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Gheorghe Duca is the author of 1760 edited works, including 418 scientific papers, 136 editorial works, 165 patents, 83 monographs and textbooks, 513 articles on science popularization and more than 445 conference presentations and materials, including the first textbook “Ecological Chemistry,” published in three editions and translated into three languages: Romanian , Russian, English. Prof. Gh. Duca developed and taught courses on Physical chemistry, Chemical technology, Ecological chemistry, Processes and equipment, Physico-chemical research methods, Chemical risk assessment, Kinetics and thermodynamics of ecological systems. He held the lectures at the State University of Moldova, State University “Dmitrie Cantemir”, Universities of Rome, Turin (Italy), Texas, California (USA), Zurich (Switzerland), Budapest (Hungary), Prague (Czechia), Iasi, Timisoara, Cluj, Bucharest (Romania). Under his supervision 30 PhD were granted, including thesis in cooperation with INSA, Lyon, France (1998) and 5 Habilitate Doctors. He founded Department of Industrial and Ecological Chemistry, SUM (1991), Research Center of Ecological and Applied Chemistry, SUM (1992), Faculty of Ecology, International University of Moldova (1992), Research Center of Physical and Inorganically Chemistry (2006), High School for gifted children of the ASM (2007), University of the Academy of Sciences (2007), Nongov- ernmental organization for environmental protection “Terra Nostra” (1992), Moldovan Research and Development iAssociation, MRDA (2000), and the journals “Environment” (2002), “Chemistry Journal of Moldova” (2005), Journal of Science, Innovation, Culture and Art “Akademos” (2005). Acad. Gh. Duca is a member of Board of Directors of BSCSF-International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (2010), JRC-European Union Joint Research Center (2013), ALLEA-All European Academy (2018) and was delegated by the Government of Moldova to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for participation of the Republic of Moldova in the FP7, EU Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007-2013), Association Agreement for participation of the Republic of Moldova in the H2020, EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and supervise the cooperation of the Republic of Moldova with the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation, CRDF (2000-2010). Besides, he is Honorary and Full Member of the Balkan Academy of Science, Bulgarian Academy of Science and Art (2018), Culture New and Sustainable Development, Bulgaria (2004), Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences “Gheorghe Ionescu-Siseşti” Romania (2006), Academy of Sciences and Arts of Montenegro (2006), Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (2007), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2009), Russian Academy of Sciences (2012), Research Network for Advance Studies of River System DANUBIUS (2013), APOLLONIA University, Iasi, Romania (2018), BABES-BOLYAI University, Cluj-Napoca University, Craiova University and Oradea University, Romania (2018). He was appreci- ated with a lots of awards and distinctions such as: Knight of the Order for Inventions of the Kingdom

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of Belgium (2003), the Cross of Commander of the Order of Honour, Poland (2004), the Gold Medal for Eminent Services to the cause of progress, Brussels (2005), Order “Cultural Merit” of Romania (2006), Gold Medal “N. S. Kurnakov “, Russian Federation (2007), International Socrates Award, Oxford, UK (2009), Silver Medal of the Association of Innovators of China (2010), Gold Medal “EUROINVENT”, Brussels (2011), Order of the Republic of Moldova (2011), Award for outstanding achievements in the field of European Integration of the Economic Cooperation Organization of the Black Sea (2013), Medal of the National Commission of the Republic of Moldova for UNESCO (2014),the Order “The crown of Romania” with the rank of Commander (2015), Award of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (2016), Runners up Prize for Scientific Papers, Japan ICMSEM-2017, European Innovation Award with Diploma of Commander, European Commission, Belgium (2018), etc. Acad. Gh. Duca is not only a scientist, professor and prominent specialist in its field, but also a great organizer of research, skillful leader of the most important and prestigious institution of Moldova.

