Honorary Adjunct Professor, email: damiab@ual.es, Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria,  04120, Almeria, Spain, Full Research Professor IDAEA-CSIC,Barcelona, Spain since 1999-january 2024, now retired. Awarded as   Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Ioannina, Greece, in 2014 and by the University of Lleida, June 2021 and Almeria , Spain in May 2022. Honorary and Guest Professor at ZAFU, Hangzhou, China in 2019 till March 2022 , Foreign Expert of East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China, 2021-2024 and High-level expert from Shanghai University, China, 2023-2025. From January 2022 till December 2026 he has been appointed Adjunct Professor in Sustainability Cluster, School of Engineering at the UPES, Dehradun, India . D Barceló has received the following awards: 2024 Enzo Tiezzi Medal from the Societa Chimica Italiana- Italian Chemical Society; 2023. Prize of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Society of Chemistry (EuChemS) Euroanalysis,Geneva , King Hamad Prize for Agricultural Development in the category of Best Agricultural Research & Studies , Bahrein , Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) , Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC and Member of the Academie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris; 2012 Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden   and Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia and in 2007 Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature from Generalitat of Valencia, Spain. DBarceló has supervised > 67 PhD students, since 1992 – to date . He has been Instructor of short courses at PITTCON, SETAC NA, AP and ExTech conferences since early 2000. D Barceló expertise is on analysis, fate , risk and removal of emerging contaminants, nanomaterials  and microplastics from water as well as sewage epidemiology of drugs and proteins using advanced mass spectrometric techniques. Hirsch-Index of 188 / 151/140 and total number of citations over  157.1K / 105.6K/99.7K (sources Google Scholar / Scopus/Web of Science) and more than 1700 publications . Research.com ranked in 2024 D Barcelo as 4th and 43rd environmental scientist and chemist, respectively in the world. He has been involved in editorial activities in the following Elsevier journals as co-Editor in chief and editor from 1990 to date: STOTEN, GREEAC, TRAC, Methods X, CSCEE, and COESH. He is also Editor-in-chief of the book series Wilson + Wilson Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry from Elsevier since 1997- today and co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry book series from Springer since 2007-today and Advances In Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection) since 2016-today .From 1993 to date he has been editor and co-editor of 40 books on environmental chemistry.

Prof. How Yong Ng is a Fellow of The Academy of Engineering Singapore, a Changjiang Scholar Professor at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, China, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is an IWA Fellow, Chair of the IWA Specialist Group on Membrane Technology, and an Associate Editor of Water Research. His core research interests focus on sustainable water management, specifically biological treatment technologies, membrane bioreactors, and microbial electrochemical sensors for water reuse and resource recovery. He has contributed to over 210 publications in refereed international journals and more than 270 conference papers. In 2024, he was ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists in Environmental Engineering.

Massimiliano Fabbricino is full professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activities focus on energy and materials recovery from waste and wastewater as well as environmental sustainability. He is responsible for several funded research projects and has authored several publications in the field of environmental engineering.

Yunho Lee is a full professor in School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. His researches focus on advanced water quality analysis using mass spectrometry and bioanalytical tools, and advanced water treatment technologies with core expertise on water disinfection and oxidation processes. He has authored more than 120 papers in the field of water science and engineering, and currently serving as an editor of Water Research and executive editor of Journal of environmental chemical engineering.

Samir Kumar Khanal is Professor of Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM). His PhD degree is in Environmental Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Prof. Khanal’s research interests are the field of anaerobic digestion, bioenergy/biofuel, nanobubble technology, aquaponics, and machine learning and artificial intelligence application in AD. He has over 160 refereed publications in top-rated international journals, and 10 books including one best-selling book (Anaerobic Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production: Principles and Applications) and one textbook (Bioenergy: Principles and Applications) to his name. Prof. Khanal was awarded the highly prestigious Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (2018), and CTAHR Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (2016). Dr. Khanal is a highly cited researcher based on Clarivate – Web of Science (2024). He is an Editor-in-Chief of Bioresource Technology.

