**Marina Cabral Pinto**

Dr Marina Cabral-Pinto works in environmental geochemistry research on an array of topics such as medical geology, epidemiology, water, soil, air quality, geo-bioremediation, ecological health assessment, carbon sequestration, climate changes, etc. She completed her degree in Geological Engineering, MsD (University of Aveito and University of Coimbra), and obtained her Ph.D and Postdoc from University of Aveiro, where she is now working as an investigator and invited professor. During her academic career, she has published more than 60 research/review articles of international repute and attended several conferences and training events . In addition to this, she has handled Special Issues of *IJPREH* (MDPI), *Land* (MDPI), *Applied Sciences* (MDPI), and *Mine Water Association* (Springer). She has supervised more than 15 PhD and MSc students. She was granted with the Orlando Leitao premium by the Portuguese Society of Neurology due her research and results on ˜ links between environmental potentially toxic elements and cognitive disorders and diseases, such Alzheimer's disease. She was funded by FCT for the Covid19 Project and by CNRS for the LabEx DRIIHM research: Exposure and Health in an industrial area (Portugal); ChildIngest –Ingestion of dust by young children: physicochemical characterization, bioaccessibility and genotoxicity: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-1596

Scopus Author ID: 22133337700

Ciencia ID: B110-D819-0C69 ˆ

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## **Amit Kumar**

Dr. Amit Kumar (Associate Professor) is an environmentalist-cum-hydrologist who has worked on wide areas such as sources, fate and transport of carbon in water and soil, greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs/ lakes/ forest, water quality and ecological health assessments, etc. He completed his M.Tech and Ph.D from one of the top technical institutes of India, IIT Roorkee, under the umbrella of the MHRD fellowship, and undertook postdoctoral research at Hohai University (College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China) and is now working with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, as an associate professor. During his academic career, he has published more than 65 research/review articles of international repute and attended several training events and conferences with the fellowship of ICAR, ETH, CAS, MOEF, DAAD, etc. In addition to this, he has handled Special Issues in *Land* (MDPI), *Applied Sciences* (MDPI), and *Frontier in Environmental Science,* and holds an honorary post as a Topic Editor for *Water* (MDPI) and *Sustainability* (MDPI), is an advisory board member of *Ecological Indicator*, Elsevier, and an associate editor of *Applied Water Science* (Springer) and *IJRBM* (Taylor and Francis).
