Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters. 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. Ammonia oxidizing bacteria: a model for molecular microbial ecology
2. The lithoautotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria
3. Diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria
4. Abundance of ammonia oxidizing bacteria in industrial wastewater treatment systems
5. Population ecology of nitrifying bacteria in wastewater treatment systems.
6. Ammonia oxidation kinetics & its application in wastewater treatment.
7. Autotrophic nitrification in bacteria
8. Ecology, Diversity and Functions of Anammox process in Modified Ludzack Ettinger Process (MLE)
9. Ammonia oxidizing bacterial community analysis in activated sludge process
10. Growth, activity and temperature responses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil microcosms.
11. Aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria.
12. Genomics of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and denitrification in wastewater treatment plants.
13. Nitrification by chemolithotrophic bacteria.
14. Ammonium removal by the oxygen limited autotrophic nitrification denitrification system.
15. An overview of the Anammox process.
16. Key physiology of anaerobic ammonium oxidation.
17. Completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite under ammonia limitation
18. Diversity study of nitrifying bacteria in sewage and industrial wastewater treatment plant