Tel.: +33 1 83 95 78 36

Full Professor in Biogeochemistry of Engineered Ecosystems

My research activities are mainly focused on the two following topics :

- Study of metals and metalloids biogeochemistry in engineered ecosystems (e.g. bioreactors) mainly dedicated to wastewater treatment for pollution control and resource recovery,

- Investigation of the role of living organisms on the weathering of materials and minerals (concrete materials, metal sulfides, end of life products, WEEE and wastes such as metallurgical wastes for resource recovery,....)

Recent publications

1. Işıldar A., van Hullebusch E.D., Lenz M., Du Laing G., Marra A., Cesaro A., Panda S., Akcil A., Kucuker M.A., Kuchta K. (2019) Biotechnological strategies for the recovery of valuable and critical metals from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) – A review. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 362, 467-481.

1. Laera A., Buzier R., Guibaud G., Esposito G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Assessment of the DGT technique in digestate to fraction twelve trace elements. Talanta, 192, 204-211.

1. Das J., Rene E.R., Dupont C., Dufourny A., Blin J., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019). Performance of a compost and biochar packed biofilter for gas-phase hydrogen sulfide removal. Bioresource Technology, 273, 581-591.

1. Wongrod S., Simon S., van Hullebusch E.D., Lens P.N.L., Guibaud G. (2019) Assessing arsenic redox state evolution in solution and solid phase during As(III) sorption onto chemically-treated sewage sludge digestate biochars. Bioresource Technology, 275, 232-238.

1. Maharaj B.C., Mattei M.R., Frunzo L., van Hullebusch E.D., Esposito G. (2019). ADM1 based mathematical model of trace element complexation in anaerobic digestion processes. Bioresource Technology, 276, 253-259.

1. Wambugu C., Rene E.R., van Vossenberg J., Dupont C., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Role of biochar in anaerobic digestion based biorefinery for food waste. Frontiers in Energy Research, section Bioenergy and Biofuels, Volume 7 | Article 14

1. Laera A., Buzier R., Guibaud G., Esposito G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Distribution trend of trace elements in digestate exposed to air: laboratory-scale investigations using DGT-based fractionation, Journal of Environmental Management, 238, 159-165.

1. Gielnik A., Pechaud Y., Huguenot D., Cébron A., Riom J.-M., Guibaud G., Esposito G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Effect of digestate application on microbial respiration and bacterial communities' diversity during bioremediation of weathered petroleum hydrocarbons contaminated soils. Science of The Total Environment, 670, 271-281.

1. Calix E.M., Tan L., Rene E.R., Nancharaiah Y.V., van Hullebusch E.D., Lens P.N.L. (2019) Simultaneous removal of sulfate and selenate from wastewater by process integration of an ion exchange column and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket bioreactor. Separation Science and Technology, 54(8), 1387-1399.

1. Sethurajan M., van Hullebusch E.D., Fontana D., Akcil A., Deveci H., Batinic B., Leal J.P., Gasche T.A., Kucuker M.A., Kuchta K., Neto I.F.F., Soares H.M.V.M., Chmielarz A. (2019) Recent advances on hydrometallurgical recovery of critical and precious elements from end of life electronic wastes - a review. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 49(3), 212-275.

1. Pontoni L., Race M., van Hullebusch E.D., Fabbricino M., Esposito G., Pirozzi F. (2019) Effect of sodium concentration on mobilization and fate of trace metals in standard OECD soil. Environmental Pollution, 250, 839-848.

1. Laera A., Shakeri Yekta S., Hedenström M., Buzier R., Guibaud G., Dario M., Esposito G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) A simultaneous assessment of organic matter and trace elements bio-accessibility in substrate and digestate from an anaerobic digestion plant. Bioresource Technology, Volume 288, Article 121587

1. Gielnik A., Pechaud Y., Huguenot D., Cébron A., Esposito G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Bacterial seeding potential of digestate in bioremediation of diesel contaminated soil. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 143, Article 104715.

1. Kiskira K., Papirio S., Mascolo M.C., Fourdrin C., Pechaud Y., van Hullebusch E.D., Esposito G. (2019) Mineral characterization of the biogenic Fe(III)(hydr)oxides produced during Fe(II)-driven denitrification with Cu, Ni and Zn. Science of the Total Environment, 687, 401-412

1. Rader K.J., Carbonaro R.F., van Hullebusch E.D., Baken S., Delbeke K. (2019) The Fate of Copper Added to Surface Water: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38 (7), 1386-1399.

1. Sethurajan M., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Leaching and selective recovery of Cu from printed circuit boards. Metals, 9 (10), 1034.

1. Ilyas H., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Role of design and operational factors in the removal of pharmaceuticals by constructed wetlands. Water, 11 (11), 2356.

Book chapters

• Yin N.H., Lens P.N.L., Sivry Y. and van Hullebusch E.D. (2017) Lead and zinc metallurgical slags mineralogy and weathering, in Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation. Volume 2: Case studies Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens (Editors) Springer book, 133-160.

