Osikemekha Anthony Anani is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria. His academic qualifications are B.Sc. (Ed.) (Hons.) Biology and Education (2006) in the prestigious Delta State University, Abraka, M.Sc. Environmental Quality Management (2013), and Ph.D. Environmental Quality Management (2017) in the respected University of Benin, Benin City, both in Nigeria. His areas of proficiency are pollution studies, ecotoxicology, ecology, forensic and aquatic biology, hydrobiology, benthology, malacology, ecological and health risk valuation, and conservation of plants and animals. Dr. Anani has over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications in international and national scientific journals, 11 presentations at local and international conferences, 58 Scopus papers, and over 11 Web of Science. His published academic pieces can be found via the following links: * https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5LvCxrYAAAAJ&hl=en * https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-3314 * https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anani_Anthony * https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56470817000 * https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1286170/overview * https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/search He leads a research group in the laboratory for ecotoxicology and forensic biology at the same university, which focuses on environmental sustainability and pollution monitoring. Maulin P. Shah, currently working as Deputy General Manager at the Industrial Wastewater Research Lab, in the Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He served as Assistant Professor at Gujarat University, Godhra, in 2001. He is a microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interests. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from applied microbiology, environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial liquid waste management to solid state fermentation. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources, and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic waste and restore environmental health. Consequently, he is very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general, and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters). One of our major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. Bacteria with new degradation capabilities are often selected in polluted environments and have accumulated small (mutations) and large genetic changes (transpositions, recombination, and horizontally transferred elements). His work has been focused on assessing the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetic engineering of high impact of microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 200 research publications in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 postgraduate students in various disciplines of life science. He is an active editorial board member in more than 150 highly reputed journals in the field of environmental and biological sciences. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as the Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is actively engaged as Editorial Board Member in 32 journals of high repute (Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, RSC, Wiley, KeAi, De Gruyter). He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. He has edited more than 200 books in wastewater microbiology, environmental microbiology, bioremediation, and hazardous waste treatment.
