Introduction
My preliminary research focuses on pollutants detection, removal, biodegradation, wastewater treatment, and other frontier areas of environmental biotechnology. The findings of my research work were published in more than 20 national and international journals of high repute. I am also associated with the member of various national and international professional bodies and reviewer of prestigious journals including Wiley and Bentham publications. Also, I have delivered more than fifty conference/seminar presentations at different national and international platforms in different capacities and received many awards and accolades; some of which include young scientists and the best presentation award.
Expert
I, Dr. Rupak Kumar have earned a doctoral degree from BITS Pilani in 2018 and acquired a visiting fellowship at University of Haifa, Israel under Ministry of Human Resources and development (MHRD), Govt. of India in 2017. I am an independent researcher on the biological remediation methods for organic and inorganic pollutants removal from complex environmental matrices, mainly polluted soils and sediments is also core interest. My research, university teaching duties and professional experience in the industry sector, are related to environmental bioremediation methods, soil sciences and pollution, organic waste composting and organizational environmental management normalization. My article namely toxic gloss on fresh veggie plate got print media attention and was highly appreciated in national and international meeting and quite popular among common audience. I had been associated with various project work at India premier institute like Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IITD), Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai (ACTREC-TMC, Mumbai), National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) under ministry of youth affairs and sports, Govt. of India and BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad (BPHC) at different capacities during my academics.
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change, Water and sanitation