Ashok Vaseashta currently serves as the Chief Research Officer, Executive Director of Research and Chair of Institution Review Board and Office of Research Integrity at NJCU. Concurrently, he serves as Chaired Professor of Nanotechnology at the Academy of Sciences, Academician at Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences and Senior Strategic Research Advisor for government and non-government organizations.. He is a scholar and thought leader who provides strategic leadership to promote and advance research initiatives and priorities in support of international defense, safety and security. Prior to joining NJCU, he served as Vice Provost for Research at the Molecular Science Research Center in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He also served as the Director of Research at the Institute for Advanced Sciences Convergence (IASC) and International Clean Water Institute (ICWI) for Norwich University’s Applied Research Institutes and currently serves as strategic advisor. Prior to his appointment at NUARI, he served as a Professor of Physics and Physical Sciences and Director of Research at the Nanomaterials Processing and Characterization Laboratories, Graduate Program in Physical Sciences at Marshall Uni- versity. Concurrently, he held Visiting Professorship at the 3 Nano-SAE Research Centre, University of Bucharest, Romania and visiting scientist at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of Nanoscale Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2007-08, he was detailed as a William C. Foster fellow to the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the US Department of State working with the Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism and Foreign Consequence Manage- ment program. He also served (2009-13) as a Franklin Fellow and strategic S&T advisor in the office of Verification and Transparency Technologies/Arms Verification and Control at the U.S. Department of State. His research interests span nanotechnology, environmental/ecological science and safety and security. Much of his work in nanotechnology has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of nanofibers and sensors/detectors, mainly for applications such as wearable electronics, target drug delivery, detection of biomarkers and toxicity of nano and xenobiotic materials. In the security arena, he has worked on counterterrorism, countering unconventional warfare and hybrid threats, critical-Infrastructure protection, biosecurity, dual-use research concerns, and mitigating hybrid threats including fake-news. In addition, he has made numerous contributions in environmental/ecological science including directing research for International Clean Water Institute, pollution monitoring, contamination detection and remediation, and sustainability through green nanotechnology. He has authored over 250 research publications, edited/authored seven books on nanotechnology, and presented many keynote and invited lectures worldwide. Two books and a special edition of an international journal are currently under contract. He serves on the editorial board of Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Digest

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Journal of Nano-bio structures, International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. He received PhD from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA in 1990 followed by Kobe post- doctoral fellowship. Since 2003. he served as the Director of several NATO Advanced Study Institutes (ASI)/Advanced Research workshops (ARW) supported by Emerging Security Challenges Division of the Science for Peace and Security. In 2008, he served as co-chair of an International Symposium on Nanotechnology and Environmental Pollution Prevention (ISNEPP). In 2009, he led the U.S. position on Nanotechnology in High Technology Coordination Group (HTCG) to joint US and India delegation. In addition, he served as a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST, and ANSI delegation to the U.K. representing the U.S. position on Standards in Nanotechnologies in the ISO/TAG to TC-229. He is a member of NATO-SET-040, an exploratory team panel investigating security and surveillance applications of nanotechnology. He serves as an expert counsel to the UNESCO, ObservatoryNANO, COSENT – south-east consortium on Nanotechnologies on NANO-Science and Technologies, and S&T advisor to NATO. He is an active member of several national and international professional organizations. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS), Institute of Nanotechnology (FIoN), and the New York Academy of Sciences (FNYAS). He was awarded a Gold medal by the State Engineer- ing University of Armenia for his contribution to Nanotechnology. In addition, he has earned several other fellowships and awards for his meritorious service including 2004/2005 Distinguished Artist and Scholar award.

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Aliona Mereuta is associate professor at Dimitrie Cantemir State University. She obtained a master’s degree in environmental science in 2019 and she got her PhD in chemistry at the State University of Moldova, specialty - Technology of special products (2004). A. Mereuta has managerial experience and implementation of waste treatment technologies. In the last five years, it has carried out three projects with technology transfer and a bilateral Romania-RM project. Among the results obtained: analysis of water quality in the area of the Prut river; section for the treatment of infectious medical waste; technology for the processing of plastics waste; methods for obtaining valuable substances from the winery wastes. She co-authored more than 20 scientific articles, and is the author of 10 patented inventions, and co-author of one monograph. She successfully participated in 8 national projects as coordinator and in 4 international projects as member of the research group.

Bogusław Buszewski is the head of the Chair of Environmental Chemistry & Bioanalytics at the Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University. He is also the president of the Central European Group for Separation Sciences and the chairmen of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences. Former, He was the president of the Polish Chemical Society and European Society for Separation Science. He was awarded by numerous national and international organizations. His main scientific interests are concerned with separation science including theoretical and practical aspects in chromatography and related techniques, adsorption, sample preparation, bioanalytic and bio- analysis (metabolomics, proteomics, biomarkers), nanotechnology and chemometrics. He is authored or co-authored 15 books, patents and more than 560 scientific papers (over 10.000 citations, h= 46) and member of the editorial boards of 26 national and international journals in field of analytical chemistry and separation sciences.

