2019 Recipients
Distinguished Researcher
Tamer Gado
Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt
"Bias correction of daily satellite based rainfall estimates over Egypt"
Young Researchers
Ratnajit Saha
Senior Research Associate at the Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Bangladesh
"Geogenic arsenic and microbial contamination in drinking water sources: Exposure risks to the coastal population in Bangladesh"
Distinguished Researcher
Ricardo Antonio Torres-Palma
Professor of Chemistry at the Instituto de Quimica, Universidad de Antioquia, Columbia
"Elimination of relevant pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater from Colombia by combination of a biological system with a sonochemical process"
Young Researchers
Lester Lee Bayon
University of the Philippines
"Cobalt and phosphorous recovery from semiconductor wastewater through homogeneous crystallization of cobalt phosphate in a fluidized bed reactor"
Amartya Pani
Doctoral Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India
"Changing cropping patterns and irrigation practices: Implications for promoting sustainable growth of agriculture in West Bengal, India"
Distinguished Researcher
Aleksandr Tskhai
Principal Researcher, Institute for Water & Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Barnaul, Russia
"Model assessment of the efficiency of water utility companies: approach to the analysis of resources and results"
Distinguished Researchers
Yolanda Pico
Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Spain
"Pharma residues and microplastics in Saudi Arabian lakes and pools irrigated with wastewaters: Bioacumulation and plant uptake"
Ajit Sarmah
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
"Low-cost adsorbent for environmental remediation of pharma residues: How resilient is the approach?"
Mario Carere
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
"Effect based methods for the detection of pharmaceutical contamination in the context of the water framework directive"
Distinguished Researchers
Seppo Hellsten
Head of Restoration Assessment Unit at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Oulu, Finland
"Management and restoration of surface water bodies receiving mine waters – lessons learned from Talvivaara mine impacts in northern part of Finland"
Eduardo Rodríguez de San Miguel
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"Determination of arsenic(V) bioavailability in aquatic systems using a passive sampler based on polymer inclusion membranes (PIMs) and filamentous fungi"
Young Researchers
Filipe Rocha
University of Porto, Portugal
"Nutrient Content, Heavy Metals, Microorganisms and Organic Pollutants in Portuguese Sewage Sludge - A Country Level Analysis"
Franja Prosenc
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Microplastics in Soil and Soil like Matrices: Extraction, Quantification, and Identification"
Hiba Zind
University of Poitiers, France
"Distribution of selected pharmaceutical residues and their related degradation products in different aquatic compartments"
Jakub Gruszka
University of Bialystok, Poland
"Application of Single Particle ICP MS for speciation analysis of AgNPs and Ag+ ions in surface waters and green algae"
Jovana Orlic
University of Belgrade, Serbia
"Assessing the impact of urbanization on the sediment and bivalves archives of the Great War Island (Serbia)"
Lisa Shearer
University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, Scotland, UK
"Sustainable water treatment of pharmaceuticals using functionalised waste materials as adsorbents"
Magdalena Gajek
Łódź University of Technology, Poland
"Semi-quantitative assessment of selected metals of whisky samples in relation to their type and origin"
Olha Matviichuk
Université de Poitiers, France
"Evolution of antibiotics in two French rivers and incidence of antibiotic resistance in biofilms"
Pablo Irizar
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
"Design of epoxy-silica hybrids based on environment–friendly cycloaliphatic diol compounds for potential application as stone conservation materials"
Yara Arbid
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
"Development of an experimental system to measure air depollution performance of green roofs"
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