Suresh Sundaramurthy is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has held postdoctoral, visiting faculty, and research positions at institutions including CUNY (USA), AIT Thailand, JNCASR Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, and Pondicherry University. His research interests span catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste‑to‑energy, nanoengineered materials, critical minerals, decarbonation, and biofuels, green hydrogen.Jyoti Verma is an Industry Professional at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Energy Centre (OEC), India where she focuses on scale up of alternate clean energy-based processes and technologies, translation of lab scale R&D projects to field implementation, and other aspects related to project management, technology transfer, and commercialization. She mentors students in R&D and supports academia–industry collaboration. Her expertise includes renewable energy technologies, critical minerals, with extensive field experience in hydrocarbon well sites and CO₂ valorization projects.Moonis Ali Khan received his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Yonsei University, South Korea and Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. In 2011, he joined the Chemistry Department at the King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at KSU. He is an interfacial chemist and his research is focused on the synthesis and development of novel materials for environmental remediation applications. To date, he has guided two doctoral students for their respective degrees. He has published more than hundred (research and review) articles and has two U.S. patents to his credit. Dr. Marta Otero obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at University of León (Spain), since then having occupied several lecturer and researcher positions, including a Marie Curie fellowship at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal), a Ramón y Cajal contract at University of León and a Principal Researcher position at University of Aveiro (Portugal). Since 2022, she is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics of the University of León. The research activity of Dr. Otero has focussed three main fields: (i) the management, recovery, and valorization of carbonaceous wastes; (ii) the development of new materials for a sustainable water treatment; and (iii) wastewater bioremediation. Along them, she has participated in multiple research projects and transfer projects in collaboration with industry, having been project evaluator for various entities. In addition, she has (co)oriented 3 postdoctoral fellows and 9 doctorate students. She has also been editor and/or guess editor of several books, journals and special issues, having acted as reviewer of more than 350 research works (Clarivate “Top Peer Reviewer). To date, Dr. Otero has (co)authored 3 patents and around 175 scientific papers, with a cite score of 7,700 citations (H index=50), having been listed among top 2% scientists in the last two lists (2021, 2022) released by Stanford University. Professor Byong-Hun Jeon is a Professor and Director of Leaders in Industry-University Cooperation (LINC) at Hanyang University, South Korea. He holds BS degree in Mineral and Petroleum Engineering from Hanyang University, and earned both his MS and Ph. D. degrees at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is an active Chair of the Reviewers Board for the National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Education, South Korea. Professor Jeon is also an Advisory Committee Member for SMTECH, South Korea. He is actively serving as an Editorial board member of several internationally acclaimed journals including Frontiers in Microbiology, Energies, and Geosystem Engineering. He is frequently acting as session Chair and co-organizer of Geochemistry division in American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, USA.He has conducted world-leading research in Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology. He has published more than 250 research articles in internationally acclaimed research journals including Nature communication, Energy and Environmental Science, Coordination Chemistry Reviews and Trends in Biotechnology, etc. Moreover, his applied research in environmental technology has fruitfully provided him over 25 patents and 3 technology transfers. His prolific research has attracted over 8000 citations to his articles. His current research interests include advanced biological wastewater treatment using microalgae and plants as ecofriendly bio-tools for the improved removal of nutrients and contaminants from wastewater. His research group is primarily investigating bioremediation and wastewater treatment with major emphasis on biodegradation and removal of organic micro-pollutants in wastewater using microbial tools. Specific interest has been on microalgal and plant removal of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and dyes. He has developed advanced wastewater treatment via coupling of microalgae cultivation for improved removal of N, P, and emerging organic contaminants from wastewater, and further utilization of microalgal biomass for bioenergy production. He is also investigating the co-digestion of wastewater sludge with high-strength organic waste for enhanced biogas production to develop an economically feasible process. He has established the coupling of the wastewater treatment system with bioenergy production for generating biofuel products using the recovered biomass from wastewater treatment. His specific research interests include biodegradation, fate and transport of environmental pollutants, aquatic ecotoxicology and ecology, environmental microbiology, and bioenergy.