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Victor Covaliov works as a Coordinating researcher and Moldova State University, Institute of Re- search and Innovation, Chisinau, Moldova. He is author of over 400 research publications, including 18 books and monographs on industrial ecology, as well as over 350 inventions and patents in the fields of plating, environmentally friendly technologies of wastes and waste waters treatment, gases separation and purification, biochemical processes, agro-industrial wastes management with the obtaining of value-added products. Dr. V. Covaliov is one of the leading scientists in the Republic of Moldova in elaboration and implementation of intensive and efficient water treatment technologies, was granted over 150 honorary diploma and medals at the international exhibitions on inventors and technology transfer, has an honorary title of Outstanding inventor (MD). Has taught lectures to university students on ecological audit, environmental engineering, general chemical technology, plating. His research interests involve: Intensified water treatment technologies pollution prevention, biogas processes, environmental engineering, physical-chemical and biochemical treatment of wastewaters and solid wastes containing refractory organics, heavy metal ions.

Olga Covaliova, Hab. in Chemistry, is a coordinating researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, Chi- sinau, Moldova (2015 till now), and a coordinating researcher at Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova (1982-till now, part-time). Synergistic Activities: Advisory Board Member of Water JPI (Joint Programming Initiative) (www.waterjpi.eu), since 2018; Member of Organizing Committee of Interna- tional Conferences on Environmental and Ecological Chemistry, Chisinau, Moldova (1995, 2012, 2017); Grants Assistance Program Manager at Moldovan Research and Development Association (MRDA) (2004-2009), Chisinau, Moldova; Project Coordinator (2012-2015) of “WASTEnet – A Black Sea network promoting integrated natural Wastewater treatment systems” Project, Black Sea Joint Operational Program 2007-2013. Research interests: Water pollution prevention, biogas processes, environmental engineering, physical-chemical and biochemical treatment of wastewaters and solid wastes containing refractory organics, heavy metal ions. Is author and co-author of over 200 research publications, including 8 monographs, and about 100 patents for inventions (MD).

Hale Demirtepe received her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2017. She then worked as a Research Specialist in the Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) at Masaryk University. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology. Her research interests include fate of pollutants in the environment, bioremediation of organic pollutants and indoor pollution.

Mintu Maan Dutta was born in Nazira, Sibsagar, Assam, India in May 10,1992. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from Cotton College in 2012 and M.Sc (Physical Chemistry) degree in 2014, from Gauhati University, Assam, India. He is carrying out his Ph.D. work in the Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University. His current research interest includes the use of magnetic nanoparticles for various organic transformations.

Viorica Gladchi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Ecological Chemistry, Moldova State University. Dean of the Chemistry and Chemical Technology Faculty, Moldova State University. Research interests are focused on the studying the kinetics and mechanisms of free radical or photochemical redox catalytic processes responsible for transformation of various chemical pollutants in the model and natural aquatic systems; evaluation of surface waters self-purification capacity

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applying different methods of redox sate and kinetic parameters analysis, elaboration of new indicators of water quality estimation, prognosis and its ability for auto purification, as well as recommendations for their application.

Maria Vasile Gonța graduated Moldova State University, Faculty of Chemistry in 1973. In 1986 she graduated PhD, Physical Chemistry field. Since 2004 from to 2006 she has been studied Post-Doc. Maria Gonta has been head of the Environmental and Industrial Chemistry Department, SUM since 1998 from to 2016. Also, since 1995 – till present she has leaded Scientific Research laboratory. She is professor and has taught undergraduate level: The chemical management of water, The chemical management of air, Environmental Chemistry, Chemistry and Quality of food products, Graduate level (MSc): Ecological Chemistry of nitrate, nitrite and N-nitrosamine, organics dyes, Biopharmacy and pharmacodynamics. She is supervisor of the MSc and PhD thesis. Maria Gonta has elaborated more 280 scientific publications in the field of ecological chemistry, physical chemistry and environmental protection of with 92 articles in peer reviewed journals, 8 patents, 2 monographs, 5 textbooks.

