acid Catalyzed Biodiesel Synthesis/Biomass
Conversion to Biofuels
Nanoscale Catalysis for Green Chemical Processing and Environmental
Remediation
Catalytic Synthesis of Fine Chemicals in Benign Solvents
Cavitation-enhanced Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials,Catalysts
Nanoscale Advanced Materials
Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
 

Hideyuki Katsumata is working as a Professor in Department of Chemistry for Materials at Graduate School of Engineering in Mie University, Japan.

Effect of temperature on wastewater treatment with natural and waste materials
Solar Photocatalytic Degardation

Dr. Satinder K Brar is Assistant Professor at National Institute of Scientific Research Water Land and Environment INRSETE University of Quebec, Quebec,Canada. She has received a PhD in Water Sciences from INRSETE in 2007. Earlier she has completed her MTech in Environmental Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Mumbai, India and MSc in Organic Chemistry from Pune University. She is a recipient of the ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering award 2007 and ASCE Rudolf gold medal 2008 for her originality of the research contributions. She is serving as reviewer on several reputed journals at least 30 publications/year in Water Research, PPHTRWM, Journal of Hazardous Materials, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Desalination, Bioresource Technology, Chemosphere, Waste Management.

Wastewater treatment (physical/chemical/biological) and reuse value-addition of wastewater and wastewater sludge
Fate of EDCs, pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles and other emerging contaminants in water, wastewater, wastewater sludge and soils
Nanotechnology in wastewater treatment
Rheology Techno-economical analysis

Paul Montgomery Walker completed his PhD in Illinois State University.

Dr.Chang is currently a professor with Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department at University of Central Florida (UCF). He conducts a research program and teaches courses in the areas of environmental and water resources systems engineering. Chang received his B.S. degree in 1983 from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, and his Master′s and Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, USA in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He was a professor with Environmental Engineering Department at Texas A&M University System before joining UCF in 2005. He is also an elected fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (F.AAAS), a registered professional engineer (PE) in Texas, A Board Certified Environmental Engineering (BCEE), Diploma of Water Resources Engineering (D.WRE), an accredited professional with Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED), and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (M.EAS).

 

Hydrological and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis
Multimedia Pollutant Fate and Transport Modeling
Environmental Health Engineering
 

Mingxin Guo is an Associate Professor Delaware State University and an Adjunct Faculty, University of Delaware. He received a PhD in Soil Science from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA in 2001. He has completed his MS in Environmental Chemistry in Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China 1995 and his BS in Environmental Soil Science in Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China 1990. He is serving as an associate editor and an editorial board member of scientific journals and reviewer of 10 professional journals.

Water Quality
Water Chemistry
Wastewater Treatment
Water Reuse
Wetland Restoration
Soil and Water Conservation
Environmental Soil Chemistry
Soil Fertility and Carbon Sequestration

J.Antonio Torres completed his PhD in 1984 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Food Science. Presently, he is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Sigma XI.

Interdisciplinary research group with development of new food processing technologies, physicochemical characterization of biopolymers, computer applications in food research, microbial stability and heat and mass transfer considerations as major research focus points. Utilization of food processing waste as raw materials for added-value products and new technologies for recovery of suspended solids in aqueous streams. Optical instrumentation for process control and food process engineering research. High hydrostatic pressure processing, moisture control, refrigeration, and thermal processing are technologies used in current research. Commodity areas of interest are dairy and seafood products.

Dr.A.Mark Ibekwe has received his PhD from University of Maryland during the period of 1990-1995. Currently, he is working as Research Microbiologist in USDA-ARS, U S Salinity Lab. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Journal of Environmental Quality and The Open Microbiology Journal. He has authored 52 research articles/books. He is a member of American Society of Agronomy, American Society for Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Soil Science Society of America, Gamma Sigma Delta, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, and International Society for Microbial Ecology. He has honored as WHO IS WHO in Science and Engineering, 1998-1999, Editors’s Citation for Excellence in Manuscript Review from the ‘Journal of Environmental quality (JEQ)’, 2004,WHO IS WHO in AMERICA, 2006-2007, and  WHO IS WHO in Science and Engineering, 2006-2007.

 Develop improved methodologies on detection, quantification, and characterization of pathogen survival in different environmental matrices.
Determine inactivation/survival rates and transport characteristics of fecal coliform and pathogens from manure sources to surface or ground water.
Determine sources of nonpoint fecal pollution to urban watershed using bacterial source tracking technology.
Quantify important mechanisms influencing the transport and retention of pathogenic microorganisms in subsurface environments.
Adapt and improve numerical models for simulating the environmental transport and fate of pathogenic microorganisms.
Use models to explore implications of various pathogen transport mechanisms and fate in heterogeneous systems, to develop best management practices, and to assess risk of contamination of food and water resources.
 

