Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. In March 2021 she is joining LUT School of Engineering Science at Mikkeli, Finland, as a Full Professor in biological water treatment. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

1. Microbial Decolorization of Colored Industrial Effluents
2. Bioremediation of Metals Mediated by Marine Bacteria
3. Cyanoremediation: A Green Clean Technology
4. Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils
5. Enzymatic Bioremediation: Current Status, Challenges of Obtaining Process, and Applications
6. Catalytic Promiscuity of Aromatic Ring-Hydroxylating Dioxygenases and Their Role in the Plasticity of Xenobiotic Compound Degradation
7. Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Environmental Fate, Challenges and Bioremediation
8. Microbial Degradation of Cyanides and Nitriles
9. Biodegradation of the Explosives TNT, RDX and HMX Chapter 10: Microbial Degradation of Polychlorophenols
10. Microbial Styrene Degradation: From Basics to Biotechnology
11. Biodegradation of Mono-Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Fungi
12. Bacterial Degradation of High Molecular Weight Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons
13. Microbial Degradation of PAHs: Organisms and Environmental Compartments
14. Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): Current Practices and Outlook
15. Biodegradation of Synthetic Parathyroid Insecticides
16. Microbial Degradation of Dye-Containing Wastewater
17. Bacterial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
18. Microbial Degradation of Recalcitrant PAHs-Microbial Diversity Involving Remediation Process
19. Microbial Degradation of Alkanes