Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (3rd Edition)

lt;p>Mohamed Ksibi:
High Institute of Biotechnology, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Mohamed Ksibi, completed his Ph.D. in 1993 in Applied Chemistry at the University of Poitiers, France. He also gained the Habilitation (HDR) in Chemistry from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2003. He was appointed as Full Professor of Chemistry in 2009 at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax (ISBS)). His areas of research interest include removal and toxicology assessment of persistent organic pollutants in the environment (water and sediment/soil). He has supervised 13 theses to completion and examined a further 4 Ph.D.s. He has also supervised 15 M.Sc. theses. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Euro-Mediterranean Journal of Environmental Integration (h-index 27). He had been Institute's Deputy Director of the ISBS from August 2011 until December 2017; he served as Director of the Department of Biotechnology and Health at ISBS from May 2008 until May 2011.

Abdelazim Negm:
Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Abdelazim Negm is Professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, since 2004. He got his Ph.D. in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU) and his M.Sc. from Ain Shams University in the year 1990. He was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011 and was Head of the Environmental Engineering Department at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt, from October 2013 to March 2016. Some of his papers were awarded the prize of the best papers. He is Editor of more than 35 Springer books with 12 volumes published in the Springer Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Series (HEC Series). He is Member of the scientific committee of several international conferences and Member of organizing committee of others and participated in more than 90 conferences as well.

Olfa Hentati:
Higher Institute of Biotechnology, Sfax, Tunisia

Dr. Olfa Hentati is Associate Professor (2019) at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology (ISBS), University of Sfax. She is Research Member in the Laboratory Environmental Engineering and Ecotechnology (GEET-LR16ES19) at the National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS) since 2006.  She received her Diploma in Biology and Functional Exploration from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis, Tunisia, in 1988 and her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Cell Biology from the University of Poitiers, France, in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Physiology from the University of Poitiers, France, in 1999.   In 2017, she earned her Habilitation in Biological Engineering. The focus of her research is on the use of terrestrial and aquatic organisms as bioindicators of chemical pollution, with particular emphasis to the influence of biological and environmental factors on the bioaccumulation of trace metals, raw and chemically treated dying wastewater, phenols and pharmaceutical residues.

Professor Achraf Ghorbal is Co-founder of the Advanced materials, Applied mechanics, Innovative processes and Environment Research Unit. He was for 7 years (2013-2020) Vice-Director of the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Gabes-University of Gabes-Tunisia. He obtained his M.Sc. in Processes and Materials Engineering (2003) and Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials (2006) from the University of Haute Alsace-Mulhouse-France. Then, he joined in 2007 the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique) in Saclay-France, as Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2008, he was hired as Assistant Professor, in 2015 had been promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2022 has been promoted to Full Professor in Materials Sciences at the University of Gabes-Tunisia. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, biopolymers, eco-ma

Section 1. Engineering applications for environmental management.- Section 2. Process control, simulations and intensification for environmental management.- Section 3. Ecotoxicology, environmental safety and bioremediation.- Section 4. Biotechnology for environmental management.- Section 5. Climate-change-related effects on the environment and ecological systems.- Section 6. Natural resources, agriculture and the environment.- Section 7. Smart technologies for environmentally friendly energy production.- Section 8. Remote sensing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.- Section 9. Environmental impacts of natural hazards and environmental risk assessment.- Section10. Sustainable management of marine and coastal environments.- Section 11. Sustainable management of the urban environment, the indoor and built environment.- Section 12. Ecosystems and biodiversity conservation.- Section 13. Environmental-change-related impacts on human, animal, and ecosystem health.- Section 14: FASTER Project Special Session: Climate Change Adaptation in Water, Soil, and Forestry in Tunisia.