Urban engineering is the discipline that studies and designs urban infrastructure as integrated and co-dependent systems. It is by nature inter-disciplinary, including elements of urban planning, urban metabolism, computer science, and civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Urban infrastructure systems include buildings, transport, water, wastewater, electricity, gas, solid waste, and telecom infrastructure systems.

Dispersal is a critical yet poorly understood factor underlying macroecological patterns in microbial communities.

The production at industrial scale of recombinant proteins (rProt) and metabolites is of increasing economic importance.

Cooking volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is an important source of indoor VOCs, which has attracted more attention in recent years with increasing concerns about indoor health.

Aquatic biotas are continuously exposed to multiple stressors, whether those be chemical or abiotic (for example acidity). Although this understanding of the presence of multiple stressors is common knowledge, the vast amount of research focuses on individual stressors.

Hydrothermal conversion of biomass waste for valuable chemicals and materials is a promising environment friendly option for biomass resource utilization.

Electrochemical reactions and processes offer a wide and flexible set of tools that enable innovative and varied separations.

The valorization of waste biomass, lipid or lignocellulosic, has been proposed as an alternative to first generation biofuels as well as for producing high value chemicals and related products.

The improvements in upstream have boosted high productivity in the bio-manufacturing industry, which is shifting the bottlenecks to downstream processing. A multiscale approach of rational design would be introduced to improve the efficiency of downstream bioprocesses.

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has considerable epidemiological ramifications, predicted to reach pandemic proportions in the next few decades. Although AR is traditionally linked to hospitals and the community, there is growing evidence that it is also associated with the environment.