Sustainability — Section Editors

1. Laboratoire de Génie Biologique, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud 2, Boite L7.05.19, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2. Escuela de Ciencias Βιοlógicas e Ingeniería/School of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Yachay Tech University, San Miguel de Urcuquí Canton, Ecuador
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Interests: biotechnology; biomass and bioenergy; bioremediation; algal technology; microbial ecology; waste management; wastewater treatment

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Interests: Sustainability Science and Engineering, Process Systems Engineering; Life Cycle Oriented Methods; Designing Resilient and Sustainable Systems; Data Analysis and Modeling
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Processes: Sustainable Products and Processes

Department of Chemical Engineering KU Leuven (University of Leuven) Leuven, Belgium
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Interests: wastewater treatment; resource recovery; energy recovery from waste; sustainable chemical processes; renewable chemicals

Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Interests: Sustainable energy, waste management, sustainability indicators, environmental pollution, life cycle analysis, industrial ecology

Department of Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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Interests: multiobjective optimization; structures optimization; lifecycle assessment; social sustainability of infrastructures; reliability-based maintenance optimization; optimization and decision-making under uncertainty
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Construction
Special Issue in Mathematics: Optimization for Decision Making

Civil, Environmental, Construction Engineering Department, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College Of Engineering, Texas tech University, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042, USA
Tel. 806 8348712
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Interests: Interdisciplinary Engineering, Sustainable Development, Green Building (involves the sustainable integration of natural and built environments), Construction and Construction Materials

Department of Economics, University of Messina, Piazza Pugliatti 1, Messina, Italy
Tel. +393473603908
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Interests: Environmental Management; Industrial Ecology; Environmental Governance; Local Development
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Environment and Energy: the Industrial Ecology perspective
Special Issue in Sustainability: Diverse Dynamics of Industrial Symbiosis: Emergence and Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: New Governance Model and Strategy to Improve a Sustainable Transport System
Special Issue in Sustainability: Governance, Power and Institutions and Overall Weaknesses of the SDG System: The Public Participation and the Role of Stakeholders

Technical University of Sofia 8, Kliment Ohridski blvd, Sofia building 2, office 12504, tel 2394, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
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Interests: multidimensional systems; computational methods for operation of electric railway systems; applied mathematics for environmental xenobiotic analysis; neural networks
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability in Electrical Engineering

Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, 30202 Cartagena, Spain
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Interests: ionic liquid; supercritical fluid; green chemistry; bioenergy; fuel cell
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Processes: Green Sustainable Chemical Processes

Institute of Control Systems and Industrial Computing, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46071, Valencia, Spain
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Interests: constraint satisfaction problem; scheduling; robust scheduling; distributed constraints; railway scheduling; green/sustainable manufacturing; metaheuristics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
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Interests: multi agent systems; intelligent manufacturing systems; agent-supported simulation for manufacturing systems; applications of multi agent systems; sustainable intelligent manufacturing systems
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Institute of Molecular Sciences (ISM), Université of Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5255, F-33400 Talence, France
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Interests: sustainable chemistry; sustainable materials management; sustainable development goals; decoupling; resource efficiency; environmental impact; life-cycle assessment; criticality assessment; material flow analysis
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Life Cycle Management for Sustainable Regional Development

Nexus Group, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology; Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Interests: biocomplexity; collective dynamics; systemic risk analysis; decision science; complex networks; network science; information theory; stochastic processes; fractals; uncertainty; ecohydrology; hydrodynamics; sustainability; ecosystem health; ecodesign; ecosystem modeling; data science; biomimicry; bio-inspired design; macroecology; physiophysics; ecosystem pathology; forecasting; multiscale predictive models; interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics; design by analogy; food systems; physio-linguistics; macro ecology and evolution of biological and socio-technological systems; microbiome; aquatic and marine ecosystems
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Ecosystem Health: Biocomplexity, Modeling, and Solutions
Special Issue in Symmetry: Complexity and Symmetry in Biosystems
Special Issue in Climate: Climate Ecosystems Nexus

Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering Division, Reinforced Concrete Lab., University Campus, Kimmeria, Xanthi 67100, Greece
Tel. +302541079632
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Interests: reinforced concrete (RC); testing; repair; strengthening; fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPS); self-compacting concrete (SCC); steel fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC); damage detection; structural health monitoring (SHM); piezoelectric sensors
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Construction and Building Materials
Special Issue in Fibers: Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Behaviour

Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Interests: Corporate sustainability; sustainable development goals; environmental impact; chemical assessment; absolute sustainability assessment; life cycle assessment

Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands
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Interests: Drinking water supply; drinking water technology; water purification
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Water in the Circular Economy

Sub-Department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, Bornse Weilanden 9, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Interests: restoring nutrient cycles; new sanitation; metal recovery and cycling; origin and fate of micronutrients in the food system
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability on Wastewater Treatment and Recycling

