Prof. Shalini Yadav is Professor and Head Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, and water resources. She has executed a variety of research projects/consultancy in environmental and water science and technology and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs, seminars, and conferences at national and international levels. She has got to her credit guiding an appreciable number of M.Tech. and Ph.D. students. She has published more than 10 journal articles and 30 technical reports. Dr. Shalini has also visited and delivered invited lectures at different institutes/universities in India and abroad, such as Australia, South Korea, and Kenya. She is one of the editors of seven books, namely climate change impacts, water resources management, groundwater, energy and environment, environmental pollution, hydrologic and modeling, water quality management which are published recently by the Springer under the Water Science and Technology Library.
Professor Shalini Yadav graduated with a B.Sc. in Science from the Bhopal University. She earned her M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry with a specialization in Environmental Science from Bhopal University and M.Tech. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, in 2000. Then she pursued the degree of Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India in 2011. Also, she is Recipient of national fellowships and awards. She is Reviewer for many international journals. She has been recognized for one and half decades of leadership in research, teaching, and service to the environmental engineering profession.
Prof. Abdelazim Negm is a professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) in the Water and Water Structures Engineering Department at the Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University (ZU). He worked as a demonstrator in the Faculty of Engineering, ZU in 1986 and continued there until he occupied the position of Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs. He worked for the Egypt–Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) as a professor of Water Resources from December 2012 until September 2016, and was chairperson of the Environmental Engineering Department at E-JUST from March 2013 until March 2016.
Professor Negm has published more than 350 scientific papers in national and international journals and conferences and about fifty book chapters. He has participated in more than 99 conferences and was a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. He has been awarded prizes for best papers three times. His research areas include hydraulics, hydrology, and water resources. Currently, he is very interested in sustainability studies, sustainable development, and the green environment in addition to water resources management. Professor Negm is a member of IAHR and is the head of the Egyptian permanent scientific committee for Water Resources for the promotion of associate and professorship positions for the cycle 2019–2022, and was the Vice Head for the cycle 2016–2019. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and international conferences and was a member of the organizing committee of Oceanography 2015, and IWTC2013-IWTC2017, and others. Additionally, he was Secretary-General of the IWTC from 2013 until 2017, then a member of the scientific committee. He was the head of the ZU committee for the assessment of the scientific publications of ZU faculties until December 2018. Recently, he published more than 35 contributed edited volumes by Springer publishing House in Handbook of Environmental chemistry, Springer Water, Geophysics, Earth and Environmental Sciences Library, …etc.) Currently, he is organizing several contributed volumes to be published by Springer International Publishing during 2022/2023. He was the editor-in-chief of EIJEST (Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University from 2016 to 2020), associate editor of IWTJ (IWTA) and EMJEI (Springer), and guest lead editor of AJGS–Springer, Sustainability Journal (MDPI), EJRSSS (Elsevier) and Scientific African Journal (Elsevier) and a member of the editorial board in others. He is the principal investigator of several international projects with UK, Italy and USA colleagues based on institutional collaboration. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of the HEC series. Professor Negm is listed in: Marquis’ Who’s Who? for more than ten years until now; IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century; and the ABI directory for his achievement in the fields of hydraulics and water resources. He has been n
