Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Dr. Manish Kumar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry (FRSC) and faculty at Discipline of Earth
Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental
Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and
has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships like
Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI)
Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS) foreign research fellowship, Brain Korea (BK)21 post-doctoral fellowship, Monbukagakusho scholarship, Linnaeus-Palme stipend from SIDA, Sweden, and
Research Fellowship from CSIR, India, etc. Dr. Kumar
is active in the fields of hydro(bio)geochemistry,
contaminant transport and modeling, metal speciation,
isotope fingerprinting, emerging contaminants and
removal. He supervised 6 Ph.D. thesis and more than
20 Master’s dissertations. He has published over 80
papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has
17 years’ research/teaching experience. He is the
member of global collaboration on wastewater based
epidemiology of COVID-19.
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About the Editors
Dr. Manish Kumar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry (FRSC) and faculty at Discipline of Earth
Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental
Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and
has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships like
Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI)
Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS) foreign research fellowship, Brain Korea (BK)21 post-doctoral fellowship, Monbukagakusho scholarship, Linnaeus-Palme stipend from SIDA, Sweden, and
Research Fellowship from CSIR, India, etc. Dr. Kumar
is active in the fields of hydro(bio)geochemistry,
contaminant transport and modeling, metal speciation,
isotope fingerprinting, emerging contaminants and
removal. He supervised 6 Ph.D. thesis and more than
20 Master’s dissertations. He has published over 80
papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has
17 years’ research/teaching experience. He is the
member of global collaboration on wastewater based
epidemiology of COVID-19.
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