Algae and Fungi: Bioremediation of Refractory Pollutants in Contaminated Environments

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Dr. Humaira Qadri is heading the Department of Environmental Sciences in Govt. Degree College Baramulla. She is the Dean of that college for Inter and Multi-disciplinary Sciences. She has also been actively involved in teaching the post-graduate students of Environmental Science for the past ten years in Sri Pratap College Campus Cluster University Srinagar J&K India. Her specialization is in Limnology Nutrient Dynamics and Phytoremediation. She has published scores of papers in international journals and has more than twelve books with national and international publishers. She is also the reviewer of various international journals and is the principal investigator of some major projects on phytoremediation. Dr. Sartaj Ahmad Bhat is working as JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher in the River Basin Research Center Gifu University Japan. He received his Ph.D. for Environmental Sciences from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar India in 2017. His primary research focuses on development and evaluation of treatment technologies for solid waste and wastewater from domestic and industrial outlets as well as organic waste recycling with a focus on the biological and sustainable treatment by earthworms. He has published more than fifty research papers in peer-reviewed journals three books and few book chapters to his credit. He is also an Editor Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of many international reputed journals published by Frontiers PLOS De Gruyter Springer SAGE MDPI Elsevier Wiley and Taylor and Francis. Dr. Rouf Ahmad Bhat has pursued his doctorate at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir (Division of Environmental Science). Dr. Bhat has been teaching graduate and postgraduate students of Environmental Sciences for the past three years. He is an author of more than 50 research articles (h-index 21; i-index 30; total citation >1200) and 40 book chapters and has published more than 30 books with international publishers (Springer Elsevier CRC Press Taylor and Francis Apple Academic Press John Wiley and IGI Global). He has his specialization in Limnology Toxicology Phytochemistry and Phytoremediation. Dr. Fuad Ameen is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Department of Botany and Microbiology college of Science King Saud University Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He graduated his Ph.D. on biodegradation of urban waste by mangrove fungi from King Saud University Saudi Arabia. He is the author or co-author of 150 papers and 15 book chapters in peer-reviewed journals.