Dr. Oshiki, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Frontier Sciences in 2009, is an expert in environmental microbiology and biotechnology. His research, spanning approximately 20 years, is published in leading microbiology journals (e.g., ISME J. 2020; 14:1873–1885, Environ. Microbiol. 2022; 24:3735–3750) and water science/technology journals (e.g., Water Res. 2017; 125:249–258). For his achievements, he received the NAGASE Science Technology Foundation award (2021) and the Microbes & Environments Research Paper Award (2018). As a PI, he has led several JSPS-funded projects and collaborates internationally with universities/institutions in Korea, Malaysia, and Switzerland.

Professor. Jeonghwan Kim is a full professor in Department of Environmental Engineering at the Inha University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining the Inha University, he worked as Post-doctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University. He has extensive expertise in anaerobic membrane bioreactor for sustainable wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Particularly, he developed and studied anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactor as well as its centred process for energy-positive wastewater treatment extensively

Dr. Changsoo Lee is a Professor at UNIST, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on biochemical waste-to-value technologies for environmental and economic sustainability. His team actively investigates microbial bioconversion of waste organic matter and CO2 into valuable chemicals and materials, while also exploring the microbial communities involved.

Guillermo Hijós has been working in Acciona Agua for over 20 years in key international desalination projects such as Beckton (UK), Tampa (USA), Fajardo (Puerto Rico), Tarragona (Spain) and Adelaide (Australia). In 2016 he joined the team that designed, built and commissioned the 163MLD (RAF A3) and 280MLD (Umm Al Houl) SWRO plants in Qatar as the O&M Project Director and is now managing the Operations and Maintenance of all desalination plants in the Middle East and Oceania. As part of his role, Guillermo has promoted digital transformation of the organization with participation in projects such as the COMS (Computerized Operations Management System), the PMS (Plant Management System) and the Digital Twin amongst others.

Dr. Dong Suk Han is an Associate Professor at Qatar University's Center for Advanced Materials and the Department of Chemical Engineering, also serving as a Graduate Faculty in the Material Science and Technology Program. He earned his PhD in Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from Texas A&M University, USA, in 2009. With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Han specializes in the Water-Energy nexus, focusing on nanomaterials and physical/chemical technologies such as adsorption/membrane separation, (photo)electrochemistry, resource recovery, and advanced oxidation/reduction processes. Dr. Han is an Editor at "Desalination and Water Treatment," an Editorial Board Member of "Desalination," and an Associate Editor of "Frontiers in Chemistry".

Sangho Lee is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Kookmin University, Korea. His current interests are in smart technologies applied to environmental applications and urban water management, with a focus on smart water grid, seawater desalination, and environmental process simulation. He has devoted to practical implementation of emerging desalination technologies, including membrane distillation (MD), forward osmosis (FO), and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO). He has also worked on industrial water treatment technologies such as ultrapure water production, wastewater reclamation for unconventional oil and gas development, and zero discharge systems. He is also on the Editorial Boards of Desalination and Environmental Engineering Research.

Kangwoo Cho is associate professor in Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Kangwoo Cho received his B.A. in Economics and B.S./M.S. in Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea. He has served as a full time research scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2006. During 2010-2014, he finished Ph.D degree requirements (formal award of diploma in 2015) at California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Dr. Cho’s research interests nowadays span broadly in electrocatalysts and electrochemical processes for water treatment coupled with harvesting energy and resources.

Prof. Hyunwoong Park received a PhD in Environmental Engineering at POSTECH, Korea in 2004. After postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology, he joined the School of Energy Engineering at Kyungpook National University (Daegu, Korea) in 2008. His research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor photocatalysis for solar energy conversion and environmental application, electrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 conversion, and advanced redox catalysis. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals (cited over 17,500 times; h-index 67), and been included in the Stanford’s List of World Top 2% Scientists since 2019 (version 1). He was awarded the Knowledge Creativity Award by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, Korea (2012), Best Paper Award by the KECS (2013), SBS Foundation Fellow Award (2014), Park Su-Moon Award of the KECS (2018), and KNU Academic Award (2018). He served as the Editor of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (Elsevier, 2015-2019) and Associate Editor of Environmental Engineering Research (Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, 2014-2018), and is serving as the Editor of Sustainable Horizons (Elsevier, since 2021).

