Dr. Jörg Rinklebe (M) is a Professor for Soil- and Groundwater-Management at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. His academic background covers soil chemistry, particularly biogeochemistry of trace elements; soil fertility and plant nutrition, and remediation of contaminated soils. He also has a certain expertise in soil microbiology.
Professor Rinklebe is internationally recognized particularly for his research in the area of biogeochemistry of trace elements in wetland soils. He published plenty of scientific papers in leading international and national journals. According to SCOPUS (July-30-2019) Professor Rinklebe published over 194 research papers, 17 were nominated as “Highly Cited Papers” and 2 were nominated as “Hot Paper”). His h-index is 36. Also, he published two books entitled “Trace Elements in Waterlogged Soils and Sediments” (2016) and “Nickel in Soils and Plants” (2018) as well as numerous book chapters. He is serving as Co-Editor in Chief of the international journal Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (CREST) and Special Issue Editor for Environmental Pollution and Journal of Hazardous Materials, and as guest editor of the international journals Environment International, Chemical Engineering Journal, Science of the Total Environment, Chemosphere, Journal of Environmental Management, Applied Geochemistry, and Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Also, he is member on serval editorial boards (Ecotoxicology, Geoderma, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science) and reviewer for many leading international journals. He organized many special symposia at various international conferences. He was an invited speaker (plenary and keynote) at many international conferences. In 2016 he got an appointment as Honorable Ambassador for Gangwon Province, South-Korea which was renewed in June-2018. Also, he got an appointment as Visiting Professor at the Department of Environment, Energy and Geoinformatics at Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea and Guest Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Recently, Professor Rinklebe was elected as Vice President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB).
Home page: https://www.boden.uni-wuppertal.de/en/joerg-rinklebe-phd-full-professor.html
Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7404-1639
Dr. Sabry M. Shaheen (M) is a Professor for Soil and Water Chemistry at the University of Kafrelsheikh, Egypt. Currently, Dr. Shaheen is working as Researcher at the Laboratory of Soil- and Groundwater-Management, Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering; University of Wuppertal, Germany. Dr. Shaheen has awarded the esteemed Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers at University of Wuppertal, Germany during the period 7/2016 – 3/2018. Dr. Shaheen has gained national and international recognition for his applied research work in soil chemistry and soil fertility. During the period 2007-2019, Dr. Shaheen has published 94 papers in ISI-Web of Science listed Journals and 13 book chapters in international publishers. Based on the citation of his publication, his Scopus h-Index = 26. He is a member of the editorial board of Environmental Pollution, Journal of Archive of Agronomy and Soil Sciences, Energy & Environment, Biochar Journal. Also, he is guest editor of the international journal Frontiers in Chemistry. Dr. Shaheen is a Peer-Reviewer for many international journals. Dr. Shaheen has been awarded many national and international Awards.
Home page: https://www.boden.uni-wuppertal.de/de/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-sabry-mohamed-nesiem-shaheen.html
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5618-8175
Felizitas Boie (F) is a PhD student under supervising of Professor Rinklebe at the Department of Soil- and Groundwater-Management at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Her research focuses on Microbial community structure and function in wetland soils. Felizitas finished her Master thesis titled “Soil microbial response to toxicants under varied moisture and temperature pre-conditions” in July 2017 from Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Geospatial and Environmental Sciences, University Trier, Germany. Felizitas has good experience in performing eco-toxicological and soil microbial analysis using different techniques such as: phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA), quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE).
Home page: https://www.boden.uni-wuppertal.de/de/mitarbeiter/felizitas-boie.html