Kurunthachalam Senthil Kumar was a research scientist at Savannah State University Savannah, GA , USA (2006-2009). He was working in TUVSUD South Asia (2009-2010), Bangalore, INDIA, as a senior manager for analytical operations. He has a PhD degree in grassland microbial ecology from Bharathiar University, India (1992-1995) and a second PhD degree in environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology from Ehime University, Japan (1995-1998). He has received international fellowships including the Monbusho and Japan Society for the Promotion Sciences JSPS. He is a advisory member for United Nations Environment Programme UNEPA′s Global Monitoring Network GMN from 2001 particularly on Persistent Organic Pollutants POPs. Currently, he is working on perfluorinated compounds, brominated flame retardants, chlorinated and brominated dioxins, organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, antibacterials triclosan, triclocarbon phthalates, disperse dyes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, banned amines, chlorinated organic carriers, organotin compounds, chlorinated phenols, chlorinated benzenes, polychlorinated naphthalenes, chlorinated paraffins, and toxic pharmaceutical chemicals from biological and environmental samples collected from natural aquatic ecosystem and affected environments. Senthil Kumar also work as a post doctoral fellow in Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan (2000-2002) and as a Technical Scientist in Shimadzu Kyoto, Japan (2002-2006). Now he doing consulting EMME Consultancy work in India which related to environmental monitoring fate analysis pollution human health effects etc., in Coimbatore, India.

Fate of organohalogens (Organochlorine pesticides [DDTs, HCHs, HCB, and chlordane compounds such as {cis/trans-chlordane, cis/trans-nonachlor, oxychlordane, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide} cyclodienes {aldrin, dieldrin, endrin}, toxaphene, mirex]), Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and its hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PCBs), Chlorinated and Brominated Dioxins (PCDDs/PBDDs), Chlorinated and Brominated Furans (PCDFs/PBDFs), Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs) such as Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and its hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PBDEs), Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), tetrabromo bisphenyl A (TBBPA), hexabromocyclodecane (HBCD), polychlorinated naphthalanes (PCNs), Polychlorinated alkanes (PCAs), Fluorinated Organic Compounds (FOCs such as perfluoro carboxylic acids “PFCs” and perfluoro sulfonic acids “PFSs” and fluoro telomer alcohols[FTOHs]/aldehydes and Butyltin compounds “BTs”), antibacterial chemicals such as triclosan (TCS), triclocarbon (TCC), environmental hormones such as bisphenol-A (BPA), nonylphenol (NP), octylphenol (OP) in the environment.
Food-web transfer of organic contaminants such as bio-concentration factor (BCF), bio accumulation factor (BAF) and bio-magnification factor (BMF) and biological metabolism.Sources, formation, human and wildlife exposure and intrinsic toxic effects.
Specialized interests in avifauna, marine mammals, freshwater animals, terrestrial animals and environmental samples. Especially on levels, distribution pattern, homologue distribution, congener pattern, toxicology, toxic threshold.
Grassland beneficial microbial dynamics such as litter decomposing fungi, N2-fixing -bacteria, -azospirillum, -azotobactor, P-solubilizing -bacteria, -actinomyces, -fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi colonies in root & AM spore species in rhizosphere soil. Grassland soil chemistry such as physical, chemical and biological properties. Biomass production, productivity, turnover rate and time in dominant grass, legume and other dominant plant species in natural grasslands. Litter decomposition by fungi percentage frequency and occurrence of decomposing fungi in decomposing plant litter and in rhizosphere soil. Grassland ecology, microbiology etc.,

 

Dr. Eric N Villegas is currently the Lead Parasitologist for the National Exposure Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD in Parasitology from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

Environmental microbiology
Biosolids and wastewater treatment technologies
Waterborne Helminths (Ascaris Ova) and Protozoa (Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Toxoplasma gondii)
Water quality monitoring

Dr.Stephen Rooklidge received his PhD in Bioresource Engineering from Oregon State University in 2004 and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Notre Dame after many years in water/wastewater operations. He currently serves in the US Public Health Service, and is the author of a book and several refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is a reviewer for eleven science and engineering research journals, a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and a registered professional engineer.

Dr.Rooklidge recently published a book on his research interests of antibiotic contaminants in environmental systems. The focus of his work is sand filtration and biofilm removal of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants that are applicable to small and rural treatment systems.

