Environmental Nanoscience Laboratory

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Research area:

 

​My research area is mainly focused on water and soil conversation. 

• Water and soil pollution

• Contaminant accumulation pathways in the environment

• Wastewater treatment 

• Eco-friendly nanomaterials for environmental protection

• Contaminant remediation

• Waste management

• Trophic transfer and toxicity of emerging contaminants

• Contaminant exposure pathways to the biosphere

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Postdoctoral experince: 

• Senior postdoctoral researcher  (5 years)

       Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,

       Karlsruhe, Germany

 

• Postdoctoral researcher (2 years and 6 months)

      Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen,

      Gottingen, Germany

 

• Postdoctoral researcher (6 months)

       Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

 

Awards and recognition:

• 2021

Received certificate of appreciation for standing as one of the top 5% most cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry journals, 2020​

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• 2021

Received commendation letter from the director, IISERK, for excellence in teaching

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• 2019

Invited speaker at ​Environmental Solutions for Sustainable Development: Towards Developed Bangladesh (CESSD 2019), November 27-28, 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• 2019

NSSWM excellent Paper award-2019 National Symposium on sustainable waste management

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• 2017

Early Career Research Award-Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, India

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• 2016 

Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, India

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• 2008

Best graduate student Ph.D. for the academic year 2007-08 by the Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

 

• 2008

2nd in graduate student presentation at 8th southern school on Computational Chemistry and material science, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

 

• 2007

2nd in graduate student presentation at 7th southern school on Computational Chemistry and material science, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

 

• 2006-2007

National Science Foundation – partnership for research education in material science scholarship, USA (NSF-PREM)

 

• 2003-2005

All India Council for technical education scholarship for scoring rank in the GATE entrance conducted all over India by the Government of India.

 

• 2002-2003

Junior research fellow, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

 

• 2000

Sri N.Sri Rambhadra Raju Memorial prize for securing 90.4% and standing first among all the B.S. students, Andhra University, India (Gold medal)

 

• 2000

Sri N.Bangar Raju memorial prize for securing 88.7% in physics and standing first among all the B.S. Physics students, Andhra University, India

 

• 2000

Sri A.B.R.B.Kasi Viswanadha Raju Memorial prize for securing 83.3% in Chemistry and standing first among all the B.S. Chemistry students, Andhra University, India

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Membership:

• Member, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), U.K.

• Member, International Water Association (IWA), U.K.

• Member, American Geophysical Union, U.S.A.

• Life member, National Environmental Science Academy, India

• Life member, Society for Environment & Sustainable Development, India

• Life member, Society for Environmental Sustainability, India

• Life member, Ocean Society of India, India

• Member, American Chemical Society, U.S.A.

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Teaching:

1. Environmental Geosciences at the postgraduate level

2. Introduction to environmental sciences at the Undergraduate level

3. Environmental Science Laboratory at the Postgraduate level

4. Geochemistry Laboratory at the Postgraduate level

5. Geology of natural resources at the postgraduate level

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Professional activities:

Institute Level

1. Chair, Games and sports board from 2018 to till date

2. Committee Member, Mind Care and Wellness centre from 2018 to till date

3. Committee member, Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement 05-11-2018 to till date

4. Committee member, Laboratory Safety Committee 26-09-2018 to till date

Departmental Level

1. DES-UGAC committee member: September 5th,2017 till 20th December 2018 and 6th Feb 2020 to till date

2. Outreach coordinator: 4th July 2018 to till date

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Conference:

1. Convenor of a session at the Goldschmidt international conference in Lyon, France, 2023 on Anthropogenic and natural micro-nanoparticles in the environment: Interaction with the biogeosphere, human exposure pathways and risk assessment from July 9th to 14th, 2023.

2. Invited speaker at Workshop on “Alternatives to single-use plastics” organized by Central for Pollution Control Board Kolkata, March 23, 2023, Kolkata.

3. Keynote speaker, International Conference on membrane assisted water purification processes, March 10th to 12th Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, 2023

4. Speaker at 7-Days National Level Sill development workshop on Environmental Monitoring Using Geospatial and Advanced Analytical Techniques organized by the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kalyani on Feb, 1st, 2023.  

5. Water for Life: An IIT Madras Conference 2022, December 15 to 17, 2022, Chennai, India

6. American Geological Union fall meeting 2021 on “Occurrence and interaction of microplastics with metal nanoparticles as co-contaminants in the river Ganga (India)” on 13th December 2021

7. Speaker at Seventh National Conference of the Ocean Society of India (OSICON-21) on “Understanding the distribution of plastics in lower Ganga basin and their fate in river and marine water” on 12th August 2021

8. Keynote speaker at Environmental Science, Technology & Management (ICESTM-2021) organised by Mangalayatan University, India on “Plastic pandemic: Understanding the fate of single-use plastics in the aqueous environments” 23rd September 2021. (Keynote Speaker)

9. Invited talk on “Fate of micro and nanoplastics in the lower Ganga River basin” organised by Lancaster University – UK Global Challenge Research Fund by Shoolini University, India on 28th July 2021 (Invited speaker)

10. Invited talk on “Current trends on plastics in pharmaceutical and personal care products” on the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5th 2021 organised by Ahmedabad University, India (Invited speaker)

