Editorial Board
68 Editors in 18 Countries/Regions
Editors-in-Chief
Daoji Li
daojili@sklec.ecnu.edu.cnState Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Marine pollution, Estuarine and coastal ecology and environment, Ecotoxicology, Microplastics
Joana C Prata 
1H-TOXRUN – One Health Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences, Gandra, Portugal.
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto (ICBAS-UP), Porto, Portugal.
Research Interests: One health, Environmental health, Veterinary medicine, Microplastics, Plastics, Sustainability, Circular economy
A One Health perspective on water contaminants
Webinar: Dos and Don'ts of Microplastic Research
Do's and don'ts of microplastic research: a comprehensive guide
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Antoni Ginebreda
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: Ecotoxicology, Wastewater treatment, Risk assessment, New analytical methods, Organic materials
Associate Editors
Yolanda Pico
Environmental and Food Safety Research Group (SAMA-UV), The Desertification Research Centre (CIDE), University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Research Interests: Water quality, Water pollution, Exposure assessment, Human health effects, Dietary exposure, Food safety, Endocrine disruptors, Pharmaceutical residues
Roberto Rosal
School of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
Research Interests: Fate, Toxicity of emerging pollutants, Wastewater treatment, Micro- and nanoplastics, Bioactive materials
Quan Wang
College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Waste management, Sewage sludge composting, Resource recovery, Greenhouse gas, Heavy metal pollution and remediation, Biotransformation, Biochar
Pollution status of microplastics in the freshwater environment of China: a mini review
Laurent Dufossé
CHEMBIOPRO Lab, University of Reunion Island, Saint-Denis, France.
Research Interests: Microplastics in the food chain, Food science, Biotechnology of food ingredients, Microbial pigments, Use of by-products from fisheries, Dairy microbiology
Xuetao Guo
College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), Antibiotics, Antibiotic resistance, Adsorption, Occurrence and environmental fate, Environmental monitoring
Pierre Herckes
School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
Research Interests: Environment analytical chemistry, Air and water pollution, Emerging contaminants, Nanoparticles, Microplastics
Jie Wang
Department of Environmental Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: Microplastics and organic contaminants, Bioavailability and bioaccessibility of hydrophobic organic contaminants, Environmental microbiology, Microbial ecology, Mitigation strategies and risk-reduction practices
Defeng Xing
State Key Laboratory of Urban Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Research Interests: Emerging contaminants, Wastewater treatment and reuse, Anammox, Microplastic biodegradation, Bioenergy and bioresource recovery, Microbiomes, Multi-omics, Microbial electrochemical technology, Anaerobic technology, Groundwater remediation
Regional Editors
Julian Aherne
School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
Research Interests: Pollutants, Environmental modeling, Microplastics
Elvis Dartey Okoffo
Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
Research Interests: Micro/nanoplastics, Micro/nanoplastics environmental fate, Method development and validation for micro/nanoplastics monitoring, Pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy, Environmental monitoring
Extraction and Pyrolysis-GC-MS analysis of polyethylene in samples with medium to high lipid content
Giuseppe Suaria
CNR-ISMAR, National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences, Lerici, Italy.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Marine litter, Microfibers, Plastic pollution, Marine ecology, Oceanography
Editorial Board Members
Denis Abessa
Campus do Litoral Paulista, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil.
Research Interests: Ecotoxicology, Coastal management, Conservation, Aquatic pollution
Richard Bade
Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia.
Research Interests: Wastewater-based epidemiology, Emerging contaminants, Liquid Chromatography – Mass spectrometry, Analytical chemistry
Xue Bai
College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.
Research Interests: Detection of environmental pollutants by nano-modified sensor, Environmental behaviors of manufactured nanomaterials, Advanced oxidation and photocatalytic degradation of persistent organic pollutants
Amit Bhatnagar
Department of Separation Science, LUT School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Mikkeli, Finland.
Research Interests: Microalgae, Wastewater treatment, Carbon capture, Biomaterials, Nano-composites
Julian Blasco
Department of Ecology and Coastal Management, ICMAN-CSIC, Campus Rio San Pedro, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain.
