PZETS-2025 Oral Presentation：Advancing Water Treatment and Reuse Technologies to Address the Nexus of Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Pharmaceutical Contamination

D.Barcelo

Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, Ctra Sacramento s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain, email: damiab@ual.es

Prof. Damia Barcelo ：

Honorary Adjunct Professor, email: damiab@ual.es, Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria,  04120, Almeria, Spain, Full Research Professor IDAEA-CSIC,Barcelona, Spain since 1999-january 2024, now retired.

Awarded as   Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of  Ioannina, Greece,  in 2014  and  by the University of Lleida, June  2021  and Almeria , Spain in  May 2022.   

Adjunct Professor in Sustainability Cluster, School of Engineering at the UPES, Dehradun, India .Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences(CRAES), Phase I 2020-2024 and Phase II 2025-2029.

Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang A& F University, March 2025-March 2027.

D Barceló has received the following awards:

2024 Enzo Tiezzi Medal from the  Societa Chimica Italiana- Italian Chemical Society;

2023. Prize  of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC)    of the  European Society of Chemistry (EuChemS) Euroanalysis,Geneva ,

2023. King Hamad Prize for Agricultural Development in the category of Best Agricultural Research & Studies , Bahrein ,

2023. Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) ,

2023.Fellow of the  Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC

2023 Member of the Academie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris;  

2012 Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden     

2012Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia  

 2007  Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature from Generalitat of Valencia, Spain

1998, Member of the Institute for Catalan Studies, IEC, Barcelona,Spain

D Barceló  has supervised    > 67 PhD students,  since 1992 – to date . He has been Instructor of  short  courses  at PITTCON, SETAC-NA, SETAC-AP and ExTech  conferences since early 2000. D Barceló expertise is on analysis, fate , risk and removal of emerging contaminants, nanomaterials  and microplastics from water as well as  sewage epidemiology of drugs and proteins using advanced mass spectrometric techniques.  Hirsch-Index of 195 / 156/141  and total number of citations over  172K / 117K/96.1K (sources Google Scholar / Scopus/Web of Science) and more than 1500 publications . Research.com  ranked  in 2024 D Barcelo as  4th and 43rd environmental scientist and chemist, respectively  in the world. He is Editor-in-chief of the book series Wilson + Wilson Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry from Elsevier since 1997- today and co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry book series from Springer since 2007-today  and  Advances In Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection) since 2016-today . Since March 2025 Co-Editor-in-chief of the journal Earth: Environmental Sustainability  (EESUS.  Since 1993 to date he has been  editor and co-editor of 40 books on environmental chemistry.