Editor Biographies

Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli, PE, F.AAAS, Dist. M.ASCE, received his MS and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University, respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in the branches of civil and environmental engineering, and also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (DWRE). His expertise is in bioconversion of wastes into value-added products (biodiesel, bioplastics, biofertilizers, etc.); occurrence, fate/transport and removal of emerging contaminants (e.g. pharmaceuticals, antibiotics and endocrine-disrupting chemicals) in the environment; water and wastewater treatment; solid and hazardous waste management; water resources management; recovery and reuse of resources and energy; environmental toxicity and risk of nanomaterials; bioremediation of contaminated sites and groundwater; control of greenhouse gas emissions; and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is an Adjunct Professor at seven universities and Distinguished/Honorary Professor at six universities. Currently, he serves, or has served on 72 national and international committees, review panels or advisory boards including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) National Committee on Energy, Environment and Water Policy. He is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of both the Oklahoma State and Iowa State Universities, an elected Fellow of the Water Environment Federation and International Water Association, an elected Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science, an elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an elected Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, and a Distinguished Member of the ASCE. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste, and Springer Journal of Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering, and past Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Water Environment Research Journal. He has authored over 600 technical publications in journals and conference proceedings, including over 300 refereed journal articles, 15 patents, 24 books and 151 book chapters.

Dr. Tian C. Zhang, PE. F.ASCE, F.AAAS, is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA. He received his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1994 and joined the UNL faculty in August 1994. Professor Zhang teaches courses related to water/wastewater treatment, remediation of hazardous wastes and non-point pollution control. Professor Zhang's research involves fundamentals and applications of nanotechnology and conventional technology for water, wastewater, and stormwater treatment and management, remediation of contaminated environments and detection/control of emerging contaminants in the environment. Professor Zhang has published more than 145 peer-reviewed journal papers, 81 book chapters and 16 books since 1994. Professor Zhang is a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, an elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE), an elected Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science (F.AAAS) and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Professor Zhang is an Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Engineering (since 2007), Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste (since 2006) and Water Environment Research (since 2008). He has been a registered professional engineer in Nebraska, USA since 2000.

Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India. Earlier, he worked at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr. Goyal is actively involved in teaching and research in different areas such as water resources modeling, snowmelt hydrology, climate change, and extreme events analysis and soil carbon sequestration. He has authored more than 80 technical publications, including 15 book chapters, 50 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal articles, and 20 national and international conferences. He was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program to pursue research at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Earlier, he was awarded the Young Scientist Award from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center, Busan, Republic of Korea, and he was also a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship award to pursue research at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Goyal is a member of the editorial board of about half a dozen journals. He has been a peer reviewer for more than 20 international journals including Journal of Hydrology and International Journal of Climatology.

Dr. Satinder K. Brar is James and Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in Toronto, Canada. She graduated with a Master's in organic chemistry from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, with a Master's in technology in environmental sciences and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India, and a PhD in environmental biotechnology from Institut National de la Recherché Scientifique (INRS), Québec, Canada. Dr. Brar is a recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (2007) for her article titled, "Bioremediation of Hazardous Wastes - A Review," which was published in the Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste Management - Special issue on Bioremediation. She has also received the Rudolf gold medal (2008) for the originality of the article published in Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste Management. Her research interests lie in the development of finished products (formulations) of wastewater and wastewater sludge-based value-added bioproducts, such as enzymes, organic acids, platform chemicals, biocontrol agents, biopesticides, butanol and biohydrogen. She is also interested in the fate of endocrine disrupter compounds, pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles and other toxic organic compounds during value addition of wastewater and wastewater sludge, in turn, finding suitable biological detoxification technologies. She is on the editorial board of Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology Journal and associate editor of two internationally reputed journals. She has won several accolades through her professional career through awards, such as outstanding young scientist in India and several others. She has more than 300 research publications, which include 4 books, 40 book chapters, 200 original research papers, 50 research communications in international and national conferences, and has registered 2 patents to her credit.

R. D. Tyagi is an internationally recognized Professor at Institut National de la Recherché Scientifique - Eau, Terre, et Environnement (INRS-ETE), University of Québec, Canada. He holds the position of Canada Research Chair (senior) on "Bioconversion of wastewater and wastewater sludge to value added products." Professor Tyagi is a member of the Hall of Excellence of the University of Québec (Canada) and is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Academician. He conducts research on hazardous/solids waste management, water/wastewater treatment, sludge treatment/disposal, and bioconversion of wastewater and wastewater sludge into value-added products. He has developed the novel technologies of simultaneous sewage sludge digestion and metal leaching, bioconversion of wastewater sludge (biosolids) into Bacillus thuringiensis-based biopesticides, bioplastics, biofertilizers and biocontrol agents. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Scientist Award of the International Bioprocessing Association (an International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses) for significant contributions in the area of environmental biotechnology. He is also a recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, the ASCE Rudolph Hering Medal, the ASCE Wesley Horner Medal and the ASCE Best Practice Oriented Paper Award. He received the Superior Award, Excellence in Environmental Engineering Award of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers in 2015. He also received the 2010 Global Honor Award (Applied Research) of the International Water Association (IWA), the 2010 Grand Prize (University Research) of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering, the Life-Time Achievement Award (Specialist Medal, 2007) for outstanding research contributions in wastewater sludge management by the IWA, and the Excellence Award of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for industry-university collaborative research. Dr. Tyagi has published/presented over 600...