Asaf Hajiyev is an internationally recognized scholar, a graduate of renowned Kolmogorov’s probability school at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). He has spent more than fifteen years at the MSU, in the Laboratory of Statistical Methods created and led by A. N. Kolmogorov, where he went from being a student to becoming a professor. He created control theory for queues with recurrent service, which can be applied for transportation systems. This theory allows to predict traffic jams and calculate some characteristics of traffic systems. Some fragments of this theory were unexpected and have been refereed as the paradoxe of theory of probability (see, K. Szekely, Paradoxes of theory of probability and mathematical statistics. Academia, Budapest, 1980). In 1980 for contribution to Queuing Theory, A. Hajiyev was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in Science and Engineering. Another field of scientific interest is regression models. He constructed new type of regression models with increasing numbers of unknown parameters, where variances of observation errors unknown and different. Such models are typical for applications, but their investigation is challenging. For (linear and non-linear) such type of regression models, A. Hajiyev found necessary and sufficient conditions when various estimators (least square, L and M estimators) are consistent and proposed the methods of estimation of the elements of a covariance matric of a deviation vector. These results helped construct a confident band for unknown functions in regression models. A. Hajiyev also created the new method for constructing an optimal placement of the letters for different alphabets on a computer keyboard. This approach has been used for an optimal placement of the letters of Azerbaijani alphabet on a computer keyboard and has been adopted as a State Standard Placement by Azerbaijan State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents and is used today in the Windows 8.1 and later versions. A. Hajiyev is a Chair of the Department of Ap- plied Probability and Statistics in the Institute of Control Systems of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, where under his leadership more than 50 scholars successfully are working. A. Hajiyev is the President of the Scientific Council on Problems of Mathematics in Azerbaijan. His research have been published in the prestigious world leading journals (Scand. J. Statistics., Theory of Probability and its Applications; Stochastic Processes and their Applications; Russian Academy of Sciences, Doklady, Mathematics; Mathematical Notes and others) and he was invited as speaker for different universities of USA (Berkeley, USC (University of Southern California), G. Washington University, Lincoln University), Russia (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University), Sweden (Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University, Stockholm University), Germany (Munich University,

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Frey University, Fern University), Portugal (Lisbon University), China (Chengdu University), Turkey (Bogazici University, Middle East Technical University) and others. A. Hajiyev created and introduced new probabilistic and statistical terminologies in Azerbaijanian language and published the Dictionary of Probabilistic and Statistical Terminologies in four languages (Azerbaijanian-English-Russian-Turk- ish). He is also co-author of Probability and Statistics Encyclopaedia in Azerbaijani language (1300p.) with translation of all terminologies and conceptions to English and Russian languages, which is used nowadays by scholars in the different fields. He is organizer and editor of the Proceedings of several International conferences, published by Springer and board member of various international scientific journals (Applied and Computational Mathematics, Management Science and Engineering Management, Transaction of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan Mathematical Journal and others). A. Hajiyev is academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences), Foreign member of Mongolian National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Academician of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Honorary Professor of Chengdu University (China). During 2005-2011 he was senior associated of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). For twenty years (1995-2015) A. Hajiyev was member of the Azerbaijan Parliament, where as a member of the Committee of Science and Education he has brought contribution for development of science and education in independent Azerbaijan. In 2015 he was elected Secretary General of Parliamentary As- sembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) and in 2019 re-elected for the next 5 years.

Manoj Kumar Karnena is a Researcher in the Department of Environmental Science. He has 3 years of research experience working on various lab-scale projects. He has publications in reputed international and national journals. His research interests include Water and Wastewater Treatment, Natural Coagulants, Nanocatalysis, Storage Technologies and membrane technology.

Ketevan Kupatadze graduated from S.S. Orbeliani State Pedagogical University, faculty of Natural Sciences, Chemistry and Biology specialization (With honors). In 1997, she graduated from the same University postgraduate studies. In 1998, she defended a Candidate (PhD) and in 2003, she defended her Doctoral dissertations. She is the author of more than 70 published scientific works, monograph, manual as well as the author of three educational–virtual programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry. She authored over 200 scientific-popular articles in chemistry. She graduated from the secondary faculty Journalism specialization and published in many newspapers. From 2017 till now every Autumn and Spring, she has active collaboration with the Science Popularization Center of Eskisehir ( Turkey), where she conducts special workshops for chemistry teachers and students. She is technical editor of “Southern Brazilian Journal of Chemistry” and editorial member of “Tchê Química” and “SCIREA Journal of Chemistry”. 1998-2003 _ Docent (Senior teacher) of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at S.S. Orbeliani State Pedagogical University. 2003-2005 _ Professor at the same University. She was a member of the Scientific Council of the mentioned University and in 2000-2005 she served as the Head of the Depart- ment of Postgraduate Studies. At Ilia State University she works from 2006, first at the faculty of life sciences, then the faculty of Science and Art and nowadays she is Professor Faculty of Natural Sciences and Medicine. She manages courses in Chemistry and Biochemistry direction (Bachelor and Master level). The main research area-chemistry, didactic of chemistry, History of chemistry. She is expert of chemistry and author in the internet journal “Maststsavlebeli” (The Teacher) Scientific interests / research interests Chemistry, Ecological Chemistry, Didactic of Chemistry, History of Chemistry.

