Biotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery

Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is working as Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Tulas University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He received PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has also done post-doctoral research at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is currently involved in the teaching of Environmental Science and Engineering, Disaster Management to the undergraduate engineering students. His research interests include water quality surveillance, climate change, water treatment, river ecosystem, soil health maintenance, engineering education, phytoremediation and waste management. Under his supervision, 3 PhD degrees have been awarded. He has published >150 research papers in various prestigious journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis etc.) including books, book chapters and conference publications. He has edited many books with Elsevier, Springer, NOVA, IGI global and Wiley. He worked on 04 Government sponsored projects (worth ~16 million INR) on phytoremediation, adsorption, capacity building, organic farming, leachate treatment, agro-waste management etc. He received the prestigious "Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Fellowship" followed by a research grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India in 2022. He has also filed 31 patents on multidisciplinary topics and 14 out of which have been granted by the Government of India. He has also been recognized among the top 2% worldwide scientists of Earth and Environmental Sciences jointly by Stanford University and Elsevier in the year 2023, 2024 and 2025. Recently, his name has been included in top 0.05% scholars of the year 2025 by ScholarGPS in Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Inga Zinicovscaia is working as the Head of the Sector in the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. She has obtained her Doctor of Science degree from Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova on the study of the impact of some metals determined by neutron activation analysis on the quality of the environment. Her research interests include water and soil remediation, assessment of the air quality, nanotoxicology, waste management, evaluation of food quality, and radioecology. She has published 200 research papers in prestigious ISI journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis, and so on) as well as several book chapters and monography on wastewater bioremediation. She is also a section editor in several journals and project supervisor of more than 10 projects between Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and member states on different environmental subjects.