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. Dr. Yuri Park completed her PhD degree at Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 2013 and obtained her Post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University with Centre of Water Resources and Studies. Currently, she is appointed as an assistant professor in DGC, at LUT University and throughout her academic and research career. Her main research areas are the synthesis of sustainable nanomaterials and their application for environmental remediation, water quality analysis, and development of water treatment techniques such adsorption, extraction and AOPs including UV, Ozone, and photo(electro)catalysis, analytical method development/validation, and chemical analysis of environmental contaminants in various matrices,. She has published more than 25 articles in the past six years in international journals in the fields of chemistry, material science, earth and planetary science, and environmental science and engineering. Dr. Yuri Park completed her PhD degree at Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 2013 and obtained her Post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University with Centre of Water Resources and Studies. Currently, she is appointed as an assistant professor in DGC, at LUT University and throughout her academic and research career. Her main research areas are the synthesis of sustainable nanomaterials and their application for environmental remediation, water quality analysis, and development of water treatment techniques such adsorption, extraction and AOPs including UV, Ozone, and photo(electro)catalysis, analytical method development/validation, and chemical analysis of environmental contaminants in various matrices,. She has published more than 25 articles in the past six years in international journals in the fields of chemistry, material science, earth and planetary science, and environmental science and engineering.