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Erika Andrea Levei Originally from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Erika has 15 years of experience in environmental and analytical chemistry. Erika currently works as a senior researcher at INCDO-INOE 2000 Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation in Cluj-Napoca and has more than 70 refereed publications and 50 presentations in international conferences. Her research interests cover water and soil chemistry, environment quality assessment, source apportionment in contaminated areas, metals mobility and bioavailability.

Christina Marouli studied biochemistry (B.Sc. from Brandeis University), urban and environmental policy (M.A. from Tufts University) and sociology (M.A. and PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz) in the USA – with a specialization on the environment, health and social inequalities. Her present research interests include education for sustainability; sustainable, healthy, smart cities; environmental behaviors and social change. She is teaching at the Environmental Studies Program of Deree – American College of Greece (ACG) and she is the founder and ex-Director of the Center of Excel- lence for Sustainability at ACG. She is also a recipient of a Fulbright award in the context of which she did research on multicultural environmental education programmes in the USA in collaboration with a Turkish professor. She has extensive consulting experience on environmental and occupational health issues. She has also worked in NGOs on women’s and children’s issues as Director or expert and she was a co-founder of the Emergency Research Center. She recently co-edited a book on “Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges”.

Anastasia Misseyanni is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Deree – The American College of Greece (ACG). She holds a Chemistry degree from the University of Athens and graduate degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Paris 7 (DEA) and the University of Marburg (PhD). She has a long career in teaching during which she has developed and taught a significant number of undergraduate natural science and environmental studies courses with emphasis on chemistry, biological chemistry, environmental science, ecology, water resources and methodology for environmental studies. She has conducted research in the fields of protein-DNA interactions and hormone-regulated gene expression. She has also been active in the scholarship of teaching. Her present research interests include Mediterranean biodiversity and green roofs, environmental health issues, sustainability initiatives in higher education, innovative teaching and learning strategies in STEM disciplines, active and experi- ential learning. She coordinated the development of the Deree Environmental Studies program and has served as its program coordinator since 2010. Since fall 2014, she serves as Head of the Department of Science and Mathematics at Deree-ACG. She has contributed to efforts and initiatives to promote sustainability at ACG.

Paraskevi Papadopoulou is Professor of Biology at Deree-The American College of Greece. She holds Biology degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and from the University of Ath- ens and a PhD in Biology from the University of Athens. She has served as Head of the department of Science, Technology and Mathematics at Deree-ACG. Her research interests are focused in the fields of Structural Biology/Molecular Biophysics and Bioinformatics, on structural and self-assembly studies of fibrous proteins. She has also contributed to the development of genetic testing protocols for Tuberous Sclerosis and of Neurofibromatosis type 1. Her current research engagement is on environmental health issues, sexually transmitted diseases, Mediterranean biodiversity and green roofs, and innovative ways of teaching and learning in STEM disciplines plus on big data analytics in bioinformatics and medicine.

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She teaches biology, molecular biology, human genetics and cell and molecular neurobiology and the natural sciences research methods course for the environmental studies program. She had a major contribution in the development of the Biomedical Sciences program at Deree-ACG.

Igor Povar is a head of the department “Physicochemical Methods of Research and Analysis” at Institute of Chemistry. He is a well-known specialist in the area of modeling and theoretical research, mainly, involving chemical reaction equilibrium in natural systems. The theory of the chemical equilibrium, properties, mechanism of action and buffer capacity of the two-phase buffers has been developed by our team. Our developed approach can be used for research of the buffer action in the case of formation of one or several other solid phases in natural waters. The use of results of this research allows predicting the variations of the composition and response of the environment at the technogenic loads increasing. The proposed approach is intended to determine the dominant processes that are responsible for observed changes in contaminant concentrations at a site and provide researchers with the knowledge needed to set reliable limits of ion (metal) levels in the environment. During the 2001-2009 years he worked at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, where he was actively involved in research in chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of reactions in the organic chemistry using various ab-initio theoretical techniques, modeling and theoretical research.

