Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies

Professor Predrag Putnik, PhD has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He co-edited Elsevier’s" Agri-Food Industry Strategies for Healthy Diets and Sustainability" and is associate editor in Food Chemistry Advances, Elsevier. He was invited as guest editor for Food Research International, Elsevier, Special issue "Conventional, Non-Conventional Extraction Techniques and New Strategies for The Recovery of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Material for Human Nutrition" and Foods, MDPI; "Novel food processing and extraction technologies" and for "Sustainable Functional Food Processing." He is review editor of “Frontiers in Nutrition”, and member of the Editorial Board of reputed journals from Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. In 2021 he received Tanner Award for co-authoring the most-cited paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (2018). In 2021 he was elected as Highly Cited Researcher ranked in the top 1% by citations for Agricultural Sciences by the Web of Science™. Prof. Daniela Šojić Merkulov is a Full Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection in Serbia. With a career spanning over two decades in academia and research, she has established herself as an expert in the fields of analytical and environmental chemistry, focusing particularly on advanced oxidation processes, photocatalytic degradation, and sustainable nanotechnologies for environmental remediation. Her research contributions include numerous peer-reviewed journal publications, several book chapters, and editorial roles in respected scientific journals such as ‘Nanomaterials’ (MDPI), ‘Separations’ (MDPI), ‘Environmental Research’ (Elsevier), and ‘Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy’ (Springer). She actively contributes to the Serbian Chemical Society, having served as President and Secretary of its Chemical Society of Vojvodina chapter, and currently presides over its analytical chemistry section.

• 1. Meat production and environmental repercussions2. Fish production and water systems3. Horticultural food production and water: Fruits and vegetables4. Grain production and environment5. Production of extracts for (functional) food manufacturing and environment6. Nanotechnology based on AOPs in environmental remediation for sustainable agri-food industry7. Industrial and urban wastewater treatment, disinfection and reuse by using advanced oxidation processes8. Synergistic exploitation of a hybrid AOPs as a pre-treatment of concentrated aqueous effluents containing organic recalcitrant compounds9. Applications of functional nanomaterials in photocatalytic air pollutants’ degradation, H2 production from water splitting and CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons10. BiOX photocatalysts with a special focus on application in environmental protection11. A review of perovskite type materials: From synthesis to applications12. Zirconium oxide-based nanocomposites as photocatalysts for degradation of pollutants in wastewaters13. Occurrence of mycotoxins in natural water and their removal by AOPs14. Heterostructured semiconductor nanomaterials for sensors environmental monitoring and remediation15. The application of plant-inspired nanomaterials in innovative water purification technology16. Catalytic production and application of carbon nanotubes in water purification processes17. Application of oxide and carbon-based materials in remediation of arable soil18. Remediation of environmental contamination by subcritical and supercritical water19. Nanoparticles in phytoremediation and plant nutrition20. Nanotechnology in mycotoxicological food and feed safety21. Costs and benefits of nanotechnology application in environmental sustainability at the industrial level