Sanitarian Raimi Morufu Olalekan received his M.Phil in Environmental Health Science from Kwara State University in August 2018 and MSc in Environmental Health Management from the University of Uyo in March 2017, Diploma in Environmental Health from Public Health Training Institute and Bsc in Geography and Environmental Management from Niger Delta University. He has taught classes at the University of Maiduguri, University of Uyo and currently at Niger Delta University. His taught courses include: Anthropogenic climate, Introduction to Environmental Health, Waste Management, Environmental Air Pollution and Human Health, Environmental Land Pollution and Human Health, Demography, Disaster Management, The Socio-Economic Environment, Biological and Physical Environment etc.

Prof. Fei Yu is an Associate Professor in College of Marine Ecology and Environment at Shanghai Ocean University. She received an M.S. degree from China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research in 2007, a Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2013. She is a research scholar at The University of Akron in 2015-2016. Her current research mainly focuses on Environmental Materials (Adsorbents), Environmental Device (Capacitive Deionization), and the behavior of emerging pollutant.

Lishuang Hu, born in May 1975, Doctor, Professor. I have won the third prize of national defense science and technology award, the second prize of science and technology progress of Shanxi Province, and the third prize of science and technology award of China Ordnance Industry Corporation. Research interests: Research on modification and environmental protection application of natural and synthetic polymer compounds; Industrial wastewater treatment and waste recovery and utilization technology; Preparation of nanocomposites and research on their photocatalytic properties. I wrote a chapter of monograph, participated in the compilation of a textbook, and published dozens of SCI academic papers. Lishuang Hu, Adsorption behavior of dyes from an aqueous solution onto composite magnetic lignin adsorbent. Chemosphere, 2020, 246, 125757; Lishuang Hu, Adsorption behavior of heavy metal ions from aqueous solution onto composite dextran-chitosan macromolecule resin adsorbent. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2019, 141, 738-746; Lishuang Hu, Construction of composite chitosan-glucose hydrogel for adsorption of Co2+ ions. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2019, 139,213-220; Lishuang Hu, Optimized synthesis of novel hydrogel for the adsorption of copper and cobalt ions in wastewater. RSC advances, 2019, 9(28): 16058-16068; et al.

Holds degree in Statistics, from the Federal University of Ceará (1988); Master of Science in Mathematics, from the Federal University of Pará (1997); PhD in Production Engineering, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2004), and postdoctoral studies at the Statistics Department and Applied Probability of the National University of Singapore (2018). Currently is associate professor at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. Has extensive experience in the area of Probability and Statistics, with emphasis on Data Science, working in the modeling of complex systems using statistical techniques and computational intelligence. Familiarity with data science tools: R and Python.

Noureddine BOUAÏCHA studied biology and biotechnology at the University of Sfax (Tunisia), where he obtained his engineering degree in 1987. From 1988 to 1992, he studied toxicology at the University of Paris 7 (France) where he obtained his Master’s degree in 1989 and his PhD degree in 1992 on fundamental and applied toxicology. In 1993, he was postdoctoral researcher at INSERM U303 Mer and Santé (France) for studying purification and pharmacological studies of marine natural products. In 1994, he was postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Agriculture Research (INRA), laboratory of toxicology and pharmacology for studying in vitro (cultures of hepatocytes) metabolism of veterinary drugs. In 1995, he was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gent (Belgium), laboratory of analytical chemistry for studying analysis of cyanotoxins and phycotoxins by capillary electrophoresis technique. In 1997, he was research scientist at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (France), laboratory of cryptogam for studying biodiversity of toxic cyanobacteria in aquatic ecosystem and their consequences on animal and human health and for the development of a serine/threonine protein phosphatase (PP2A) inhibition assay for the detection of cyanotoxins type microcystin in surface and drinking waters. In 2001, he obtained at the University of Paris-Sud, Faculty of pharmacy his habilitation to direction of reearch (HDR) on Environmental toxicology: Mechanisms of action of cyanobacterial toxins and their estrogenic and genotoxic potentials. Since 1998, he is Associate Professor in public health-environment at the University Paris-Saclay, Faculty of pharmacy. His current research at Laboratory Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech (UMR8079) focuses on toxicology and ecotoxicology of cyanobacterial toxins. In particular in: (1) Biodiversity of toxic cyanobacteria and their toxins in aquatic ecosystems, (2) Environmental factors affecting cyanobacterial blooms formation and toxins production, (3) Mechanisms of action and estrogenic potential of cyanobacterial toxins, and (4) Bioaccumulation of cyanobacterial toxins in seafood and its impact in human and animal health. He Supervised 15 MSC, 8 PhD students and 25 doctoral thesis of pharmacy; and is co-author on over 70 papers and book chapters ranging (>1400 citations, h-index 23).

