Professor Wong is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology; Advisor (Environmental Science) of the Education University of Hong Kong; and Emeritus Chair Professor of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Wong served as the Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of the project “Regionally based assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances”, and as a Panel Member (of three experts) of another project “Chemicals Management Issues of developing countries and countries with economies in transition”, both sponsored by UNEP/GEF, during 2001-2003, and 2010-2012, respectively.

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Fethi Bouksila is currently an associate professor at Research Laboratory of Rural Engineering,National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry (INRGREF), Tunisia. After studies of Agricultural Engineering in High School of Rural Engineering of Medjez El Bab (ESIER), Tunisia, he got a master of science degree on Soil Science and land reclamation from the Tunisian National Agronomic Institute (INAT). Then, he got his PhD at Water Resources Engineering department, Lund University, Sweden. For about 25 years, his research interests have included soil science, water and soil salinity measurements, assessment and modeling, smart irrigation and the sustainability of irrigated agriculture under salinity pressure. He coordinated and participated in about 14 national and international research/development projects on the soil fertility and water conservation, valorization of marginal water in agriculture as well as the sustainable irrigated agriculture under salinity pressure and climate change. He published his research in impact scientific journals and in book chapters. He is a part-time teacher at Laboratory of Modelling in Hydraulics and Environment, National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT).

Farida Dechmi is a researcher at the Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon (CITA-Aragon), located in Zaragoza (Spain) since 2006, in the area of water quality and diffuse pollution. Her research group is also linked with the Aula Dei Experimental Station of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-EEAD) forming the Irrigation, Agronomy and the Environment Research Group, one of the largest groups in Spain in this area. Prior to working at CITA-Aragon, she was at Quebec Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agrifood Canada as a Postdoctoral researcher, working on similar topic, mainly on phosphorus diffuse pollution. Her actual research work focuses on integral management of irrigation water and fertilizers, and diffuse pollution assessment through international, national, and local research projects. Her work is based on both field experiments and use of irrigation, crop, and hydrological simulation models at the field and watershed scales. She has published numerous scientific (27 SCI), and technical papers (11 non-SCI articles) and have participated in the publication of 9 book chapters. She has supervised or co-supervised a total of 3 PhD Thesis and 4 Master dissertations.

A Marine Biologist, Corina’s expertise is in functional ecotoxicology, focusing on biological responses of marine organisms to environmental stressors. Prior to working at the University of Brighton, UK, Corina was a full-time Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK after starting as a Research Assistant for the Romanian National Marine Institute. She was involved in a wide range of international research programmes (International Mussel Watch, EU Interreg Channel),investigatingthe detoxification mechanisms in marine invertebrates, DNA damage and impairment of reproduction mechanisms. Recently, Corina has developed a strong interest in the marine microplastics pollution and the potential input from boating associated activities. Corina has published her research in high impact scientific journals, written book chapters and has appeared in TV and radio programs centred around her research into the contamination of the aquatic environment. Corina teaches Marine Biology at the University of Brighton UK and she brings a lot of her personal experience into the class room, encouraging students to participate in laboratory research and coastal surveys. In her spare time, Corina enjoys travelling, running, reading and walking her dog, Lulu.

