Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (4th Edition): Proceedings of 4th Euro-Mediterranean Conf

Mohamed Ksibi completed his Ph.D. in 1993 in Applied Chemistry at the University of Poitiers, France. He also gained the Habilitation (HDR) in Chemistry from the University of Sfax, Tunisia in 2003. He was appointed as a full professor of Chemistry in 2009 at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax. He has supervised 13 thesis to completion and examined a further 4 Ph.D.s. He has also supervised 15 M.Sc. thesis. He has co-published about 106 papers, 8 book chapters and co-edited 3 books. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Euro-Mediterranean Journal of Environmental Integration (h-index 28). He had been the Institute's Deputy Director of the ISBS from August 2011 until December 2017, and he served as the director of the Department of Biotechnology and Health at ISBS from May 2008 until May 2011.

Arturo Sousa has a Ph.D. in Biology since 2004 and has worked as a faculty member for 20 years in the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Seville (Spain), where he teaches different subjects related to Pharmaceutical Botany and Plant Biology. He is specialised in the temporal evolution of hygrophytic plant communities, landscape ecology, climate change, and wetlands. His research lines, which began with the study of diachronic changes in the hygrophytic vegetation of Doñana (Southwestern Spain), allowed him to establish multidisciplinary collaborations with specialists in limnology, climatology and atmospheric physics. He stands out as an author and/or an editor of several books. He has been an evaluator of R&D projects and of numerous indexed journals, as well as a reviewer of reports of Spanish and international expert panels about Climate Change.

Dr. Olfa Hentati is Associate Professor (2019) at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology (ISBS), University of Sfax. She received her Diploma in Biology and Functional Exploration from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis, Tunisia, in 1988, and her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Cell Biology from the University of Poitiers, France in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Physiology from the University of Poitiers, France in 1999. She is Associate Editor in the Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration and serves as a referee in several peer-reviewed scientific journals. She supervised several final projects of undergraduate and graduate students preparing bachelor and master degree diplomas. She participated as a team member to several international and bilateral projects. She also was a principle investigator of a bilateral project between Tunisia and Portugal.

Dr. Haroun Chenchouni is an associate professor and research scientist (Ecologist) at the Higher National School of Forests (Khenchela, Algeria). He is a former associate professor at the University of Tebessa (Algeria). He holds a doctorate degree in Ecology and Environment from the University of Batna 2 (Algeria) and a M.Sc. (Magister) in Dryland Ecology from the University of Ouargla (Algeria). He graduated as an engineer in Plant Ecology and Forest Ecosystems from the Department of Biological Sciences (University of Batna, Algeria). At various universities in Algeria, he teaches forest ecology, biostatistics, and ecological modeling. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and internationally recognized research papers. He is also involved in national and international research projects. In 2017, he joined the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (AJGS) as an associate editor.

José Lopes Velho graduated in Geology from the University of Coimbra. He is an associate professor at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. He holds a Master's Degree in Economic and Applied Geology from the University of Lisbon and a Doctor's Degree in Geosciences, specializing in Mineralogy, from the University of Aveiro. He is a member of the Industrial Minerals and Clays Research Unit. He published 23 papers in international journals (Scopus h-index 8).

Prof. Negm is a professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at Zagazig University. His current domain of research is sustainable water resources and their management. He is a member of IAHR, ICWEES, EGU, and IAH. He is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences and a member of the organizing committee of others and participated in more than 95 conferences as well. He delivered several keynote talks at international conferences. He is a reviewer of more than 50 international scientific journals that indexed in Scopus and WoS. He was the head of the Egyptian permanent scientific committee for Water Resources from 2019 to 2022 and the vice head from 2016 to 2019. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals He led several international projects and participated in some others. He was nominated for many awards by IBC and ABI.

Jesús Rodrigo-Comino is a member of the Department of Regional and Physical Geography at the University of Granada (Spain). He completed his first Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Málaga (Spain) and Trier (Germany) in 2018 and the second one in the engineering of Geomatics and Topography at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2023). His current research interests include soil geography, regional geography, and land degradation. He coordinates the Terra Lab 2 EGEMAP (Environmental Geography and Mapping).