Dr. Chen is a lifetime distinguished professor and has received outstanding research award in National Taipei University of Technology, and his interest is mainly on physicochemical process on water and wastewater treatment by incorporation of membrane. Currently, his projects have primarily dealt with membrane, oxidation-reduction, and catalysis processes for micropollutant removal.
·Shiao-Shing Chen, PhD
·Lifetime Distinguished Professor,
·Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management
·National Taipei University of Technology, (TAIPEI TECH)
·No. 1, Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 10608, Taiwan

Dr. Boyan Xu earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2021, Dr. Xu engaged in post-doctoral research at the NUS Environmental Research Institute. Dr. Xu joined Beijing Normal University (BNU) as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in 2023. His primary research area is novel membrane processes (with data-driven models) for (sea)water treatment. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Science and Engineering and a member of the Management Committee of the Membrane Technology Specialist Group (MTSG) of the International Water Association (IWA). He has published 19 papers in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research and 3 book chapters.

Chi-Wang Li received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, in 1998. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Science and Engineering and as an associated editor and guest editor for several SCI journals. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan. His main area of research interest is to integrate various physical and chemical processes to achieve cost-effective processes for water and wastewater treatment.

Chen Yi-Ming earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Tamkang University (New Taipei City, Taiwan) in 2007. As an assistant professor at Tamkang and Vanung Universities, he integrated academic research with hands-on experience, contributing to the design, construction, and operation of wastewater treatment plants. Now the general manager of He-Ming Environmental Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., Dr. Chen continues to advance sewage system development across Taiwan.

Ya Vinh earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from Dalat University, Vietnam, in 2013, followed by an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Tamkang University, Taiwan, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. His Ph.D. work received the Best Doctoral Thesis in Environmental Technology award from The Blessing Education Foundation and Taiwan Filtration and Separation Society.

Dr. Vinh has since worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Factory Manager, specializing in the production of filtration materials. He also served as the Technical Operations Head at (Vietnam) Filtrafine Co., Ltd., overseeing all departments. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at Tamkang University, Taiwan.

I am a professor of Division of Environmental Engineering, Hokkaido University since 2008. I have a background in Environmental Engineering and Environmental Microbiology, and have been active in environmental biotechnology for over 25 years. My main focus has been microbial ecology of biological wastewater treatment systems especially nitrogen removal processes, bioenergy production, and microbial ecophysiology of anammox bacteria. I have served as International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) international board member (2012 - 2016), The ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award committee (2012 - 2016), Senior Editor of the ISME Journal (2017-2023), International Water Association (IWA) Biofilm specialist group management committee (2004 - 2018) and IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering (MEWE) specialist group management committee (2005 - 2014). I have published more than 20 book chapters and over 245 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 22,000 citations and H-index 85 (Google Scholar). I am a winner of IWA Ardern-Lockett Prize 2023.

Pongsak (Lek) Noophan, Ph.D. Lek is professor at Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University; Bangkok, Thailand. Lek got Bachelor Degree in Public Health (Major Sanitary Science) Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and graduated M.S. and Ph. D. (Environmental Science and Engineering), Colorado School of Mines; Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. Lek’s research areas are biological nutrient removal and water reclamation and reuse. Lek is a leader of biological nutrient removal and recovery group in Thailand and has several publications on biological nitrogen removal: new aspect on partial nitritation and anammox (PNA) processes.

Dr Olivier LEFEBVRE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research work is in electrochemical technologies and advanced oxidation processes for industrial wastewater treatment and reuse. He is also an adjunct Professor at the Research Institute of Mines and Environment of the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). Olivier is an editor for Water Science & Technology and an IWA Fellow, administrator, newsletter editor and webmaster for the specialist group on water reuse, within the International Water Association (IWA). An agricultural engineer by training, Olivier obtained his PhD from Supagro Montpellier (France) in 2005, on a collaborative work between the French National Research Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the Anna University in Chennai, India. The topic was related to the treatment of tannery wastewater.

