Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies

Professor Predrag Putnik, PhD has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He co-edited Elsevier’s" Agri-Food Industry Strategies for Healthy Diets and Sustainability" and is associate editor in Food Chemistry Advances, Elsevier. He was invited as guest editor for Food Research International, Elsevier, Special issue "Conventional, Non-Conventional Extraction Techniques and New Strategies for The Recovery of Bioactive Compounds from Plant Material for Human Nutrition" and Foods, MDPI; "Novel food processing and extraction technologies" and for "Sustainable Functional Food Processing." He is review editor of “Frontiers in Nutrition”, and member of the Editorial Board of reputed journals from Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. In 2021 he received Tanner Award for co-authoring the most-cited paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (2018). In 2021 he was elected as Highly Cited Researcher ranked in the top 1% by citations for Agricultural Sciences by the Web of Science™. Dr. Daniela Šojić Merkulov, full professor at University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences has strong experience in the field of application of nanotechnology in organic pollutants removal from waters by using advanced oxidation processes. She has published 38 articles in the reputable journals; and a team leader in 2 projects, in the field of environmental protection. She is a reviewer of a large number of scientific papers in international journals with high impact factor, bilateral project proposals, and National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary. She has won a number of awards for reviewing in top international journals from the SCI list, Elsevier, as well as a certificate of excellence in reviewing for the journal Chemosphere, Elsevier. She was president of the Serbian Chemical Society – Chemical Society of Vojvodina. She is the lead editor of the special issue for the "Sustainable Green Nanotechnologies for Innovative Purifications of Water" from MDPI.

1. Meat production and environmental repercussions 2. Fish production and water systems 3. Horticultural food production and water: Fruits and vegetables 4. Grain production and environment 5. Production of extracts for (functional) food manufacturing and environment 6. Nanotechnology based on AOPs in environmental remediation for sustainable agri-food industry 7. Industrial and urban wastewater treatment, disinfection and reuse by using advanced oxidation processes 8. Synergistic exploitation of a hybrid AOPs as a pre-treatment of concentrated aqueous effluents containing organic recalcitrant compounds 9. Applications of functional nanomaterials in photocatalytic air pollutants’ degradation, H2 production from water splitting and CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons 10. BiOX photocatalysts with a special focus on application in environmental protection 11. A review of perovskite type materials: From synthesis to applications 12. Zirconium oxide-based nanocomposites as photocatalysts for degradation of pollutants in wastewaters 13. Occurrence of mycotoxins in natural water and their removal by AOPs 14. Heterostructured semiconductor nanomaterials for sensors environmental monitoring and remediation 15. The application of plant-inspired nanomaterials in innovative water purification technology 16. Catalytic production and application of carbon nanotubes in water purification processes 17. Application of oxide and carbon-based materials in remediation of arable soil 18. Remediation of environmental contamination by subcritical and supercritical water 19. Nanoparticles in phytoremediation and plant nutrition 20. Nanotechnology in mycotoxicological food and feed safety 21. Costs and benefits of nanotechnology application in environmental sustainability at the industrial level