Elsie Sunderland, Editor-in-Chief
Harvard University, USA
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-9548
Elsie Sunderland is the Fred Kavli Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, where she leads the Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminants Research Group. Her research aims to better understand how chemical pollutants interact with natural ecosystems and affect life.
Her group’s work quantitatively analyses the entire exposure pathway for pollutants to identify key processes that have a large influence on their accumulation in living organisms. Her group’s research approach combines environmental measurements with statistical and mechanistic models to project chemical levels over space and time.
Over the past 20 years, Professor Sunderland has collaborated extensively with indigenous groups, NGOs, and governmental organizations. Her work has informed strategies for managing risks associated with environmental chemical exposures from energy infrastructure such as coal-fired power plants and hydroelectric dams, and federal and international regulatory efforts for mercury and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. She received a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from McGill University in 1997 and a PhD in Environmental Toxicology from Simon Fraser University in 2003. She worked at the headquarters for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC on regulatory impact assessments and the use of environmental models to inform regulatory decisions before joining the Harvard faculty in 2010.
Qian Liu, Associate editor
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8525-7961
Qian Liu is Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (RCEES, CAS). He obtained B.S. of chemistry in 2004 and Ph.D. of analytical chemistry in 2009 from Hunan University. Thereafter, he obtained postdoc training in environmental chemistry at RCEES, CAS from 2010-2012 and at Trent University, Canada from 2013-2014. He became a Full Professor from 2017 at RCEES, CAS. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the XPLORER Prize in Energy & Environmental Protection. His research interests include environmental analytical chemistry, environmental nanotechnology, characterization and source tracing of micro/nanoparticles, air pollution, and health effect of environmental pollution.
Matthew MacLeod, Associate editor
Stockholm University, Sweden
Matthew MacLeod holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), and a PhD in Environmental Chemistry from Trent University (Ontario, Canada). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, USA, and a Research Group Leader at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich Switzerland. Since 2010 he has been a faculty member at Stockholm University, Sweden. Prof. MacLeod’s research interests include the fate, exposure and effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), modeling chemical pollutants, and environmental impacts of micro- and macro-plastics.
Jasquelin Peña, Associate editor
University of California, Davis, USA
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-3873
Jasquelin Peña is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She is also a Faculty Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in the area of molecular and environmental biogeochemistry. She aims to advance mechanistic knowledge of contaminant, carbon and nutrient transformations in natural and engineered systems in order to address critical environmental problems related to water security and environmental quality in the face of climate change. Her research brings together perspectives from soil chemistry, environmental mineralogy, microbiology and water quality engineering.
Prior to joining UC Davis, Jasquelin was a faculty member at the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland (2011-2020). She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Yale University in 2001, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley in 2004 and 2009. From 2001 to 2003, she worked as a research associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Paul Tratnyek, Associate editor
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8818-6417
Dr. Paul G. Tratnyek is currently Professor, and Associate Head, in the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems (EBS) and Institute of Environmental Health (IEH), at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
He received his Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in 1987; served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory in Athens, GA (ERD-Athens), during 1988; and as a Research Associate at the Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG) from 1989 to 1991.
His research concerns the physico-chemical processes that control the fate and effects of environmental substances, including minerals, metals (for remediation), organics (as contaminants), and nanoparticles (for remediation, as contaminants, and in biomedical applications).
Dr. Tratnyek is best known for his work on the degradation of groundwater contaminants with zero-valent metals, but his interests extend to all aspects of contaminant reduction and oxidation (redox) in all aquatic media. Some of his recent work emphasizes the fate/remediation of emerging contaminants (e.g., nanoparticles and 1,2,3-trichloropropane).
Cora Young, Associate editor
York University, Canada
Cora Young is a Professor and Guy Warwick Rogers Chair in Chemistry at York University. Professor Young’s research team focuses on the development and use of state-of-the-science analytical techniques to probe chemical mechanisms relevant to indoor and outdoor air quality, pollutant fate and transport, as well as climate change. She completed her BSc and PhD in chemistry at the University of Toronto, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado. She began her independent career as a faculty member at Memorial University in 2012, before moving to York University in 2017.
Katye Altieri
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Katye Altieri is a Senior Lecturer in the Oceanography Department at the University of Cape Town. Katye has a B.Sc. in Chemistry (2004; College of New Jersey) and a Ph.D. in Oceanography (2009; Rutgers University). She was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow for two years and then spent another two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate jointly appointed at Princeton University and Brown University.
