Prof. Ed McBean
University of Guelph, Canada
Ed McBean is a Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security and now University of Guelph Research Leadership Chair Professor, Water Security. In that context, he relies upon statistical interpretation of data, fate and transport of chemicals and pathogens in the environment, and risk assessment/ management, to determine how features of water supply risk may arise. Hence, there are dimensions of a number of features including climate change and fate and transport modeling as applied to water resources phenomena. In addition to the above, Ed also has extensive experience in waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions as contributory to global climate change.
Prof. Grzegorz Boczkaj
Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech), Poland
Prof. Grzegorz Boczkaj (Highly Cited Researcher 2023 (Clarivate), h-index: 53, >10000 citations) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech), Poland. He obtained a PhD (2012, with honors) in chemical technology (chemical engineering) at GdanskTech and a habilitation in same discipline (2017). He is the leader scientist of research group working on new developments in the field of environmental science, separation techniques, chemical engineering as well as analytical chemistry. He was a principal investigator of several research projects (in total above 2,0 mln $). Few projects were dedicated to studies on separation techniques, design and applications of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs), fundamentals and applications of cavitation based processes, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), advanced reduction processes (ARPs). He has published over 200 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.
Prof. Qu Ruijuan
Nanjing University, China
Qu Ruijuan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Nanjing University. She is mainly engaged in QSAR (structure-activity relationship) based transformation mechanism research of organic pollutants, pays attention to the environmental transformation process of organic pollutants as well as the development of green, efficient degradation technologies. By conducting theoretical calculations and experiments, she has developed a comprehensive “reactivity-product identification-theoretical calculation-toxicity assessment” framework system for pollutant conversion evaluation, from which the main factors affecting the reactivity of organic pollutants are explored at the molecular structure level., the transformation patterns, reaction mechanisms and toxicity changes of organic pollutants in natural and engineering environment are revealed to provide scientific support for ecological risk assessment and treatment of organic pollutants. Dr. Qu has hosted 4 national projects including NSFC grants; published 70 SCI papers in mainstream journals like Environ. Sci. Technol. and Water Res. as the first/corresponding author; All published papers have been cited by peer researchers for 4792 times with 7 papers becoming ESI highly-cited and the H index being 42. She currently serves as a managing editor of Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (IF=6.1) and as an editorial board member and guest editor of Toxics (IF=3.9). Due to her achievements, she was named to Stanford University's 2023 World's Top 2% Scientists List.