Timothy Biswick Timothy Biswick is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Malawi. After completing his PhD in Materials Chemistry at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, under the supervision of Professor Bill Jones he undertook a Postdoctoral Research fellowship at the Intelligent Nanohybrid Materials Laboratory (INML) in South Korea from 2007 to 2008, working on the design and synthesis of functional materials using organic-inorganic nanohybrids. From 2009 to 2010, he was a Commonwealth Research Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland working on environmental geochemistry focusing on the transfer of pollutants and nutrients from soils to plants. This was followed by a 3-month research visit to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he was awarded a Matsumae International Fellowship (MIF) to undertake collaborative research in the research group of Professor Hiroshi Sakugawa at Hiroshima University in Japan. The research focused on the removal of pesticides from the aquatic environment using natural processes. And in 2018 he won a TWAS Research Grant to pursue work on sustainable waste management and environmental remediation. The work, among other things involved the use of agricultural and agroforestry waste as raw materials for the preparation of valuable products for the removal of pollutants from water and wastewater. In 2020, Dr Biswick was awarded a Commonwealth ACU Blue Charter Fellowship to undertake exploratory work on microplastic pollution in Malawi working in collaboration with scientists from Leicester University in the UK. His research interests are in the general area of environmental remediation and waste management. Cora Young Dr. Cora Young is an Associate Professor and the Rogers Chair in Chemistry at York University in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Young’s research team focuses on sources, fate, and transport of chemical pollution. Her work encompasses issues related to air quality (both indoor and outdoor), climate change, and persistent pollutants. She has published over 70 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has attracted over $3.8 M in funding as a lead investigator. She has received several awards, including the 2022 Chemical Institute of Canada Environment Division Early Career Award, as well as one of Chemical and Engineering News’ “Talented 12” in 2019. She is a member of the editorial board for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts. Her work has been featured by numerous media outlets, including the CBC and the BBC.
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