After her postdoctoral time, she pursued a Masters in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2014). Katye received the Claude Leon Merit Award in 2017 and the Peter B. Wagner Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences in 2008.
Current research interests include air pollution in coastal cities, the impact of human activities on surface ocean biogeochemistry, and studying the remote marine atmosphere of the Southern Ocean as a proxy to understand more about atmospheric chemistry and climate during the preindustrial.
Ludmilla Aristilde
Northwestern University, USA
Dr Ludmilla Aristilde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.
Her research group employs a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches to gain insights into the biological and chemical mechanisms that control environmental organic processes, towards predicting natural carbon cycling and innovating engineered carbon recycling. Research findings from her group have led to new mechanistic considerations in biogeochemical pathways for microbial nutrient recycling, fate of organic contaminants in environmental matrices, and biotechnology for lignin and plastics recycling.
Dr Aristilde obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of California- Berkeley, followed by Fulbright fellowship in France and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. Dr Aristilde started her academic career at Cornell University where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018. In 2019, Dr Aristilde and her group moved to Northwestern University.
Amila de Silva
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5126-8854
Amila De Silva is a research scientist in the Government of Canada in the Water Science Technology Directorate located in Burlington, Ontario. She received her PhD in environmental chemistry from the University of Toronto in 2008. Her expertise areas are fate, transport and disposition of organic contaminants in the environment. In addition to the discovery of new contaminants with advanced analytical chemistry, Amila uses a combination of field and lab experiments to discern their ecological risk based on persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity and long range transport potential. Amila holds adjunct professor appointments at the University of Toronto and Memorial University.
Beate Escher
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Beate Escher is Head of Department of Cell Toxicology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany. She holds a professorship in Environmental Toxicology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, as well as a professorship at the University of Queensland and an adjunct professorship at Griffith University, Australia. She is also a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities.
Beate Escher’s research interests focus on mode-of-action based environmental risk assessment, including methods for initial hazard screening and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, disinfection by-products and persistent organic pollutants with an emphasis on mixtures. One of Escher’s goals is to close the gap between exposure and effect assessment through common approaches linking bioavailability to internal exposure and effects via understanding and modelling of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes.
Mingliang Fang
Fudan University, China
Mingliang (Thomas) Fang is a Professor at Fudan University, China. Prior to that, he studied for his PhD degree majoring in environmental chemistry and toxicology at Duke University and received metabolomics training at The Scripps Research Institute. His previous research experience primarily includes applications of mass spectrometry methods to identify emerging organic contaminants, measure human exposure, and assess potential health effects. He is also interested in investigating emerging organic contaminants using in vivo and in vitro bioassays and omic technologies to conduct risk assessments and identify the toxicity mechanism.
Delphine Farmer
Colorado State University, USA
Delphine Farmer received her BSc in Chemistry from McGill University before her MS in Environmental Science, Policy and Management and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. She held a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Colorado at Boulder before joining that faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University. Her work focuses on the development of new analytical techniques to study human influences on atmospheric chemistry and biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive trace gases and particles. Delphine received a Hermann Frasch Foundation Award in 2012 and an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award in 2013
Weihua Song
Fudan University, China
Dr. Weihua Song is currently a full professor of Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University. He received a B.S. in Environmental Chemistry and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Nanjing University in 1999 and 2002. He completed his Ph.D. with Professor Kevin E. O’Shea at Florida International University in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. William J. Cooper at University of California, Irvine from 2007 to 2010. His research interests are in the area of Environmental Chemistry. Particularly, he focuses on the occurrence, transformation, and fate of emerging contaminants in aqueous environments.
Lenny Winkel
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Eawag
Lenny Winkel is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry at ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. She did her undergraduate studies in Geology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and obtained her Ph.D. in Geochemistry in 2006 from ETH Zurich. Dr. Winkel then did her postdoctoral research at Eawag as well as at the University of Grenoble (France), University of Aberdeen (UK) and the Technical University of Crete (Greece) in the frame of an EU-funded research project. Her postdoctoral research focused on broad-scale predictions of arsenic in groundwater and environmental transformations of trace element species. In 2011, she was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professorship for her project investigating the global biogeochemical cycle of selenium. Her current research is aimed at understanding the processes controlling the biogeochemical cycling and environmental distribution of trace elements, and the effects of climate and environmental changes on these processes, through modelling, field and laboratory studies. A further focal point is the development of novel analytical methods to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze trace elements in different environmental matrices.
