Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Roger Ruan

Center for Biorefining and Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN 55108, USA.

Research Interests: renewable energy and environment technologies for sustainable development and circular economy; biomass and solid wastes (e.g., plastic wastes) and liquid wastes value-added utilization; algae and environment.

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Jimmy Yu

School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.

Research Interests: adsorption and ion exchange processes; biosorption of heavy metal ions; water and wastewater treatment processes; ecotoxicity and health risk assessment of environmental chemicals.

Dr. Yan Li

College of Science & Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001, Australia.

Research Interests: algae cultivation and algae biotechnology; algae ecology and aquaculture; algae solutions for circular economy & bioeconomy development.

Prof. Pengfei Cheng

College of Food Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.

Research Interests: microalgae culture and production of functional active products; environment and resource utilization of microalgae; special environmental effects and applications of microalgal biomass.

Editorial Board Members

Assoc. Prof. Tiziano Zarra

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II, 84084Fisciano, (SA), Italy.

Research Interests: wastewater treatment; water quality; environmental odour characterization and control.

Assoc. Prof. Ranga Rao Ambati

Department of Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research University, Vadlamudi, Guntur 522213, India .

Research Interests: algal biotechnology; plant secondary metabolites; functional foods; nutraceuticals; food science and technology.

Assist. Prof. Kit Wayne Chew

School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637459, Singapore.

Research Interests: food processing and engineering; clean and renewable energy; algal biotechnology and bioseparation; waste management and sustainability.

Prof. Samantha Salomao Caramori

Biotechnology Laboratory, Campus of Exact and Technological Sciences, State University of Goiás, Anápolis 75132903, Brazil.

Research Interests: biochemical characterization of cerrado plants; biotechnological products from the cerrado; biotechnological products and processes of the cerrado; evaluation of enzymatic activity in cerrado soils.

Dr. Hoang Nhat Phong Vo

Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

Research Interests: water and wastewater treatment focus on applying environmentally friendly bioprocess and green technology for trace pollutants remediation and resources recovery; understand fate and transformation of pollutants in sewage system and wastewater treatment plant as early warning system for community benefits.

Prof. Jianhua Fan

School of Bioengineering, East University of Technology, Shang Hai 200237, China.

Research Interests: algal metabolism; synthetic biology; wastewater treatment with microalgae; biological catalysis.

Dr. Sirasit Srinuanpan

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Suthep, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

Research Interests: organic chemistry; algae biotechnology; bioprocess engineering; renewable energy; applied microbiology.

Assoc. Prof. Taufik Taufikurahman

Bioengineering Study Program, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung 40132, Indonesia.

Research Interests: plant ecophysiology; phytoremediation; environmental biology; botany.

Dr. Faiz Ahmad Ansari

Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4000, South Africa.

Research Interests: pilot scale microalgae cultivation; microalgal downstream processing; aquaculture; wastewater; fish.

Dr. Zhijie Chen

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Research Interests: eco-design of energy (environmental) functional materials; bioresource valorization; wastewater (seawater) treatment, resource recovery, and energy utilization; high-value utilization of solid waste (minerals, urban mine resources, plastics); green energy, waste-to-energy; energy & environmental catalysis.

Dr. Abdelfatah Abomohra

Department of Biology, Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, 22609 Hamburg, Germany.

Research Interests: microbial biotechnology; CO2 sequestration by photosynthetic organisms; development of new methods for microalgae cultivation and biomass production; biofuel production (including biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, and crude bio-oil) from waste resources; Waste recycling for circular bio-economy; microbial omics (including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics); advanced wastewater treatment techniques; downstream processing to achieve zero-waste routes.

Prof. Su Shiung Lam

Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus 21030, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Research Interests: waste & biomass valorization/utilization (biochar, biofuel); energy conversion (biofuel); water & wastewater treatment; microalgae cultivation & application; aquaculture biorefinery; pollution detection/mitigation; ecotoxicology study.

Dr. Jun-Hui Chen

Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN 55108, USA.

Research Interests: algae cultivation; algae biotechnology; wastewater treatment; pollutant bioremediation; functional foods; algae-derived valuable metabolites; biomass refinery; sustainable production of biofuels and bioproducts.