**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Ahmad Fauzi Ismail** is a Professor at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering UTM. He is the Vice Deputy Chancellor (Research and Innovation) of UTM. His research interests include the development of polymeric, inorganic and novel mixed matrix membranes for water desalination, wastewater treatment, gas separation processes, membrane for palm oil refining, photocatalytic membranes for the removal of emerging contaminants, development of hemodialysis membranes, and polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cell applications. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical and Process Engineering in 1997 from the University of Strathclyde and MSc. and BSc. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1992 and 1989, respectively. His research has been published in many high impact factor journals. He has also written many academic books in this field, which have been published by reputable international publishers. He is the author and co-author of over 550 refereed journals. He has authored 7 books, 50 book chapters, 4 edited books, been granted 6 patents, and has 14 patents pending. His h-index is 75 with a cumulative citation of over 25,900.

**Pei Sean Goh** is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She received her Ph.D. degree in Gas Engineering in 2012 in UTM. Pei Sean is an associate research fellow of the Advanced Membrane Research Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), UTM. She is also the Head of Nanostructured Materials Research Group in UTM. Her research interests focus on the synthesis of a wide range of nanostructured materials and their composites for membrane-based separation processes. One of the main focuses of her research is the application of carbon-based nanomaterials and polymeric nanocomposite membranes for acidic gas removal as well as desalination and wastewater treatment. Pei Sean has authored or co-authored more than 130 research papers. She has also contributed 15 book chapters and 2 edited research book. Her research publication has received about 2950 citations and her current Scopus H-index is 28.