Dr. Subramanian has received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University at Stillwater and MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Currently he is working as a Senior Process Engineer in Municipal and Environmental Engineering Department at Dewberry in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Subramanian is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma, Virginia and Maryland, and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He is serving on several technical committees including Water Environment Federation, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. He has published several papers in the area of wastewater treatment, GHG emissions and sustainability, and is serving as a reviewer with Water Environment Federation.

 

Environmental engineering, including the planning, detailed design, permitting, construction management and start-up of wastewater treatment facilities, bio-solids processing facilities, sewage pumping stations, sewer collection systems and water distribution systems, as well as focused wastewater treatment process experience, including process design and evaluation and of biological treatment systems, sequencing batch reactors (SBR) and membrane bioreactors (MBR).

Dr. K Thomas Klasson received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville in 1988. Currently, he is working as Research Leader at the Southern Regional Research Center of the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in New Orleans Louisiana Prior to this position. He worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as Group Leader and Engineer. He has served as coeditor of Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemical a special edition of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. He has authored over 125 research articles, book chapters proceeding manuscripts and technical reports in the areas of biotechnology, environmental remediation and alternative uses of agricultural resources. He is an member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Chemical Society.

Biological conversion of gaseous substrates
Treatment of mercury waste streams
Water treatment
Adsorbents from agricultural by-products

Anhong Zhou received his PhD in Biosensors from College of Chem & Chem Eng in Hunan University, China in 2000. He is presently working as Tenured Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at Utah State University. He is a member of various societies like Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Chemical Society (ACS).

Molecular and Cellular sensing
Bioimaging
Biosensor
Single molecule detection of biomarker of breast cancer cells
Design and fabrication of Lab-on-a-chip based salinity microsensors for water quality montoring

Dr.Jung Rae Kim is Senior Research Fellow in Sustainable Environment Research Centre SERC, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK. He received his PhD in Environmental Engineering ,The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He completed his BS and MS degree in Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, South Korea. He is working on several bioenergy projects such as EPSRC supported Supergen Biological fuel cell project and UK SHEC. He has published 20 papers about bioprocess for bioenergy production including biohydrogen and bioelectricity.

Environmental biotechnology
Bioenergy production: biomethane, biohydrogen and bioelectricty
Microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell Industrial application of biofilm Energy recovery from waste Bioprocess development for wast resuse
Design of sustainable environmental process

Prof Francesco Mari has received his MSc in Pharmacy at University of Florence, Italy in 1965. Currently, he is working as Full Professor of Forensic Toxicology in Florence University. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities as Director of the Division of Forensic Toxicology and also as Director of the School of Forensic Medicine. He is serving as an editorial member of the Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine Toxicology. He has authored of 189 research articles and 10 books. He is a member of the Group of Italian Forensic Toxicology (GIFT) of whom he is a founder, The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT), Italian Society of Legal Medicine (SIMLA), International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM).

Forensic Toxicology
Sewage Epidemiology
Archeotoxicology.

Dr. Xian Qiming is a professor of environmental Chemistry in Nanjing University, China.  Dr. Xian has worked in the Department of Environmental Science of Nanjing University for 6 years since he had received a PH.D in Environemtal Science from Nanjing University.  He teaches "Environmental Monitoring" for junior students in School of the Environment and "Environmental Organic Analytical Chemistry" for senior students. He got a postdoctoral fellowship from ENSRC, Canada and studied passive sampling method in Health Canada in 2008-2009. Dr. Xian is interested in analytical technology of trace pollutants in water and chlorinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water, and he had published more than twenty research papers in international journal. He had got the research fund form National Natural Science Foundation of China. He worked in Physics & Chemistry Test Center of Jiangsu Province from 1988 to 2002 as a chemist, where he was responsible for GC-MS analysis services.

 

Environmental monitoring and analytical technique
Fate of emerging organic pollutants in the environment
Formation and risk assessment of disinfection byproduct of drinking water
Approach of removal of micro-pollutants in water or wastewater   

 

Dr.Argyrios Margaritis is currently Professor of Biochecmical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biochecmical Engneering at the University of Western Ontario London,Ontario, Canada. He holds a B.A.SC. degree in Chemical Engineering both from the University of California, USA. Upon his arrival to western Dr.Margaritis established the first undergraduate program in Biochemical Engineering in Canada, and a strong graduate progrm in Biochemical Engineering. Dr. Margaritis moved quickly through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Professor and chair of the Department, a position he held for 11 years.
 

