

Title of the speech: Climate Change, Water Scarcity and Emerging Contaminants: Global Vision and Local Solutions in the Mediterranean Region: The Need for Advanced Water Treatment and Reuse
Honorary Adjunct Professor, Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, 04120, Almería, Spain
Full Research Professor (retired) at IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain,
Dr Honoris Causa by the Universities of Almeria and Lleida (Spain) and Ioannina (Greece) in 2022, 2021 and 2014 respectively.
Member of the Institute for Catalan Studies, IEC, Barcelona, since 1998.
Since 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) UK, Member of the Academie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris, and Distinguished Scientist from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences(CRAES), Phase I 2020-2024 and Phase II 2025-2029.
D Barceló has received the following awards:
2024 Enzo Tiezzi Medal from the Societa Chimica Italiana- Italian Chemical Society;
2023. Prize of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Society of Chemistry (EuChemS) Euroanalysis, Geneva ,
King Hamad Prize for Agricultural Development in the category of Best Agricultural Research & Studies, Bahrein
Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC
Member of the Academie Nationale de Pharmacie, Paris;
2012 Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden
2012 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia
2007 Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature from Generalitat of Valencia, Spain.
Prof. Barceló has supervised > 67 PhD students, since 1992 – to date . He has been an Instructor of short courses at PITTCON, SETAC NA, AP and ExTech conferences since early 2000. His expertise is in the analysis, fate, risk and removal of emerging contaminants, nanomaterials and microplastics from water as well as sewage epidemiology of drugs and proteins using advanced mass spectrometric techniques.
Hirsch-Index of 191 / 154/138 and the total number of citations over 164K / 111K/91.5K (sources Google Scholar / Scopus/Web of Science) and more than 1500 publications. Research.com ranked in 2024 D Barcelo as the 4th and 43rd environmental scientist and chemist, respectively in the world. He has been involved in editorial activities in the following Elsevier journals as co-editor in chief and editor from 1990 to date: STOTEN, GREEAC, TRAC, Methods X, CSCEE, and COESH. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the book series Wilson + Wilson Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry from Elsevier since 1997- today and co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry book series from Springer since 2007-today and Advances In Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection) since 2016-today. From 1993 to date he has been editor and co-editor of 40 books on environmental chemistry.