Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.Susana Rodríguez-Couto is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

• 1. Ammonia oxidizing bacteria: a model for molecular microbial ecology2. The lithoautotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria3. Diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria4. Abundance of ammonia oxidizing bacteria in industrial wastewater treatment systems5. Population ecology of nitrifying bacteria in wastewater treatment systems.6. Ammonia oxidation kinetics & its application in wastewater treatment.7. Autotrophic nitrification in bacteria8. Ecology, Diversity and Functions of Anammox process in Modified Ludzack Ettinger Process (MLE)9. Ammonia oxidizing bacterial community analysis in activated sludge process10. Growth, activity and temperature responses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil microcosms.11. Aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria.12. Genomics of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and denitrification in wastewater treatment plants.13. Nitrification by chemolithotrophic bacteria.14. Ammonium removal by the oxygen limited autotrophic nitrification denitrification system.15. An overview of the Anammox process.16. Key physiology of anaerobic ammonium oxidation.17. Completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite under ammonia limitation18. Diversity study of nitrifying bacteria in sewage and industrial wastewater treatment plant