Research Interests: Pharmaceuticals, Nanomaterials, Metals, Toxicity, Marine ecotoxicology, Biomarkers
Lucila Candela
IMDEA Water Institute, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
Research Interests: Groundwater, Pollution, Water resources
Hongzhe Chen
Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry (GCMAC), Third Institute of Oceanography, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
Research Interests: Degradation, Monitoring, Marine litter, Microplastics, Policy, Environmental behavior, Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)
Jiawei Chen
School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: Water and soil remediation, Biochar, Nano zero-valent iron, Advanced oxidation process, Geochemical behavior, Hazardous substances, Heavy metals, Antibiotics, Persistent organic pollutants, Groundwater environment
Wei Chen
Department pf Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: Environmental geochemistry, Environmental analytical chemistry, Fate and behaviors, Environmental pollution and public health, Wastewater-based epidemiology, Emerging organic contaminants, Pharmaceuticals and personal care products, Microplastics, Passive sampling, Diffusion gradients in thin-films, Mass spectrometry for organic pollutants
Zhijie Chen
Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Research Interests: Micro(nano)plastics, Water treatment, Resource recovery, Electrochemistry, Pollutant removal, Green chemistry, Waste utilization
Mohammad Hadi Dehghani
Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Research Interests: Environmental health, Water/soil pollution and health, Micro and Nano pollutants, Emerging pollutants, Adsorption/adsorbents, Advanced oxidation processes
Gabriel Enrique De-la-Torre
Grupo de Investigación de Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Sociedad, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Plastic pollution, Paint particles, Plastic chemicals
Marc Elskens
Vrije Univ Brussel, Lab Analyt Environm & Geochem, Brussel, Belgium
Research Interests: Water Quality, Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Monitoring, Water Chemistry, Environmental Impact Assessment
Cheng Fang
Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Research Interests: Nano-materials for remediation and sensor, Nano-photonics (SERS + AIE), Sensor for pollutant monitoring
Francisca Fernandez-Piñas
Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Research Interests: Environmental toxicology, Aquatic photosynthetic microorganisms, Cyanobacteria, Whole-cell biosensors for environmental pollution, Nanotoxicology, Toxicology of micro- and nanoplastics
Francois Gagné
Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, Canada.
Research Interests: Biochemical ecotoxicology, Emerging substances, Cumulative effects of contamination, Toxicogenomics, Metabolomics, Metallomics
Karina Yew Hoong Gin
NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 5A Engineering Drive 1, T-Lab Building, Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: Emerging chemical contaminants, Pathogens and indicators, Fate and transport, Water quality, Algal blooms, Toxin and off-flavors
Leobardo Manuel Gómez-Oliván
Faculty of Chemistry, Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, Toluca, Mexico; The Autonomous University of Estado de Mexico, Mexico.
Research Interests: Aquatic toxicology, Emerging contaminants, Metals, Genotoxicity, Citotoxicity, Embryotoxicity, Teratogenesis, Oxidative stress, Biomarkers
Laodong Guo
School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Research Interests: Aquatic biogeochemistry, Dissolved organic matter, Microplastics, Emerging contaminants
Changseok Han
Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, INHA University, Incheon, South Korea
Research Interests: Advanced Oxidation, Water Treatment, Nanotechnology, Microplastics, Environmental Engineering
Hafiz M.N. Iqbal
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Research Interests: Enzyme activity, Biomaterials, Enzymes, Fermentation, Protein purification, Biotechnology, Environmental engineering, Biochemistry, Environmental science, Materials chemistry
Nicole JAFFREZIC-RENAULT
University of Lyon, Institute of Analytical Sciences, UMR-CNRS, Villeurbanne, France.
Research Interests: Bio-based polymers, Adsorption, Emerging pollutants, Chemical sensors, Biosensors
Hongru JIANG
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Waste management, Plastic recycling
Ioannis K Konstantinou
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Research Interests: Pollution and environmental quality control and monitoring, Environmental technologies, Food contaminants
Shan Liu
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: Emerging pollutants, Marine ecological environment, Ecological risk assessment
Xianhua Liu
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Research Interests: Interactions between micro/nanoplastics and microorganisms, Environmental microorganisms, Heavy metals, Aquatic environments
Mallavarapu Megharaj
Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Research Interests: Fate and ecotoxicity of emerging contaminants, PFAS, Microplastics, Pesticides, PAHs, Pharmaceuticals
Vincenzo Naddeo
Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.
Research Interests: Advanced water/wastewater treatment, Characterization and control of environmental odours, Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Ravi Naidu
Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Research Interests: Contaminated soil, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Microplastics in wastewater, Soil amendments, Agricultural and biological sciences
Miguel Oliveira
Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
Research Interests: Nanotoxicity, Endocrine Disruption, Personality, Emerging contaminants
Marta Otero
Departamento de Química y Física Aplicadas, Universidad de León, León, Spain.
