Abhishek Kumar Awasthi is an Associate Research Scientist at the School of Environment, Nanjing University, China. His academic and major research interests include sustainable waste management, electronic waste & circular economy, and question linked how to solve the informal sector issues in waste management. Dr Awasthi has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Giuseppe Granata is an Associate Professor at KU Leuven Group T. His research focuses on the development of technologies to recover inorganic values from primary and secondary resources. Specifically, he applies concepts of hydrometallurgy, electrochemistry and mechanochemistry to achieve the extraction and recovery of inorganic values. As part of his research activities, he also performs techno-economic assessments of chemical/hydrometallurgical processes via flowsheet simulation. Dr Granata has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2023.
Benjamin P. Wilson is a Staff Scientist at the School of Chemical Engineering of Aalto University, Finland. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of materials, sustainability, and the circular economy of metals. His areas of interest include battery recycling and process waste valorisation. Dr Wilson has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2022.