The winning scientists at a glance
Juliana Aristéia de Lima holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and is currently conducting research at the State University of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo in Southeast Brazil. She works on the development of biodegradable polymers blends (biopolymers).
Nigerian researcher Akintunde Babatunde has been working at University College Dublin in Ireland since 2004, initially as a Ph.D. student, now as a Research project manager and postdoctoral research engineer. For his dissertation, he conceptualized, designed and developed a novel tidal-flow constructed wetland system for wastewater treatment using alum sludge as the main substrate.
The biotechnologist Saumita Banerjee is currently working on her Ph.D. work at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur in central India. Her topic is the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, which is one of the most promising options for greenhouse gas reduction.
Antonio Carlos Caetano de Souza is currently working on his dissertation in the field of mechanical engineering at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil. His research focuses on the generation of hydrogen on the basis of biogas and its association with fuel cells.
Nuwong Chollacoop earned his Ph.D. in material science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States before turning towards renewable energies after his return to Thailand. For the past four years, he has worked in the field of biofuels. Today, he is a senior researcher in the Bioenergy group of the National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC).
Caetano Dorea is currently an Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. The Brazilian researcher is also the Course Director for a new Master of Science program in Global Water Sustainability there. Unfortunately Caetano Dorea could not attend the forum.
Since 2007, Natalia Konstantinovna Fisher is investigating the role of microbial processes in the removal of iron and manganese in groundwater aquifers in Khabarovsk. Fisher is conducting her research at the Institute of Water and Ecological Problems at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the city of Khabarovsk in the far east of Russia.
Kerem Güngör is an assistant professor at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu in northwestern Turkey and currently also an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Güngör's research focuses on environmental technologies to prevent phosphorus pollution from animal manure.
Xingmao Ma is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in Illinois in the United States. His research interests range from groundwater and land remediation to environmental nanotechnology.
Carlos Alberto Martínez-Huitle is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in the northeast of Brazil. The focus of his scientific work is electrochemical environmental processes, such as electrochemical water treatment and electrochemical soil remediation.
Aluwani Nemukula holds a master’s degree in biochemistry and has recently begun his Ph.D. work at the Centre for Water and Wastewater Technology at Durban University of Technology. Nemukula’s topic is the production of biodiesel from microalgae, specifically from hypersaline environments looking at photosynthesis rates and enzyme activity to enhance oil production.
Nihar Ranjan Samal currently works as a faculty member at the Department of Civil Engineering of the National Institute of Technology Durgapur (NITD) in West Bengal in the far northeast of India. His current research interest is in biological decontamination in the area of wastewater treatment.
For her Ph.D., Malaysian researcher Sharifah Rafidah Binti Wan Alwi conducted research on the cost-effective reduction of water consumption by means of a specific water network design. She did this work at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), where she currently works as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering.
Bo Yang is currently conducting research at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at Shenzhen University in China. He is working on disposal technologies for typical organic pollutants in water using methods such as chemical reduction, UV oxidation, and others.
Minghua Zhou is a professor at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Nankai University, located in the city of Tianjin in the north of China. He studies methods to mineralize organic pollutants by advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) such as photocatalysis, ozonation, wet air oxidation and electrochemical oxidation.
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