• Sethurajan M., Lens P.N.L., Horn H.A., Figueiredo L.H.A. and van Hullebusch E.D. (2017) Leaching and recovery of metals, in Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation. Volume 2: Case studies Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens (Editors) Springer book, 161-206.

• Vemic M., Bordas F., Guibaud G., Lens P.N.L. and van Hullebusch E.D. (2017) Leaching and recovery of molybdenum from spent catalysts, in Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation. Volume 2: Case studies Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens (Editors) Springer book, 207-239.

• Işıldar A., van de Vossenberg J., Rene E.R., van Hullebusch E.D. and Lens P.N.L. (2017) Biorecovery of metals from electronic waste, in Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation. Volume 2: Case studies  Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens (Editors) Springer book, 241-278.

• Jain R., van Hullebusch E.D., Lenz M., Farges F. (2017) Understanding selenium biogeochemistry in engineered ecosystems: Transformation and analytical methods in Bioremediation of Selenium contaminated wastewaters, van Hullebusch E.D. (Ed.), Springer book, 33-56.

• Staicu L., van Hullebusch E.D., Rittmann B.E., Lens P.N.L. (2017) Industrial selenium pollution: sources and biological treatment technologies in Bioremediation of Selenium contaminated wastewaters, van Hullebusch E.D. (Ed.), Springer book, 75-101.

• Staicu L., van Hullebusch E.D.,  Lens P.N.L. (2017) Industrial selenium pollution: wastewaters and physical-chemical treatment technologies in Bioremediation of Selenium contaminated wastewaters, van Hullebusch E.D. (Ed.), Springer book, 103-130.

• van Hullebusch E.D., Shakeri Yekta S., Calli B., Fermoso F.G. (2019) Biogeochemistry of major elements in anaerobic digesters: carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and iron, in Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D., Collins G., Roussel J., Mucha A.P., Esposito G. (Editors) Trace Elements in Anaerobic Biotechnologies, IWA e-book

• Staicu L.C., Simon S., Guibaud G., Shakeri Yekta S., Calli B., Bartacek J., Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Biogeochemistry of trace elements in anaerobic digesters in Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D., Collins G., Roussel J., Mucha A.P., Esposito G. (Editors) Trace Elements in Anaerobic Biotechnologies, IWA e-book

• Maharaj B.C., Mattei M.R., Frunzo L., Hatzikioseyian A., van Hullebusch E.D., Lens P.N.L., Esposito G. (2019) Mathematical modelling of trace-element dynamics in anaerobic digestion environments in Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D., Collins G., Roussel J., Mucha A.P., Esposito G. (Editors) Trace Elements in Anaerobic Biotechnologies, IWA e-book

• Almeida C.M.R., Dror I., Garuti M., Grabarczyk M., Guillon E., van Hullebusch E.D., Laera A., Mikac N., Muňoz J., Panagiotaras D., Paulauskas V., Rodriguez-Perez S., Simon S., Šinko J., Stres B., Ustak S., Wardak C., Mucha A.P. (2019) Assessing fate and bioavailability of trace elements in soils after digestate application in Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D., Collins G., Roussel J., Mucha A.P., Esposito G. (Editors) Trace Elements in Anaerobic Biotechnologies, IWA e-book

• Mucha A.P., Dragisa S., Dror I., Garuti M., van Hullebusch E.D., Kolbl Repinc S., Muňoz J., Rodriguez-Perez S., Stres B., Ustak S. Almeida C.M.R. (2019) Re-use of digestate and recovery techniques in Fermoso F.G., van Hullebusch E.D., Collins G., Roussel J., Mucha A.P., Esposito G. (Editors) Trace Elements in Anaerobic Biotechnologies, IWA e-book

• Cao F., Guibaud G., Bourven I., Pechaud Y., Lens P.N.L., van Hullebusch E.D. (2019) Role of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) in Cell Surface Hydrophobicity in Microbial biofilms in bioremediation and wastewater treatment, Y.N. Nancharaiah and V.P. Venugopalan (Ed.), CRC press/Taylor & Francis Group, in press

• Ukwamedua T.U., van Hullebusch E.D., López M. E., Sethurajan M., Rene E.R. (2019) Bioprocesses for the treatment of volatile organic compounds in Microbial biofilms in bioremediation and wastewater treatment, Y.N. Nancharaiah and V.P. Venugopalan (Ed.), CRC press/Taylor & Francis Group, in press

• Wambugu C.W., Rene E.R., van de Vossenberg J., Dupont C., van Hullebusch E.D (2019) Biochar from various lignocellulosic biomass wastes as an additive in biogas production from food waste, in press

• Abubackar H.N., Das J., Rene E.R., van Hullebusch E.D., Veiga M.C., Kennes C. (2019) Gas-Phase Bioreactors, in Comprehensive Biotechnology, Volume 2, Pages 446-463 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444640468001427

For more information regarding my recent publications please refer to the following web-sites

Google Scholar

Research gate

Scopus

Educational activities

Coordinator of the Master Program Environmental Engineering and Industries