Prof. Mohsen Sherif, a Ph.D., C.Eng., D.WRE, M. ASCE, Fulbrighter, is currently a Professor of Water Resources and the Director of Research and Sponsored Projects at UAE University, United Arab Emirates. He has 35 years of teaching and research experience in groundwater flow and contamination, artificial recharge and management of groundwater systems, hydrology, hydraulics, fluid mechanics, numerical simulation, climate change, and water resources management. He has published more than 150 journal and conference papers and book chapters and completed several large-scale projects. Prof. Sherif received several international and national awards including two Fulbright Scholarships, in 1993 and 1997, and Sheikh Khalifa Award for Education, Higher Education/Research, First Round, in March 2008. He was also awarded the Designation of Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrology and Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.

Dr. Dalal Alshamsi has a doctorate degree in Geology of Isotopes Hydrology from United Arab Emirates University in UAE in May 2014. At present, Dr. Alshamsi is an Associate Professor – College of Science, UAE University since September 2019. Dr. Alshamsi obtained her practical lab work during the PhD in the Technical University of Denmark in Roskilde city, Denmark. She is now working in different research projects as PI co-PI. She published 29 papers and abstracts in international referred journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Dalal is currently supervising a PhD student in Geoscience, and she previously successfully supervised two students from Civil Engineering Water Resources MSc and Environmental Science programs. She is a member in 8 internal committees in the levels of department, college and university, and twain committees and three sub-committees in governmental level outside the university, and she is a member is the Gulf Water Sciences and Technology Association. She is also guiding the Learning Outcomes Assessment committee in the Geoscience Department.

Professor Vijay P. Singh, Ph.D., D.Sc., D. Eng. (Hon.), Ph.D. (Hon.), D.Sc. (Hon.), P.E., P.H., Hon. D. WRE, Dist. M. ASCE, Dist. Hon. M. IWRA, Dist. F. AGGS, Hon. Member AWRA, is a Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and the inaugural holder of Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering, in Department and Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. Professor Singh has been recognized for four decades of leadership in research, teaching, and service in the hydrologic and water resources engineering profession. Singh's contribution to the state of the art has been significant in many different specialty areas, including hydrologic science and engineering, hydraulic engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, irrigation science, soil and water conservation engineering, entropy-based modeling, copula-based modeling, and mathematical modeling. He has published 37 books, more than 1475 refereed journal papers, 122 book chapters, and 330 conference proceedings and papers, and has edited 85 books. He has been the recipient of 110 national/international awards from professional organizations. He is a recipient of many awards including Ven Te Chow Award, Torrens Award, Royce Tipton Award, OPAL Award, Wetzen Award,  EWRI Lifetime Achievement Award, and others.

Prof. Sefelnasr obtained his PhD in hydrogeology and holds BSc and MSc in Geology and hydrogeology, respectively. With over 25-year experience, he worked in both groundwater science and water resources management. With a PhD in groundwater modeling and water resources management, He has published extensively and notably in the field of groundwater. Prof. Sefelnasr is a full professor of hydrogeology and water resources management at Assiut University, Egypt. For the meantime, he is a researcher at the National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirates University, UAE and an expert in water resources management, GIS, transboundary aquifers, artificial storage and recovery, numerical simulations, coastal aquifers, saltwater intrusion, water security, hydrology, and climate change. Prof. Sefelnasr has extensive international experience in groundwater research, consulting, and advisory work – with a wide variety of academic interests and practical applications. He conducted teaching, research and professional work in different areas and countries, mainly in Egypt, Germany, Japan, UK, and United Arab Emirates. Although Prof. Sefelnasr specialized in groundwater modeling, coupled flow and solute transport processes, groundwater exploration, and water resources management, he currently fosters a keen interest in groundwater resources, including their governance, advocacy strategies and sustainable management, mainly in arid and semiarid areas.

Sharon B. Megdal, Ph.D. is Director of The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), a Cooperative Extension center and a research unit in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Other primary titles are Professor and Specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, C.W. & Modene Neely Endowed Professor, and Distinguished Outreach Professor. The geographic scope of Dr. Megdal’s work ranges from local to international. Applied research projects include analysis of water management, policy, and governance in water-scarce regions, groundwater recharge, and transboundary aquifer assessment. Key engagement initiatives are Indigenous Water Dialogues and Diversifying Voices in Water Resources. In 2020, she was awarded the Warren A. Hall Medal for lifetime achievement in water resources research and education by the Universities Council on Water Resources. Dr. Megdal has served on numerous Arizona boards and commissions, including the Arizona Corporation Commission, the State Transportation Board, and the Arizona Medical Board. Recent professional service includes serving for 12 years as a popularly elected Director for the Central Arizona Project, the Board of Directors for the American Water Resources Association, and Board President for the International Arid Lands Consortium. Dr. Megdal’s full CV, along with her policy columns and Reflections essays, can be found at https://wrrc.arizona.edu/director.

Holds the position of Professor of Water Resources and Coordinator of the Water Resources Management Program, College of Graduate Studies, and the UN Water Learning Center for the Arab Region at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU). He obtained his MSc degree in 1987 in the field of groundwater mathematical modeling from Ohio University and PhD degree in 1990 in the same field from Colorado State University. Since joining AGU in 1990, he has taught many courses in Water Resources Management and Planning in Arid Regions and Hydrogeology, published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and seminars, and supervised more than 45 MSc and PhD theses. He also serves as a visiting professor for Paris Sorbonne University at Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) and an external examiner for many universities in the region. His research interests include the Water-Energy-food security nexus; water resources governance, planning and management; use of numerical models in the management of groundwater systems; and the impacts of climate change on the water sector.  He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the regional Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research (2006 – 2010). He has conducted more than 50 contractual research studies, and serves as a consultant for many UN (e.g., ESCWA, FAO, UNESCO, UNDP, UNEP), and regional (e.g., GCC SG, LAS) and international organizations (e.g., WB, GIZ). He currently serves as the Vice-President of the GCC Water Science and Technology Association (wstagcc.org) and the Chairman of its Scientific Committee.

BSc-MSc, PhD (in fluid mechanics) from Kazan University, USSR, 1982, 1987. Work history: 1982-1998 at Kazan University, Department of Seepage, Department of Mathematical Analysis. Since 1998 with SQU, Oman as Assistant-Associate-Full Professor, HoD (2007-2012), Director of SQU Water Research Centre (2011-2012), Dean of CAMS (2012-2015). Areas of interest: groundwater hydrology, soil physics, multiphase flow in porous media (soils, aquifers, oil formations), mathematical modelling, optimal shape design. Applications: hydroecology, irrigation and drainage, geotechnical, hydraulic, and hydrologic engineering, reservoir engineering, water resources management. Publications: 176 papers in refereed Scopus-WoS indexed journals (in English), 2 co-authored books (in Russian). Selected awards: Best Reviewer of Vadose Zone Journal, SSSA (2005), Best Reviewer of J. of Irrigation and Drainage Eng., ASCE (2013), Research and Innovation Award in Water Sciences, The Research Council, Oman (2018).

El-shafie received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Civil Engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt in 1993 and 1998, respectively. In 2003, he received his PhD in water resources management and planning from Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University under collaborative academic channel program with Civil Engineering Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Between 2004 and 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at both of Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Between 2007-2015, he is an Associate Professor with the Smart Engineering System, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. Presently he is a Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Malaya. His research interest is related to artificial intelligence techniques with their applications to several engineering applications giving emphasis to hydrological process, environmental and water resources, dam and reservoir operation and multi-sensor system integration.

Dr. Al Rashed is the Ex-Executive Director of the Water Research Center at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). He is now a Scientific Researcher at the center. Dr. Al Rashed is an expert in: Groundwater, Water Management and Water policies.  He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from the University College London, United Kingdom. He has distinguished achievements in his field of specialization. He led and participated in many successful research projects since he joined KISR in October 1982 in groundwater pollution control and management in oil fields and farming areas.  He has over 50 publications as papers in refereed journals and conferences, and scientific and technical reports. He is affiliated to many regional and international Professional Associations.  He is, currently, in a sabbatical leave with the National Center of Water and Energy at the United Arab Emirates University.

Prof. Nandimandalam Janardhana Raju is a distinguished scientist in the fields of Hydrogeology, Environmental Geosciences and Water Resources Management. He had his education in Sri Venkateswara University for M.Sc (Geology), M.Phil and then did Ph.D in the field of Hydrogeology. An eminent Hydrogeologist, Dr Raju began academic career in the year 1994 as Geohydrologist at the Department of Geology, Sri Venkateswara University and served as Assistant Professor Department of Geology (BHU, 2004-2009), Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences (JNU, 2009-2015) and presently serving as Professor (2015-till date) in the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prof. Raju was awarded National Geosciences Award (2018), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1997), Germany and Guest Professorship (2012), Martin Luther University, Germany for his pioneering contributions to scientific research. He has guided 8 PhDs and 9 M.Phils in Hydrogeology and water quality aspects and published more than 70 research papers in SCI refereed journals. His teaching and research career spans over 30 years – as visiting scientist at Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg, Germany; Asmara University, Asmara, Eritrea; Federal University of Fluminense (2005), Rio dio Janeiro, Brazil; Martin Luther University (2008, 2011, 2012 & 2015), Halle, Germany and Mississippi State University (2016,2017,2018), USA.

More than 30 years of professional experience related to hydrogeology, numerical modeling using Finite Element Modeling and GIS in UAE, Egypt, Germany, and USA. Around 15 years of experience in the geology and hydrogeology of UAE. He built strong research experience in environmental sciences, hydrogeology, groundwater flow and contamination, groundwater management, hydrology, geology, numerical simulation, and GIS in water resources. Led several research projects in those fields. His experience includes modeling, simulation, and experimental investigation of water resources. He completed several studies on groundwater flow modeling, acid mine drainages, hydrogeology of arid regions, GIS applications for water resources management, and geophysical exploration. He has published a lot of peer reviewed papers dealing with hydrogeology, GW evaluation, and water resources management.

Prof. Dawoud is Senior Water Resources Advisor with the Environment Agency - ABU DHABI, UAE. He graduated in civil engineering with honor degree and got his Master and Ph.D. from Ain Shams University through joint program with Colorado State University, USA. Since 1991, he has maintained an active program of research and consulting activities, with particular emphasis on Groundwater aquifers artificial recharge with desalinated water, Reuse of TSE, desalination technology, and water resources management. His current research includes water supply and demand, solar desalination, groundwater management, aquifer storage and recovery, and Reuse of TSE in many countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Oman, KSA, and UAE. He is an editor in three international journals and reviewer for other seven journal. He has 7 published books and more than 80 published research papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and international conferences. He got the 2009 Abu Dhabi Excellence Award and 2011 HH Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Award. In 2012 he was awarded by the National Academies-USA as one of best four young Arab water scientists.

Dr. Manoj Shukla is the Nakayama Research Excellence Professor of Soil Physics and Director of Global Programs and Aggies Go Global in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University. He chaired two western multistate research programs. He is Technical Editor for the Soil Physics and Hydrology section of Soil Science Society of America Journal, Consulting Editor for Vadose Zone Journal, and a member of the American Geophysical Union Unsaturated Zone technical committee. Dr. Shukla has created numerous new teaching, research, program development, and faculty and student exchange partnerships between ACES and international universities. He was the College of ACES P&T committee chair, ACES representative on the NMSU University Research Council, and NMSU advanced leadership program steering committee member. He got the Patricia Christmore Faculty Teaching Award and North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture award. Dr. Shukla has chaired or co-chaired over 30 graduate student committees and participated in 35 others. Dr. Shukla has co-authored 157 refereed academic papers and four books. He obtained almost 30 M in external grants. His research focuses on improving water usage efficiency, predicting the effects of brackish groundwater irrigation on soil, plants, and atmosphere, and simulating surface-groundwater interactions.

Prof. Furat Al-Faraj is the Programme Leader of the MRes (Master by Research) in Environmental Management and the Academic Operations Lead of the Civil and Construction at the University of Bolton, the United Kingdom. Prof. Al-Faraj is a leading scholar in integrated water resources management and climate change. He has led several projects for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations-World Food Programme (WFP), and the FAO on water resources management, climate change impact, drought risks management, and anti-corruption in the water sector. In addition, Prof. Al-Faraj has a proven track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and reports focusing on sustainability issues, with particular emphasis on the combined effect of climate change and human-induced interventions on the water resources management in Arab countries, coupled with mitigation measures and adaptation options. Prof. Al-Faraj has been invited by regional and international conferences and organisations such as the FAO, UNDP, WFP, and Elbarlament as a keynote speaker and an expert on sustainability, climate change, and water resources issues in arid and semi-arid regions.

Prof. Hamed Assaf is the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and a professor in the Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Dept. at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK). He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering (water resources) from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1991. Before joining AURAK, Prof. Assaf previously taught at the American Universities of Sharjah and Beirut. Before moving to the Arab region in 2003, Prof. Assaf was a senior risk analysis and water resources engineer for BC Hydro, Canada's third-largest utility, before going to the Arab area in 2003. Prof. Assaf is a leading scholar in water resources management and climate change. He has conducted several studies on the impact of climate change on water resources, hydroeconomic modeling, mass disasters, groundwater contamination, and life cycle assessment. Prof. Assaf has several peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reports focusing on sustainability issues, with particular emphasis on climate change, its potential impact on the Arab region, and adaptation options. He has organized and chaired scientific conferences involving local, regional, and international researchers. WMO, ESCWA, UNDP, and JICA have invited him as a keynote speaker, panelist, and climate change and water resources expert.

Prof. Ekkehard Holzbecher holds academic degrees in mathematics (diploma at University of Cologne), in civil engineering (doctorate at Techn. Univ. Berlin) and in hydrogeology (habilitation at Freie Univ. Berlin). For more than three decades he worked at various university and research institutions, mainly on water related environmental problems, in particular concerning groundwater. Abroad he has taken research positions in Japan and Israel, and taught modeling courses in Austria, Spain, Poland, Japan and the USA. He is author of several textbooks, published by Springer International Publishers. His monograph ‘Environmental Modeling’ appeared hitherto in 2 editions. Since 2014 he is affiliated with German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman (GUtech), where he holds the position as Full Professor.

Graham Fogg is Professor of Hydrogeology in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis. Graham E. Fogg received a B.S. in Hydrology from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Geology from The University of Texas at Austin. He has more than 40 yrs experience researching and teaching about subsurface water flow and pollutant transport processes and water resource sustainability. He teaches courses at UC Davis in groundwater hydrology, groundwater modeling, applied geostatistics, and water resources. He focuses on massive increases in groundwater storage through management of flood flows and exploitation of subsurface geologic features that maximize opportunities for relatively rapid recharge. He has researched Groundwater in several fields, including Soil organic matter, Soil water, Denitrification and Nitrate. His study on Water table, Groundwater quality and Ground water quality is often connected to network planning and design and Sampling as part of broader study in Hydrology. He has also worked extensively on modeling contaminant transport in groundwater both at the plume and basin scales. Dr. Fogg is a Fellow in GSA, was the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished lecturer in 2002, and received the O.E. Meinzer Award in 2011.

Prof. Ing. Zeleňáková Martina, PhD. is professor at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia. In the framework of her scientific-research activities she has focused on the solution of water management problems, and separately on the assessment of environmental risks in river basins in relation to flood events, erosion and water pollution sources. The results of her scientific-research work have been published in national and international journals, scientific conference proceedings and proceedings of national and international conferences.

Prof. Dr. Hany Farhat Abd-Elhamid is a professor of water resources, Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University Košice, Košice, Slovakia. He obtained his BSc from the Civil Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Egypt. His MSc was awarded by Department of Water and Water Structures Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt. He got his PhD from Faculty of Engineering, Exeter University, UK. His research interests focus on water resources, surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, groundwater-surface water interaction, groundwater modeling, groundwater contamination, saltwater intrusion, flood prediction and mitigation, drought assessment, reuse of treated wastewater, water quality assessment, climate change, sustainable development. He is participating in a number of projects funded by the national and international agencies such as TEMPUS, FP7, PMI2, ASRP, H2020. He has participated in many workshops and conferences and published more than 100 papers in highly ranked journals.

Rao S. Govindaraju is the Bowen Engineering Head and the Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his PhD in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1989. His primary areas of research include surface and subsurface hydrology, contaminant transport, watershed hydrology, and climatic influences. He is interested in developing algorithms for analyzing and learning from hydrologic data. He specializes in problems dealing with uncertainty and spatial variability. His research work has been supported by various agencies such as NSF, EPA, DOD, and DOE. He has chaired national level committees and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, and served as the President of American Institute of Hydrology (2017-2018). His work has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, and keynote lectures. Dr. Govindaraju has co-authored four books, over 140 refereed journal papers, 24 book chapters, numerous conference papers and reports. Dr. Govindaraju has been involved in numerous projects as PI or Co-PI from numerous funding agencies including NSF, EPA, DOD, and DOE.

Tarik Chfadi is an applied economist at the International Water Research Institute, University Mohammed VI polytechnic. Prior to this position, Dr. Chfadi served as Assistant Professor in the Agribusiness program, at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), he also held a Postdoctoral position on the Monitoring & Evaluation of food safety training programs at the University of Maryland. He holds a PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the same University. Chfadi worked for several years as a STC consultant at the World Bank in Washington DC, and before that as a professional engineer at the Direction de la Recherche et de la Planification de l’Eau. Dr. Chfadi is a Fulbright/MACECE exchange student and an AGCD (Belgium) grantee.

Dr. Francisco Javier Alcalá is a Senior Researcher at the Experimental Station of Arid Zones of the Spanish National Research Council. Her research interest deals with human, environmental and climatic interactions underlying groundwater quantity and quality, with special focus on actions to mitigate the effects of global change. He has published 65 papers in indexed journals in the areas of Water Resources, Geo-Sciences and Computer Geo-Sciences; 25 papers in other peer-reviewed journals; 6 complete books as first author; 30 chapters of books; 54 proceedings in conferences; and 23 lessons presented in conferences upon invitation. He has supervised several PhD and MSc Theses and has registered 5 hydrological software with international rights. He has coordinated 25 R&D projects and has participated in other 25 R&D projects in different countries. He has long experience in knowledge transfer of R&D activities, representation in international committees, and review of R&D activities in different countries, as well as Guest Editor and Associate Editor in different indexed scientific journals. He is Associate Researcher ‘Ad Honorem’ at the Autonomous University of Chile and a member of the United Nations Panel of Experts for ‘Assessment of Water Resources’ in Latin America.

