Célia M. Manaia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Celia’s background is in Biochemistry and a PhD in Microbiology. She is Associate Professor of Microbiology and Genetics at the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. As a researcher, she is the head of the Bacterial Ecology Group at Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina. This group is focused on the study of bacterial diversity and ecology in human-environment interfaces and on the assessment and mitigation of potential adverse impacts on human health and well-being. Highlights of her research include the assessment of potential impacts of wastewater treatment plant emissions, the evaluation of potential risks associated with water reuse, the tracing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes as environmental contaminants, the assessment of novel advanced water treatment processes and the harmonization and comparability of methods for inter-laboratory antibiotic resistance monitoring in water environments. Currently, she is Vice-President of the Porto Regional Center of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology.
https://www.cbqf.esb.ucp.pt/en/docentes-celia-manaia-en
Eddie Cytryn, Volcani Institute, Israel
Eddie Cytryn is a senior researcher at the Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Volcani Institute in Israel. He received a PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota. His lab focuses on plant-microbe interactions and antimicrobial resistance in agroenvironments, with emphasis on treated wastewater irrigation, animal husbandry and aquaculture. Dr. Cytryn has been active in several European research networks and is currently the coordinator of the EU-PRIMA consortium "Decision support-based approach for sustainable water reuse application in agricultural production (DSWAP)". He was a member of the Israeli inter-ministerial expert committee for assessing the potential risks of AMR in wastewater effluents and a member of an Israeli working group on mitigating antimicrobial resistance in animal husbandry within the framework of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development.
https://cytrynlab.wixsite.com/cytrynlab/members
Andreas Schäffer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Andreas Schäffer finished his PhD thesis in chemistry in 1984. He worked as postdoc at Harvard University, USA, and at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. From 1989–1997 he worked as a researcher in an agrochemical company before he became professor at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His research interests relate to the metabolism of organic xenobiotics in soil, water and sediments, and plants. One focus of research is non-extractable residues of chemicals usually lacking information on structure and bioavailability. He has published more than 230 ISI-cited papers and four textbooks.
As a side job since 2003, he is director of the Research Institute for Environmental Analysis and Assessment in Aachen, Germany (a spin-off company of the university group). In 2012 and 2014 he became adjunct and honorary professor at Nanjing and Chongqing Universities, respectively. He served as an expert on the environmental risk assessment of chemicals in national and international panels and is a board member of the International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP).
http://www.bio5.rwth-aachen.de/en/
https://gaiac-eco.de/