Professor Riheb Hadji is a distinguished scholar currently affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences at the esteemed University of Setif 1. With remarkable expertise in various fields, including Engineering Geology, Natural Hazards, Geotechnics, Geomorphology, Geoinformatics (GIS), and Remote Sensing, he has been actively involved in groundbreaking research. Beyond his academic contributions, he holds significant leadership roles. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the esteemed Journal of Water Engineering and Environmental Sciences, contributing to the dissemination of valuable scientific knowledge in the field. Additionally, he holds the position of the head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Engineering Geology, Geotechnics, Water Sciences and Environment at Setif 1 University. His current project focuses on 'Risk Management in the Mediterranean Basin.' Through his multifaceted research and leadership roles, he has made notable contributions to the field of Earth Sciences and continues to drive advancements in risk management and related disciplines.

Dr. Sudip Chakraborty is a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Italy. Currently, he is working at Laboratory of Transport Phenomena and Biotechnology, University of Calabria, Italy. He delivered several Keynote/Invited lectures and presentations in many international conferences all over the world. His major fields of interest are membrane separation, plasmonic nanoparticle, composite materials, energy, and process intensification. He, with h-index-42, published more than 125 research publications in international SCI indexed journals/book chapter as well as more than 95 conferences. He is involved with several Elsevier/Springer journal as an associate editor or a chief editor. Apart from that he also edited several thematic special issues related to chemical engineering.

Professor Achraf Ghorbal is the head and co-founder of the Advanced Materials, Applied Mechanics, Innovative Processes, and Environment Research Unit. He served as the vice-director of the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Gabes-University of Gabes-Tunisia for seven years (2013-2020). He obtained his M.Sc. in Processes and Materials Engineering (2003) and Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials (2006) from the University of Haute Alsace-Mulhouse-France. In 2007, he joined the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique) in Saclay-France, as a post-doctoral fellow. Subsequently, in 2008, he was hired as an assistant professor and later promoted to an associate professor and then a full professor in Materials Sciences in 2015 at the University of Gabes--Tunisia. His research focuses on wastewater treatment, biopolymers, eco-materials, and bio-composites for environmental applications. He has also coordinated research and educational projects as a principal investigator.

Mohamed Ksibi於1993年在法國普瓦捷大學完成應用化學的博士學位。他於2003年在突尼斯斯法克斯大學獲得化學的Habilitation（HDR）學位。他於2009年被任命為斯法克斯高等生物技術學院的化學教授。他指導完成了13個博士論文，並審查了另外4個博士學位。他還指導了15個碩士論文。他共同發表了約106篇論文，8篇專書章節，並共同編輯了3本書。他是歐地中海環境整合期刊的共同主編（h指數28）。他曾擔任該學院的副院長，從2011年8月至2017年12月，並於2008年5月至2011年5月擔任ISBS生物技術與健康部門的主任。

Arturo Sousa於2004年獲得生物學博士學位，並在西班牙塞維利亞大學藥學院植物生物學和生態學系擔任教職員20年，教授與藥用植物學和植物生物學相關的不同科目。他專門研究濕地植物群落的時間演變、景觀生態學、氣候變化和濕地。他的研究領域始於對多納納（西班牙西南部）濕地植被的歷時變化研究，並與水生生態學、氣候學和大氣物理學專家建立了跨學科合作。他是多本書的作者和/或編輯。他曾擔任研發項目和多個索引期刊的評估者，以及西班牙和國際專家小組有關氣候變化的報告審查者。

Olfa Hentati博士是斯法克斯高等生物技術學院（ISBS）的副教授（2019年）。她於1988年在突尼斯大學醫學院獲得生物學和功能探索學位，並於1993年和1994年分別在法國普瓦捷大學獲得細胞生物學的學士和碩士學位，並於1999年在法國普瓦捷大學獲得細胞生物學和生理學的博士學位。她是歐地中海環境整合期刊的副編輯，並在多個同行評審的科學期刊中擔任審稿人。她指導了多個本科和研究生學生的畢業項目，為他們準備學士和碩士學位。她曾作為團隊成員參與多個國際和雙邊項目。她還是突尼斯和葡萄牙之間的雙邊項目的首席調查員。

Haroun Chenchouni博士是阿爾及利亞肯切拉高等國立林業學院的副教授和研究科學家（生態學家）。他曾是阿爾及利亞泰貝薩大學的副教授。他擁有阿爾及利亞巴特納2大學的生態學和環境博士學位，以及阿爾及利亞瓦爾格拉大學的乾旱地生態學碩士學位。他畢業於阿爾及利亞巴特納大學生物科學系的植物生態學和森林生態系統工程專業。在阿爾及利亞的各個大學，他教授森林生態學、生物統計學和生態模型。他發表了100多篇同行評審的論文和國際認可的研究論文。他還參與了國家和國際研究項目。2017年，他加入了阿拉伯地球科學期刊（AJGS）作為副編輯。

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