About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Bhekie B. Mamba, PhD

Executive Dean: Unisa College of Science, Engineering and Technology
University of South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa

Prof Bhekie B. Mamba is the current Executive Dean of University of South Africa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology. He has occupied a number of leadership positions including being a Professor and Head at Department of Applied Chemistry at the University of Johannesburg, Director of the DST/Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre – Water Research Node and the Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Water Research at the University of Johannesburg. He has experience in the area of nanotechnology, polymer chemistry and water treatment technologies. His interests focus on creating sustainable solutions that will ensure that water resources are maintained and preserved for future generations. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact quartile 1 and 2 ranked journals, some of which have been extensively cited by renowned researchers, and has co-authored 22 book chapters. Over the past few years, his annual citations have exceeded 1000, which compares favourably with those of other leading scholars in his research field. He has supervised over 100 master’s and PhD students to completion.

 

 

Associate Editors

Andrea Cominola, PhD
Assistant Professor, Chair of Smart Water Networks
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany


Andrea Cominola is an Assistant Professor and head of the Smart Water Networks group at the Technische Universität Berlin and Einstein Center Digital Future. In early 2017 he was awarded a PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano for his thesis on modelling residential water consumption behavior with smart meter data. Prof. Dr. Cominola’s research focuses on urban water systems modelling and management, leakage and anomaly detection, behavioral modelling, data mining, and machine learning for water and coupled human-environment systems analysis. Since May 2021 he is the Chair of the HS5 subdivision on Water policy, management and control at the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Since 2020 he is also a Principal Investigator in ide3a, the DAAD-funded international alliance for digital e-learning, e-mobility and e-research in academia (https://ide3a.net). He is author of more than 20 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters, more than 70 publications/presentations in international conferences, and reviewer for several international journals, organizations, and institutions. He also co-authored a technical report on “Climate change, infrastructure and mobility. Solutions and strategies for infrastructure investments in a context adaptation to climate change and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions”, prepared in 2022 for the Italian Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility.
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Ryo Honda, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa, Japan


Dr. Ryo Honda, currently a Professor at Kanazawa University's Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, specializes in environmental engineering, focusing on membrane-applied biological processes, antimicrobial resistance in water environments, and wastewater-based epidemiology. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2005. Dr. Honda holds board memberships in the Japan Wastewater Surveillance Association and Japan National Council for Promoting Wastewater Surveillance. He's an active member of several professional societies and has received awards like the Excellent Research Award from the Kurita Water and Environment Foundation.

Yunxia Hu, PhD
Tiangong University
Tianjin, China



Professor Yunxia Hu received her PhD degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts (Amherst, USA). She obtained her postdoctoral training at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Yale University. Professor Hu joined Tiangong University at 2017 and served as a co-director of the state key lab of separation membranes and membrane processes. Professor Hu mainly focuses on the membrane-based water treatment technology, including the synthesis of polymeric materials, the fabrication of high-performance filtration membranes, and their applications for chemical and environmental engineering processes.

Prof Emmanuel Iheanyichukwu Iwuoha, PhD
University of the Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa



Prof Iwuoha is the South African Research Chair for NanoElectrochemistry and Sensor Technology. His main research focus areas are electroanalytical sensors and electrocatalytic reactors. Accordingly, his research work involves the development of sensing and decontamination platforms for a variety of sample matrices, including water.

Alex T Kuvarega, PhD
Professor, Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability
University of South Africa
South Africa


Professor Alex Tawanda Kuvarega obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests are in the fields of heterogenous catalysis and advanced oxidation processes, specifically photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis and membrane technology for environmental applications with special focus on water treatment. His work is centred around development of visible light active engineered semiconductor photocatalysts for degradation of organic water pollutants.

Debora F. Rodrigues, PhD
Department of Civil and Engineering
University of Houston
TX, USA


Professor Debora Rodrigues received her BS and MS degrees in Biology and Microbiology, respectively, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Michigan State University in 2007. She was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Environmental Engineering Program at Yale University from 2007 to 2010. Her research is divided in three main topics: better understanding of the aquatic system and its ecology; investigation of the effects of nanomaterials on the environment (more specifically, carbon-based nanomaterials) through application of molecular biology and nanotoxicological tools and development of new nanotechonologies and biotechnologies to keep the aquatic system safe and remove unwanted contaminants.

Lu Shao headshotLu Shao, PhD
Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China


Prof. Lu SHAO is a Fellow of the Royal Society Chemistry (FRSC, UK) and a tenure-track professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China. He received his PhD (2005) from National University of Singapore. Prof. SHAO is the authors of more than 180 publications in Nature Communications, Science Advances, MATTER, Journal of Membrane Science, etc. with the citations more than 13,000 times and H-index of 472. His research interest is in material-driven membrane technologies for clean water, carbon capture, environmental remediations and beyond.

John Zhou, PhD
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, Australia
 

Prof Zhou is a leading expert in advanced wastewater treatment by advanced oxidation, biochar adsorption, biodegradation, nano zero-valent iron, and hybrid processes. In addition, Prof Zhou is an authority in the environmental analysis of trace organic pollutants. He is highly experienced in aquatic biogeochemistry of pollutants, pollution risk assessment and mitigation, and process modeling by artificial intelligence approaches.
 

Syed M. Zubair, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia


Professor Zubair received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests involve both applied as well as fundamental areas of energy and desalination systems: thermal and membrane-based desalination systems, refrigeration and air-conditioning systems and fouling of heat exchangers. He has participated in several research projects, including projects supported by the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy. 

Editorial Board Members

Diego-César Alarcón-Padilla, CIEMAT-Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain
Malak Talal Al-Nory, Effat University, Saudi Arabia
Khawla Al-Shayji, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Mohammed A. Antar, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Robert Bain, UNICEF, USA
Asit K. Biswas, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore & Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico
Jo Burgess, Water Research Commission, South Africa
Chart Chiemchaisri, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Orlando Coronell, University of North Carolina, USA
Peter Gleick, President-Emeritus of Pacific Institute, & member of US National Academy of Sciences, USA
Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Mississippi State University, USA
April Gu, Cornell University, USA
Giovany Guevara, Universidad del Tolima, Ibague, Tolima, Colombia
Claudia K. Gunsch, Duke University, USA
Faisal I. Hai, University of Wollongong, Australia
Eric M. V. Hoek, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Xia Huang, Tsinghua University, China
Arpita Iddya, University of California, USA
Sadahiko Itoh, Kyoto University, Japan
Peter Jarvis, Cranfield University, UK
Hiroyuki Katayama, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mary Jo Kirisits, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Manish Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Tahar Laoui, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Pierre Le-Clech, University of New South Wales, Australia
John H. Lienhard V, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Wen-Tso Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Shaily Mahendra, University of California Los Angeles, USA
How Yong Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kim Choon Ng, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Roohollah Noori, University of Tehran, Iran
Tebello Nyokong, Rhodes University, South Africa
Satoshi Okabe, Hokkaido University, Japan
T. Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Rene Rangel-Mendez, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C., Mexico
Daisuke Sano, Tohoku University, Japan
Raman Saravanane, Pondicherry Engineering College, India
Andrea Iris Schäfer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Chuyang Y. Tang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Justice M. Thwala, University of Swaziland, Swaziland
Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill University, Canada
Olli Varis, Aalto University, Finland
Li Wang, Tongji University, China 
Peng Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Bo Weng, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mari-Karoliina Winkler, University of Washington, USA
Guangxue Wu, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Hiroshi Yamamura, Chuo University, Japan
Sui Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Linda Zou, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE

 

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