Environmental Planning and Technology Department, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, P.O. Box 1380, 55761 Birkenfeld, Germany
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Interests: pollution impact assessment; Life Cycle Assessment; transportation; Sustainable mobility; electric vehicles

Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, NY, USA
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Interests: construction materials; fiber reinforced composites; infrastructure; recycling; reuse

Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
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Interests: sustainable energy; Carbon Capture; Natural gas production and storage; Effect of environment on Wind energy and concentated solar energy

Centre for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M-5230, Denmark
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Interests: sustainable supply chain management; green supply chain management; reverse logistics; closed-loop supply chains; CSR based supply chain management; supply chain risk management; decision analysis; multi-criteria decision-making
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: How Better Decision-Making Helps to Improve Sustainability - Part II
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Green Energy and Applications

Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, UK
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Interests: Life Cycle Analysis (LCA); Net Energy Analysis (NEA); EROI; renewable energy; energy scenarios
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Energies: Life-Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems in Current and Evolving Grids

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kzani 50100, Greece
Tel. +30-(22423)60502
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Interests: Energy Engineering; Renewable Energy Sources; Environmental Management; Life Cycle Analysis; Environmental Engineering; Process Engineering

Sustainable manufacturing and life cycle engineering research Group, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Interests: sustainable manufacturing; sustainable product development; life cycle engineering and management; close loop manufacturing; reverse logistics; design for environment; circular economy; system of system thinking

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1351 Beal Avenue, 179 EWRE, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125, USA
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Interests: carbon capture and sequestration; life cycle analysis; energy storage; water treatment systems; sustainable mobility

National United University Taiwan, Department of Civil and Disaster Prevention Engineering, Miao-li, Taiwan
Tel. 886-37-382357
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Interests: water quality and ecological modeling; estuarine and coastal hydrodynamic modeling; water resources management; urban disaster prevention; environmental sustainability; climate change; environmental fluid mechanics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Environments: Security and Resilience of Terrestrial and Freshwater Environments
Special Issue in Water: The Application of Hydrologic Analysis in Disaster Prevention
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Water Resources Management for Disaster Risk Reduction
Special Issue in Climate: Impact of Climate Change on Natural Hazards

Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
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Interests: sustainable development; assessment methods; life cycle assessment; sustainable development in higher education; environmental policy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Development and Higher Education Institutions: Acting with a purpose

Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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Interests: Resilient and sustainable infrastructure; structural robustness and protective systems; structural safety policy; multi-hazard risk mitigation: earthquake, impact, blast, ground vibration
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Structural Upgrading Systems for Sustainable and Resilient Concrete Infrastructure

Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore
Tel. +65 651 634 23
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Interests: Urban Heat Island and the mitigation measures; Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Indoor Thermal Comfort for Naturally Ventilated spaces; Thermal Performance of Façade for Non Air conditioned buildings; Thermal Performance of Urban Greenery including Green Roofs and Vertical Green Walls; Climate Change and the impact on Built Environment
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficient Building Design 2013
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Efficient Building Design 2016

Civil Engineering Department, Universite d'Orleans, INSA-CVL, 45100 Orleans, France
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Interests: sustainable constructions; green materials; durability of civil structures; insulating materials; life cycle assessment in construction

Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering (IRUSE), Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; building energy modeling and simulation; building information modeling; energy management in buildings

Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
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Interests: sustainability; renewable energy; solar photovoltaic technology; pollution sensors; open hardware; open source scientific hardware; 3-D printing sensors
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Materials: Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Devices
Special Issue in Inventions: Innovations in 3-D Printing
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Policy 2019

Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), Senior Advisor Phosphorus Cycle Management, c.o. Nobelstrasse 12, D70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Interests: Resources management, Waste management,Phosphorus cycle, Nuclear waste, Risk assessment, Risk perceptions, Environmental evaluation, Technology evaluation, Coupled-human environment systems, Sustainable transition management, Transdisciplinarity

School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Interests: technology and innovation management; transdisciplinary research
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Hydrogen Economy: Technology and Social Issue
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Innovation: Concepts, Methodology, and Practices

Department of Civil, Architecture and Environment Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 325 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall, 1401 North Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409, USA
Tel. 1+573-341-6618
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Interests: structures/high performance concrete (HPC) behavior and durability performance; fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) in structural repair and strengthening applications with an emphasis related to concrete and masonry structures, and their durability performance; development of environmentally sensitive construction materials; hybrid materials and enhanced systems for blast resistant structures

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Tel. +1-(217) 265-0427
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Interests: pavement sustainability; life cycle assessment; pavement emission; geosyenthetics; asphalt concrete material sustainability

Affordable Homes Research Group, School of Architecture, McGill University, Macdonald-Harrington Building, 815 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal H3A 2K6, Quebec, Canada
Tel. +1-(514) 398-4923
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Interests: factors which influence design and implementation of affordable and sustainable building practices at the unit and community levels, including user needs, construction technology, and resource efficiency
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable and Resource–Efficient Homes and Communities

School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Interests: fuel cells; hydrogen economy; renewable materials; ceramics; adhesion; viruses