11. Fate and impacts of microplastics-Micro 2020 international conference 23-27 November 2020, Lanzarote and Beyond (Virtual Conference), Spain on “Interaction of nanoplastic debris with mineral substrates: application towards their removal from aqueous systems”

12. Goldschmidt international conference 2020, 24th June, 2020, Hawai, USA (Virtual Conference) on "Understanding the fate of nanoplastics and nanopesticides in riverine and agricultural environments"

13. Conference on Environmental Solutions for Sustainable Development: Towards Developed Bangladesh (CESSD 2019), November 27-28, 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh on  "Understanding the fate of micro and nanoplastics in the lower Ganga river basin"

14. International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials, September 1st - 4th, 2019, Vienna, Austria on "Understanding the stability and deposition behaviour of nanoplastics at rock and mineral surfaces" and "Synthesis and application of clay supported amorphous aluminum nanocomposite for the removal of hexa-valent Chromium from aqueous solutions"

15. International conference on Environmental Analysis from 25-26 April, 2019, New Delhi, India on  Environmental nanoscience: From understanding the role of nanomaterials in the environment to their application for remediation of toxic metals

16. National Symposium on Sustainable Waste Management - April 20th, 2019, on Assessing the safe management of hazardous waste repository by laboratory scale contaminant transport experiments, Kolkata, India (Excellent paper award)

17. International conference on Nanobiotechnology for agriculture Nanoforagri 13-14th December, 2018, Delhi, India on Understanding the fate and transport of nanopesticides in the riverine environment

18. Presentation on transport of nanoplastics in the environment, at International conference on Microplastics at MICRO 2018 - Fate and Impact of Microplastics: Knowledge, Actions and Solutions” 19th – 23rd November 2018, in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain

19. IISER Berhampur lecture series, invited talk on “Nanoparticles for environmental sustainability” at IISER Berhampur, India, 2018.

20. Internaitonal symposium on water: Resouces, Challenges, & sustainability, IIT Indore, India, 2018, on “Understanding the mechanism of retention, re-entrainment and transport of nanoparticles at the substrate-fluid interface”.

21. Invited talk at Nanobiomats, Indo-US international conference, BHU Varanasi, India 2016, on “Understanding the mechanism of retention, re-entrainment and transport of nanoparticles at the substrate-fluid interface”.

22. ICFNM 2016 conference, Kolkata, India, 2016 on “Nanoparticle basded detection of chemical toxins and biological pathogens in water, food and environment”.

23. Goldschmidt 2014 conference, Sacramento, U.S.A. 2014 on “Probing the reactivity of clay-edge sites (aluminol to silanol) towards mineral surfaces”.

24. BELBaR topical meeting at Prague, Czech Republic, 2013 October on “Understanding the stability and morphology of bentonite colloids obtained from the erosion experiment and their interaction with rock and mineral surfaces”.

25. Geo-Hannover 2012 international conference, 2012 October, Hannover, Germany on “Understanding the deposition behavior of colloids at mineral and rock surfaces as  function of surface and topography”.

26. 13th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behavior of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere, 2011 September, Beijing, China, on “Impact of mineral surface roughness and Eu(III) solution concentration on colloid retention”

27. American Chemical Society national meeting, 2011 Anaheim, California, U.S.A. on “Roughness influenced deposition of latex colloids at mineral surfaces: An analog study”

28. The 5th biennial Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium, 2011 January, Hobart, Australia on “Quantitative constraints to the deposition of colloids at rough mineral surfaces – an analog study with patterned silicon”

29. 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere, 2009 September, Kennewick, Washington, U.S.A. on “Adsorption of colloids on mineral surface as a function of surface roughness and topography-an interferometric study”

30. 7th International Symposium on Effects of Surface Heterogeneity in adsorption and catalysis on solids, 2009 July, Kazimierz Donly, Poland. on “Surface roughness-dependent adsorption of latex colloids on calcite”

31. International Conference and 99th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V., 2009 October, Göttingen, Germany on “Retention of latex colloids on calcite as a function of surface topography and roughness”

32. American Chemical Society national meeting, 2008 April, New Orleans, U.S.A. on “sensitive detection of mercury present in environmental samples using gold nanoparticles based sensor”

33. 8th Southern school on computational chemistry and Material Science, 2008, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. on “Nanomaterial based sensor for environmental protection”

34. American Chemical Society national meeting, 2007 April, Chicago, U.S.A. on “synthesis, characterization and optical properties of silver nanoprisms”

35. 16th CCTCC, 2007, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. on “Gold-nanoparticle-based proble for symultaneous detection of E-coli and Anthrax”

36. 7th Southern school on computational chemistry and Material Science, 2007, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. on “Influence of shape of silver and gold nanoparticles on the surface enhanced raman scattering detection limit of biomolecules”

37. 15th CCTCC, 2006, Jackson, Mississippi U.S.A. on “size dependent optical properties of DNA coated gold nanoparticles”

38. 6th Southern school on computational chemistry, 2006, Jackson, Mississippi U.S.A. on “size dependent emission quenching properties of modified DNA capped Gold nanoparticles”

28.  World conference on Disaster Management infrastructure and control systems DMIC 2003 November, Hyderabad, India