Christian Zafiu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Water-Atmosphere-Environment, Institute of Waste Management and Circularity, BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. He completed his Doctoral studies in chemistry at the University of Vienna in 2011. Afterward, he was a post-doc at the Department for Nanobiotechnologies, BOKU University (2011–2013), a Visiting Researcher (post-doc) at the Institute for Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2014), and a post-doc at the Research Center Jülich, Deutschland Institute for Complex Systems 6 - Structural Biochemistry (2014–2018). His research is focused on emerging pollutants, microplastic emissions from waste management, and the investigation of value and pollutant materials in and during the treatment of waste.