Synergistic Approaches for Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges

Dr. Riti Thapar Kapoor is Associate Professor in Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. Dr. Kapoor received her Ph.D from University of Allahabad and worked as post - doctoral fellow at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Kapoor has fourteen years of teaching and research experience and her area of specialization is environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, wastewater treatment and abiotic stresses. Dr. Kapoor has published 11 books and over 105 research papers in various journals of national and international repute. Dr. Kapoor has visited 8 countries for participation in different academic programmes. Dr. Kapoor has received prestigious travel award from Bill & Melinda Gates Research Foundation under CGIAR project for participation in International training programme held at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines in 2010. She is also recipient of DST travel grant for participation in International Conference held at Sri Lanka in 2013. Dr. Kapoor has been awarded with Teacher’s Research Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru in 2019. She has supervised and mentored a number of research projects sanctioned by different government funding agencies such as DAE, DST and UPCST etc. She has successfully supervised three research students for Ph.D. degree besides several (more than 80) masters and graduate students for their dissertation thesis. Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and scientific writer in his field for over 20 years. He received a B.Sc. degree (1999) in Microbiology from Gujarat University, Godhra (Gujarat), India. He also earned his Ph.D. degree (2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujarat) India. His research interests include Biological Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Microbiology, Biodegradation, Bioremediation, & Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants from Industrial Wastewaters. He has published more than 250 research papers in national and international journals of repute on various aspects of microbial biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. He is the editor of 200 books of international repute (Elsevier, RSC, Nova Sciences, De Gruyter, Springer, Wiley, IOP and CRC Press).

1. Conversion of wastes/biomass into biochar and its characteristics
2. Removal of emerging contaminants in water/wastewater by biochar
3. Application of biochar/microbes for wastewater treatment
4. Biochar based water treatment system as a potential low-cost and sustainable technology for clean water provision
5. Removal of pharmaceutical compounds from water and wastewater by biochar and microbes
6. Role of biochar/microbes in the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants from wastewater
7. Bioremediation of industrial toxins by biochar for environmental safety
8. Application of biochar for soil remediation
9. Biochar for remediation of soil heavy metal contamination
10. Mechanism of removal of contaminants by modified biochar
11. Mechanism of metal sorption by biochar/microbes
12. Using biochar for remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and organic pollutants
13. Efficacy of biochar in removal of pesticides from watershed system
14. Synergistic approaches in the bioremediation of industrial effluents.