Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Microplastics
2 November 2026
Microplastics (ISSN 2673-8929) is pleased to add the following seven researchers to the 2026 Early Career Editorial Board and to congratulate them on becoming part of the Macromol community!
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Name: Dr. Kornelia Kadac-Czapska Affiliation: Department of Bromatology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland Interests: microplastics; nanoplastics; polymer chemistry; food packaging; food contamination; infant; hazard assessment |
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Name: Dr. Dongyue Li Affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China Interests: micro/nanoplastics; biological wastewater treatment; aerobic and anammox granular sludge; environmental toxicology; oxidative stress; extracellular polymeric substances; quorum sensing; multi-omics |
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Name: Dr. Ceyhun Akarsu Website: https://avesis.iuc.edu.tr/ceyhunakarsu Affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, 34320 Istanbul, Türkiye Interests: microplastic pollution; aquatic environmental monitoring; wastewater treatment technologies; ecotoxicology; ecological risk assessment |
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Name: Dr. Zhikun Chen Website: https://www.zhikunchen.com/ Affiliation: Beaty Water Research Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada Interests: fate and transport of microplastics and nanoplastics; treatment technologies for microplastics removal |
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Name: Dr. Manuela Piccardo Affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy Interests: ecotoxicology; plastic pollution; microplastics; nanoplastics; emerging contaminants; risk assessment; biomarkers; in vivo bioassays; community indices |
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Name: Dr. Jijo Lukose Affiliation: Manipal Institute of Applied Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India Interests: microplastics detection; microplastics-induced toxicity; micro-Raman spectroscopy |
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Name: Dr. Goutam Saha Website: https://sites.google.com/view/goutamsaha/ Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh Interests: environment; public health; infectious disease; disease modelling; cfd; modelling, including the fate of microplastics |