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We are delighted to introduce Yunho Lee as an Editorial Board Member for our new journal Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.

Yunho Lee

Yunho Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Environmental Science & Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology-GIST, Korea. He completed his Ph.D. in the Chemical Engineering Department at Seoul National University, Korea in 2005. He did a postdoctoral research at EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology before joining GIST in 2011.

Yunho’s research interests include:

• drinking water quality and treatment
• wastewater reclamation and resource recovery
• (photo) chemical oxidation processes in natural and technical water systems

Yunho is currently researching the fate and treatment of organic contaminants of concern (e.g., antibiotics, resistant genes, nitrosamines) in natural and technical water systems, with focuses on environmental redox processes. To understand and optimize the redox processes and technologies, his group takes inter-disciplinary approaches combining chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, and process engineering. In addition to the water quality issues in urban, centralized systems, his group is investigating small-scale, decentralized treatment/recovery technologies for sustainable water and resources management. Current research topics are treatment/recovery technologies for source-separated urine and gravity-driven membrane-based water treatment technologies.

We are delighted to introduce Tamar Kohn as an Associate Editor for our new journal Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.

About Tamar

After receiving a Diploma in Environmental Science at ETZH in Switzerland, Tamar completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering at John Hopkins University in 2004. She then became a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Currently, Tamar is an Associate Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, where she heads the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory. The aim of Tamar’s research is to understand the fundamental principles and processes that lead to improved water quality in natural and engineered systems, including pertinent water quality issues such as viral pathogens and organic micropollutants. She uses a combination of (photo-) chemical, molecular biological and modelling tools to gain knowledge enabling the improvement of existing water treatment systems and development of novel, more effective methods.

We are delighted to introduce Paige Novak as an Associate Editor for our new journal Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.

About Paige

Paige completed a B.S in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She then attended the University of Iowa, where she completed her M.S and PhD in 1997 – both in Environmental Engineering.

Currently, Paige is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she heads a research group, specializing in research on the biological transformation of hazardous substances in sediment, groundwater and wastewater. She works both in the laboratory and in the field, trying to understand the interactions between microorganisms and environmental conditions. Her current research focuses on:

• PCB dechlorinators
• The natural role of dehalorespirers in the environment
• The fate of estrogenic compounds in wastewater and the environment
• The effects of micropollutants on microbial communities
• Reactive membrane systems

Paige has recently published a paper, ‘identifying sources of emerging organic contaminants in a mixed use watershed using principal component analysis’ in our sister journal, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

Paige is now accepting submissions – submit your manuscript to her today!

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