Prof. Dr. Fernando A.L. Pacheco holds a PhD degree in Hydrogeology (2001) from the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro University (UTAD, Portugal) and Habilitation title in Environmental Geochemistry (2011) from the UTAD. He headed the Geology Department from 2013to 2021 and integrated the Scientific Council from the UTAD’s School of Life and Environmental Sciencesfrom 2017 to 2021. He was the person in change (PEP) for the creation and is the current Director of a Master Course in Applied Geosciences and of a Post-Graduation Course in Environmental Disasters and Risk Reduction. He is invited teacher of short-term courses on water resources management and environmental issues in various Brazilian Universities, including the São Paulo State University (UNESP). He supervised more than 60 students, including Post-Doc, PhD, MSc and other students. He joined the Vila Real Chemistry Research Centre in 2005, where He still develops most of his research. He also collaborates with three Brazilian research centers registered in the CNPqand anchored in three state or federal Universities. He published nearly110 research papers in International high-impact journals, co-authored by approximately 120 scientists of a various nationalities (Portugal, The Netherlands, Brazil, Hungary, Germany, Italy and Spain). Prof. Pacheco current’sh-index is 39. He presented hundreds of oral and poster communications in National and International conferences, being key speaker in some meetings. He also was a leader invarious large-budget scientific projects focused on water quality and environmental management, including the INTERACT project financed by the ERDF with over 4.3 M€. He is co-leader of a highmedia-impact project related to the consequences for theParaopeba River water quality caused by the rupture of Brumadinho iron tailings dam (Minas Gerais, Brazil),which occurred in January 2019 and resulted in the death of more than 270 people and the interruption of public water supply to Belo Horizonte city. Besides, He is actively involved in scientific cooperation-protocols on land management and water security, with several Brazilian institutions: Federal Institute of Triângulo Mineiro (IFTM), Regional Coordination of Environmental Justice Prosecutors in the Paranaíba and Baixo Rio Grande River Basins (MPMG), Minas Gerais Institute for Water Management (IGAM), the State Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development of Minas Gerais, (SEMAD) and the UNESP. Prof. Pacheco is a Top Reviewer certified by Clarivate Analytics Publons. In 2016, He received the “Sentinel of Science Award” as the Top Overall Contributor to Peer Review in the Field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. In 2017 He was awarded as Top overall Contributor to Peer Review of journal Science of Total Environment. He is also Top Handling Editorrecognized by Publons at various scientific journals, such as Science of Total Environment (IF = 7.98), Water, Sustainability, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Dr. Pacheco research interests and expertise cover the topics of hydrologic models coupled with weathering algorithms, especially in areas with significant anthropogenic pressure; multivariate statistical and environmental analyses of surface and groundwater databases, with focus on the prevention of surface and groundwater contamination; land degradation and management, as well as the negative impacts of inadequate land uses on soil erosion, surface and groundwater quality; water security issues, such as conjunctive use of surface and groundwater sources in public water supply systems, or the attenuation of hydrologic extremes (floods, droughts) through implementation of detention basins and decentralized rainwater harvesting systems in households, cities and catchments.

Luis Filipe Sanches Fernandes is Associate Professor with habilitation in the Engineering Department (Civil Engineering) in the area of hydraulics, water resources and environment. He is a full member at the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB). He is Associate Editor or Section Editor of three Scopus journals and hehas a 31 h-index Scopus with more than 100 articles published in the fields of hydrologic models in watersheds, multivariate statistical and environmental analyses of surface and groundwater databases, and the attenuation of hydrologic extremes (floods, droughts) through implementation of detention basins and decentralized rainwater harvesting systems. He participated and coordinated several research and university extension projects. He is currently coordinating the Entire project related with the consequences for Paraopeba River water quality and public water supply of a tailings dam collapse in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais, Brazil). He has supervised or co-supervised 4 Ph.D. theses and 35 master dissertations. He was a member of 2 terms in pedagogical councils, 2 terms in scientific councils, and 1 term in general council in UTAD.

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Dr. Tufan Ghosh is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Hydromechanics and Modeling of Hydrosystems, University of Stuttgart, Germany. He completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. His doctoral thesis deals with the modeling and simulations of two-phase flow through homogeneous and heterogeneous porous medium. He develops an analytical solution of the Stokes’ problem analogue for composite free flow and porous media flow. Now he is working on the project entitled “Pore scale formulations for evaporation, and upscaling to REV scale” under the framework of Sonderforschungsbereich 1313 (SFB1313) funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). His main research interests are (but not limited to) Mathematical modeling of evaporation process in porous media, upscaling of multiphase flow equations (Homogenization method), multi-phase flows through porous medium, mathematical modeling of enhanced oil recovery (EOR), displacement based modeling of flow through porous medium, free flow porous medium flow coupling processes for multi-phase systems. He is the Scientific Advisor of Mathematics at Iccha Foundation. He was the Academic Program Committee Coordinator for the 85th Annual Meeting of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS 2019) held at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He holds the Life Membership with the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) and an active member of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore).

Prior to joining AUS, Kazi Parvez Fattah worked as an environmental engineering consultant in Canada and as a faculty member in Bangladesh. His research interests are in environmental management of water and wastewater treatment systems, water distribution network, removal and recovery of nutrients, treatment of desalination reject/brine water; water reuse, application of nanoparticles in concrete and green concrete. He is currently the Deputy Editor of Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science (JEES), ICE. He is actively involved with collaborators worldwide and a reviewer for various journals and conferences. He is passionate about sustainability and increasing students’ social awareness on environmental topics.