Shola Ololade (Ph.D.) is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). She obtained an MSc degree in Environmental Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of Johannesburg, both in South Africa. She has been involved in research topics related to environmental sustainability and supervised many Masters and PhD students along these topics. Her research interests include integrated water resources management, water-energy-food nexus, land use/cover analysis, mining and sustainability, and sustainable development. Shola is the author/co-author of more than 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conferences and regularly acts as a reviewer for more than 16 international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Daminda Sumanapala is a research fellow at the School of veterinary and life sciences of the Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research has focused primarily on nature-based tourism and protected areas; behaviorism in nature tourism and protected area landscapes; motivation, attitudes, knowledge expectation, and experiences of nature based tourism and protected areas. He is particularly interested in understanding challenges of nature-based tourism practice with human engagement and how it is mitigated and conserved for the future nature based tourism industry in South and Southeast Asian. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Biography:
Dr. L.M. Pérez obtained his Biotechnology Grade at the National University of Rosario (2003, Argentina). After completed his PhD (2007) at the Institute of Experimental Physiology (IFISE-CONICET, UNR) he worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Sanitary and Environmental Microbiology (2008-2010) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-campus Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain). Afterwards, he worked as Research Associate (2012-2017) at the Rosario Chemistry Institute (IQUIR-CONICET). In 2015, he joined as Associate Professor at the Fac. of Chemistry and Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), and later as Assistant Manager of the Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology and Sustainable Biomaterials (Bio&TecMA, UCA-CONICET) at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Biotechnology (INGEBIO-UCA). Dr. Pérez has been involved in numerous both national and international projects, leading to a significant number of scientific publications including peer reviewed articles, technical reports and other scholarly communications on Microbiology, Food Technology and Environmental Sciences. He is also interested in communicating Science; hence he has been involved in educational programs at elementary and High-School, and also participated as speaker in several Workshops for Science Education and Promotion.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-3536

Research Fellow at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Researches (CONICET, Argentina). Lab. of Environmental Biotechnology & Sustainable Biomaterials (Bio&TecMA, UCA-CONICET); Institute of Environmental Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Biotechnology (INGEBIO-UCA). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonardo_Perez4

Research Associate at the Laboratory of Sanitary and Environmental Microbiology (MSM-Lab) & member of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainability-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona), Spain. UNESCOSOST-Argentina (Rosario Office). https://es.unescosost.org/copia-de-unescosost-1

Associate Professor at the Fac. of Chemistry and Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA-campus Rosario), Argentina.

Assistant Professor at the Analytical Chemistry Department, Fac. of Biochemical and Pharmacological Sciences, National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina.

Research interests & activities:
• Bioremediation/phytoremediation of industrial wastewaters by engineered microbial consortia and/or native plants species.
• Evaluation of constructed wetlands systems to remove microbial and chemical pollutants from urban and industrial wastewaters.
• Development of sustainable plastic biomaterials made from natural polymers.
• Prevention of foodborne pathogens dissemination during food packaging and storage

