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Elsie Sunderland, Editor-in-Chief

Harvard University, USA

Elsie Sunderland is the Fred Kavli Professor of Environmental 91AV and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, where she leads the Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminants Research Group. Her research aims to better understand how chemical pollutants interact with natural ecosystems and affect life.

Her group’s work quantitatively analyses the entire exposure pathway for pollutants to identify key processes that have a large influence on their accumulation in living organisms. Her group’s research approach combines environmental measurements with statistical and mechanistic models to project chemical levels over space and time. 

Hans Peter Arp, Associate Editor

Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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Prof. Hans Peter H. Arp is a Canadian-German citizen who obtained his B.Sc. in 91AV (1998) and B.A. in Comparative Literature (2000) from the University of New Brunswick, M.Sc. (2003) from the University of Tübingen, Germany), and Ph.D (2008) from ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Since 2008 he has worked for the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Norway, in the department of Environmental 91AV, where his title is Technical Expert, which highest level research position within this institute.

Qian Liu, Associate editor

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Qian Liu is Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (RCEES, CAS). He obtained B.S. of chemistry in 2004 and Ph.D. of analytical chemistry in 2009 from Hunan University. Thereafter, he obtained postdoc training in environmental chemistry at RCEES, CAS from 2010-2012 and at Trent University, Canada from 2013-2014. He became a Full Professor from 2017 at RCEES, CAS. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the XPLORER Prize in Energy & Environmental Protection. His research interests include environmental analytical chemistry, environmental nanotechnology, characterization and source tracing of micro/nanoparticles, air pollution, and health effect of environmental pollution.

Carla Ng, Associate Editor

University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Dr Carla Ng is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She has secondary appointments in Environmental and Occupational Health and in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.

She received her PhD in Chemical & Biological Engineering from Northwestern University in 2008. Her research focuses on developing computational and in vitro approaches to evaluate the fate and effects of legacy and emerging chemicals in organisms and ecosystems, particularly on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Jasquelin Peña, Associate editor

University of California, Davis, USA

Jasquelin Peña is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She is also a Faculty Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Her research is in the area of molecular and environmental biogeochemistry. She aims to advance mechanistic knowledge of contaminant, carbon and nutrient transformations in natural and engineered systems in order to address critical environmental problems related to water security and environmental quality in the face of climate change. Her research brings together perspectives from soil chemistry, environmental mineralogy, microbiology and water quality engineering.

Paul Tratnyek, Associate editor

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Dr. Paul G. Tratnyek is currently Professor, and Associate Head, in the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems (EBS) and Institute of Environmental Health (IEH), at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

He received his Ph.D. in Applied 91AV from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in 1987; served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory in Athens, GA (ERD-Athens), during 1988; and as a Research Associate at the Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG) from 1989 to 1991.

Cora Young, Associate editor

York University, Canada

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Cora Young is a Professor and Guy Warwick Rogers Chair in 91AV at York University. Professor Young’s research team focuses on the development and use of state-of-the-science analytical techniques to probe chemical mechanisms relevant to indoor and outdoor air quality, pollutant fate and transport, as well as climate change. She completed her BSc and PhD in chemistry at the University of Toronto, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado. She began her independent career as a faculty member at Memorial University in 2012, before moving to York University in 2017.

Katye Altieri

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Katye Altieri is a Senior Lecturer in the Oceanography Department at the University of Cape Town. Katye has a B.Sc. in 91AV (2004; College of New Jersey) and a Ph.D. in Oceanography (2009; Rutgers University). She was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow for two years and then spent another two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate jointly appointed at Princeton University and Brown University.

After her postdoctoral time, she pursued a Masters in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2014). Katye received the Claude Leon Merit Award in 2017 and the Peter B. Wagner Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences in 2008.

Ludmilla Aristilde

Northwestern University, USA

Dr Ludmilla Aristilde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.

Her research group employs a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches to gain insights into the biological and chemical mechanisms that control environmental organic processes, towards predicting natural carbon cycling and innovating engineered carbon recycling. Research findings from her group have led to new mechanistic considerations in biogeochemical pathways for microbial nutrient recycling, fate of organic contaminants in environmental matrices, and biotechnology for lignin and plastics recycling.

Amila de Silva

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

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Amila De Silva is a research scientist in the Government of Canada in the Water Science Technology Directorate located in Burlington, Ontario. She received her PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Toronto in 2008.   Her expertise areas are fate, transport and disposition of organic contaminants in the environment. In addition to the discovery of new contaminants with advanced analytical chemistry, Amila uses a combination of field and lab experiments to discern their ecological risk based on persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity and long range transport potential. Amila holds adjunct professor appointments at the University of Toronto and Memorial University.

Beate Escher

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

Beate Escher is Head of Department of Cell Toxicology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany. She holds a professorship in Environmental Toxicology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, as well as a professorship at the University of Queensland and an adjunct professorship at Griffith University, Australia. She is also a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Beate Escher’s research interests focus on mode-of-action based environmental risk assessment, including methods for initial hazard screening and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, disinfection by-products and persistent organic pollutants with an emphasis on mixtures. One of Escher’s goals is to close the gap between exposure and effect assessment through common approaches linking bioavailability to internal exposure and effects via understanding and modelling of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes.

Mingliang Fang

Fudan University, China

Mingliang (Thomas) Fang is a Professor at Fudan University, China. Prior to that, he studied for his PhD degree majoring in environmental chemistry and toxicology at Duke University and received metabolomics training at The Scripps Research Institute. His previous research experience primarily includes applications of mass spectrometry methods to identify emerging organic contaminants, measure human exposure, and assess potential health effects. He is also interested in investigating emerging organic contaminants using in vivo and in vitro bioassays and omic technologies to conduct risk assessments and identify the toxicity mechanism.

Weihua Song

Fudan University, China

Dr. Weihua Song is currently a full professor of Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University. He received a B.S. in Environmental 91AV and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Nanjing University in 1999 and 2002. He completed his Ph.D. with Professor Kevin E. O’Shea at Florida International University in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. William J. Cooper at University of California, Irvine from 2007 to 2010. His research interests are in the area of Environmental 91AV. Particularly, he focuses on the occurrence, transformation, and fate of emerging contaminants in aqueous environments.

Lenny Winkel

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Eawag

Lenny Winkel is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry at ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. She did her undergraduate studies in Geology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and obtained her Ph.D. in Geochemistry in 2006 from ETH Zurich.

She then did her postdoctoral research at Eawag as well as at the University of Grenoble (France), University of Aberdeen (UK) and the Technical University of Crete (Greece) in the frame of an EU-funded research project. Her postdoctoral research focused on broad-scale predictions of arsenic in groundwater and environmental transformations of trace element species.