Emerging Technologies in Biological and Hybrid Wastewater Treatment: Lessons from Developed to Enhancing Practices in Developing Countries

Author Biography

Prof. Shalini Yadav is a professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, and water resources. She has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the area of environment and water science and has got rich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs. She has got to her credit guiding of 35 M.Tech. and 15 Ph.D. students. She has published more than 90 journal articles and technical reports. She is a member of the organizing and scientific committee of several conferences and a reviewer in several of international journals. Prof. Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Institute Chair Professor, fellow INAE, member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, former head of School of Environmental Science and Engineering, and former head of P. K. Sinha Centre for bioenergy and renewables and professor in-charge of Aditya Choubey Centre for Re-Water Research at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He had been a visiting scientist at Ben Gurion University, Israel, and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, under Marie Curie fellowship by European Union and had stints as faculty of various capacities in renowned engineering colleges and research institutes. He has been working in the field of anaerobic wastewater treatment, bioenergy recovery during wastewater treatment using microbial fuel cells and bio-electrochemical systems. Prof. Ram Narayan Yadava holds position of Director of Research and International Affairs at Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal, (MP), India, and is an advisor of Patel Group of Institutions, India. He has worked as an advisor of AISECT Group of Universities and a founding vice-chancellor of the AISECT University, Hazaribag (Jharkhand), India. Prof. Yadava is also a founding member of Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI) under the umbrella of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. His research interests include solid mechanics, environmental quality and water resources, hydrologic modeling, environmental sciences, and R&D planning and management. Dr. Yadava has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the areas of water resources planning and management, environment, watersheds management, and remote sensing. Dr. Yadava has been recognized for four decades of leadership in research and service to the hydrologic, environment, and water resources profession. Dr. Yadava's contribution to the state of the art has been significant in many different specialty areas, including water resources management, environmental sciences, irrigation science, soil and water conservation engineering, and mathematical modeling. He has published more than 100 journal articles; four textbooks; sixteen edited reference books. He is a reviewer of scientific journals and a member of the scientific committee of international conferences.