Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Dmitry Nikolaenko.  PhD, Doctor Habilitatus. Czech Republic, Ukraine, RSA. Research interests: infectious ecology; GIS and its applications in the study of pollution and disease; environmental consequences of military activity; manifestation of infectious processes during wartime (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C); the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a large-scale spatiotemporal process; scientific study of the scientific community.

Associate Editors

Kenneth R. Olson.  PhD, Professor Emeritus of Soil Science, NRES, ACES, University of Illinois at Champaign. Urbana, Illinois, USA. Research interests: Great river landscapes of the world, environmental impact of warfare on soils, soil conservation, soil management, soil erosion, degradation, soil productivity, soil characterization and interpretation, and methodologies for measuring change in soil organic carbon over time.

Editorial Board Members:

Michael Kosoy. PhD., Research Director, KB One Health LLC, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Research interests: zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, disease ecology, pathogen evolution, complexity science, biosemiotics, and human-animal interface.

Aouadj Sid Ahmed. PhD, Teacher researcher at Relizane University & Research laboratory of Ecology and management of natural ecosystems 13" - Tlemcen.- Saida, Algeria.  Research interests: Plant and forest ecology with a special interest in research and work on the Ecological restoration of degraded natural ecosystems; Ecological and forest engineering ; Biodiversity; Botany, Plant Physiology; Forest Fires; Bioclimatology; Population Biology; Bioinformatics ; Quantum Ecology; Precision Ecology; Conservation Biology. 

Ghulam Mujtaba Shah. PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Botany at Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.  Research interests:

Tetiana Goncharova. Master of Science. Kyiv, Ukraine.  Research interests: environmental impacts of military activities in Ukraine; the effects of armed conflict on public health systems and population health; the history of science with a focus on the transformation of scientific communities under conditions of crisis and armed conflict.

Hailemariam Meaza. PhD, Professor (Associate), Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Mekelle University, Ethiopia. Research interests:

Luciano Lopes. PhD, Professor, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Research interests:

Angelo Mark P Walag. PhD, Professor of Science Education, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, Philippines.  Research interests: focus on the intersection of environmental pollution, ecological health, and human well-being, with particular attention to the occurrence and impacts of chemical pollutants in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their effects on biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, and environmental quality. Additional interests include environmental health education and scientific literacy, mixed-methods and community-based research on human behavior and engagement in health- and environmental interventions, and the integration of interdisciplinary perspectives to support evidence-based decision-making, effective risk communication, and sustainable responses to pollution-associated diseases.

Georges Kogge Kome. PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Land Surveying, National Advanced School of Public Works, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Research interests:  Soil fertility investigations and land suitability evaluation for tropical crops with particular interest in oil palm, soil quality assessment, and effects of management practices on soil health/quality, GIS-based methodologies for land degradation assessment, soil survey, soil characterization and classification, soil pollution mapping, and interpretation of soil information for sustainable land use planning.

Dmytro Liashenko. PhD, Sc.D., Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine.Research Interests: Cartography and thematic mapping; Geoecology; GIS and its applications; Environmental consequences of military activity; Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT); Post-conflict environmental remediation; Digital Twin modeling for regional recovery; Automated remote sensing analysis.

Maryam Arfaatabar. PhD, Assistant Professor-Medical Microbiology & Clinical Bacteriology, at Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran. Research interests: primary research focus is the molecular epidemiology of infectious pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, with emphasis on genetic characterization, strain diversity, and resistance profiling. Her broader research interests include environmental microbial pollution, waterborne and soil-borne pathogens in crisis settings, ecological drivers of disease emergence, high-risk pathogens, and the development of rapid molecular diagnostics for outbreak preparedness and response.

Ali Mekki, PhD, Full Professor and Senior Researcher at  High Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia. Biological Engineering, Specializing in Environmental  bioprocesses. Senior Researcher in Environmental bioprocesses, soil microbiology and biochemistry, biowastes treatment and valorization, sustainability and Circular economy. Member of the Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses_Center of Biotechnology of Sfax _CBS_Tunisia).

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