Biography

Dr. Lianwu Guan is a lecture and postdoctoral researcher at the College of Automation in
HEU (since 2017). His researches concentrated on inertial measurement unit (IMU),
inertial based integrated navigation and localization systems with their application in
pipeline inspection & localization robots, intelligent ski machine, unmanned autonomous
vehicle, underwater autonomous vehicle and other fields. Dr. Guan holds B.Sc. degree in
M&C Technology and Instrumentation (2011) and M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in
Navigation, Guidance and Control (2016) from HEU, Harbin, China. In addition, he has a
Visiting Research experience in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
in Queen’s University and Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Canada from
Sep. 2014 to March 2016.
Dr. Guan is the author and coauthor over 25 scientific papers and over 20 patents in
China, USA, Japan, France and other countries. His results are reported on several
international conferences in UAE «ICCSPA’19», China «ICMA’2018», France «IFAC
World Congress’2017», USA«PLANS’2016», and Japan «ICMA’2013» and others. He is
also the Editorial Board Membership of International Journal of Sensors, the reviewer for
some international journal and conference papers, such as, IEEE Transaction on
Instrumentation and Measurement, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Measurement,
Polish Maritime Research Journal, The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal,
Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research and so on.

Main Publications:

1. S Li, Y Gao*, G Meng, G Wang, L Guan. Accelerometer-Based Gyroscope Drift
Compensation Approach in a Dual-Axial Stabilization Platform, Electronics, 8(5), 594.
2. N Li, Y Gao, Y Wang, Z Liu, L Guan*, X Liu, A Low-Cost Underground Garage Navigation
Switching Algorithm Based on Kalman Filtering, Sensors 19 (8), 1861.
3. L Guan*, Y Gao, H Liu, W An, A Noureldin, A Review on Small-Diameter Pipeline
Inspection Gauge Localization Techniques: Problems, Methods and Challenges,
2019 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their
Applications (ICCSPA), March 19, 2019, 1-6.
4. H Rong, L Guan*, Y Gao, Design and Experiment of an Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle for Twilight Zone Surveying, 2019 International Conference on
Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), March 19,
2019, 1-6.
5. X Zhou, Y Gao*, L Guan. Towards Goal-Directed Navigation Through Combining
Learning Based Global and Local Planners, Sensors, 19(1), 2019, 176.
6. L Guan*, X Xu, Y Gao, F Liu, H Rong, M Wang, A Noureldin. Micro-Inertial-Aided
High-Precision Positioning Method for Small-Diameter PIG Navigation, IntechOpen,
2018/11/5.
7. Z Jiang, H Zhang*, L Guan, J Yang. Fiber Bragg grating anemometer and
temperature compensation technology. Optical Engineering, 57(6), 2018, 064104.
8. M Liu, G Li*, Y Gao, S Li, L Guan. Velocity-aided In-motion Alignment for SINS Based
on Pseudo-Earth Frame. Journal of Navigation, 71, 2018, 221-240.
9. Y Jiang*, T Bai, Y Gao, L Guan. Water entry of a constraint posture body under
different entry angles and ventilation rates. Ocean Engineering, 153, 2018, 53-59.
10. H. Han, Y. Wei, L Guan, X Ye, A Wang. Trajectory Tracking Control of Underwater
Vehicle-Manipulator Systems Using Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator,
OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, 2018, 1-6.
11. L Xu; Y Wei; X Wang, A Wang, L Guan. Binocular Vision of Fish Swarm Detection in
Real-time Based on Deep Learning, OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, 2018,
1-6.
12. A Wang, Y Wei, H Han, L Guan, X Zhang, X Xu. Ocean Wave Active Compensation
Analysis of Inverse Kinematics for Hybrid Boarding System based on Fuzzy Algorithm.
OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE, 2018/05/11, 1-6.
13. L Guan*, Y Gao, A Noureldin, X Cong. Pipeline Junction Detection based on
Complex Continuous Wavelet Transform and MEMS Accelerometer Measurement.
IEEE ICMA 2018, 1227-1232.
14. M Wang, L Guan*, D Xiong, Y Gao, X Xu, X Chen. UAV Attitude Measurement based
on Enhanced Mahony Complementary Filter. IEEE ICMA 2018, 545-550.
15. M Wang, K He, L Guan*, Y Gao, L Yu, X Luo. Application of a Novel Fast Transfer
Alignment Algorithm on SINS for Vehicular Launching System. IEEE ICMA 2018,
2115-2119.
16. L Guan*, X Cong, Y Gao, U Uqbal, A Noureldin. Enhanced MEMS SINS Aided
Pipeline Surveying System by Pipeline Junction Detection in Small Diameter Pipeline,
IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 2017, 3560-3565.
17. P Liu, X Li*, X Guang, G Li, L Guan. Bias Error Caused by the Faraday Effect in Fiber
Optical Gyroscope With Double Sensitivity, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 29
(15), 2017, 1273-1276.
18. X Li, P Liu*, X Guang, Z Xu, L Guan, G Li. Temperature Dependence of Faraday
Effect-Induced Bias Error in a Fiber Optic Gyroscope. Sensors, 17(9), 2017, 2046.
19. L Guan, Y Gao, A Osman, U Iqbal, M Korenberg, A Noureldin. Pipeline junction
detection from accelerometer measurement using fast orthogonal search. 2016
IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2016/4/11, 21-26.
20. L Guan*, Y Gao, A Osman, U Iqbal, A Noureldin. Analysis of rolling motion effect on
SINS error modeling in PIG. 2016 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation
Symposium (PLANS), 2016/4/11, 681-686.
21. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang, Y Sun. A Novel Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm for
Recalibration of Fiber Optic Gyroscope Error Parameters. Sensors 15 (5), 2015,
10547-10568.
22. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang. Triaxial Accelerometer Error Coefficients Identification with
a Novel Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm. Journal of sensors 2015 (2015), 17.
23. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang, A novel IFOG Allan variance coefficients real-time
detection method with temperature variation in moorage, Optik-International Journal
for Light and Electron Optics. 2015, 126(19), 2184-2189.
24. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang. Optimal artificial fish swarm algorithm for the field
calibration on marine navigation, Measurement 50, 2014, 297-304.
25. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang, H Kuang. Position precision analysis for single-axis rotation
fiber optic gyro strapdown inertial navigation system. Chinese Journal of Scientific
Instrument, 2014, 35(4), 798-800.
26. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang. Deviation compensation on single-axis rotation modulation
SINS inclination angle. Journal of Chinese Inertial Technology, 2013, 21(4), 446-451.
27. Y Gao, L Guan*, T Wang, X Cong. Research on the Calibration of FOG Based on
AFSA. IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)
2013/8/4, 412-417.
28. G Li*, Y Gao, T Wang, L Guan. Error Auto-compensation Methods of Improved
Single-axial Rotation INS. Advanced Materials Research, 79(1), 2013, 1046-1049.
Funding (PI):

1. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 61803118)
2. The Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education
Commission (No. KJZD-K201804701)
3. The Post Doc. Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. LBH-Z17053)
4. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. HEUCFJ180402,
No. 3072019CFM0402 and No. 3072019CF0405)

Biography
Topwe Mwene-Mbeja currently works as a Professor of organic chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He received Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He is a member of the association of graduates of Laval University. He is also a member of University of Manitoba Alumni Association, Manitoba, Canada, and a Representative of Lubumbashi University to Canadian Universities. He is a researcher at Hydro-Quebec Institute for Environment, Development and Society at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He is a member of Editorial Board of many Journals, and has received many invitations to publish in many Journals as well as to act as keynote speaker and as an organizing committee member of several international conferences. Topwe Mwene-Mbeja does research in Medicinal Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. His group is interested in the discovery of biologically active natural products possessing properties against cancer. His group is also interested in green chemistry projects related to the prevention of pollution of the environment and sustainable development.

Biography:
Graduated in Nutrition from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2008), Master in Nutrition from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2011) and PhD in Food Science and Technology from the Federal University of Pará (2019). She is currently coordinator of the nutrition laboratory 2 at the University of Pernambuco, coordinator of mandatory curricular internship for the nutrition course, member of the complementary academic activities committee at the University of Pernambuco, member of the structuring teaching group of the Nutrition collegiate and adjunct professor at the University of Pernambuco Pernambuco. Conducts research in the field of Nutrition, with an emphasis on food quality control, food technology and conservation, biotechnology, food microbiology, good food manufacturing and handling practices, administration of food services, gastronomy and nutritional education.

