Paige Novak, Editor-in-chief
University of Minnesota, USA
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-0278
Paige is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she heads a research group, specialising in research on the biological transformation of hazardous substances in sediment, groundwater and wastewater. She works both in the laboratory and in the field, trying to understand the interactions between microorganisms and environmental conditions.
Sebastià Puig Broch, Associate editor
Universitat de Girona, Spain
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-1443
Sebastià Puig is an Associate Professor at the University of Girona (Spain). Climate change and future depletion of resources are two of the most important environmental challenges that humankind have ever faced. His research team intends to tackle the root of these issues by putting forward a resilience and sustainable technology-based electron-driven microbial reactions. Sebastià works to give a second chance to contaminated water and recalcitrant carbon dioxide (CO2) streams.
Wenhai Chu, Associate editor
Tongji University, China
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3457-3507
Wenhai Chu is a Professor at College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China. His research focuses on water disinfection and disinfection by-products (DBPs). He has made achievements in identification, transformation and collaborative control of DBPs and other emerging contaminants. And his interest also includes exploring the relationship between micro pollutants such as disinfection by-products and human health, and exploring the migration, transformation and source prevention and control of new pollutants from the perspective of the whole urban water system. He has published more than 150 papers and edited two monographs. He also authorized 20 invention patents in China and the United States, his relevant patent technology has been applied in water quality monitoring institutions and large-scale water plants in the Yangtze River Delta and Taihu Lake Basin, China.
Graham Gagnon, Associate editor
Dalhousie University, Canada
Graham Gagnon is a Full Professor and NSERC/Halifax Water Industrial Research Chair in the Department of Civil & Resource Engineering at Dalhousie University. Graham works collaboratively with his research team and research partners to deliver applied water solutions that are grounded in fundamental principles of water science and technology.
Stuart Khan, Associate editor
University of New South Wales, Australia
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5147-145X
Stuart Khan is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research aims to facilitate the improvement of sustainable urban water management by improving the understanding of water treatment capabilities, water quality monitoring and risk management. Stuart's research interests include the implications of trace chemical substances in water, the role of potable reuse in securing future sustainable water supplies and chiral transformations of chemical substances during wastewater treatment.
Linda Lawton, Associate Editor
Robert Gordon University, UK
Professor Linda Lawton is an internationally renowned researcher with over 35 years’ experience in the study of toxic cyanobacteria. Linda has been a Professor at Robert Gordon University since 2007, was granted Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in 2021. Linda has outstanding success in international research collaboration and the award of major research grants have facilitated the establishment of a research group that is world leading in cyanotoxin detection and treatment. Linda's principal outstanding contribution has been developing the seminal detection method for blue-green algal (cyanobacterial) toxins in drinking water which is now used worldwide. Reliable detection of the key class of toxin, the microcystins, has enabled the WHO to introduce guideline values for acceptable levels in drinking water. Furthermore, the development of mass culturing and isolation procedures to ensure the global availability of analytical standards for a wide panel of cyanotoxins has grown into a significant commercial venture with a US-based biochemical company. A further significant achievement resulting from this work is the availability of robust techniques allowing for the replacement of animal testing in toxin detection. Linda has been invited to give over 50 lectures worldwide for international professional bodies, her research has resulted in over 100 refereed publications in international journals, and she has published over 20 book chapters.
Zhiyong "Jason" Ren, Associate editor
Princeton University, USA
Jason is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, USA. His research focuses on water-energy nexus and resource recovery. His group analyzes reaction mechanisms and develops novel environmental processes, with the goal of expanding environmental engineering from pollution control to sustainable development of resource recovery systems.
Lauren Stadler, Associate Editor
Rice University, USA
Lauren Stadler is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. She is an environmental engineer whose research focuses on wastewater-based epidemiology, environmental antibiotic resistance, wastewater and resource recovery, and environmental synthetic biology.
Krista Wigginton, Associate editor
University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Krista Rule Wigginton received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and her B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Idaho and conducted postdoctoral research at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2013, she joined the faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of environmental engineering. Dr. Wigginton’s research team focuses on pollutant fate in water treatment processes, and on improving pathogen and micropollutant detection. She’s the recipient of the U.S. NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowship and the NSF CAREER award.
Takahiro Fujioka
Nagasaki University, Japan
Takahiro is an Associate Professor at Nagasaki University, Japan. His research interests centre on advanced wastewater treatment technologies for potable water reuse. His research team is working on the development of reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membrane technologies for enhancing the removal of pathogens and trance organic chemicals, and the development of online monitoring technologies for ensuring pathogen removal.
Xia Huang
Tsinghua University, China
Xia Huang is a Professor at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China. Her research aims to develop novel processes for wastewater reclamation and resource recovery. Current main interests include membrane based wastewater treatment processes, fouling mechanisms and control; bioelectrochemical systems for enhanced wastewater purification and resource recovery.
Karin Jönsson
Lund University, Sweden
Karin Jönsson heads the research group of Water and Environmental Engineering Systems at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and she holds a position as Associate Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering.
Her main research field is wastewater and water handling in the society, with particular emphasis on advanced wastewater treatment, covering both municipal wastewater and industrial wastewater and biological and chemical treatment methods. The application of microbiological processes in municipal wastewater treatment is the focal point of the majority of her research activities. A growing research focus is storm water management in the (blue-green) city.
Ligy Philip
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Ligy Philip is a Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. Her research interests include water and wastewater treatment, rural water supply, sanitation and bioremediation. Her research focuses on sustainable technology development for recycling and reusing domestic and industrial wastewaters and resource recovery from the sludge. She is the area co-coordinator for waste management of Indo-German centre for sustainability (IGCS).
Eveline Volcke
Ghent University, Belgium
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7664-7033
Eveline Volcke is a Professor at Ghent University, Belgium. Her ‘Biosystems Control (BioCo)’ research group focuses on efficient and sustainable process design and control. Eveline has a specific expertise in biological wastewater treatment. She aims at process optimization through physical-based modelling and simulation, data treatment techniques and experimental studies. In doing so, she profits from a chemical engineering background, a PhD in environmental technology, a strong international network, e.g. as a Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA), and 20+ years of research experience.
