Industrial Wastewater Treatment

lt;p> Dr. Thirugnanasambandham Karchiyappan completed PhD (Environmental Chemistry-Water purification) in Anna University, India (2015). After that he have been worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow in state university of Maringa (CAPES Postdoctoral Fellowship), Brazil, Sun Yat Sen University (NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship), China and Dublin City University (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship), Ireland. His major responsibility as a Postdoc in lab is to perform own research in research group. Also teaching on undergraduate and master's levels as well as supervising master's and/or PhD students. Also, he was working as an Assistant Professor in chemistry department (Excel College of Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India) for an about 8 months. During his PhD, he has been worked in University Grants Commission (UGC)-Major Research Project. He published more than 25 international journals includes Q1 Journals. Also, he visited various countries like United Kingdom, Italy and Denmark for career development.

Dr. Rama Rao Karri working as Associate professor in Petroleum and chemical engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), Brunei Darussalam. He has obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Masters from IIT Kanpur, and Bachelors from Andhra University College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral research fellow at NUS, Singapore for about six years and has over 18 years of working experience in Academics, Industry, and Research. He has led the water resources cluster team at UTB (2015-2017) which has focused on Water-Energy Nexus, Smart Water and Environmental Management. His research activities are mainly focused in the development of modelling methods for systems with inherent uncertainties in multidisciplinary fields. He has experience of working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modeling. He has published around 55 research articles in reputed journals with a combined Impact factor of 160.8 and has an h-index of 18 ( Scopus and Google Scholar ). He also contributed 9 book chapters published in Elsevier & Springer journals. He is an editorial board member in 6 renowned journals and peer-review member for more than 69 reputed journals from Elsevier (23), Springer (15), Taylor & Francis (9), Scientific Reports, other reputed journals (24) and peer reviewed more than 240 manuscripts. Recipient of Publons Peer Reviewer Award as top 1% of global peer reviewers for Environment & Ecology and Crossfield categories for the year 2019. He is also delegating as advisory board member for many International conferences. He is presently holding a position as Editor-in-Chief in International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering, IGI Global, USA. He is also a Managing Guest editor for Spl. Issue: "Magnetic nano composites and emerging applications", in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (IF: 4.30), Elsevier. Also, been a Guest editor for Spl. Issue: "Nanocomposites for the Sustainable Environment", in Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 2.474), MDPI. He is also Associate editor in International Journal of Energy and Water Resources (IJEWR), Springer Inc. He along with his mentor, Prof. Venkateswarlu is authoring an Elsevier book , "Optimal state

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