Biochemical Engineering
Biotechnology
Novel Fludized Bioreactor Systems

Prof Shoji Motomizu received his BSc degree in 1966 and MSc degree in 1968 in Analytical Chemistry from Okayama University in Japan. His DSc in Analytical Chemistry was awarded in 1973 from Kyoto University in Japan. In 1968, he started his study on analytical chemistry at Okayama University as a research associate and later he was promoted to a professor of Analytical Chemistry of Okayama University in 1992. He is currently a Professor of Specialty in Research of Okayama University and a Professor of Aichi Institute of Technology. He was a chairman of JAFIA the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis in 1994-2005 and was the Editor in Chief of JSAC Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry journals Bunseki Kagaku in 2003-2006. Now he is a Titular Member of Analytical Chemistry Division IUPAC and is an Advisory/Editorial Board of Talanta International, J Environmental Chemistry, International J AnalChem, J Flow Injection Analysis, RSC Analytical Methods etc., He received several awards for his contribution to analytical chemistry. Some of them are: JSAC Award for Young Scientist in 1973, The 37th Award for Excellent Paper in Fat/Oil Techniques in 1994, Warsaw University Award in 2000 and JSAC Award in 2001.

Development of new organic reagents
Flow-based analysis (FIA/SIA, HPLC, IC and CE), especially computer-controlled flow-based analysis systems
New instrumentation for ultratrace analysis

Daniele Goi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Science and Technology of the University of Udine (Italy), Head of the group of “Environmental pollution” at the department of Chemistry, Batchelor degree in Civil engineering (Environmental Planning), Registered Engineer at the Italian Board of Engineers - Province of Udine. He is also an Member of ANDIS, Italian Association of Sanitary Environmental Engineers. He completed his PhD in Chemical Technology and new materials at the University of Roma “La Sapienza”. He is a Researcher of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering.
He was an Assistant Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine of University of Udine. Person in charge of many research contracts and fellowships. He is serving as reviewer of 3 reputed journals and as editorial member of open journal.

Monitoring and biomonitoring water bodies
Water and wastewater treatment
Liquid wastes treatment by oxidation technologies
Disinfection of water and wastewater
Reuse of water and sludge from WWTP

Dr. Chunbao Charles Xu is the Director of Lakehead University, Green Energy Laboratory; Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Lakehead University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, the University of Western Ontario. He received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario London, Ontario in 2004 and another PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Science Technology, Beijing, China in 1998. He received Postdoctoral Fellowship from Japanese Society for Promotion of Science,  Japan; Institute of Energy Young Scientists Award and Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund Award. He has published 80 refered research papers in various esteemed journals and many international conference proceedings. He is serving as an editorial team member for several reputed journals and reviewer for more than 20 journals.

Energy recovery from municipal/industrial wastewater sludge
Renewable hydrogen production
Biomass gasification and liquefaction
Bio-fuels,bio-based chemicals and bio-products
Bio-refinery
Green energy and green engineering

Dr.Teresa Mangialardi is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering at La Sapienza University of Rome, Teaching duties Materials Technology for the students of Civil Engineering.

Dr. Luca Di Palma is an Associate Professor in the field of Materials Science and Technology. He born in Rome, 1968. He graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1933 and received PhD in Industrial Chemical Processess in 1999. He is a member of the Scientific Committee and Directive Commitee of the InterUniversity Center on Technology and Chemistry for the Environment.

Chemical and Electro-Chemical oxidation
Hazardous materials encapsulation
Waste managementt and treatment
 

Giusepe Mascolo is a senior research scientist at Water Research Institute (IRSA) of Italian National Research Council (CNR).

Degradation of Organic pollutants by advanced oxidation processess mechanisms of by-produts formation during organic pollutants degradation.
Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
Determination of organic pollutants in wastewater,sludge and soils

Dr. Claudio Di Iaconi is an environmental research scientist at Water Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council Department of Bari, Italy. He has completed his MS degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy 1993. Claudio has over 15 years experience in wastewater treatment and in particular in biological processes. In 2005, he received an award from the Italian National Research Council for having achieved excellent and innovative results. In 2010, he received from the European Commission the Best Life Environment Projects award for having developed an innovative technology for wastewater treatment. He is author of more than 70 papers published in peer reviewed journals or presented to scientific conferences, reviewer of more than 15 ISI scientific journals. He was the member of the scientific committee of IWA Biofilm Technologies Conference, Singapore in 2008 and of 4th IWA Sequencing Batch Reactor Technology Conference Rome in 2008.