Research Interests: Emerging contaminants, Water decontamination, Adsorption, Photodegradation and Photocatalysis, Microalgae based water treatment, Wastes and biomass valorization, Zero-pollution approaches
Lokesh Padhye
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Research Interests: Water quality, Water/wastewater treatment, Environmental contaminant remediation, PFAS
Marco Parolini
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: Ecotoxicological, Microplastics, PFASs, Ecosystems
Paolo Pastorino
Aquatic Biology Laboratory of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria and Valle d’Aosta (IZS PLV), Turin, Italy.
Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, Ecotoxicology, Emerging contaminants, Environmental chemistry, Environmental monitoring, Fish biology, Fish diseases, Microplastics
Marco Race
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy
Research Interests: Soil remediation, Removal and control of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) in water and wastewaters systems, Wastewater treatment and reuse, Management of contaminated soil, Hazardous waste management
Alexandra Ribeiro
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Interests: Soil/water pollution and remediation, Organic and inorganic compounds removal, Secondary resources, Critical raw materials recovery, Electro based technologies
Didier Robert
Institut de chimie pour l’energie, l’environement et la santé (ICPEES CNRS-UMR7515) Universities of Strasbourg and Lorraine, Saint-Avold, France.
Research Interests: Organic dyes, Green adsorbent and catalyst, Microplastics, Marine, Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials, Photocatalysts, Micro- and nanoplastics, Emerging pollutants
Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Chueca
Department of Industrial and Environmental Chemical Engineering, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain.
Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment, Water quality, Water management, Wastewater reuse, Advanced treatments, Environmental engineering
Ajit Sarmah
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Research Interests: Sustainable waste utilisation, Photocatalytic degradation, Nanomaterials and plant interaction, Emerging contaminants, Human pharmaceuticals, Emerging chemicals, Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, Pyrolysis and biochar production, Soil erosion and nutrient loss
Joaquim Rovira Solano
Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Research Interests: Modeling industrial emissions in the environment and health, Assessing the risk/impact of industrial facilities (cement pants, waste management facilities,...), Biomonitoring of industrial pollutants, Indoor and outdoor modelling of atmospheric pollutants, Toxic substances in the textile industry and products, Determination and characterization of micro and nanoplastics and their impact on ecosystems and human health
Qian Sui
Department of Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Source apportionment, Environmental behaviors, Removal mechanisms of emerging contaminants
Jing Sun
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Biological treatment, Energy and resource recovery from wastewater and sludge, Sewer odour and corrosion control, Greenhouse gas emission, Microplastics, Antibiotic resistance genes, Environmental microbiology
Yuanyuan Tang
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, Environmental science, Solid waste, Microplastics, Membrane
Berrin Tansel
Florida International University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, USA
Research Interests: Water Treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable Sludge Treatment and Recovery
Sara Valsecchi
Water Research Institute-National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Brugherio, Italy.
Research Interests: Emerging contaminants, Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, Environmental quality standards, Fate of organic pollutants, Bioaccumulation, Biota monitoring, HPLC-MS
Paola Verlicchi
Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Research Interests: Occurrence and removal of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater, Reuse of reclaimed water, Hospital effluent treatment, Environmental risk assessment, Constructed wetlands
Lin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: (1) Development of novel technologies for wastewater disinfection (2) Fate and removal mechanism of emerging organic contaminants in wastewater
Yan Wang
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: Advanced oxidation technology for water treatment, Development of environmental functional materials, Catalytic mechanisms for AOPs, Removal of emerging contaminants in water.
Youji Wang
Department of Aquatic Physiology and Medicine, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Marine biology, Environmental science, Aquatic physiology, Shellfish aquaculture
Yongkui Yang
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Research Interests: Advanced wastewater treatment, Emerging contaminant control, Biosolids reuse
Wenke Yuan
Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Research Interests: Microplastics and nanoplastics, Freshwater environment, Aquatic plants, Pollution ecology, Environmental genomics, Environmental toxicology, Phytotoxicity, Phytoremediation
Yingxin Zhao
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Research Interests: Water emerging contaminants control, Biological nitrogen removal, Biofilm, Heavy metal control and recovery, Advanced oxidation process
Lijun Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance, Biocides, Tire additives, their effect on aquatic microbial communities and nitrogen cycling
Lixin Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Plastics, Marine debris, Plastic-degrading, Photodissolution
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