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Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj Editor

Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Assistant Professor at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh (India). He has obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India on water treatment. Also, he has done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in the teaching of Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, and Disaster Management to the engineering students. His research interests include water treatment, climate change, river ecosystem, phytoremediation and waste management. He has published 51 research articles in journals, books and conferences. Currently, he is editing 7 books with the Elsevier and Wiley on river ecosystem, renewable energy, urban water crisis & management, climate change, green chemistry and e-waste management. Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications. Dr. Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He worked as Post-doctoral Fellow at Department of Environmental Science, VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur (India). He has obtained his PhD from the Central University of Allahabad, Prayagraj. His research interest includes green synthesis of nanomaterials for water purification, Bio-sensing, development of Nanomaterial based device, water treatment, Diatom cultivation, Mushroom cultivation, phytoremediation and waste management. He has published more than 25 research publications in various prestigious journals and books including Elsevier, Springer, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics Frontier, MDPI, etc. Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones is a Professor of Environmental Nanoscience at the University of Birmingham. She holds a degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Athens and a PhD in Geochemistry from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her research focuses on nanoscale processes in the environment and within biota. She has pioneered the development of traceable stable-isotope labelled nanomaterials and has been working on the development of analytical solutions for the improvement in speed and quality of nanoscale characterisation. Her current research priorities revolve around the application of nanotechnologies in solving environmental problems, particularly related to clean water and sustainable agriculture. She was the Mineralogical Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2015 and the Distinguished Guest Lecturer and Medalist of the Royal Society of Chemistry for 2015. She is currently a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow. She is a member of the coordination team of the European Commission’s Nanosafety Cluster.