Neda Asasian-Kolur Editor

Seyedmehdi Sharifian received his PhD in chemical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tehran. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as an assistant professor at the same university. He was the head of the Sustainable and Green Chemical Processes Research Laboratory. Now he is a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. His research interest is generally in separation processes in chemical processes. One of his major research interests is wastewater treatment systems by adsorption and oxidation processes. In addition to being the author of numerous scientific papers, he is also a reviewer for many relevant journals, mainly in the areas of wastewater treatment, water quality, oxidation processes, and processing of biowaste into value-added products. Neda Asasian-Kolur received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in 2013. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Tehran since 2017, and is currently working as a post-doc at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). She is the head of the adsorption research laboratory at the University of Tehran, and every year many graduates complete their studies under her supervision. To date, she has authored many peer-reviewed publications on environment-related topics. Her research interests include wastewater treatment, adsorption processes, preparation, surface functionalization, and characterization of adsorbents/catalysts for environmental purposes. She is the reviewer of many well-known journals in environmental chemistry research fields. Mika Sillanpää is a Professor affiliated to the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University, as well as King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) from Aalto University, Finland. Prof. Sillanpää’s publications have been cited over 44,000 times (Google Scholar), and he has received numerous awards for research and innovation. Among these, he is the first Laureate of the Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)’s Young Investigator Award. From 2017 to 2020, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters. In 2018, he was invited to become a Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academy of Technical Sciences.