Biological processes
Biofilm technologies
Aerobic granular biomass technologies
Novel processes for wastewater treatment
Integration of chemical and biological oxidation processes for industrial wastewater
Ozone processes
Biomass characterization

Dr.Ze-hua Liu is a research scientist in Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Japan. He has received his B.S (Chemical Engineering, 1997-2001) from Xiangtan University, China, M.S (Biochemical Engineering, 2001-2004) from Beijing University of Chemical Engineering, China, and Ph.D (Urban Engineering, 2007.4-2010.3) from Osaka City University, Japan. For his excellent research during the doctoral study, he has been awarded as the 2009 National Award for Outstanding Self-financed Chinese Students Study Abroad by China Scholarship Council, for which no more than 500 Chinese students all over the world were selected at this year. He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers, among which two articles has been listed as the top 25 hottest articles in Science of the total environment. He is reviewers for several peer reviewed journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, and Journal of Women’s Health.

Urinary estrogens/androgens/phytoestrogens
Biomonitoring and chemical analysis
Occurrence and fate of micropollutants
Sludge reduction

Luigi Rizzo is presently Assistant Professor at Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno and member of the PhD committee in Environmental Engineering. He received MSc degree in Hydraulic Engineering,1999 and a PhD in Environmental Engineering (2001-2004) from the University of Salerno, Italy. He has been visitor scientist (2004-2009) and visiting professor (2007-2010) in different Universities and Research Institutes. He has been coadvisor of 18 MSc students and 2 PhD students. He published 52 papers in 21 international peer reviewed journals hindex 6 and he was co-technical editor and co-author of a book. He is serving as guest editor for a special issue of Desalination and Water Treatment journal Elsevier and reviewer of 20 journals.

Disinfection by products (DBPs) and microbial risk control in drinking water systems
Emerging contaminants removal from urban wastewater effluents by advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) and adsorption
Solar driven AOPs
Industrial wastewater treatment by AOPs

Dr. Vincenzo Naddeo is assistant professor at Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Division, SEED of the Department of Civil Engineering, DICIV of Salerno University. He was a visiting professor at the Department of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering Science Program, University of Washington. He has received a PhD in Civil Environmental Engineering from the Salerno University, Italy. He has completed his MSc in Civil Engineering Hydraulic sector at University of Salerno. He is expert of the European Union from 2007 in the seventh Framework Programme for Research FP7. Since 2006, he is the secretary of the PhD school in Civil Environmental Engineering at University of Salerno. He is the responsible of 5 Erasmus agreements and 4 research project. He was visiting scientist at different foreign research institution where he collaborated with highranking professor, the main institution are: i Indian Istitute of Technology IIT of Delhi, India; ii University of Mumbai, India; iii University of Cairo, Egypt; iv National Research Center Egypt. He is author of over 60 papers in international journals congress proceedings and books, he have 3 patents on water and wastewater treatments by sonolisys. He is member of the International Water Association IWA and the Italian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Professors ANDIS.

Conventional and innovative AOPs
Water treatment process for disinfection, NOM removal, DBPs control and emerging contaminants removal
Application of ultrasound process in water treatments
Implementation of the EU water odours impact assessment

Francis orate is a Senior researcher and Lecturer at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology MMUST Affliated to IWW Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Water Research-profit. He is the reviewer of 2 reputed Journals. Obtained PhD from JohannesGutenbg University,MAINZ, Germany. Obtained Masters Degree MSc in Environmental Chemistry at University of Nairobi.

 Waste water treatment and Management
Environmental toxicology, soil or groundwater pollution
Environmental Remediation i.e. Bioremediation, Biosorption, Water Purification
Contaminants Remediation technologies
Water Quality, Persistent Organic Pollutants i.e. Pesticides, PFCs and non-conventional pollutants pharmaceuticals and Personal care products
Waste Management
chemistry-related (renewable sources, degradation studies etc.)
Climate change

Dr. Charles Knapp is Senior Lecturer in the Dept Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He received a PhD in Environmental Science, The University of Kansas, USA (2002); MSc Environmental Science in 1999 and BS in Business Administration University of Kansas,1994. He has over 30 publications in high impact journals serves on the editorial board for two journals and reviews proposals for research councils throughout the world.

Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology in natural and engineered systems.
Antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance in the environment
Biological indicators of environmental pollution
Transcriptomics, genomics, and metabolomics
Eco-toxicology
Environmental surface-water quality
Microbiological community stability in engineered and natural environments
PPCP (pharmaceutical & personal care products) in the environment Bioremediation

Dr. Mohammad AH Bhuiyan is a researcher of Department of Earth System Sciences, Okayama University, Japan; Assistant Professor of Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has received PhD in Environmental Earth Sciences from the Okayama University, Japan in 2007-2010. He has completed PGD in Water Resources Development from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology BUET. He has completed his MSc in Geological Sciences from Jahangirnagar University. Dhaka, 1996. He received the outstanding Young Geomorphologists Award 200 by International Association of Geomorphologists IAG; Spirit of William Greenwood Scholarship by the Association of Geoscientists for International Development AGID and academic merit award from Okayama University, Japan. He is serving as an editorial board member of BJER journal and reviewer of several International journals. He has 10 publications in international referred journals.

Geochemistry and Environmental Pollution
Environmental Hazard and Disaster Geomorphology
Landscape and Climate Changes Remote Sensing and GI

Dr.Hazel Bantolino Gonzales is an Associate Professor at theInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. She is also a licensed chemical engineer,who graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1995. She took up her graduate studies at the University of the Philippines and graduated with the degree of Master of Science in Agricultural Chemistry minor in Environmental Science (2000) and at Hiroshima University with the degree of Doctor of Engineering (2005). She worked as a Teaching Associate at the Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines from 1995 to 1999. She also worked as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University from 2005 to 2010. She is a technical English editor for the Journal of Water and Environment Technology
of the Japan Society on Water Environment since April 2005. She is also a member of the Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers since 1997. For a year (2004 to 2005) she was a worldwide member of the International Solid
Waste Association (ISWA). She was also a member of Japan Society of Waste Management Experts (2003 to 2004) and Japan Society on Water Environment (2003 to 2004). She just joined TITech this year (2011) but she is set to continue her research regarding food waste treatment, solid waste treatment and wastewater treatment as she collaborates with other professors and researchers involved in similar studies.

 

Food waste treatment
Solid waste treatment
Wastewater treatment

Huzefa A.Raja completed his Ph.D. in 2007 from university of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign. He prepared and deposited specimens of holotypes and isotypes in the Mycology Herbarium of the University of Illinois (ILL). He is working as Post Doctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Taxonomy and Systematics of freshwater Ascomycetes,Ecology and Biogeography of freshwater ascomycetes,Bioactive compounds from freshwater ascomycetes

Maria Papadaki working in IPSE School of process,Enivironmental and Materials Engineering at University of Leeds,Leeds.She is working in the department of Chemical Engineering.

Runway reactions
Calorimetry
Reaction Kinetics
AOPs and Waste water Treatment
Catalysis
Transport properties

Barbara Scaglia has a 5year University Degree in Biological Science achieved at the State University of Milano. She obtained the PhD in Agricultural Ecology with a research thesis titled Biological and chemical indicators to evaluate dynamic soil quality employed at the University of Milano from 2005 to 2010 with a postdoctoral position In 2002. She participated at the WnmrC project HP Programme Access to Research Infrastructures funded by the European Commission. She developed new analytical method Dynamic respirometric index DRI adopted at both national Italian Normative CommitteeUNI method UNI/TS 11184 and European European Normation CommitteeCEN prEN 15590 level. Since 2008, she is in charge as National expert within the CEN CEN/TC 343/WG. 3 In 2009, she participated as researcher to the EvK2CNR/NAST mission to the Everest scientific base Nepal Author of 45 scientific publications ,15 on ISI journals, 7 as first author of three chapters of international books and of two analytical methods.

Biological treatment of municipal sold waste (composting, mechanical biological and biodrying treatments, anaerobic digestion)
Organic matter evolution dynamics in landfill
Extraction of chemicals from biomasses and their application for contaminated soil remediation
Characterization of soil organic matter and soil neogenisis in extreme environments
Chemical (pyrolisis, GC MAS, infrared spectroscopy), physical (tensiometer) and biological (respirometry and biogas anaerobic production test)
characterization of organic matter from different origins

Dr. Eng. Nicoleta Alina Suciu is Research Associate in the Institute of Agricultural and  Environmental Chemistry of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza  (Italy). She obtained her PhD  in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Ecology of Pesticides from the Faculty of Agriculture of Universitá degli Studi di Milano in Milano (Italy). Her PhD research was mainly focused on laboratory and field studies concerning pesticide adsorption on modified clays, having as final result the development of a pilot decontamination system for water containing pesticides. For one year she joined the PPR Unit of European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma (Italy), working for the development of scenarios for fate of pesticides in protected crop systems and impact to the surrounding environment. She has  participated in numerous national and international conferences and workshops.  She has collaborated in the organization of several national and international scientific meetings.

water footprint in agricultural sector, innovative techniques to improve the use of water in the agricultural sector in order to go in the direction of sustainability could be valid topics.

