Emerging Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment

Dr. Harshita Jain is an assistant professor at the Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India. She has obtained her Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Amity University. She specializes in membrane separation technology, desalination, and water-related ecological studies. Her research interests encompass environmental biology, solid waste management, climatology, and biodiversity conservation, with a particular focus on water quality and treatment.

Dr. Prangya Rath has obtained her Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Amity University, India. She has expertise in the field of environmental sciences and biotechnology. Her research interests include the estimation of pollutants such as microplastics in water. She also works on E-waste, fecal sludge, microalgae, and nanoparticles. She has completed her internship at UNEP Delhi where she assisted in collaboration with event partners to secure project deliverables, managed partner relations, and prepared briefing reports for meetings and other relevant documents with various partners of UN Environment.

Dr. Laxmi Kant Bhardwaj is a scientific staff at the Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management, Amity University, Noida, India. He is working as a Deputy Director of Research (Honorary Position) at GoldSmith Institute of Advanced Research (GIAR), Madhya Pradesh, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Amity University, India. His research interests include the estimation of pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), microplastics, heavy metals, and phthalates in wastewater, water, and soils. He also works on E-waste, fecal sludge, microalgae, and nanoparticles. He has participated in the Indian Scientific Expedition to the Southern Ocean. He was selected as an editorial board member for the Extensive Reviews, the International Journal of Nature Science, Earth and Environmental Science Research & Reviews, Journal of Water Pollution & Purification Research, The Open Environmental Research Journal, and Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management. He was also a member of the International Association of Oncology, the Institute of Scholars, ABCD indexing, and Voice of Indian Concern for the Environment.

Maulin P. Shah is currently a deputy general manager at the Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab, Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. A group of research scholars works under his guidance on the areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, industrial liquid waste management, and solid state fermentation. He received his Ph.D. in environmental microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He served as an assistant professor at Gujarat University in 2001. His primary research interests include genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way such as bacterial bioreporters. One of his major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. He has more than 200 research publications in national and international journals. He has guided more than 100 post-graduate students in various disciplines of life science. He is an active editorial board member of many academic journals in the field of environmental and biological sciences. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (both published by Science and Education Publishing, USA).