Prof. Zhen Fang, Professor in Bioenergy; Inventor of Fast Hydrolysis Process (US patent#: 8268126); Editor-in-Chief, Springer Book Series – Biofuels and Biorefineries; Leader and Founder of biomass group, College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He has background in both bioenergy (PhD, Agr. Eng. China Agr. Univ. 1991) and nanotechnology (PhD, Mat.Eng. McGill, 2003). He has 23 years in bioenergy, more than 13 years in hydrothermal, nanotechnology and diamond anvil cell techniques of international research experiences at top universities and institutes around the world (China, Canada, Japan and Spain). He is serving as Associate Editor for Biotechnology for Biofuels (impact factor 6.09), and 9 editorial board members of international journals (e.g., biofuels, bioproducts and biorefining (impact factor 4.74); energy, sustainability and society-a Springer open Journal).

Prof. Dr. Miklas Scholz, Chair in Civil Engineering, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE is the Director of the Civil Engineering Research Centre at The University of Salford since 2010. He is very research active with more than 130 journal papers and two book publications by Elsevier and Springer. He is an expert in innovative technologies linked to ground source heat pumps in urban water management.

Research on water quality and quantity aspects of novel hybrid sustainable drainage systems has led to a wider application of their use. Findings show the potential to combine ground source heat pumps with permeable pavement systems to heat or cool nearby buildings and to treat runoff, respectively. Moreover, the treated runoff can either be recycled or used to recharge groundwater in urban areas.

The research output is significant, because it scientifically justifies the proposed transformation of traditional urban and rural landscapes into sustainable and resilient environments. The proposed hybrid sustainable drainage systems such as the combined ground source heat pumps and permeable pavements represent the next generation of drainage systems.

Prof. Miklas Scholz was awarded a Global Research Award and an Industrial Secondment by The Royal Academy of Engineering and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prof. Scholz has received research funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, European Union, Teagasc, Monaghan County Council, Glasgow Council, Alderburgh/Atlantis Water Management, Heidelberg/Hanson/Formpave, Marshalls, Triton Electronics and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Prof. Scholz was a co-investigator on the EU INTERREG grant ‘Strategical Alliance for Integrated Water Management Actions’.

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Zhen Fang (College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China)  View Editor's Profile

Miklas Scholz (University of Salford, Salford, UK)   View Editor's Profile

Associate Editor

Saleem Raza Samo (Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology, Nawabshah, Pakistan) 

Editorial Board Members:

Ankur Bhattacharjee (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India)

Ala’a Al-Muhtaseb (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)

Amin Shokrollahi (The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)

Basant Kumar Sahoo (IIT, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India)

Chamil Abeykoon (The University of Manchester, Manchester, England)

Abdullah K. Al-Janabi (Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman)

Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso (State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Dourados-MS, Brazil)

Burak Zincir (Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Ali M. Eltamaly (King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Ashok Kumar Nadda (Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India)

Arshian Sharif (UCSI Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Akinola David Olugbemide (Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria)

Branimir N. Grgur (University of Belgrade Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade, Serbia)

Azrina Abd Aziz (Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Malaysia)

Bo Yang (Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China)

Augustine Omoniyi Ayeni (Covenant University, Canaan land, Ota, Nigeria)

Carlo Ingrao (University of Foggia, Via Romolo Caggese, 1 - 71121 Foggia, Italy)

Chao-chen CHUNG (Wuhan University, Wuhan, China)

Abu Yousuf (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh)

Ahmet Mete Vural (Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey)

Ahmad Reza Taghipour Jahrom (Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran)

Alok Kumar Shrivastav (Techno India, Kolkata, India)

Ayman Youssef Mahgoub (Limerick University, Limerick, Ireland)

Baiming Ren (Chang'an University, Xi'an, P.R. China)

Anuj Kumar Chandel (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)

Ankit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India)

Asheesh Kumar Yadav (CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar-751 013, Odisha, India)

A. Valan Arasu (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India)

Anand Vijay Satpute (Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India)

Abdel-Aal  Mohamed Gaber (Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt)

Anil Kumar Sarma (Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio Energy, Kapurthala, Punjab, India)

Ali Arzani (Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA)

Arslan Dawood Butt (Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan)

Bauyrzhan Yedilbayev (Al Farabi Kazakh National University, City Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Bo Hu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100029, China)

Abdülvahap Çakmak (Samsun University, Samsun, Turkey)

Ravindra Brammajyosula (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India)

Beatriz Valle Pascual (University of the Basque Country, Biscay, Spain)

Aulon Shabani (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania)

Ankit Sharma (Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, United States)

Adil Usman (University of California Santa Cruz, California, United States)

Ahmed Ketata (University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia)

Huachao Yang (Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China)

Alan Nebrida (Nueva Vizcaya State University, Philippines)

Bijoy Kumar Mondal (Uttara High School and College, Dhaka, Bangladesh)