Viorica Railean-Plugaru is involved in projects related in biosynthesis of metal and its oxides nanocomposites (AgNCs, ZnONCs), as a new antiseptic agent. To her topics belongs synthesis and physicochemical characterization of nanomaterials by using multi instrumental approaches such as spectroscopy, optical and electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and separation techniques. In 2010 has been graduated the master’s degree in chemical technology and Biotechnologies, specialization: Technology of Drugs and Cosmetic Products at State University of Moldova. In 2014 initiated the PhD study on “Biosilver nanocomposites as a safe antimicrobial agent” at the Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland). She defended in 2018. The research approaches into the field of new antimicrobial agent have been published in the form of monographs (2) and scientific publications (20), 19 of this from Journal Citation Reports. Additionally, has participated at national (14) and international conferences (8) presented the research approaches as a form of poster and oral presentations. Dr. Viorica Railean-Plugaru is co-author of 2 patent applications and 2 patent deposits.

Inna Romanciuc received her Master of Science in cartography in Taras Shevchenko National Uni- versity of Kyiv in 2014. From 2014 till now working in State institution “Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth Institute of Geological Science National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” as lead engineer. Research interests include estimation of energy and mass exchange in geosystems, soil moisture content, drought disaster, ecological pollution via remote sensing data.

Lidia Romanciuc has a scientific background in the physical chemistry: kinetics, catalysis and ecological chemistry. The main point of scientific interest is focused on the natural water self-purification mechanisms research, chemical and photochemical transformation of pollutants in natural water, redox- processes in aquatic medium, water quality monitoring and management, hydrochemistry etc. She is graduated from the State University of Moldova. Passed several scientific fellowships in the Europe, Japan, Russia, USA. Has up to 100 scientific publications and patents. Contributed to the organization

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of series of international scientific conferences on Ecological & Environmental Chemistry with participation of experienced and young scientists from NIS, Europe, USA, etc.

Anatolie Sidorenko completed his doctoral degree in 1979 at the Institute for Low Temperatures of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Working in the field of superconductivity of low dimensional and layered systems, received his Habilitation degree in 1991. From 1993 to 1995 he was Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, in 2000-2003 - visiting professor in University of Augsburg, in 2003-2004 - visiting professor in Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe, in 2004-2007 - head of Laboratory of Superconductivity at the Institute of Applied Physics of Moldavian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008 he is Director of Institute of Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnologies, Chisinau, Mol- dova. Anatolie Sidorenko was the editor of 4 books published in “Springer”, he is member of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft since 2001 and member of Moldavian Academy of Sciences since 2012.

Rohini Singh is assistant professor in Sitarambhai Naranji Patel Institute of Technology & Research Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering in Gujrat, India.

K. Sivakumar is a Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya deemed to be university, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India. His research areas are supramolecular chemistry and computational chemistry. He has around 60 publications in high impact journals. His h-index is 12. He has published three books for undergraduate students. He is Guid- ing Ph.D and M.Phil scholars in supramolecular chemistry. He is a recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is functioning as Associate editor of “Chemical Papers” journal published by Springer Nature, editor of “Open Chemistry” journal published by De Gruyter, Germany and functioning as editorial board member of various international and national journals. He is functioning as reviewer for many journals published by American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. He has received fundings from DST, UGC, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Indian academy of sciences and Tamilnadu state council for science and technology for conducting and organizing various projects and programmes.

Yuri Ivanovich Skurlatov, Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics. Born in Pochinki village of Pochinkovsky district of Gorky region on December 17, 1941. Graduated Moscow Institute of physics and technology, (1966). Academic degree - Doctor of chemical Sciences (1981), Professor (1991). Spe- cialist in physical and environmental chemistry, kinetics and catalysis of chemical reactions. Research interests: Environmental chemistry, problems of chemical safety of environmental objects, assessment of impact on water resources, soil cover, the environment in the event of emergencies, including the assessment of measures to minimize the risk of possible accidents, environmental monitoring, industrial environmental control.

