About the editors

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is currently

Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences,
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Formerly Dean, School of Life Sciences.
Formerly Head, Department of Plant
Sciences.
Formerly Coordinator, Biotechnology
Program.
Formerly Coordinator of PG Diploma in
Environmental education and management.
He did his MSc (Botany) from Andhra
University, Waltair, 1973e75, and PhD
(Botany) from Lucknow University, Luck-
now 1975e79 (research conducted at Birbal
Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, an autonomous institute under the Depart-
ment of Science and Technology, Government of India).

Professional experience
Lecturer, June 1980e85, Department of Botany, North Eastern Hill University,
Shillong.
University of Hyderabad, School of Life Science, Lecturer, 1985e86,
Lecturer (Senior Scale) 1986e90; Reader, February 1990e98, and Professor
since August 1, 1998 to May 10, 2018 in the Department of Plant Sciences.
Dr. Prasad has made significant contributions to the field of plantemetal
interactions, bioremediation, and bioeconomy.
He has published 213 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, 135 book
chapters, and 30 edited books by Elsevier, Academic Press, Fizmatlit Russia,
John Wiley, Kluwer Academic, Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India, New Delhi, Marcel Dekker, Narosa, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Citations of his publications as
per google scholar are 16409, with an H-index of 63.

Academic honors
1. Recipient of Excellent Scholar Award by the XIX International Botanical
Congress, July 23e29, 2017, Shenzhen, China

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2. Pitamber Pant National Environment Fellow 2007 awarded by the Ministry

of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India
3. Recipient of Prof. KS Bilgrami memorial award, 2015, by the Society for
Plant Research, India
4. Served as COST action 859 (Phytotechnologies) working group member,
ESF
5. Elected FellowdLinnean Society of London, UK
6. Elected FellowdNational Institute of Ecology, New Delhi

Visiting assignments in various universitiesdwidely

traveled
l NSERC foreign research awardee by the University Que’bec INRS-Eau,
Canada, 1994
l Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Jagiellonian University,
Krakow, Poland, 1996
l University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999
l Stockholm University, Institute of Botany, Sweden, 2000
l University of Oulu, Oulu, by Finnish Academy Finland, 2002
l University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2005
l Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Department of Botany, Almaty,
Kazakhstan, 2006
l Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2007e2015
l Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Gent, Belgium, 2011
l Mahasarakham University, Thailand, 2013e14
l University of Santa Cruz, Ilhe’us-Bahia, Brazil, 2015
l MHRD, Government of India secondment to Asian Institute of Technology
Thailand for January to May semester 2017 visiting Professor, Thailand

Anna Grobelak is an Assistant Professor at

Czestochowa University of Technology,
Institute of Environmental Engineering. She
completed her doctoral degree in 2012 in
Environmental Engineering at Czestochowa
University of Technology, Faculty of
Infrastructure and Engineering. Her area of
research is environmental engineering,
biotechnology, and molecular toxicology. She
has made a contribution to the field of waste
water treatment, molecular diagnosis of path-
ogens, waste management, and bioremediation
technologies (Google Scholar citations 746,
h-index 13).
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She has published research articles in peer-reviewed journals and book

chapters (in total 78). She is an author of patents, scientific opinions, and
technological implementations for the industry. Much of her work has been
conducted with participation in research projects and with industry concerning
on waste and sewage sludge management, waste water systems, soil recla-
mation, and bioremediation.