PhD JASMINA AGBABA, full professor of environmental protection. She is the director of the Department for Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences. She has scientific expertise in the field of water quality and water treatment technology with a focus on drinking water resources. She is the author and co-author of more than 70 scientific publications in internationally recognized scientific journals (h-index 23). She managed numerous domestic and international scientific projects as well as projects for the needs of industry, in the field of water technology and environmental protection. Currently, she manages the "NanoCompAs" project within the Green Program of cooperation between science and business, the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and the EUREKA project "SafeWat", which is implemented in cooperation with foreign partners.

PhD SRĐAN RONČEVIĆ, full professor in the field of chemical technology. His career follows a multidisciplinary approach with expertise in chemistry and technology of environmental protection, the relation between groundwater and soil quality, and remediation of contaminated sites (water, soil, and sediment). He has published 60 publications in high-ranking journals (h-index 24). He participated in more than 90 projects and studies related to research in environmental protection and technology.

PHD MIRJANA VIJATOVIĆ PETROVIĆ, is employed at the Department of Materials Science at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade as a senior research associate. She received her doctorate in 2010. She is the author and co-author of more than 60 scientific publications (h index: 21). She participated in numerous international and domestic projects. Her research work deals with advanced materials for electronics, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials based on barium titanate as PTCR, sensors for gas, humidity, pressure, processing and characterization of powders, ceramics and thick, thin, and flexible polymer films for energy harvesting and energy storage applications and photocatalytic activity of metal oxides and ferrite materials.

PhD MALCOLM WATSON, has been employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection since 2022. He defended his PhD, titled "The removal of arsenic during drinking water treatment by sorption and coagulation processes" in 2016. Since then his research has focused on drinking water supply and technological solutions for the removal of heavy metals and arsenic from water, but he is also involved in projects related to the detection and control of microplastics in the environment. In the past 5 years Dr Malcolm Watson has lead 1 local project financed by AP Vojvodina titled "Graphene based nanomaterial - a new approach for removing heavy metals from water" and 1 JRC Open Access Research Infrastructures project titled "Building capacity for investigating the behaviour of nanomaterials and microplastics in the environment using modern instrumental techniques (BuildNME). He is currently participating in the NanoCompAs project supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, EUREKA Project "Cost-effective and safe drinking water for everyone-Development of methodology for the improved protection and/or remediation of bank filtration water sours zones" and the Horizons Europe project "Circular and Bio-Based Solutions for the Ultimate Prevention of Plastics in Rivers Integrated with Elimination And Monitoring Technologies (UPSTREAM)".

PhD JASNA ATANASIJEVIĆ, is researcher in applied economics related to public policy and governance. In 2023, she held a visiting scholar position at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne in 2013. She is currently teaching courses in finance and the principles of economics within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences.

PhD JASMINA NIKIĆ, is a is Research Associate at University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, in the field of Chemistry. She graduated Biochemistry in 2010 and received her MSc in Environmental Protection in 2012. She defended her PhD titled „Synthesis, characterization and application of iron and manganese based sorbents for arsenic removal from water” in July 2019. Her scientific research is mainly focused on drinking water quality and treatment (with special emphasis on the synthesis and application of new generation adsorbents for removal of arsenic, heavy metals and other inorganic and organic pollutants from water), materials synthesis, green chemistry, and environmental engineering. She realized her scientific work through participation in national and international projects and international scientific collaboration and mobility. She was the project team leader for PoC project „Magnetite nanoparticles: a new approach for arsenic removal for small water utilities”, funded by Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia. She currently participates in national projects financed by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia "Scale up of bifunctional Fe-Mn binary oxide nanocomposite filter media: an innovative approach for water purification" (NanoCompAs) and an international project from the EUREKA program ("Cost-effective and safe drinking water - methodology development for the improvement of protection and/or remediation of coastal filtration zones of sources of drinking water" (SAFEWAT, project number E17243), financed by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia. In the course of her work at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, she has gained 10 years of experience in the investigation of arsenic removal technologies, and has worked on pilot drinking water treatment projects in several different municipalities in Vojvodina (Republic of Serbia). She is the co-author of more than 50 publications, of which 14 are papers in scientific journals of international importance (h index 8 number of citation 188). She reviewed over 20 papers in international scientific journals. She is a certificate holder for green chemistry advisor – Facilitators training, Certificate for Chemical adviser, Training in HACCP, Certificate for internal auditor ISO/IEC 17 025: 2006. She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society, Young Water Professionals Serbia, Association for Water Technology and Sanitary Engineering. She won second prize for the best young scientist of the Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad in 2019. prize for the best young scientist of the Faculty of Sciences University of Novi Sad in 2019.

