Dr. Amimul Ahsan was born in Netrokona, Bangladesh. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Fukui, Japan. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur, Bangladesh, and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He was a former faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering and key researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia (2010–2017). He has nearly 18 years of research, teaching, and project experience. He has published extensively in water and environmental engineering, including 10 books, 18 book chapters, and over 141 journal articles. He has received 14 international awards. He is the editor-in-chief of a number of journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Malaysia and the founder of the Journal of Desalination and Water Purification and the Journal of Advanced Civil Engineering Practice and Research. He has a Scopus h-index of 22 (http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=36008141300; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-6123). His area of specialization is environmental engineering, including saline/surface water and wastewater treatments, solar water distillation, groundwater, rainwater, waste management, composting, landfills, sludge, air quality, and policy.