Senior Awardees
Award for distinguished career/excellence in implementation and practice in the fields of CIPOA
Dr. Dionysios (Dion) D. Dionysiou is currently a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science Program at the University of Cincinnati. He teaches courses and performs research in the areas of drinking water quality and treatment, advanced unit operations for water treatment, advanced oxidation technologies and nanotechnologies, and physical-chemical processes for water quality control. He has received funding from NSF, US EPA, NASA, NOAA/CICEET, USGS, USDA, Ohio Sea Grant, USAID, and DuPont. He is currently one of the editors of Chemical Engineering Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several other journals. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2017. Dr. Dionysiou is the author or co-author of over 600 refereed journal publications, over 87 conference proceedings, 38 book chapter publications, 34 editorials, and more than 650 presentations. He has edited/co-edited 7 books on water quality, water reuse, ferrates, photocatalysis and treatment of harmful algal blooms and cyanotoxins. Dr. Dionysiou’s work received over 58,000 citations with an H factor of 125 (Google Scholar). He is a Highly Cited Researcher (in Engineering and Environment/Ecology based on Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and in Environmental Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering based of Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects by Elsevier.
Dionysios Dionysiou
University of Cincinnati, USA
Award for distinguished career/excellence in implementation and practice in the fields of CIPOA
Santiago Esplugas is Emeritus professor in the Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona. He has published more than 200 papers, mainly in the research are of wastewater treatment, and has presented more than 250 communications to National and International congresses. He is associate editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (from 2007), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (from 2012) and member of the steering board committee of the SEQUI (Spanish Society of Industrial Chemistry from 1993) and IOA Santiago Esplugas is Emeritus professor in the Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona. He has published more than 200 papers, mainly in the research are of wastewater treatment, and has presented more than 250 communications to National and International congresses. He is associate editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (from 2007), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (from 2012) and member of the steering board committee of the SEQUI (Spanish Society of Industrial Chemistry from 1993) and IOA (International Ozone Association from 2010). From January 2015 to December 2016 was the president of the IOA EA3G (IOA in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia). He has acted as expert in project evaluation for the European Union, France, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Uruguay, China, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Canada.
Santiago Esplugas
University of Barcelona, Spain
Award for distinguished education and knowledge dissemination in the fields of CIPOA
Prof Dezotti obtained her BSc, MSc and DSc in Chemistry, all of them at UNICAMP (University of Campinas/Brazil). Since then, Prof. Dezotti has been conducting its research with a vast range of processes for the treatment of water and effluents. She introduced relevant research topics for Brazil, such as emerging pollutants and AOPs (she innovated in the identification of the organic by-products and in their association with biological processes), in addition to advanced biological processes. She conducted several projects in the environmental area (water and effluents treatment) with oil, petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical companies. She led many other projects with Brazilian research agencies and foreign universities (Spain, Portugal, France, USA among others). She was elected Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2020 in recognition of her scientific production and its impact in Brazil and Full Member of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) in 2022. She is one of the leaders of the consolidation of the Brazilian Association of Advanced Oxidative Processes – ABPOA. Additionally, she is Founding Member of the COPPE Women Support Group and she is a Member of the Commission "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion" of FAPERJ.
Marcia Walquiria de Carvalho Dezotti
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Award for distinguished scientific research in the fields of CIPOA
Marta Litter is PhD in Chemistry (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) with postdoctoral stay at the University of Arizona, USA. She is Senior Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Professor and Consultant at the University of General San Martín, Argentina. Her research focuses on the treatment of pollutants in water and air by AOPs, especially heterogeneous photocatalysis and use of iron-based nanomaterials. She authored more than 250 scientific publications. She was President of the Organizing Committee of the 5th International Congress of Arsenic in the Environment, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014). She was named a pioneer of photocatalysis in Argentina (2016). She is a Member of: the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS, 2019), the Academy of Sciences of Latin America (ACAL, 2020) and the Academy of Environmental Sciences of Argentina (2022). She received the following awards: Mercosur (UNESCO, 2006 and 2011, Innovar (MINCYT, 2009), Charreau for Regional Scientific and Technological Cooperation (2021), Latin American Women in Chemistry (ACS, 2021), Houssay Trajectory in Environmental Sciences and Technologies (MINCyT, 2022) and Konex-Diploma of Merit Award (2023).
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Marta Litter
Universidad Nacional de San Martín