PhD MAJA VUJIĆ, is a research associate employed at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection. In 2012, she obtained her BSc in chemistry, and her MSc in Analytical chemistry the following year. Her scientific research work is aimed at studying the influence of the physico-chemical properties of microplastics and persistent organic pollutants on interactions in water matrices as well as the removal of microplastics from water. She was elected to the title of research associate in 2020. She was a participant in the bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Portugal (2020-2021) - Investigation of microplastic influence on water resources, financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (project number: 337-00-00227/2019-09/10) . The project manager was Dr. Aleksandra Tubić in Serbia and Teresa Alexandra Peixoto da Rocha Santos in Portugal. From 2020 to 2021, she was a member of the project team financed by the Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research, AP Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia entitled "Removal of synthetic dyes in the presence of microplastics during improved wastewater treatment" (project number 142-451- 3186/2020-03), project manager: prof. Dr. Miljana Prica. In addition, since 2021, she has been the manager of Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina project "Use of recycled microplastics and biochar for the removal of specific pollutants from the water matrix" - µPlastChar (project number 142-451-3182/2021- 01/2) and since 2023 has been engaged in an international project "Circular and Bio-Based Solutions for the Ultimate Prevention of Plastics in Rivers Integrated with Elimination And Monitoring Technologies - UPSTREAM", HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01 -04, HORIZON-IA, 01.09.2023. – 31.08.2027. Since 2023, she has been engaged in "Scale up of bifunctional Fe-Mn binary oxide nanocomposite filter media: an innovative approach for water purification"-NanoCompAs within the DEVELOPMENT Program - Green program of cooperation between science and economy of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, headed by prof. Jasmina Agbaba. From 2021 to 2025, she participated in the European COST action - Plastics monitoRIng detection RemedIaTion recoverY -PRIORITY, CA20101, financed by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). She won an award of the Serbian Chemical Society and the Section for Chemistry and Environmental Protection for the best poster presentation at the 8th Symposium on Chemistry and Environmental Protection, EnviroChem 2018, entitled "Interaction of chlorophenols with microplastic in water". She is the author and co-author of 8 papers in journals of international importance and more than 51 papers and presentations at national and international conferences (total citations amount to 93; h-index 5). In addition to her scientific work, she has participated in the promotion of the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, through a series of activities, the most notable of which are the Department's Open House and Chemistry Weekend. She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society, the Educational Center for Environmental Protection, the Association for Water Technology and Sanitary Engineering (UTVSI), IWA Young Water Professionals and Young Water Professionals Serbia.

PhD TAJANA SIMETIĆ, is a research associate at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection. She is engaged in scientific-research work in the field of chemistry and environmental protection with an emphasis on the quality of drinking water, as well as the analysis of organic micropollutants in water and the identification of by-products of oxidation/disinfection in water using gas chromatography. The focus of her scientific research is the application of photochemical advanced oxidation processes for the removal of specific organic micropollutants and natural organic matter from water. She also carried out professional work through participation in several projects for the needs of the economy, which included monitoring of water, sediment and drinking water preparation processes, including laboratory, pilot research and water quality analysis. She is the author and co-author of 4 papers in journals of international importance and more than 20 papers and announcements at national and international conferences (h index 4). She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society, the Association for Water Technology and Sanitary Engineering, the Association for Young Water Researchers ("Young Water Professionals Serbia") and the EDEN Association (Educational Center for Environmental Protection).

MSc JOVANA PEŠIĆ, Master of chemistry, is currently employed as a research associate at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences. She graduated with her BSc in Chemistry - quality control and environmental management in 2017, in with her Masters in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry in 2018, when she defended her master's thesis at the Institute of Food Technologies in Novi Sad, titled: "The influence of metal content on the color of honey". In the same year, she enrolled in doctoral academic studies in the field of environmental protection, and in 2021, her proposed doctoral dissertation topic, titled: "Modification of adsorbents based on graphene oxide in order to optimize performance for the removal of selected metals from water" was accepted. Her research deals with water quality with a focus on the synthesis, characterization, modification and optimization of modern nanomaterials based on graphene oxide in order to remove metals from water. Until now, she has carried out her scientific and research work through participation in various national and international conferences and projects. She is the author of several conference proceedings and several scientific publications. Part of the research work of her doctoral dissertation was done through participation in the project of the Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research called: "Nanomaterial based on graphene - a new approach in removing heavy metals from water". She contributed by participating in projects related to solving the problem of water supply to the population in the territory of the Republic of Serbia. She is a holder of the certificate of Advisor for chemicals. She is the coordinator of the Science Club of the Center for the Promotion of Science in Novi Sad and actively participates in projects and programs to popularize science and spread scientific literacy. She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society, the Educational Center for Environmental Protection, the Association for Water Technology and Sanitary Engineering and the Association of Young Water Researchers (IWA Young Water Professionals Serbia). She was a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development during her undergraduate and master's studies. During her studies, she was awarded several times for her exceptional success.

MSc JOVANA JOKIĆ GOVEDARICA, is a doctoral student in environmental protection and research associate at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection. Her expertise in the field of environmental science is focused on the characterization and research of the application potential of various environmentally friendly nanomaterials for the treatment of aqueous media polluted with potentially toxic metal ions and anions through the adsorption process. In addition, she has experience in managing a pilot scale treatment plant used for testing various technological solutions for provision of drinking water. She is the author of one paper published in a leading journal of national importance, as well as two presentations at national conferences, and one at an international scientific meeting. As a co-author, she has contributed to nine presentations at international and domestic conferences.

MSc ĐORĐE PEJIN, completed his BSc in chemistry at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, where he also completed his master's academic studies in quality control and environmental management and enrolled in doctoral academic studies in environmental protection. He is employed as a junior researcher at the Department of Chemical Technology and Environmental Protection, and his field of research is sediment monitoring with emphasis on passive sampling, but in addition he is a member of the team dealing with drinking water treatment where he participated in research at the pilot plant.