Elsie Sunderland, Editor-in-Chief
Harvard University, USA
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-9548
Elsie Sunderland is the Fred Kavli Professor of Environmental Chemistry 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.
Over the past 20 years, Professor Sunderland has collaborated extensively with indigenous groups, NGOs, and governmental organizations. Her work has informed strategies for managing risks associated with environmental chemical exposures from energy infrastructure such as coal-fired power plants and hydroelectric dams, and federal and international regulatory efforts for mercury and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. She received a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from McGill University in 1997 and a PhD in Environmental Toxicology from Simon Fraser University in 2003. She worked at the headquarters for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC on regulatory impact assessments and the use of environmental models to inform regulatory decisions before joining the Harvard faculty in 2010.
Hans Peter Arp, Associate Editor
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0747-8838
Prof. Hans Peter H. Arp is a Canadian-German citizen who obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry (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 Chemistry, where his title is Technical Expert, which highest level research position within this institute.
Since 2018 he has been co-affiliated as an adjunct Full Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
He has authored or co-authored well over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including leading journals such as Science. Currently he leads and co-leads several large-scale, international research projects involving research institutes throughout Europe, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the European Commission through the H2020 and Horizon Europe Research Programs. Examples includes being the primary coordinator of ZeroPM (Zero Pollution of Persistent and Mobile Substances, ) and the Science and Impact Manager of of ARAGORN (Achieving Remediation And GOverning Restoration of contaminated soils Now.
Prof. Arp’s work is focussed on sustainable solutions to contamination, particularly for water, soil and sewage sludge. In particular, he is focussed on the science-innovation and science-policy interfaces. On the science-innovation interface, he is an expert for various industry-network boards and NGOs on issues related to pollution management.
On the science-policy side, he works with regulators in Norway, Germany and the European Commission, having written background scientific documents for policy decisions and guidelines for them. Publications from Hans Peter H. Arp can be found at his Orcid above.
Since 2018 he has been co-affiliated as an adjunct Full Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
He has authored or co-authored well over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including leading journals such as Science. Currently he leads and co-leads several large-scale, international research projects involving research institutes throughout Europe, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the European Commission through the H2020 and Horizon Europe Research Programs. Examples includes being the primary coordinator of ZeroPM (Zero Pollution of Persistent and Mobile Substances, ) and the Science and Impact Manager of of ARAGORN (Achieving Remediation And GOverning Restoration of contaminated soils Now.
Prof. Arp’s work is focussed on sustainable solutions to contamination, particularly for water, soil and sewage sludge. In particular, he is focussed on the science-innovation and science-policy interfaces. On the science-innovation interface, he is an expert for various industry-network boards and NGOs on issues related to pollution management.
On the science-policy side, he works with regulators in Norway, Germany and the European Commission, having written background scientific documents for policy decisions and guidelines for them. Publications from Hans Peter H. Arp can be found at his Orcid above.
Qian Liu, Associate editor
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8525-7961
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
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-7862
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
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-3873
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.
Prior to joining UC Davis, Jasquelin was a faculty member at the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland (2011-2020). She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Yale University in 2001, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley in 2004 and 2009. From 2001 to 2003, she worked as a research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Cora Young, Associate editor
York University, Canada
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-5829
Cora Young is a Professor and Guy Warwick Rogers Chair in Chemistry 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
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6778-4079
Katye Altieri is a Senior Lecturer in the Oceanography Department at the University of Cape Town. Katye has a B.Sc. in Chemistry (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.
Katye's current research interests include air pollution in coastal cities, the impact of human activities on surface ocean biogeochemistry, and studying the remote marine atmosphere of the Southern Ocean as a proxy to understand more about atmospheric chemistry and climate during the preindustrial.
Jonathan Benskin
Stockholm University, Sweden
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-637X
Jonathan Benskin is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science (ACES) at Stockholm University. His research focuses on the development and application of novel analytical tools for measuring emerging contaminants. Fluorine mass balance and high-resolution mass spectrometry-based suspect and non-target screening are areas of particular interest. Following completion of a BSc in chemistry (University of Victoria, 2005) and a PhD in medical sciences (University of Alberta, 2010). Jon went on to work as an NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellow and then Principle Scientist in Industry before returning to the academic world in 2014. He currently serves as Head of the Contaminant Chemistry Unit at ACES.
Amila de Silva
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5126-8854
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.
Satoshi Endo
National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8702-1602
Satoshi Endo is a Chief Senior Researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. He earned his PhD in Applied Geology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Before joining NIES in 2019, he worked as a research scientist at UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, and later as an Associate Professor at Osaka City University, Japan.
Dr Endo specializes in environmental organic chemistry. His research focuses on measuring, modeling, and predicting environmental fate properties of organic chemicals. His expertise also extends to environmental passive sampling, GC and LC analysis, and designing ecotoxicity tests. His recent interest has been in chemicals with properties that differ from traditional contaminants, such as per and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) and cationic surfactants.
Beate Escher
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5304-706X
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
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-9783
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.
Asif Qureshi
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3329-0166
Asif Qureshi is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. He is also the head of the Department of Climate Change at IIT Hyderabad. He received his D.Sc. in Environmental Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich.
The overarching theme of his work is environmental health. His research group uses measurements and/or modeling to better understand the biogeochemical cycling of, and/ or exposure to, chemicals under present and future environmental scenarios. They often work collaboratively and seek to create knowledge from local to global scale studies that may help impact environmental health and policy decisions.
Weihua Song
Fudan University, China
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-7919
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 Chemistry 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 Chemistry. Particularly, he focuses on the occurrence, transformation, and fate of emerging contaminants in aqueous environments.
