Associate Editor

Prof. Roberto Rosal obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oviedo. He is currently a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Alcalá, Madrid. Prof. Rosal's research focuses on different topics relating to the fields of Environmental Chemistry and Materials Science. His main interests are the fate and removal of aqueous (micro)pollutants from water and wastewater; the toxicity assessment of emerging pollutants, mixtures, and by-products; the biological effect of engineered nanomaterials, which include electrospun nanofibrous materials, filtration membranes, and photocatalytic antimicrobial surfaces; and the generation and biological effects of micro- and nanoplastics. Prof. Rosal participated in over forty research projects and contracts and is the author of more than 150 scientific articles in high-impact journals (H index 41). He acts regularly as an evaluator for several national and international funding agencies as well as a manuscript reviewer for numerous journals. He is associate editor of RSC Advances, Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering (Springer), and Microplastics and Toxics (MDPI) and supervised 20 Doctoral Theses in four universities. Since 2008 he is also an associate researcher at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies IMDEA-Water.

Fate, Toxicity of emerging pollutants, Wastewater treatment, Micro- and nanoplastics, Bioactive materials