Full Professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He has a PhD in Environmental Sciences (Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2005), Master’s degree in Civil Engineering/Environmental Sanitation (UFC, Brazil, 2001), Specialization in Ecological Sanitation (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden, 2008) and Degree in Civil Engineering with Magna distinction cum Laude (UFC, Brazil, 1998). He is a level 1B researcher at CNPq, with several national and international awards. It participates in/coordinates national and international research projects, such as, some of which are currently prominent, the Research Network on emerging technologies for sewage treatment through aerobic granulation and photobioreactors (TrataRe+, coordinator), National Institute of Science and Technology in Sustainable Sewage Treatment Plants (INCT ETEs Sustainable, deputy-coordinator), Research and innovation network in renewable energies in Ceará (Rede Verdes, member) and Research network for monitoring antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antimicrobial resistance genes in sewage (ReViRAE, deputy coordinator ). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (Revista ESA) of the Brazilian Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (ABES), Editor-in-Chief of the Technical Bulletins in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (CTESA) of ABES, Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (ASCE). He is also a member of the editorial or ad hoc board of relevant Sanitary and Environmental Engineering journals or national and international funding agencies. He has worked mainly in domestic and industrial sewage treatment, bioenergy, environmental biotechnology, reuse, resource recovery, solid waste, environmental studies, basic sanitation management, and sewage-based epidemiology. He has also been a consultant for public and private companies for almost 25 years.
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Darja Istenič, PhD, is an assistant professor in the field of environmental engineering at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She started her career in the private sector with research and development of treatment wetlands for wastewater treatment in small communities, nature-based solutions for stormwater treatment and revitalisation of water bodies. At the University, she focuses her research on resource recovery from wastewater through nature-based solutions such as zero discharge willow systems, algae technologies and green walls. She also studies water management in urban catchments and is involved in national and international research projects and consultancy. She is an active member of the International Water Association (IWA) Resource Oriented Sanitation Working Group, the International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES), the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) and the Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE). Within GWP CEE, she leads the Sustainable Sanitation Task Force - a working group that includes small-scale sanitation experts from the region and manages an online Community of Practice for Nature-based Solutions in water management.
Dr. Gabriel A. Carranza currently serves as Executive Director of Global Engagement, where he provides vision, mission, objectives, and strategies to globalize education, research and service. He also serves as Adjunct Research Faculty at the Institute for Coastal and Water Research, and
as an Affiliated Research Faculty of the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Center of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Carranza has also served as a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering at State University of Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil.
His main area of research has been water borne illnesses, water quality and sustainable energy.
Dr. Carranza has a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Autonomous University of Mexico, a master’s and a PHD in Microbiology and Pathobiology from Texas A&M University.
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