Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.Susana Rodríguez-Couto is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

• 1. Microbial Decolorization of Colored Industrial Effluents2. Bioremediation of Metals Mediated by Marine Bacteria3. Cyanoremediation: A Green Clean Technology4. Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils5. Enzymatic Bioremediation: Current Status, Challenges of Obtaining Process, and Applications6. Catalytic Promiscuity of Aromatic Ring-Hydroxylating Dioxygenases and Their Role in the Plasticity of Xenobiotic Compound Degradation7. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Environmental Fate, Challenges and Bioremediation8. Microbial Degradation of Cyanides and Nitriles9. Biodegradation of the Explosives TNT, RDX and HMX Chapter 10: Microbial Degradation of Polychlorophenols10. Microbial Styrene Degradation: From Basics to Biotechnology11. Biodegradation of Mono-Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Fungi12. Bacterial Degradation of High Molecular Weight Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons13. Microbial Degradation of PAHs: Organisms and Environmental Compartments14. Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): Current Practices and Outlook15. Biodegradation of Synthetic Parathyroid Insecticides16. Microbial Degradation of Dye-Containing Wastewater17. Bacterial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons18. Microbial Degradation of Recalcitrant PAHs-Microbial Diversity Involving Remediation Process19. Microbial Degradation of Alkanes