Current Indian Science: Environmental Engineering publishes original research articles, letters, case reports, reviews/mini-reviews and guest edited thematic issues on the topics related to Environmental Engineering.
Section Editor-in-Chief(s)
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Kumar
Ponnusamy S.
Department of Chemical Engineering
SSN College of Engineering
Tamilnadu
India
Dr. P. Senthil Kumar works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India. He has 14
years of teaching and research experience and 1 year of industrial experience. His
h-index is 41 along with more than 6273 Google citations. Under his guidance, 10 Ph.D.
Scholars have completed and 08 Ph.D. scholars are currently doing their active research
in the area of Waste Water Treatment, Environmental Nanobiotechnology and Alternative
Fuels. He has published more than 225 research papers in highly reputed International
Journals and 100 research papers in National and International Conferences. He also
published more than 100 book chapters with Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press etc.
publishers.
[email protected]
Section Editors
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Wastewater treatment
Ahmaruzzaman
Mohammed
Department of Chemistry
National Institute of Technology Silchar
Silchar
India
Dr. Md. Ahmaruzzaman is currently working as a full professor in the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. He received his postgraduate degree in M.Sc. (Chemistry) from North Bengal University after his graduation from the same University. He also received his postgraduate degree in M.Tech. (Energy Science & Technology) from Jadavpur University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has supervised several projects at the post graduate level and produced several PhDs. He has published more than 175 research papers in international journals as well as in various national and international conferences. He has more than 10000 citations in international journals. He is a reviewer of various peer-reviewed reputed international and national journals.
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Catalysis
Sahoo
Prakash C.
Indian Oil R&D Center
Faridabad
India
Dr. Prakash C. Sahoo is currently working as a Research Manager at Indian Oil R&D Center,
Faridabad. He has more than 10 years of research experience in Biochemistry and
Petroleum Biotechnology. Dr. Sahoo co-authored over 23 peer-reviewed scientific articles
in the leading journals, 2 book chapters and more than 20 conference proceedings. He is
co-inventor of 8 US, 2 Indian and 3 Korean patents. Dr. Sahoo is the winner of 2nd
overseas exchange program to France at UST (2013) and received several best presentation
awards. Dr. Sahoo completed his PhD from UST-KIGAM (2013), South Korea and was the
recipient of BK21 Plus postdoctoral fellowship for his postdoctoral research in KAIST,
South Korea (2014).
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Environmental sustainability and protection sciences
Saikia
Nabajyoti
Department of Chemistry
The Assam Kaziranga University
Jorhat
India
Dr. Nabajyoti Saikia is an Associate Professor in Chemistry, The Assam Kaziranga
University, Jorhat, Assam. He did his Ph. D work from the CSIR NEIST (formerly Regional
Research Laboratory) Jorhat, Assam and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the
Dibrugarh University, India. He has extensive postdoctoral research experience in solid
waste management and has published numerous scientific publications in this field. He is
the co-author with Prof. Jorge De Brito, at the IST, University of Lisbon, of a major
reference book, Recycled Aggregate in Concrete: Use of Industrial, Construction and
Demolition Waste. He also serves as a reviewer of more than thirty SCI/SCOPUS journals.
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Microbial Diversity
Verma
Pradeep
Department of Microbiology
School of Life Sciences
Central University of Rajasthan
Ajmer
India
Pradeep Verma is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences,
CURAJ, Ajmer, India. He worked as associate professor and reader-founder head at GGV,
Bilaspur, and Assam University, Silchar. He received his Ph.D. from Sardar Patel
University, Gujarat, and master's and bachelor's from MDS University, Rajasthan. He
worked as visiting scientist at UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany,
and postdoctoral fellow at ASCR Prague, Gottingen University Germany, and RISH Kyoto
University Japan. He also worked at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India. His stay at
Japan and Reliance Life Sciences resulted in several commercialized national and
international patents. He is a recipient of various prestigious awards and fellowships,
such as the Ron- Cockcroft award by Swedish society, UNESCO Fellow, DFG fellow, and JSPS
PDF. He is a fellow of Mycological Society of India and Biotech Research Society of
India. His area of expertise involves microbial diversity, bioremediation, bioprocess
development, lignocellulosic, and algal biomass based bio refinery. He has contributed
to 73+ research papers, 32 book chapters, and 11 edited books. He is editorial board
member and reviewer of several prestigious high impact journals.
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Environmental sustainability and protection sciences
Kumar
Narendra
Department of Environmental Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Lucknow
India
Dr. Narendra Kumar is an Associate Professor in Department of Environmental Science, and
presently, he is also working as Head in the Department of Geology, Babasaheb Bhimrao
Ambedkar University, Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India. He has guided 5 Ph. D. and 45 M.Sc.
research projects for their respective degrees. He has two ongoing and one completed
research project. Further, he has over 42 refereed international publications and 23
book chapters, 5 books and several other articles with around 925 citations. His h-index
is 15 and i10-index is 19. His area of research includes phytoremediation, water
pollution and aquatic toxicology etc.
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Mittal
Jyoti
Department of Chemistry
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Bhopal
India
Dr. Jyoti Mittal is an alumnus of I.I.T., Roorkee (India) and presently working as
faculty in the Department of Chemistry, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology,
Bhopal (India). In the year 2018, she has been designated as Clarivate Analytics Highly
Cited Researchers and appeared amongst 4000 most influential scientists of the world.
Her research interests include removal of hazardous organic and inorganic substances
from wastewater. Her present h-index is 35 and her research papers have been cited more
than 9000 times. She is an editorial board member and a reviewer of a number of
international journals of the environmental field.
