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Faculty

Faculty

Research Interests & Expertise:

Broad areas:

  • Natural Resource Management
  • Climate Change
  • Environment Conservation and Management

Specific areas:

  • Climate change – Impacts, and Adaptation strategies
  • Climate Change and Energy Policy
  • Water and Energy linkages
  • Environment and Ecological Footprints
  • Urbanisation and development
  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation
  • Sustainability Assessments and Standards
  • ESG frameworks
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  • Dr. Om Prakash
    Dr. Om Prakash

    Deputy-Head & Associate Professor
    M.Sc., Ph.D. (Microbiology)
    GATE & NET-JRF (CSIR)
    PDF: Florida State University
    USA & G-Tech (USA)
    Senior Visiting Fellow (ARO-Israel): Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
    Visiting Fellow (FSU, USA): Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
    Email: dyhead_scccs@siu.edu.in

Research Interests & Expertise:

Broad areas:

  • Microbial Ecology and Diversity
  • Public and Environmental health
  • Anaerobic Microbiology
  • Global warming, Climate change and Carbon sequestration
  • Archaeal bioinoculants

Specific areas:

  • Microbial bioremediation of environmental pollutants
  • Study of Biomethanation and Methanotrophic process in rice field and landfill leachate
  • Study of source and sink of greenhouse gasses (methane and nitrous oxide) at source point (Landfill, constructed wetlands and Rice field)
  • Anaerobic process of clean energy generation from biomass
  • Establishment of Microbiome bank of unique Indian niches to study the impact of climate change on microbial diversity and ecosystem functionality
  • Development of Archaeal bioinoculants for sustainable agriculture
  • Microbial taxonomy and systematics
  • Cultivation, characterization and biobanking of obligate anaerobes of ecological significance
  • Role of landfill and landfill leachate in spread of pollutants and pathogens
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Dr. Prakash Rao

Research Interests & Expertise:

Broad areas:

  • Natural Resource Management

  • Climate Change

  • Environment Conservation and Management

Specific areas:

  • Climate change – Impacts, and Adaptation strategies

  • Climate Change and Energy Policy

  • Water and Energy linkages

  • Environment and Ecological Footprints

  • Urbanisation and development

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation

  • Sustainability Assessments and Standards

  • ESG frameworks

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Dr. Yogesh Patil

Professor & Head - Research Publications at the Symbiosis Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI)

head_respub@siu.edu.in

Dr. Yogesh Patil is Professor and Head - Research Publications at the Symbiosis Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India. Dr. Patil has 23 years of post-graduate teaching and research experience in the broad areas of Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Management. His scholarly interest and area of expertise include - Bioremediation (active & passive biomass); Metal-microbe Interactions & their Applications, Waste Resource Management (Resource Recovery); Climate Change Mitigation; Industrial Ecology; Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management and Sustainable Waste Management Technologies and Strategies. Dr. Patil has published several research papers in national and international Scopus/WoS indexed journals of repute. He has also successfully undertaken several national and international research/consultancy projects. Dr. Patil likes to work in interdisciplinary areas, which cut across science, technology and management.