Professional Experience: More than 10 years in Environment Management
Fellow, International Safety Quality Environment Management Association (ISQEM), United Kingdom (Year 2015-2016)
Professional Qualification:
Short Term Certificate Course:
Certificate Course (4 weeks) on “Planning and Management of Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas” by NIRD&PR, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt.of India on June 2020.
Short Term Course on “Learn to design your own solar Home System” under Energy Literacy Drive of the Swaraj Foundation, India from 1st June to 14th June 2020.
Certificate Course on “Environmental & Social Framework-ESF Fundamentals “through open learning Campus, world Bank on April 22, 2020.
Certificate Course on “Introduction to the Global Environment Facility (GEF)” through open learning campus, World Bank on April 19, 2020.
Tailor made course on “Sustainable Waste Management” jointly organized by UNESCO-IHE (Institute for water Education) & Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Govt. of Netherlands & Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India in October 2015.
MOOC Course on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) & Water Safety Planning (WSP) from Eawag, EPFL, USA in May 2014.
Member of International or National Bodies:
Member, Water Supply and sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Geneva, Switzerland.
Member, International Water Association (IWA).
Member, HWTS (Household water Treatment and safe storage) and water Safety Networks, UNC, Water Institute, USA
Member, State Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), GOBAR DHAN Scheme under Swachh Bharat Mission (G), Jharkhand.
Member, “State Committee for NABL accreditation” of water quality lab, DWSD, GoJ, Jharkhand.
Member, Mission Ganga Knowledge Community, India.
Key lecture invitee for dept. of Civil Engineering, MNNIT, Allahabad, KRC, Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation, Govt of India.
Key Lecture invitee for CSE, Delhi, a KRC, Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation, Govt of India. “on designing of decentralized waste water treatment system for the sustainable rural sanitation”
Member, Bihar State Productivity Council, Patna.
Member, Indian Science congress Association, Kolkata.

Biography:
Allan Amorim Santos, asantos@biof.ufrj.br / amorim-a@hotmail.com , Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Summary of qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences: Microbiology and Immunology from the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2014. Master’s degree in Biophysics
(Environmental Biophysics – with maximum concept on Brazilian Higher Educational
Personnel - CAPES) from Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute (UFRJ - 2016).
Currently PhD student to conclude Doctoral degree in Biophysics in October 2020
(Biophysics Institute – UFRJ). Develops scientific research in the Laboratory of
Ecophysiology and Toxicology of Cyanobacteria (UFRJ) with emphasis on the
cyanotoxins removal from water by abiotic / biotic aspects. In addition, as part of your
PhD Project it evaluate to the biological interaction between cyanobacteria and
heterotrophic bacteria. As part of doctoral thesis spent 6 months at Robert Gordon
University, United Kingdom, under supervision of Prof Christine Edwards and Prof
Linda Lawton, which developed results about the biodegradation of cyanobacterial and
non-cyanobacterial peptides.
Publication:
"Biotic and abiotic factors affect Microcystin-LR concentrations in a coastal lagoon"
SANTOS, A.A., RACHID, C.T.C.C., PACHECO, A.B.F., MAGALHAES, V.F.
Article type: Original Research
Microbiological Research
“Filterable bacteria able to degrade microcystin”
SANTOS, A.A., KEIM, C.N., MAGALHAES, V.F., PACHECO, A.B.F.
Article type: Original Research
Submitted on Water Research
Awards:
Best poster presentation at International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC,
Krakow, Poland, 2019)