Prof. Dr. Chérifa ABDELBAKI obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2014. She is a Senior Lecturer in Water Sciences at the Department of Hydraulics, Faculty of Technology, University Abou Bakr Belkaid - Tlemcen, Algeria. She graduated from the National Higher School of Hydraulics - Blida, Algeria. She is heading the research team: Water resources and mobilization (EOLE Research Laboratory) University of Tlemcen, Algeria. She is working as a Water Program Coordinator at the Pan-African Institute for Water and Energy including Climate Change (PAUWES), Algeria. Her fields of research are – Water resources management, Geographic information system, Water reuse and Wastewater treatment. Prof. Abdelbaki Chérifa has participated in the development of several research projects in the field of water resources (mobilization, management, and optimization). With more than 20 years of experience in the Water Resources and GIS applications, she has participated in several scientific events (Innovation exhibition, National and International Conferences, Doctoral Schools, etc.), supervised more than 70 topics (Engineer, Masters, and Ph.D.) and led several GIS training sessions. She is a consultant and expert in the field of GIS and Hydraulics, she has written more than 100 communications and more than 20 publications in these fields.

Dr. Ali Khamis Al-Maktoumi is an associate Professor in Water Resources management and Director of Water Research Center at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. Obtained PhD in Environmental Engineering (Water Resources management – Groundwater Hydrology) from the University of Queensland – Australia in June 2007. His Research focuses on water resources management in arid zones with more focus in recharge dam’s efficiency, groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling, and water resources management. Leading major strategic research and consultancy services during the last 10 years, along with co-investigator in other international and regional projects, with a total value of 3 million USD from both national and international funding agencies. He published 60 papers, edited 2 books with Springer, and more than 40 conference/symposium presentations with several book chapters. He has been invited as a keynote speaker at 10 international and regional events. He established collaboration with leading international institutions such as JPL-NASA – USA, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and Caltech Institute of Technology, USA, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, IHE and Amsterdam University, IAEA, Vienna, United Arab Emirates University, UAE, University of Jordan, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, KISR-Kuwait, Hamed Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, QEERI, Qatar Foundation, and many others. He won several national and international Awards.

Xiaolin Hou is a senior radioanalytical chemist of Technical University of Denmark. He obtained his PhD degree in nuclear and radioanalytical chemistry from Chinese Academy of Science in 1997. Dr. Hou joined to Risø National Laboratory, Denmark (from 2007 Risø becomes part of Technical University of Denmark) in 1998, and has been a senior scientist there from 2003 to 2012. Since May 2013, he was employed as a professor in Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Nutech), and then since January 2020 in the Department of Environemntal Engineering, DTU. His primary research interests are Radioanalytical Chemistry, Environemntal radioectivity, environemntal process tracing, speciation analysis of radionuclides, nuclear and radioanalytical chemistry, ICP-MS and AMS. Prof. Hou has author/coauthored more than 380 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, among them more than 240 publications in WoS, one monograph and 8 book chapters, with a SCI h-index of 38 and citations of more than 5000.  He has supervised/co-supervised 15 PhD, 18 Master and 5 post doc, He is an associated editor of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

Dr. Hamidreza Sharifan is an assistant professor of Environmental and Forensic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Air Quality Research Center, University of California Davis, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Colorado State University. His research is centered on the fate and transfer of PFASs in the vadose zone. He worked on different environmental projects in Europe and the USA. His Ph.D. studies at Texas A&M University centered on nanoparticles' environmental fate and their interaction with crops. During his academic career, he has supervised many undergraduate and graduate students. He is serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Data in Brief.

Professor Karunanidhi Duraisamy is a renowned scientist specializing in the fields of Groundwater Hydrology, Environmental Geochemistry, and Managed Aquifer Recharge. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in 2014 in Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing, and GIS from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India. Dr. Karunanidhi embarked on his academic career in 2008 as a Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Jayam College of Engineering and Technology. He furthered his academic contributions by serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, from 2014 to 2023.

Currently, he holds the esteemed position of Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, a role he has held since 2023. In recognition of his research excellence, Professor Karunanidhi received the Early Career Research Award in 2017 from the Science and Engineering Research Board in New Delhi. Furthermore, his contributions are evident through the publication of over 70 research papers in SCI-refereed journals. His scholarly impact is reflected in his impressive H and I indices, which stand at 29 and 43 respectively. Additionally, his work has garnered 2172 citations, further, he is a Managing Guest editor for several journals.