Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies for the Removal of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds / Green Energy and Technology (PDF)

Council, a master in Materials Science and Engineering, and a director of Doctoral Program in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology. Her current R&D interests encompass a wide range of materials regarding composition, dimensionality, and properties, for different applications (electronics, biomedical, and environment), i.e., synthesis and processing of nanoparticles, nanostructures, thin/thick films, single crystals, ceramic bulk materials and ceramic polymer composites, and characterization of their structure, microstructure, mechanical, dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric properties.





Shahid-ul-Islam is a fulbright research scientist at the University of California (Davis), California, USA. Before joining UC, he was working as a principal scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, where he led projects funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India. His research goals are interdisciplinary, with a main emphasis on green engineering, sustainable chemistry, and the design and development of biologically active materials and surfaces for different application sectors. He is a fellow of the International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), Japan; a member of many groups, including the American Chemical Society (USA); and is a life member of the Asian Polymer Association.





Lise Appels is the head of the Process and Environmental Technology Lab (PETLab), which focusses on resource recovery and the treatment of aqueous waste and side streams. Within PETLab, she coordinates the research line on optimization of mixed-culture microbial processes toward the production of energy carriers and renewable chemicals, using (polluted) organic side streams as feedstock. She is a subject editor of Renewable Energy (IF= 8.001), EBM of various international journals (Renewable and Sustainable EnergyReviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, Energies, ...), and a regular reviewer for numerous international journals.





Raf Dewil received his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Science from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven - Belgium) in 2003. Between 2003 and 2006, he carried out Ph.D. research at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He was awarded his Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering (Environmental Engineering) at this university in 2006. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Antwerp, he was appointed as an assistant professor at KU Leuven association in November 2007, followed by a part-time associated professorship at the Chemical Engineering Department of KU Leuven in 2009. In 2014, he became a full-time associate professor at the same department. In 2018, he was promoted to professor. At KU Leuven, Raf Dewil leads a research group of about 20 members, mainly working on the treatment of hazardous waste(water) streams and sustainable resource recovery.