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Prof. Dr. Helena Nadais

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Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: bioenergy and biomaterials; wastewater resources recovery; water and wastewater treatment; environmental management
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Prof. Dr. Jose Navarro Pedreño

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Department of Agrochemistry and Environment, University Miguel Hernández of Elche, 03202 Elche, Spain
Interests: soil-water-plant system; waste management and recycling
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Nicolini

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Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G.Duranti 67, 06125 Perugia, Italy
Interests: gas hydrates; sustainable development; energy saving; renewables; energy storage; environmental impact
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Prof. Dr. Richard A. Niesenbaum

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Biology Department, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, USA
Interests: sustainability education; community sustainability; sustainability of artisanal gold mining; urban food production; tropical forestry; social entrepreneurship; conservation, biodiversity and rare plants; ethnobotany
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Dr. Anastassia Obydenkova

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1. CSIC - Instituto de Analisis Economico (IAE), Barcelona, Spain
2. Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: international relations; sustainable development; comparative politics; environmental politics; federalism; political regimes; international organizations; post-communism

Prof. Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein

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Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA
Interests: environmental impact and risk assessment; water supply engineering; biological wastewater treatment; civil engineering project management; sustainable energy
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Dr. Fernando António Leal Pacheco

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DG-CQVR-UTAD – Department of Geology, Chemistry Research Centre, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: groundwater management; groundwater contamination risk; water–rock interactions; groundwater flow modeling; groundwater–surface water interactions; land degradation and surface water quality; spatial decision support systems in public water supply planning; conjunctive use of water resources; water security
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Dr. Cristina Panti

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Department of Environmental, Earth and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: ecotoxicology; microplastics; marine litter; biological effects; ecotoxicological effects; emerging contaminants; plastic additives; molecular biology; biomarkers; endangered species; laboratory experiments
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Prof. Dr. Antonio Peña-García

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Research Group “Lighting Technology for Safety and Sustainability”, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Interests: tunnel lighting; use of sunlight; energy savings in lighting installations; light pollution; impact of lighting on safety and well-being; lighting policies
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Dr. Anastasia V. Penkova

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Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetsky Prospect 26, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
Interests: polymer membranes; nanocomposites; pervaporation; ultrafiltration; gas separation; nanofiltration; thermodynamics and kinetics of nonequilibrium processes; layer by layer; bulk modification; surface modification; mixed matrix membranes; plasma treatment; dehydration; water treatment
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Prof. Dr. Alejandro Javier Rescia Perazzo

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Teaching Unit of Ecology (UDECO), Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution (BEE), Faculty of Biological Sciences, University Complutense of Madrid, C/ José Antonio Novais 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: ecology; landscape ecology; biodiversity; ecological restoration; socioecological systems
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Prof. Dr. Pablo Peri

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Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Río Gallegos, Argentina
Interests: ecosystem services; carbon fixation; grassland monitoring; climate change; ecology and Silviculture of native forest; silvopastoral systems

Dr. Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag

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Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 400000 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: environmental governance; sustainable consumption
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Dr. José Carlos Magalhães Pires

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LEPABE—Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: CO₂ capture; wastewater treatment; microalgal biofuels; process modelling
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Prof. Dr. Boris A. Portnov

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Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management, Faculty of Social Sceincesm University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Interests: Urban and Regional Planning; Sustainable and Smart Cities; environmental risk assessment; geographic information systems in environmental studies; green building; modifying behavior for energy saving; environmental and health effects of light pollution

Dr. Jiangxiao Qiu

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School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL32611, USA
Interests: ecosystem service; landscape ecology; social-ecological system; landscape sustainability; global change ecology

Dr. Paola Quatrini

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Department of Biological Chemical, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze bldg.16, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: environmental microbiology; bioremediation; soil and marine microbial ecology. Presently involved in research on the biodegradation of chlorinated organic solvents and soil microbiology of desertified agroecosystems.

Dr. Elena Cristina Rada

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Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering Department - DICAM, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: environmental pollution; circular economy; waste and wastewater management; human health; renewable energy; interdisciplinary approaches for environmental management; air quality; environmental sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Marco Ragazzi

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Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: environmental sustainability; emissions; impact; health; optimisation; treatment
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Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Renella

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), Agripolis Campus, University of Padua, Legnaro, 35020 Padua, Italy
Interests: trace metals; soil chemistry; soil–plant interface; environmental functional ge-nomics; recycle and reuse of sediments in agriculture
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Prof. Dr. Jeff Romm

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Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management , University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Interests: natural resource and environmental policy; social justice; water; forests

Prof. Dr. Diego Pablo Ruiz Padillo

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Department of Applied Physics, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: environmental data processing and modelling; air quality; acoustics; physical risks; climate change; environmental pollution and its modelling; energy efficiency in buildings; circular economy; green technologies; renewable energy; building information modelling; acoustic sustainability
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Prof. Dr. Hosam Saleh

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Radioisotope Department, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo 13759, Egypt
Interests: radioactive and hazardous waste management; application of friendly environmental agents in radioactive waste management; development of matrices for immobilization of radioactive and hazardous wastes; application of organic and inorganic materials as additives to form cement composites as immobilizing matrices for hazardous wastes
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Prof. Dr. Giacomo Salvadori

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Building Services Laboratory, Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 56122 Pisa, Italy
Interests: building physics; indoor environmental quality; energy performance of lighting systems
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Dr. Georgina Santos

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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Interests: transport economics; environmental economics; sustainable cities
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Dr. Carlos Sanz-Lazaro

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Department of Ecology, Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies (MIES), University of Alicante, PO Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Interests: aquaculture-environment interactons; coastal pollution; plastic pollution;biogeochemistry; extreme events; ecosystem functioning; climate change; seagrass ecology; ecotoxicology; plastic biodegradation; invasive species; multiple stressors
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Dr. Sander Scheffers

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1. School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
2. School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia
Interests: microbial ecology; sea level; climate change; coral reef ecology; coastal geomorpholy; ecosystem services
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Dr. Uta Schirpke

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1. Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
2. Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Interests: ecosystem services; landscape ecology and spatial modelling
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Dr. Kabindra M. Shakya

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Department of Geography & the Environment, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
Interests: indoor and outdoor air quality; particulate matter; environmental health; environmental sustainability; environmental education
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Dr. Alessio Siciliano

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Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Università della Calabria, 87036 Cosenza, Italy
Interests: anaerobic digestion; biogas; bioreactors; organic waste pretreatment processes; water and wastewater treatment
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