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Prof. Barcelo is a leading expert in environmental sciences. Since 2008-to date Prof. Damien Barcelo is a Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA-CERCA), Girona, Spain. From 2016 – to date he is Professor at KSU, Riyadh and Professor at ZAFU, Hangzhou .D Barceló has received the following awards: Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Ioannina, Greece, in 2014 and by the Universities of Lleida, June 2021 and Almeria , Spain in May 2022, Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Award 2023 of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) ,
Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden in 2012 , Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia in 2012 and Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature from Generalitat of Valencia, Spain in 2007 . He has co-supervised more than 65 PhD students .
Prof. Barceló expertise is on analysis, fate, risk and removal of emerging contaminants, nanomaterials and microplastics from water and on sewage epidemiology of drugs and proteins. Since 2010 he is ISI Highly Cited. Research.com ranked in 2023 D Barcelo as 3rd and 23rd in environmental sciences and chemistry, respectively in the world. He is journal editor from 1990 to date of: STOTEN, GREEAC, TRAC, Methods X, CSCEE, and COESH. From 1993 to date he has edited 37 books.