Grigorios Itskos (MSc Chemist, born 1983) is a research scientist of CERTH/ISFTA and doctorate candidate of NTUA/School of Chemical Engineering. He has worked in several EC-funded R&D projects, mainly dealing with solid fuels combustion and industrial by-products utilization in environmental-benign applications. He is member of the academic staff of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2009 Visiting Research Scholar), and has also been a Visiting Research Scholar of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2010-11), and TU Munich/Institute of Energy Systems (2011). For his doctorate research study, he has been awarded with a scholarship of excellence through the Financial Mechanism Office (FMO) of European Economic Area (EEA) and NTUA. Having authored and coauthored several journal papers, Mr. Itskos is considered an outstanding young scientist in the fields of applied inorganic chemistry & materials.

Chemical, physical, and mineralogical characterization of coal combustion by-products and a variety of other, inorganic, materials
Particle-assisted, industrial wastewater purification technologies
Manufacturing and characterization of Al-based composites with particulate reinforcing
Coal combustion and coal / biomass co-firing. Combustion by-products valorization
Optimization of Ca-looping process by improving limestone utilization. High-Ca CCS sorbents characterization
 
 

Water and wastewater treatment systems
Anaerobic systems
Biological and chemical processes

Yu-Pin Lin, is a professor in the department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering at National Taiwan University in Taiwan.He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in USA. Prof. Lin has interested in application and development of Eco-hydrological and hydrogeological modeling, water quality modeling, soil heavy metal pollution, geostatistical spatiotemporal
methods, multi-scale analysis, quantitative methods in landscape ecology, watershed land use modeling, and optimal monitoring sampling design. He is also an associate editor of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment journal published by Springer, and the chief managingeditor of Paddy and Water Environment journal published by Springer. Moreover, Dr. Lin has been as reviewers for more than 30 international journals. Recently, Prof. Lin has been awarded a national outstanding research award by National Science Council of Taiwan government.
 

Spatial Statistics and modeling in Environmental and Ecological Systems
Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Environmental and Ecological Systems
Freshwater Monitoring and Modeling
Optimal Environmental Monitoring Network Design
Landscape Ecology in Watershed Management and Planning
Land-use Planning and Modeling
Ecohydrology
Groundwater Modeling
Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Assessment
Multiscale analysis in Environmental and Ecological Systems
System Dynamic Modeling in Environmental systems
Ecosystem service of stream ecosystem restoration
System Dynamic Modeling
Optimization Techniques
 

Dr. Yonghong Wu, Associate Professor in Chinese Academy of Science. His interests focus on the studies of periphyton biofilms. The goal is to understand the relationship between micro-ecosystems such as periphyton and aquatic ecosystem self-modulation in phytoplankton-dominated waters, and then to control the pollution input by ecological engineering. He has research experience of more than ten years on the control of nonpoint source pollution, eutrophication and cyanobacterial blooms in a plateau lake, Dianchi Lake, a hypereutrophic lake with frequent cyanobacterial blooms. He is experienced in project management and has been in charge of twelve national projects as chief-investigator with Chinese government organizations such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Natural Foundation of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wu has published about 40 publications and has received 6 patents (One has been sold to a commercial company), and has been acknowledged in both Ministry of Agriculture, China and Yunnan Province, China awards for excellence in ecological engineering studies.

 

The processes and mechanisms of periphyton biofilm removing pollutants
The control of nonpoint source pollution
Ecological engineering for purifying surface wastewater
The self-modulation and restoration of aquatic and agricultural ecosystems

 

Professor Dawen Gao got his PhD (2003) and MPhil (2000) degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, after receiving his BSc (1991) from Qiqihaer Normal College. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University and as a visiting scholar at Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. He was Associate Professor and Professor at School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University from 2003 to 2007 and joined Harbin Institute of Technology as a professor from 2007. The focus of his research and teaching has been in environmental science and engineering, and the control of environmental contaminations. He won a few awards, including 2 Heilongjiang Province Science & Technology Awards (2008, 2011), Heilongjiang Province Excellent Youth Award (2005), New Century Excellent Talent Award (2005), and China Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award (2005). He has published two books and 80 papers.

 

Nutrients removal from wastewater
Bioremediation and biorestoration of contaminated aquifer
Fate and movement of contaminants in environment

Lei Wang received the B.Eng and M.Eng. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the D.Eng. degree from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007.

He is currently a full professor at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before he joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences in August 2011, he was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. His primary research interests are land surface hydrology, water resources, and climate change.

Land surface hydrological modeling (including cold region processes); Integrated Water Resources Management; Climate change impact assessment and adaptation.

Dr. Mohsen Saeedi obtained his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Tehran in Iran. He is currently associate dean and an associate professor of Environmental Engineering at school of civil engineering of Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran. His main research interests include  water quality assessments, physical-chemical treatment, waste management, soil and sediment pollution and remediation. He has published about 40 peer reviewed journal papers, two books and had several national and international conferences paper presentations.

Environmental Baseline and Assessment Studies
Environmental Risk Assessments
Petroleum Hydrocarbons Pollution in Soil and Sediment
Soil and Sediment Heavy Metal Pollution Assessment
Fate of Heavy Metals in the Aquatic Environments and Sediment
Chemical Treatment Processes for Industrial Water, Wastewater and Remediation
Environmental Impact Assessments
Sorption/Desorption Processes of Pollutants in the Environment
Industrial Waste Management, Treatment and Disposal

 

Dr. Ong Soon An received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Oita University (Japan) in 2006 sponsored by Monbukagakusho Scholarship. He obtained JSPS postdoctoral fellowship and worked as a researcher at Niigata University (Japan) from 2007 to 2009. Currently, he is working as a senior lecturer in School of Environmental Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis. He is serving as an editorial member of the Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology and reviewers in various international journals. He has published more than 20 journal articles with high impact factor.

Development of biological wastewater treatment system for treating wastewater containing toxic, persistent and less biodegradable pollutants
Treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater by constructed wetland
Simultaneous energy production and wastewater treatment
Photocatalytic degradation of industrial wastewater

 

Dr. Sarper Sarp has received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, in 2011. He also has received his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Ege University, Turkey. Currently he is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at GIST. He also worked for Southern Nevada Water Authority and University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a research scholar and Part-time instructor, respectively. He has authored 14 research papers in the last four years. He is a reviewer of IWA conferences and Desalination and Water Treatment Journal.

 

Economically feasible Forward Osmosis process – Applications of alternative macromolecular and polymeric draw solutions.
Economically feasible Forward Osmosis process – Draw solution recovery with vapor-liquid equilibrium based phase separation.
Smart Water Grid – Direct Potable Re-use in decentralized, IT assisted, wastewater treatment systems.
Advanced Oxidation Processes – Development and application of prediction models for oxidative removal of pharmaceuticals from water sources.
Advanced Oxidation Processes – Fouling, boron, and bromide control in seawater desalination by integrating in-line advanced oxidation processes into the Reverse Osmosis system.
 

 

Salvatore Manfreda is Assistant Professor in hydraulic constructions and hydrology at the University of Basilicata. His research activity has produced more than 80 publications in peer review journals, book chapters and national, and international proceedings. Moreover, he is very active in the European Geophysical Union (EGU) as a reviewer, convener and member of the EGU Committee Sub-Division on Estuaries, Wetlands & Eco-Hydrology. He is currently member of the editorial board of Ecohydrology (Winley).

distributed modeling
flood prediction
delineation of flood prone areas
stochastic processes in hydrology
space-time rainfall dynamics
soil moisture process
low flow mathematical filters
plant physiology
vegetation patterns and African Savanna

Mohammad Valipour is a Researcher in Sharif Energy Research Institute (SERI) at Tehran, Iran. He completed his B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering-Irrigation at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran in 2006 and M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering-Irrigation and Drainage at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2008. He has published and presented more than 30 papers in national and international journals and conferences, respectively. He has also cooperate on more than 100 journals as editor or reviewer. His current research interests are surface and pressurized irrigation, drainage engineering, relationship between energy and environment, agricultural water management, mathematical and computer modelling and optimization, water resources, hydrology, hydrogeology, hydroclimatology, hydrometeorology, hydroinformatics, hydrodynamic, hydraulic, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer in soil media.
 

Surface and pressurized irrigation, drainage engineering, relationships between energy and environment, agricultural water management, mathematical and computer modeling and optimization, water resources, hydrology,hydrogeology,hydroclimatology,hydrometeorology,hydroinformatics, hydrodynamic, hydraulic, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer in soil
media