Nikolaos Rousis Editor

Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a Professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering in Tehran, Iran. His scientific research interests include environmental science (environmental pollution, air quality, air pollution, waste management, health risk assessment). He is the author of various research studies published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has authored 12 books, edited 6 books with Elsevier, and more than 200 full papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is an editorial board member, guest editor and reviewer for many internal and international journals and is a member of several international science committees. He has a supervisor and advisor for PhD and MSc theses at the TUMS. He is currently also a member of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health and member of the Institute for Environmental Research at the TUMS. Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a Professor (Sr. Asst) in the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. He has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Master’s from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral research fellow at NUS, Singapore for about six years and has over 18 years of working experience in Academics, Industry, and Research. He has experience of working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. He has published 170+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings with a combined Impact factor of 692.59 and has an h-index of 32 (Scopus - citations: 3200+) and 32 (Google Scholar -citations: 3400+). He is an editorial board member in 10 renowned journals and a peer-review member for more than 98 reputed journals and has peer-reviewed more than 450 articles. Also, he handled 153 articles as an editor. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemicals for the Years 2021 & 2022. The List of the Top 2% of Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, the number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. He held a position as Editor-in-Chief (2019-2021) in the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering, IGI Global, USA. He is also an Associate editor in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (IF:4.996) & International Journal of Energy and Water Resources (IJEWR), Springer Inc. He is also a Managing Guest editor for Spl. Issues: 1) “Magnetic nanocomposites and emerging applications", in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (IF: 7.968), 2) “Novel CoronaVirus (COVID-19) in Environmental Engineering Perspective", in Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research (IF: 5.19), Springer. 3) “Nanocomposites for the Sustainable Environment”, in Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 2.679), MDPI. He along with his mentor, Prof. Venkateswarlu is authoring an Elsevier book, “Optimal state estimation for process monitoring, diagnosis, and control”. He is also co-editor and managing editor for 8 Elsevier, 1 Springer and 1 CRC edited books. Elsevier: 1) Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation, 2) Soft computing techniques in solid waste and wastewater management, 3) Green technologies for the defluoridation of water, 4) Environmental and health management of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 5) Pesticides remediation technologies from water and wastewater: Health effects and environmental remediation, 6) Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sustainable Applications, 7) Sustainable materials for sensing and remediation of noxious pollutants. Springer: 1) Industrial wastewater treatment using emerging technologies for sustainability. CRC: 1) Recent Trends in Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for micro-pollutant removal. Dr. Nikolaos Rousis is currently a Project Coordinator (European Commission) based at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD in environmental chemistry from Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy. His PhD project was funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (SEWPROF). In 2020 he was granted a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship. His research interests are focused on analytical and environmental chemistry and wastewater-based epidemiology. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has served as a peer reviewer for number of journals. He also served as a guest editor for the special issue, “Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Biomarkers: Analysis, Occurrence and Fate in Wastewater,” for the journal, Toxics. Dr. Emma Gracia-Lor is currently a Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. After she acquired a PhD in Chemistry in 2013, for which received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, she joined the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy to work as a postdoctoral researcher. She granted a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship for Experienced Researchers (SEWPROF ITN, European Union 7th Framework Program. She also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Institute for Pesticides and Water at the Universitat Jaume I and at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research interests focuses on analytical and environmental chemistry and wastewater-based epidemiology. She has authored more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book chapter. She has also served as a peer reviewer for a number of journals.