I am an environmental scientist having broad research interests in environmental toxicology and chemistry of traditional (e.g., heavy metals) and emerging (e.g., engineered nanomaterials, nano-/micro- plastic) environmental contaminants, and using nanotechnology to solve environmental issues. In particular, I have extensive expertise on the toxicological study of the pollutant using omics technology, focusing on a range of organisms. I am also interested in developing and setting up in vitro physiological barrier model for the toxicity risk assessment. I am also very interested in developing engineered nanomaterials for biomedical application. I have published 38 papers in journals including Nature Protocols, Nature Plants, PNAS, NanoToday, ES&T, ES&T Letters, Environment International and Environmental Science: nano. I am currently a member of Society of Toxicology (USA), and active reviewers for over 20 journals including ES&T, Environ. Sci.: Nano, Environ. Toxicol. Chem., Particle Fibre Toxicol., Environ. Pollut., etc.

Dr Jian Tang obtained Ph.D degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, then he worked in Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China, and he published more than 22 SCI-indexed research papers and 8 patents at present. His research scope includes: (1) Characterization and remediation of contaminated sites, (2) Heavy metal speciation, bioavailability, and reduction, (3) Soil contamination and remediation, (4) Electrokinetic remediation, (5) Sludge treatment and disposal, (6) Wastewater treatment, (7) Functional environment materials application.

Dr. Malafaia (Guilherme) He is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Goiano (Goiás State, Brazil). He received a bachelor’s degree from Federal University of Ouro Preto, a MS from Federal University of Goiás, PhD and Postdoc from Federal University of Goiás, all related to Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is directing the Biological Research Laboratory with a focus on the ecotoxicological assessment of emerging pollutants, including micro- and nanoplastics, nanomaterials, nanofibers, pesticides, drug residues, etc. The ongoing research projects in his lab use different animal species as model systems (eg: mice, zebrafish, guppy, Amazon-turtle, tadpole, Japanese quails, mosquito larvae, earthworms, and dragonfly larvae, in addition to aquatic and native plants from Brazilian Cerrado). He has published over 240 journal papers and several books. In addition, he has served as a reviewer for more than 170 international journals. He is an advisor for scientific initiation (undergraduate students), master's and doctorate, in addition to post-doctoral internship.

Dr. David Galan is a scientific researcher (from 2004 up to nowadays) in the Department of Atmospheric Pollution (National Reference Laboratory for Air Quality in Spain) of the National Center for Environmental Health (Health Institute Carlos III). He is the head of functional unit in that Department and holds a PhD in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry by Complutense University of Madrid (Mention of European Doctorate). Similarly, Dr. Galán is an expert in instrumental techniques by Faculty of Chemical Sciences (Complutense University of Madrid) and holds a Master in Computer Science and Management as well as 31 specific courses. Dr. Galán has published more than 190 scientific-technical reports as well as more than 36 oral communications in international congresses, including air quality issues. Dr. Galán has been served as a member of Directive Board of a Scientific Society such Spanish Society for Environment Health (2013-2017), member of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN/TC 264 “Air Quality”), member of Workgroups for developing European Normative Projects, as WG 34 “Determination of anions and cations in ambient air”, member of Scientific and Management Committees in Scientific Congresses, Editorial Board Member for Annals of Civil and Environment Engineering, Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health Research and Environmental Science: Research and Reviews, technical assistant for the Expert Committee for air quality assessment during a large fire at a used tire landfill, as well as a member of board of national competitive exams in the field of research for Research Public Organizations on numerous occasions (2006-2019). Nowadays, he is Technical-Scientific Committee member for RELAB (Network of Biological Alert Laboratories). In teaching, Dr. Galán has been part of the Teachers Board in courses and masters of environmental techniques and air pollution. In researching, Dr. Galán has been a main research of 3 research projects and was included in the research team of numerous international research projects and contracts with the Public Administration. Dr. Galán has been responsible for the validation process and subsequent accreditation by ENAC (National Accreditation Entity for Spain) of more than 50 parameters.

Shu-Lung Kuo was graduated in the Department of Environmental Engineering & Science at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology and presently is an associate professor of Department of Technology Management, Open University of Kaohsiung, with professional specialties in environmental soil chemistry, and research focus on soil environmental pollution. His current work involves application of nano-science to the field of environment with positive progress.