Oxana Spinu is a scientific researcher of the department “Physicochemical Methods of Research and Analysis” at Institute of Chemistry. The main focus of her research activity is to analyze the way by which heavy metals move and transform within the environment, the distribution of metals in ecosys- tems, their deposition and cycling in the terrestrial environment, such kind of research helps to predict long-term effects in natural decrease as a remediation alternative and the obtained results are indented to provide researchers with a tool needed to help them to set reliable limits of ion (metal) levels in the

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environment. The use of results of this research allows predicting the variations of the composition and response of the environment at the technogenic loads increasing. Her developed approach is intended to determine the dominant processes that are responsible for observed changes in contaminant concentrations at a site and provide researchers with the knowledge needed to set reliable limits of ion (metal) levels in the environment.

Rodica Sturza is the Head of Oenology and Chemistry Department, Technical University of Moldova PhD in Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the Academy of Science of Lithu- ania. Vilnius (Lithuania), 1989. Habilitatus in Technical Science, Technical University of Moldova, 2008. Coordinator of the State Program of the Republic of Moldova “Food Security and Safety in the Period of Demographic Transition” (2018-2021). Area of scientific interest: • The impact of environmental factors on food safety, migration of POPs, phthalates from the soil and water in vegetal raw materials and food; • New functional nutritive elements from traditional raw materials (horticultural products and wastes from processing industry); • Processes of ecological recovery of plant extracts rich in antioxidants and colorants from horticultural sources and wastes; • The evolution of microbiological, physicochemical properties, antioxidant and antiradical capacity and shelf life of the products with added plant extracts. Management of research projects (11). Publications - Over 250 published scientific papers. Laureate of the “Nicolae Garbalau” Prize in Chemistry of Moldavian Academy of Sciences on 2017. Doctor Honoris Causa of the “Ştefan cel Mare University” from Suceava, Romania (2012).

Claudiu Tănăselia Originally from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Claudiu works at INCDO-INOE 2000 Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation in Cluj-Napoca for more than 13 years (currently a senior researcher) and has more than 12 years experience in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry method development and instrument operation. His work was published in more than 50 impact- factor journals and at over 30 international conferences. Research area involves elemental analysis of environmental samples (water, soil, sediments, and meteorites) and he’s a member of The Meteoritical Society for the last 11 years.

Sergey Travin received his degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), faculty of molecular and chemical physics 1976, diploma with honors, specialty engineer-physicist, followed by his PhD in Chemistry 1979 Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor 2001 and Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in the section “Education and sustainable development” 2002. He is co-author of three books and more than a hundred articles, including on chemical kinetics, environmental chemistry, Bank information technologies, corporate data warehouses. He is currently working with the Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences since 1973. Experience 43 years. Senior Research Scientist, with the scope of interest: Science, education; Chemistry, physics, mathematical modeling, and Computer science, Information systems. Chemical kinetics. Study of the mechanisms of complex multistage reactions. Automation of the experiment, creation and maintenance of computer systems for automated processing of experimental data. Mathematical modeling of the behavior of multicomponent systems. Application of mathematical methods of forecasting. Probability research in non-Gaussian cases with the distribution of Zipf-Mandelbrot with “long tails.

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Natalia Velisco is a head of department Chemistry, Mathematics and Informatics of State University ‘’Dimitrie Cantemir’’ (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova). Also, she is currently an assistant professor at the same university. She received her M.S. (2005) in environment protection and Ph.D. (2013) in technology of special products (chemistry science) from State University of Moldova. Her general area of research is treatment of wastes, especially winery wastes, and technological transfer. Current research emphases include assessment of water quality.

V. K. Yadav is working as an assistant professor, Department of Microbiology, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Mehsana, India. He has a PhD in Nanosciences, from Central university of Gujarat, India. He has his master’s and bachelor’s in science in microbiology from HNBGU and Delhi University. He is also a lifetime member of “Electron Microscope Society of India” India. The author has also one patent on the topic “A method of separation of ferrous, alumina and silica from fly ash” with application number. The author has published several papers in national and international journals. His expertise is in the field of microbial synthesis of nanoparticles, nanoparticles characterization, waste management, bio and Nano remediation of heavy metals and wastewater treatment.

Inga Zinicovscaia, PhD in Chemistry, Researcher in the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania seconded to the Sector of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research., Russia. Her main area of interest is application of neutron activation analysis in the environmental studies, development of the technologies for wastewater treatment, air pollution studies, statistical analysis. She is the author and co-author of more than 60 scientific publications. Her achievements have been marked with numerous prizes and awards, including two Gold medals.

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