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Editors
Larry E. Erickson has been associated with chemical engineering at Kansas
State University, USA, since 1957 as a student and since earning a PhD in 1964
as a faculty member. In 1985, he helped to establish a research program at
K-State to address hazardous substance issues. From 1989 to 2003 he directed
the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center,
with financial support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and
other sources. This consortium of universities began conducting research with
vegetation and helped to develop phytotechnologies to address contaminated
soil problems. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of
Phytotechnology and the journal Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy.
He is currently an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at K-State. He
has helped to provide leadership for the Center for Hazardous Substance
Research at K-State since 1989 and has been part of the leadership team at
K-State for the NATO project that Valentina Pidlisnyuk leads.
Valentina Pidlisnyuk, DrSc, serves as professor at the Department of
Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Jan Evangelista Purkyne
University in Usti nad Labem, the Czech Republic. Her research interests
include sustainability, phytotechnologies, value chain of biomass and bioproducts, and environmental policy and management. She teaches PhD and
master’s courses in phytoremediation and Erasmus graduate courses in sustainable management of contaminated sites, fundamentals of sustainability,
and global environmental change. She serves as a topic editor at the Plant and
the Journal of Elementology and is a member of the editorial board of the Central
and Eastern European Journal of Management and Economics. Prof. Pidlisnyuk has
worked with more than 50 graduate students and advised four PhD students
who successfully defended their theses. Currently she is advising three PhD
students.
Prof. Pidlisnyuk received a professorship in Environmental Sciences from
the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science, was confirmed by the
Ministry of Education and Science of Slovakia, earned a doctorate in colloidal chemistry at the Institute of Colloidal and Water Chemistry, National
Academy of Science of Ukraine, and a master’s degree in chemistry at the
National State University, Ukraine, confirmed by Carl University in Prague,
Czech Republic. She accomplished a Fulbright Research Program at the
University of Georgia, USA, and an Environmental Management Program at
the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan.
Editors
Larry E. Erickson has been associated with chemical engineering at Kansas
State University, USA, since 1957 as a student and since earning a PhD in 1964
as a faculty member. In 1985, he helped to establish a research program at
K-State to address hazardous substance issues. From 1989 to 2003 he directed
the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center,
with financial support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and
other sources. This consortium of universities began conducting research with
vegetation and helped to develop phytotechnologies to address contaminated
soil problems. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of
Phytotechnology and the journal Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy.
He is currently an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at K-State. He
has helped to provide leadership for the Center for Hazardous Substance
Research at K-State since 1989 and has been part of the leadership team at
K-State for the NATO project that Valentina Pidlisnyuk leads.
Valentina Pidlisnyuk, DrSc, serves as professor at the Department of
Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Jan Evangelista Purkyne
University in Usti nad Labem, the Czech Republic. Her research interests
include sustainability, phytotechnologies, value chain of biomass and bioproducts, and environmental policy and management. She teaches PhD and
master’s courses in phytoremediation and Erasmus graduate courses in sustainable management of contaminated sites, fundamentals of sustainability,
and global environmental change. She serves as a topic editor at the Plant and
the Journal of Elementology and is a member of the editorial board of the Central
and Eastern European Journal of Management and Economics. Prof. Pidlisnyuk has
worked with more than 50 graduate students and advised four PhD students
who successfully defended their theses. Currently she is advising three PhD
students.
Prof. Pidlisnyuk received a professorship in Environmental Sciences from
the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science, was confirmed by the
Ministry of Education and Science of Slovakia, earned a doctorate in colloidal chemistry at the Institute of Colloidal and Water Chemistry, National
Academy of Science of Ukraine, and a master’s degree in chemistry at the
National State University, Ukraine, confirmed by Carl University in Prague,
Czech Republic. She accomplished a Fulbright Research Program at the
University of Georgia, USA, and an Environmental Management Program at
the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan.