**About the Editors**

#### **Ivet Ferrer**

Dr. Ivet Ferrer is a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya·BarcelonaTech. Currently, she leads the Research Group ` of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA-UPC). Her main area of research is the optimization of biomass anaerobic digestion by applying pretreatments and co-digestion. She has also addressed the implementation and assessment of low-tech digesters for rural areas. Her research is now focused on the recovery of resources from waste streams, including high-value bioproducts and biogas.

#### **Cigdem Eskicioglu**

Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu is a full professor and NSERC/Metro Vancouver Senior Industrial Research Chair in the area of Resource Recovery from Wastewater in the School of Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC)'s Okanagan Campus. She is also the founder/leader of the Bioreactor Technology Group (BTG), which focuses on advanced wastewater treatment processes for more efficient contaminant removal, energy conservation and production, resource recovery and mitigation of trace contaminants of emerging concern.

#### **Georgia Antonopoulou**

Dr. Antonopoulou Georgia is a senior research associate in the Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), in Greece. She is a chemical engineer and completed her PhD and MSc at the Department of Chemical Engineer of Patras University. Her research interests focus on waste and wastewater treatment via biological processes, anaerobic digestion and fermentation, bioreactor design, pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass and modeling of microbial processes.

#### **Audrey Battimelli**

Dr. Audrey Battimelli is a research engineer at the LBE, Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology INRAE, of the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment. She is in charge of Bio2E Platform and specialises in application bioprocesses and physico-chemical pretreatments in collaborative work with professionals.
