**About the Editors**

**Ciro Bustillo-Lecompte** (Ph.D.) has a multidisciplinary background in the areas of civil, environmental, and chemical engineering. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Cartagena, Colombia, in 2008 and obtained his MASc (2012) and PhD (2016) at Ryerson University, Canada. Ciro is a certified Professional Engineer (PEng), Environmental Professional (EP), a Fraternal Member of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI), and a 2017–2018 Queen Elizabeth Scholar (QES). He is currently an Associate Member in the Environmental Applied Science and Management Graduate Programs and Lecturer in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University. He has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers, as well as several conference proceedings, chapters and books. His research interests include advanced oxidation processes, advanced treatment of water and wastewater, waste minimization, water reuse, water, soil and air quality, energy and resource recovery, and heterogeneous catalysis.

**Jose Colina-M ´arquez** (Ph.D.) has been an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cartagena since 2010. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Atlantico (1996) and his M.Sc. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the University of Valle (2008 and 2010, respectively). Currently, he is leading the Research Group of Modeling and Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes, that aims to solve water detoxification issues using these technologies. He is also a member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Ingenieroa y Competitividad (University of Valle, 2012) and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Ciencias e Ingenieria (University of Cartagena, 2011). He was awarded with the "Magna cum laude grade" for his PhD studies, granted by the University of Valle (2010), and "Junior Researcher of the year", granted by the Colombian Society of Catalysis (2012).

**Lars Rehmann** (Ph.D.) obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2007 at Queen's University after completing his undergraduate degree at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany and his Masters work at Tottori University in Japan. He completed an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester, UK (2007–2009) holding a Canada/UK Millennium Research Award. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, as well as a Visiting Professor at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is an accomplished and heavily cited researcher in the field of biochemical and environmental engineering. His research has resulted in over 70 peer-reviewed articles published in leading journals in his field, as well as three patent applications and the foundation of a spin-off company. Since his appointment at Western (May 2009) he has attracted over 4M USD in funding and has established research facilities centered around highly automated bio-processing from the micro-scale to pilot scale; with infrastructure unique in Canada. His research largely focuses on the fermentative production of platform chemicals and fuels from waste biomass, as well as recombinant protein production.
