Emerging Trends in Microbial Electrochemical Technologies for Sustainable Mitigation of Water Resources Contamination

Dr. Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian currently working as Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, India. Previously worked in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. He was awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, 2015, Germany. He was further awarded the National-Post Doctoral Fellowship from SERB-DST, 2016-2018, India. Dr Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian was awarded as Young Scientist by DST, India for the BRICS Conclave held in Durban, 2018, South Africa and was the recipient of Hiyoshi Young Leaf Award from Hiyoshi Ecological Services, Hiyoshi Corporation, 2018, Japan. His major research interests are waste valorization and wastewater treatment. He is Editorial Board Member in Separation & Purification Reviews (T&F); Inorganic Chemistry Communications (Elsevier); Current Pollution Reports (Springer); Scientific Reports (Nature); Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer); Environmental Management (Springer). He is also serving as Associate Editor in South African Journal of Chemical Engineering (Elsevier); Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry; International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology (Springer); IET Nanobiotechnology (Wiley) and as an Academic Editor for Adsorption Science and Technology. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles and contributed several book chapters. He is editing books from prestigious publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, CRC, and Springer. Dr Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian was listed in Top 2% (2021, 2022 and 2023) most cited research scientists in the world as per data published by Stanford University USA.Dr. Joyabrata Mal is currently working as Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT Allahabad), Prayagraj, India,since 2019. Dr. Mal completed his Ph.D. from UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands, as anErasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Biotechnology. Beforejoining MNNIT Allahabad, he was Post-doctoral Researcher at University ofBerkeley, USA, where he worked primarily on environmental microbiology studyingselenium biogeochemistry, andthen at National University of Ireland Galway,Ireland, where he worked on metal(loid)s bioremediation and recovery. Hisresearch primarily focuses on biological treatment of wastewater using variousreactors (e.g., UASB, SBR, CW-MFC), bioremediation and resource recovery,environmental nanotechnology and its implication in wastewater treatment,sustainable agriculture, and eco-toxicity.  Dr Sovik Das is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering section of the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India He completed doctoral research work in the field of environmental engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is engaged in research work pertaining to bioelectrochemical systems like microbial electrosynthesis cell, microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell for the treatment of different waste stream with concomitant valuable recovery which has gained more than 2000 citations as per Google Scholar. Currently he is looking in the domain of green hydrogen production from waste and removal of emerging contaminants from water matrix through both electrochemical and bioelectrochemical technologies. He has more than 60 international publications in reputed international journals and eleven book chapters to his credit. Also, he is currently editing two books for International Water Association and Springer Nature. Further, he is also the Associate Editor of Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment of Elsevier, Heliyon (Chemical Engineering Section) of Cell Press, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste of ASCE and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports published by Nature. Moreover, he has served as reviewer for more than 60 international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc. and has reviewed more than 500 manuscripts.  Dr. Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, PhD., is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, 491441, India. He has studied in the Ph.D. program at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.  He has more than 70 peer-reviewed international publications in Scopus and Web of Science journals of ACS, RSC, Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Nature and Taylor & Francis with two patents and has  delivered numerous oral and poster presentations in international meetings. He contributed over 35 book chapters to various international books.  His H-index is 28 and his total citation is 2300 in Google Scholar database. His research is mainly focused on the preparation and designing of materials used in the field of nanomaterials, green chemistry, quantum chemistry, and organic synthesis for various industrial applications. Recently, he is serving as Author and Editor/Co-editor of above 20 books published by ACS, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and De-Gruyter platform indexed in Scopus. Dr. Verma received the CSIR JRF & SRF awards in 2013 and 2015. Recently, 4 students are doing Ph.D. under his guidance.           Dr. IoannisAnastopoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture,University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece. He has worked in postdoctoral research atthe Agricultural Research Institute (Cyprus), the University of Patras(Greece), the University of Cyprus (Cyprus), and Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece). His research is focused on the estimation of greenhousegas emissions from agricultural soils after receiving organic and inorganicmaterials, the fabrication of different adsorbents for wastewater treatment,and the use of organic amendments for soil remediation. He is Author ofpublications in peer-reviewed journals (>100 articles) with more than 6000citations and he served as Reviewer by invitation for more than 39 scientificjournals. Moreover, he served as Guest Editor in many special issues. His nameis also included in the 2% top of world scientists for the years 2019–21.

• Chapter 1. Water pollution, resources and causes of contamination.- Chapter 2. Water pollution.- Chapter 3. Conventional Detection and characterization approaches of water pollutants.- Chapter 4. Microbial electrochemical technologies.- Chapter 5. Application of microbial electrochemical technologies as biosensor for the detection of inorganic water pollutants.