Choonsoo Kim has been a professor at the Kongju National University since 2018. He earned his B.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2015) from Seoul National University under Prof. Jeyong Yoon. His interdisciplinary research addresses environmental and sustainability challenges through environmental engineering, electrochemistry, and materials science for water applications. (https://choonsookim. wixsite.com/soolab)

Prof. Seoni Kim received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University, where she conducted extensive research on electrochemical lithium separation and desalination. Following her doctoral studies, she joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral associate, where her primary research focus was on CO2 capture. Since 2023, she has embarked on an independent research journey as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Ewha Womans University. Her current research focus is on battery recycling and CO2 mitigation.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Le Luu is now Lecturer in the field of Environmental Process Technology at the Vietnamese German University (VGU), Vietnam. He is also a Coordinator of Master Program in Water Technology, Reuse and Management (in collaboration with TU Darmstadt, Germany). Dr. Tran Le Luu received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Seoul National University, South Korea in 2015. Before that, he got Master’s degree in 2011 and Bachelor’s degree in 2006 in Chemistry at the University of Science, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City.
His main research interests are water and wastewater treatment technology, advanced oxidation processes (O3/H2O2, fenton, persulfate…), electrochemical water treatment (electrooxidation, electrocoagulation, electroreduction), biological treatment, membrane technology, capacitive deionization, environmental monitoring and sensor technology.

· Occupation: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Dankook University (2021~Now)
· Degree: Ph. D, Dankook University (2019)
· Major: Environmental Engineering (Water Treatment Major)

Jaehan Lee is Associate Professor in Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Hongik University, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University and has experience working as a postdoc at ETH Zurich. With the goal of developing new electrochemical process technologies, his research is being conducted on energy storage and conversion technologies and environmental technologies such as desalination and the recovery of valuable resources from wastewater.

Hongsik Yoon received his Master’s degree in 2013 and his Ph.D. in 2018 in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. From 2018 to 2019, he worked as a principal researcher at LG Chemicals. Since 2019, he has been working as a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), and since 2024, he has also been serving as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST).

Dr. Phan Nhu Nguyet is a lecturer and a researcher in the Department of Environmental Technology, Faculty of Environment, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Nguyet obtained a Doctor of Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan in 2019. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Department of Environmental Technology, Faculty of Environment, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. Her research interest is biological wastewater and water treatment, focusing on membrane technology and microbial community. She was the leader of some research grants, including funding institutions from Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City and Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF).

Prof. How Yong Ng is Fellow of The Academy of Engineering Singapore, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Changjiang Scholar Professor at the Beiling Normal University at Zhuhai. He is lWA Fellow, Chair of the lWA Specialist Group on Membrane Technology, and Associate Editor of Water Research. His core research interests lie in sustainable water management, with a focus on biological treatment technologies, membrane bioreactors, and microbial electrochemical sensors for water reuse and resource recovery, He has contributed to over 210 publications in refereed international journals and conference papers, with H index of 66 (13,464 citations). In 2023, he was ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists

Dr. Xueqing Shi received his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore, and is working as a full professor at School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology (QUT). Awarded as world top 2% scientists, his research interests cover mainly biorefinery from wastewater, carbon-negative technology, and functional microorganisms. He has secured more than 10 research projects with grant amount over 7 million USD. Meanwhile, he has published over 70 SCI papers, 2 book chapters, and over 20 patents.

Dr. Syed Salman Ali Shah is an Assistant Professor at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental and Energy Engineering from Kyungpook National University, South Korea, in 2023. Dr. Shah's research is centered on advancing technologies for sustainable water purification and energy efficiency. His primary focus is the development of engineered membranes for water treatment and reuse, with a broader interest in innovative approaches that drive sustainable solutions for future water and energy production.

Huarong Yu is an associate professor in Guangzhou University. He got his Ph.D. in Harbin Institute of Technology, and worked as postdoc in Kyungpook National University. His research interests are Quorum quenching in MBR and fluorescence spectroscopy.

Yujie Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. She obtained both her master's degree and Ph.D. from the same institution, where she also conducted research as a JSPS (DC1) researcher. Her primary research interests focus on nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal and recovery through anammox and HAP formation system, HAP granular sludge characteristics, as well as anaerobic digestion for municipal wastewater and concentrated organics treatment.

Dr. Xiaolei Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University. His research focuses on applying quorum sensing/quenching technologies in water treatment and developing high-efficiency membrane separation technologies. He has completed several government-sponsored projects, including those funded by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission and sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program. Dr. Zhang also serves on the editorial boards of environmental journals such as Environmental Technology & Innovation and Industrial Water Treatment. He has authored over 50 academic papers in SCI-indexed journals, including Water Research, Journal of Membrane Science, and Journal of Clean Production