Biographical note

Dr. Sughosh Madhav works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has obtained his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The area of his doctoral research is the environmental impact of textile effluents on groundwater and soil quality. He has published various research papers and book chapters in environmental geochemistry, water pollution, and wastewater remediation. He also edited 4 books related to water resource management in Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley publications. Dr. Shyam Kanahiya Singh is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Sciences for Study and Research, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph. D. from the Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. His area of interest is the geochemistry of earth surface processes: river processes geochemistry, chemical weathering of rocks, sediment geochemistry, and paleoclimatology and provenance studies besides fluvial sedimentology of the Ganga plain. He has published more than fifteen research papers in various international Journals. Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Virendra Bahadur Singh is presently working as Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow (DSKPDF) in the Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He has also worked as National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India. Dr. Singh has obtained a doctoral degree from School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2016. His research work is mainly focussed on hydrology, sediment dynamics, hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry etc. He has published 28 papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals. Dr. Singh has awarded Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship tenable at University of Bristol, UK. Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.