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Editorial Board Member(s)
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R. G.
Prijitha
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
India
Dr. Prijitha R. G. is working at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur availing Women Scientist – A
fellowship by Department of Science and Technology. She holds a master's degree in
Physics from Cochin University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. in Atmospheric
Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI/LATMOS/CNRS, France. She has
participated in various international programmes and contributed to Chapter 2 of WMO
2010 report on Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion. She is an editorial board
member in International Journals. She has done research on cosmology, ozone and Indian
rainfall. Her works include identification of ozone recovery and studies on the drivers
of Indian rainfall using statistical models.
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Sharma
Priyanka
Department of Biotechnology
Modern College of Arts
Science & Commerce Ganeshkhind Savitribai Phule
Pune University
Pune
India
Dr Priyanka Sharma is presently working as Assistant Professor in Modern College of Arts,
Science and Commerce College, Ganeshkhind, Pune. She completed her BSc (Hons), MSc
(Hons) and PhD in Botany from Guru Nanak Dev University Campus, Amritsar. She has 12
years of research and teaching experience at postgraduate and graduate level. She was
awarded UGC-Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral fellowship and highly prestigious DBT BioCare
Women Scientist fellowship by the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT) Govt. of India, New
Delhi. She has been elected the fellow of Young Academy of India (YAI)-India’s first
young academy in 2021. She has published various research articles and book chapters in
reputed international journals by Elsevier and Springer Nature with high impact factor.
She has also reviewed articles for several journals of international repute e.g. Journal
of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Elsevier) and
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum (Springer) etc.
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Associate Editorial Board Member(s)
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BARIK
SAROJA KUMAR
Climate Change and Wetland division
Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Patna
India
Dr. Saroja Kumar Barik completed his master degree from National Institute of Technology,
Rourkela, Odisha, India in Environmental Chemistry. He has done his PhD in Environmental
Geochemistry from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar,
Odisha, India. He has professional experience with over 17 years of rich research,
management and industrial experiences on Environment issues. He is directly and
indirectly Associated with national and international organization: World Bank, UNICEF,
JICA, ICMAM-MOES, ICAR- CIFRI, CSIR- IMMT, SPCB-Dept. of Forest and Environment-Govt. of
Odisha, Dept. of Drinking water and sanitation-Govt. of Jharkhand, DHI, Merck India
limited and BARC-DAE. He has expertise in the area of water and sediment quality
monitoring of lake, estuaries, port and rural drinking water supply scheme to the
community with 22 number of strong research publications in peer review SCOPUS index
journals. He is a reviewer of national and international journals and associated with
Springer, Elsevier and Tylor and Francis. He presented his research papers at national
and international (Japan) level.
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Das
Sovik
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Mohali
Mohali
India
Dr. Sovik Das completed doctoral research work in the field of environmental engineering
from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,
India. He got engaged in research work pertaining to bioelectrochemical systems like
microbial electrosynthesis cell, microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell for
the treatment of different waste streams with concomitant valuable recovery
[email protected]
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Khan
Nadeem A.
Department of Civil Engineering
Mewat Engineering College
Nuh, Mewat
India
Mr. Nadeem A Khan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil
Engineering since 01 Aug 2012. He also acted as Academic Coordinate of the Civil
Engineering department from 2014 to 2017. He is currently serving as an Editorial board
member of Nature journal- Scientific Reports (IF= 4.3), Springer journal special issue
of Discover water and working for Hindawi Journal special issue (IF= 4.2). His recent
accomplishments included 15 Coursera course completion certificates and were awarded as
Best Young Scientist Award(Male) by LWT India and GECL for Scientific contribution in
the field of Environmental Engineering. He got his M. TECH. (Civil Engineering) in 2011
with Honors in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. Mr. Khan was
associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forest for two years as Junior Research
Fellow (J.R.F) in 2009-11 and also worked with UNICEF as a Research Assistant (R.A) on
the topic of GIS mapping and Water quality parameter estimation including monitoring of
Agra Region for six months in 2012. He has professional experience in DLF-LAING'S ROURKE
INDIA LTD in an SEZ Project at Gurgaon as Construction Engineer during 2008-09. He
qualified for the GATE examinations in 2010. His area of activity in the industry was
post contract works, reconciliation, planning, and budgeting. He has attended a number
of conferences, workshops, seminars, research and engaged in research projects. He has
published 50 papers in SCI. He has also published more than 10 PATENTS in the field of
Civil Engineering and water treatment. He is Joint-Secretary of an Environmental
Awareness Society ENVIRONSENSE which has organized more than 25 events
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Tyagi
Pankaj Kumar
Department of Biotechnology
Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology
Greater Noida
India
Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tyagi's research area is in green nanomaterial synthesis, their
conjugations and he evaluated their toxicity as in vivo by using Drosophila species. He
is working as professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Noida Institute of
Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh India. He has published more
than 65 research papers in refereed international and national journals and more than 15
research papers in various national and international conferences. He has nineteen years
of teaching/research experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. During this
period, he has supervised 4 Ph.D., 16 Master and more than 65 bachelor students, in
Environmental Engineering, Nanobiotechnology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and
published his research work frequently in reputed journals and proceedings in both India
and abroad. He also fetched two grants for research and three grants for organized
workshops and conferences from funding agencies of DBT, UP-CST and LSFI in the field of
nanobiotechnology and Drosophila biology.
Section: Environmental Engineering