Micropollutants and Challenges

Afsane Chavoshani is a PhD candidate in Environmental Health Engineering, Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. She was a Lecturer of Environmental Health Engineering, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Khorasan Razavi. Her main area of interest is the study of biomonitoring, water, waste water and air pollutions. She has designed her MSc and PhD thesis on "Pentachlorophenol removal form aqueous solutions by microwave/persulfate and microwave/hydrogen peroxide and "Study of the relationship between paraben concentrations with breast cancer among women in Isfahan province", respectively. Also, she is performing a project with title of "Comparative study of the indoor and outdoor air parabens concentration in Isfahan city in 2016". She has published several articles and papers in various journals, and contributed a chapter to the book "Advanced oxidation processes for waste water treatment (emerging green chemistry technology)". Also, she is a reviewer of a number of international journals.

Majid Hashemi is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Engineering Department at Kerman University of Medical Sciences (Iran). His areas of interest and research are Biomonitoring; Water, and Wastewater Treatment; Environmental Nanotechnology; and other Environmental Sciences fields. He is the member of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH) and has published valuable articles in National and International Journals.

Mohammad Mehdi Amin is a Professor of Environmental Health Engineering and Head Environment Research Center. He is involved in teaching postgraduate course in water treatment and also undergraduate courses in industrial and municipal collection and treatment systems. His responsibilities included monitoring of water distribution network for lack of microbial and chemical contamination as well as overseeing solid waste management practices of contract companies. Other duties included sanitation and supervision of food preparation and distribution centers from public health engineering. He is Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering. He has presented papers at conferences both home and abroad, published articles and papers in various journals and translated several books.

Prof. Suresh C. Ameta has served as Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, North Gujarat University Patan and M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur & Head, Department of Polymer Science. Now, he is serving as Dean, Faculty of Science, PAHER University, Udaipur. Prof. Ameta is a former President of the Indian Chemical Society, Kotkata and is currently Vice President. He was won a number of prizes including 2 for writing Chemistry books, a national teacher award and a Life Time Achievement Award by Indian Chemical Society. He has successfully guided 75 students for Ph. D. Dr. Ameta has more than 350 research papers and 36 books to his credit plus numerous chapters.

He has completed 5 Major Research Projects by DST, UGC, CSIR, Ministry of Energy, Govt. of India. His research areas are - Waste Water Treatment, Photochemistry, Green Chemistry, Microwave Assisted reactions, Environmental Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Solar Cells.