Welcoming ES&T’s 2025 Early Career Editorial Board

Society and our planet face many environmental challenges: a rapidly changing climate leading to environmental stress, rampant habitat and species loss, legacy and emerging contaminants of concern in our water, air, and food, and an insatiable demand for key natural resources at any cost. All of these have significant adverse impacts of communities and society from health concerns to increased conflict. However, according to physicist Albert Einstein “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” There is clearly enormous scope for impactful environmental science and technology research to work hand in hand alongside the development of environmental policies and regulations that will advance a more sustainable future. Our newly formed cohort for the Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) Early Career Editorial Board (ECB) is made up of early career scientists from a wide range of scientific disciplines, representing the broad scope of ES&T. Chosen from an open call for ECB nominations in 2024, the editorial team at ES&T have identified those individuals they recognize as rising stars in their field, whose research is already benefiting the environment and society by offering solutions toward a sustainable and vibrant future for Earth and its inhabitants. Those who have been invited to join the ECB from the many hundreds of nominations received exemplify the inspirational vision and broad excellence that ES&T continuously seeks through its high standards of scholarship, mentorship, and service. By becoming part of the journal’s ECB, early career researchers have generously volunteered their time, energy, and commitment to serve ES&T and help the journal reach its ongoing aspirations: to continue to evolve the breadth and diversity of environmental research through its critical mission of recognizing, challenging, and communicating impactful environmental science and technology advances by the scientific community. While ES&T serves the community in this way, it is solidly supported by this same community through dedicated service and volunteered time. We are honored and proud to engage with and support the next generation of excellent scientists who are committed to environmental protection and sustainability. We sincerely thank both our new ECB members, our existing ECB members, and previous ECB members who have now moved forward in their careers, as well as our Editorial Advisory Board members for their invaluable and ongoing service to ES&T and to the broader environmental sciences and engineering community. All of these editorial members volunteer significant time supporting ES&T and its mission in a variety of ways and fundamentally underpin its success. We know that this new class of ECB members will rise to the challenge of creating a planet for future generations to enjoy and will empower and enable the generations after them to address circumstances that we cannot imagine today. A very warm welcome to our new ECB cohort! 2025 Early Career Editorial Advisory Board Members Michael Bertram, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Wensi Chen, Texas A&M University Chiheng Chu, Zhejiang University Hendryk Czech, Helmholtz International Laboratory Jeseth Delgado Vela, Duke University Xiaoguang Duan, The University of Adelaide Razi Epsztein, Israel Institute of Technology Ting Fang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Xiao Fu, Tsinghua University Guannan Geng, Tsinghua University Gordon Getzinger, Loyola University Chicago Amanda Giang, University of British Columbia Tingting Gong, Southeast University Hao Guo, Tsinghua University David Hanigan, University of Nevada Shilai Hao, Colorado School of Mines Juliana Laszakovits, ETH-Zurich Ryan Lepak, University of Wisconsin─Madison and Cornell University Kaiyun Liu, North China Electric Power University Runzeng Liu, Shandong University Xitong Liu, George Washington University Min Long, Tongji University Jason Magnuson, U.S. Geological Survey Mohamed Mahmoud, Galala University Vhahangwele Masindi, University of South Africa and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Carrie McDonough, Carnegie Mellon University Garrett McKay, Texas A&M University Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo, University of Johannesburg Elfa Lu Peng, The University of Hong Kong Shaojie Song, Nankai University Jing Sun, Tongji University Aleksandra Szczuka, University of Michigan Tiezheng Tong, Arizona State University Case van Genuchten, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Chengjin Wang, University of Manitoba Wei Wei, University of Technology Sydney Zongsu Wei, Aarhus University Seunghyun Weon, Korea University Baile Wu, University College Cork, Ireland Xiaoyun Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chaoyang Xue, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mengting Yang, Shenzhen University Zhe Yang, The University of Queensland Qing Ye, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Ran Yin, Nanjing University Pinfeng Yu, Zhejiang University Yaochun Yu, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Changyong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China Hanchao Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Yanyan Zhang, Westlake University Shizhen Zhao, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangjie Zheng, Tsinghua University Min Zheng, The University of New South Wales Xiaoxia Zhou, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences This article has not yet been cited by other publications.