Editorial Board
54 Editors in 14 Countries/Region














Editor-in-Chief
Antoni Ginebreda 
agmqam@cid.csic.es 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 Chief 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
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
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
Editorial Board Members
Evgenios Agathokleous 
Key Laboratory of Agrometeorology of Jiangsu Province, Department of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: Dose-response relationship, Ecological effects of pollution, Ecotoxicology, Emerging contaminants, Environmental health, Hormesis, Microplastics, Oxidative stress
Carlos Barata 
Department of Environmental Chemistry (IDAEA-CSIC), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: Aquatic toxicology, Environmental risk assessment, Toxicogenomics, Daphnia, Invertebrates, Biomarkers
Damià Barceló 
Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), H2O Building, Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain.
Research Interests: Analysis, Fate, Emerging contaminants, Water microplastics, Sewage epidemiology
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
Laura Bulgariu 
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania.
Research Interests: Environmental pollution, Environmental bioremediation, Heavy metals pollutants, Biosorption/adsorption, Batch and continuous systems, Low-cost biosorbents/adsorbents, Wastewater treatment, Waste recycling, Valorization of exhausted biosorbents/adsorbents, Ecological fertilizers for soils
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)
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
Xueming Chen 
College of Environment and Safety Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Research Interests: Biological wastewater treatment technologies, Greenhouse gases emissions and mitigation from wastewater management, Mathematical modelling of bioconversion processes, Fate of microplastics during biological wastewater treatment
Zhijie Chen 
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, 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
Avelino Núñez Delgado 
Dept. Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Univ. Lugo, Spain.
Research Interests: Bio-adsorbents, Soil and water pollution, Soil degradation, Soil remediation, Soil restoration, Water treatment
Sina Dobaradaran 
Systems Environmental Health and Energy Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran. Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Research Interests: Environmental problems of cigarette butt, Microplastics and micropollutants, Emerging contaminants, Fluoride, Environmental epidemiology & environmental medicine, Environment pollution monitoring, Survey on aquatic organisms
Despo Fatta-Kassinos 
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Research Interests: Contaminants of emerging concern, Wastewater advanced treatment, Advanced oxidation processes, Reclaimed water reuse, Antimicrobial resistance and the environment
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
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
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
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
Guangming Jiang 
School of Civil, Mining, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, Sewer corrosion & odour, Sewage epidemiology, Modelling, Smart water
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
Giusy Lofrano 
Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biotechnology, Department of Movement, Health and Human Sciences, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: Environmental analysis, Sustainable development, Wastewater treatment, Water treatment, Sustainability, Environment, Water and wastewater treatment, Environmental impact assessment, Water quality, Environmental pollution
Konstantinos Makris 
Water and Health Laboratory, Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Research Interests: Human exposome, Environmental health, Non-pharmacological trials, Metabolomics
Guilherme Malafaia 
Federal Institute of Goiano, Department of Biological Sciences, Urutaí, Goiás, Brazil.
Research Interests: Emerging micropollutants, Oxicity biomarkers, Animal behavior, Ecotoxicology, Experimental models
Tania Martellini 
Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Research Interests: POPs, Microplastics, Emerging contaminants, Analytical methods, Legacy POPs, WWTPs, Seawater, Ecotoxicology
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
Sylvain Merel 
INRAE-Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory, Villeurbanne, France.
Research Interests: Occurrence and fate of emerging water pollutants, Water treatment, Identification of transformation products, Water pollution and public health, Environmental analytical chemistry, High-resolution mass spectrometry
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
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
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
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
João Pinto Pinto da Costa 
Department of Chemistry and the Center for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Research Interests: Microplastics, Environment, Biodegradation, Analytical chemistry
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
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
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
Seena Sahadevan 
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Research Interests: Nanoplastics, Toxicity, Ecosystem functioning, Aquatic fungi, ROS, Cellular targets, Leaf litter decomposition, Rivers and streams
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
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
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
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
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
Haibo Zhang 
Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Soil Contamination Bioremediation, School of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Research Interests: Soil analysis, Environmental science, Soil chemistry, Soil remediation, Microplastics, Antibiotics, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental analysis
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
Antonio Zuorro 
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: Chemical reaction engineering, Antioxidant activity, Extraction, Food chemistry, Natural product chemistry, Food analysis, Wastewater treatment, Biotechnology, Enzymes
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