Miguel R. Peña Varón is a full Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia. He was the former Director of CINARA Institute at the Faculty of Engineering period 2014-2017. Professor Peña is a Sanitary Engineer from Universidad del Valle, earned his M.Sc degree in Engineering and Tropical Public Health from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and is also a Ph.D. from the same British university. He is currently a candidate for a Master of Arts degree in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Universidad del Valle, with a dissertation on Environmental Ethics.
Prof. Peña is a researcher in the areas of ecological engineering to solve environmental pollution problems; he also works on environmental health issues, specifically on the topic of environmental pollution and its impact on human health. In the last ten years, he started a new area of research on environmental ethics as a framework to analyze conflicts in the Society: Nature relationship. He is also the author of several international articles in renowned environmental science and environmental engineering journals, has written several book chapters in co-authorship, and is currently finishing the writing of two books on the subject of eco-technologies for bioremediation of aquatic pollution. Professor Peña was formerly an Associate Editor of Water Science and Technology Journal at the International Water Association-IWA, in the period 2011-2019. He is currently being appointed as Review Editor of the International Journal of Public Health at FRONTIERS open access publishing system.
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