**Meet the editor**

Farhad Nejadkoorki received his PhD (2006) in environmental science from the University of East Anglia, UK. He is currently an associate professor of environmental science at the Yazd University and also the founder and president of the International Society for Applied Life Sciences (ISALS). He is dean of the department of environmental engineering and director of international

relations at Yazd University as well as president of ISALS, and he chairs several international conferences, these being examples of his contribution to scientific administration. He is a specialist in air pollution modeling and monitoring and has been teaching different courses both for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researching and consulting on different aspects of urban and industrial air pollution. He has authored more than 50 research publications primarily for peer-reviewed journals and books as well as conference proceedings.
