Advanced Water Treatment

Mika Sillanpää is a professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research centers on chemical treatment in environmental engineering, environmental monitoring, and resource recovery from waste streams.Sillanpää received his M.Sc. (Eng.) and D.Sc. (Eng.) degrees from the Aalto University where he also completed an MBA degree in 2013. Since 2000, he has been a full professor/adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, the University of Eastern Finland, the LUT University, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Johannesburg.He has received numerous awards for research and innovation. He is the first Laureate of Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)’s Young Investigator Award, which was delivered at the UNESCO Conference in Shanghai 2010 for his “significant contributions, outstanding achievements and research leadership in Environmental Technological Innovations to address present water pollution problems worldwide, especially with regard to wastewater treatment and reuse”. In 2011, he was invited to act as a Principal Scientific Reviewer in the GEO-5 report of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). In 2012, he received Tapani Järvinen Environmental Technology Award and Publication Award of the Lappeenranta University of Technology. In 2014, he received the Science Award of the Lappeenranta University of Technology and Pro Mikkeli Award. In 2018, he was invited as a Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Technology Academy of Finland. He also received Literature award from the Water Association of Finland in 2018.

• 1. Nano- and Microcellulose Based Adsorption Materials in Water Treatment2. Adsorption of Dyes on to Modified Titanium Dioxide3. Cross-Linked Chitosan and Cyclodextrin as Functional Adsorbents in Water Treatment4. Novel Sorbents from Low-Cost Materials for Water Treatment5. Sol-Gel Synthesized Titanosilicates for the Uptake of Radionuclides from Aqueous Solutions6. Hydrothermal Carbonization in the Synthesis of Sustainable Porous Carbon Materials7. Hybrid Bio-Nanocomposites and their Application for the Removal of Rare Earth Elements8. Selective Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Diluted Aqueous Streams Using N- and O- Coordination Ligand Grafted Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Composites