Francisco J. Cervantes obtained his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Department of Environmental Technology at Wageningen University (The Netherlands, 2002). He has a Bachelor (Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON), 1995) and Master's degree (Metropolitan Autonomous University, UAM-Iztapalapa) in Biotechnology. He was Associate Professor at the Department of Water and Environmental Sciences at ITSON (Mexico, 2002-2006). Later, he was also Professor at the Division of Environmental Sciences at IPICYT (Mexico, September 2006 to April 2019). From August 2011 to July 2012, he was also appointed Professor at the Department of Biotechnology at NTNU-Trondheim (Norway). He is currently Professor at the Engineering Institute of UNAM (Campus Juriquilla, since May 2019). He is member of the editorial board of Reviews in Environmental Science and BioTechnology (Springer), and Associate Editor of IWA Publishing. He has received several distinctions in his scientific career, including the prestigious Lettinga Award 2007, the National Research Award 2008 (in Engineering and Technology, Mexican Academy of Sciences), and the Marcos Moshinsky Fellow. He is an expert on industrial wastewater treatment with several designs and applications at full-scale.