Ibha Suhani Editor

Dr. Rajeev Pratap Singh, works in an area of waste management and have worked on various kinds of waste i.e., fly ash, sewage sludge, tannery sludge, palm oil mill waste, contained water irrigation etc. Many publications in reputed journals on waste management and similar topics. Dr Rajeev Pratap Singh have received several international awards, like – ‘Green Talent’ award from Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany; Prosper.Net Scopus Young Scientist award, DST Young Scientist Award etc. Also, Dr Singh have co-authored 7 books and more than 50 highly cited research and review articles on different aspect of environmental science. Recently, availed Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship, a fellowship supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the Robert Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI). Dr Singh is also a Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), New Delhi.

Ibha Suhani has completed her M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India. She has completed her Masters in Philosophy in Environmental Science from Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is a Ph.D. research scholar currently working in the field of environmental science, ecotoxicology, solid waste management and sustainability at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. During her doctoral research she has worked on the current issue of salt affected lands by using amelioration techniques through utilizing compost and vermicompost. Currently she is working to check the threshold of earthworm for naturally sodic soil and organic amendments.

Prof. Dr. Norli Ismail holds a BSc (honour) in Environmental Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia and completed MSc in Chemical Processes and PhD in Environmental Technology at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Prof, Dr. Norli join the School of Industrial Technology as a lecturer attached to Environmental Technology Division, USM in October 2003. At present she is a dean of the School of Industrial Technology (2019 – Dec. 2021). Prof. Dr. Norli has research experienced in various areas of environmental science and technology with emphasis on water quality, management issues, and treatability studies in relation to water, wastewater and analytical testing. She actively involved in the technical aspects of biological and physico-chemical treatability studies, bioremediation and bioaugmentation, environmental analytical techniques, sampling and data validation and kinetic studies of the water and wastewater treatment. Prof. Dr. Norli lead a contract research project on wastewater treatment and acclimatization studies for a semiconductor industry, food and beverages for a local and international companies. She becomes a consultant to a company for sewage treatment plant development and modification and introduced a bioremediation and bioaugmentation concept for latex effluent treatment. Prof. Dr. Norli collaborated with Osaka Gas Ltd., Japan on hydrothermal gasification of palm oil mill effluent (POME) attach to Eco-energy department and worked with Hohenheim University, Germany on cassava upgrade utilization of cassava by products granted by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Her research focuses on low cost treatment technologies of different types of wastewater which may be used in developing countries. Her undergoing researches are concerted to hybrid sewage treatment plant associated to biological nitrogen removal of sewage, enhancement and purification of biogas, bio-flocculant and biocarrier development for wastewater and solid waste treatment. Her research interests also expanded to microbiology of wastewater, pharmaceutical waste, heavy metals bio-sorption, recovery and XOCs biodegradation.

Dr. Vaibhav Srivastava is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj-211002, Uttar Pradesh, India. Previously, worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Safety and Environment, Sustainability Cluster, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Dr. Srivastava did his masters (M.Sc.) from the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj and Ph.D. from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in Botany. During his doctoral research, he has put innovative ideas and tried to develop an economically cheaper and sustainable method of solid waste management and performed vermicomposting of municipal solid waste (MSW) as a circular economy-based management approach. Moreover, he characterized and quantified MSW of Varanasi city for the first time. He also assessed the impact of MSW vermicompost on soil health and plant growth responses. During his postdoctoral research at IIT Gandhinagar he worked on Wastewater bases epidemiology surveillance of COVID-19 in Ahmedabad. His research interest includes solid waste management, organic waste recycling, nutrient and energy recovery from different biowastes, compost science, plant stress physiology, emerging contaminants, and sustainability science. He has received National Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award-2021 by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB); Outstanding Researcher Award 2019 by International Institute of Organized Research, Chandigarh, India; International travel support award by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi; etc.