Prof. Dr. Abdeltif Amrane is a Professor for Exceptional class, UMR CNRS 6226 ISCR, University of Rennes. He received a Thesis Director Enabling Degree (Univ. Rennes 1) in 1998, PhD in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) in 1991, a Master (DEA) in Chemistry (Univ. Rennes 1) in 1988, and a Chemical Engineering Degree (USTHB – Algeria) in 1987. For approximately 20 years his research has been entirely devoted to the development of combined processes for the removal of organic pollutants in effluent wastewater and gaseous emissions within the CIP team. He has managed 16 PhD theses as thesis director and 2 are in progress; he has also co-managed 24 PhD theses and 4 co-managements theses are in progress. He has been involved as a manager or a participant in several national and international projects, as well as in international collaborations (Algeria, Belgium, Hungary, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tunisia…). He has published more than 500 international papers including 15 papers in press. He is the co-editor of five books (Elsevier). He has also published 12 chapter books and has about 130 international and 20 national oral communications. (Google Scholar: h-index: 61; citations: 15743 // Scopus: h-index: 52; citations: 11760).