Dr. Manish Kumar

Editorial services

Reputed journals like Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) Clean Water, Science of the Total Environment, CSCEE (Associate editor), ACS ES&T-Engineering, Current Pollution Report (Springer), Groundwater for Sustainable Development, and Japan Society for Water's journal Hydrological Research Letter, VSI in the lead managing editor, including that for Journal of Hazardous Material, Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN), and Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier).

Awards and Achievements:

1. Expert Panel for UNEP, on "Antimicrobial Resistance and Impact on the Environment" in 2021.
2. Member of Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Grand Challenges India (GCI) program of Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)-GoI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust
3. Won two KPCSD COVID-19 Research Awards worth 2 Lakhs each.
4. Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry, admitted on May 2020.
5. Letter of Appreciation for Teaching (2019-2020) from Dean (Academic), IIT Gandhinagar.
6. Editorial Board Member, Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) Clean Water; Science of the Total Environment, Current Pollution Report, ES&T Engineering.
7. Managing Guest Editor (MGE) for the Journal for Hazardous Material, Science of the Total Environment, and J of Environmental Management.
8. Member of Global collaboration on Wastewater-Based Epidemiology of COVID-19.
9. Faculty Research Award by Careers 360 for being one of India's top 10 knowledge producers for the academic year 2017-2018 in Environmental Science Discipline.
10. Elected as South Asian Convener, International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group, Metals and Related Substances in Drinking Water (METRELS) Since February 2018.
11. Elected as a National Level Executive Committee member for India, International Water Association (IWA).
12. Best Poster Award (2018) at National Symposium on Environment (NSE), IITGN, Gandhinagar, India, December 13 to 15th, 2018.
13. Best Research Paper Award (2018) at 6th International Symposium on "Advances in Civil and Environmental Engineering Practices for Sustainable Development" (ACEPS-2018), ISSN: 2279-1329, Galle, Sri Lanka, March 15, 2018, for the paper "Status and Problem of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria in the Kelani river, Sri Lanka"
14. Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship (2016) supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI), and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
15. Research Grant Award (2014) by Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF), Tokyo, Japan
16. Best Poster Award (2013) as co-author at "1st International Forum on Asian Water Environment Technology (IFAWET)" held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
17. Best Poster Award (2013) as a co-author at the workshop on "Water Quality: Status and Strategies" Organized on 12th & 13th December 2013 at Guwahati by the Public Health Engineering Department, Govt. of Assam, IIT Guwahati, and UNICEF.
18. Best Research Award (2012) with travel support at the 4th IWA Asia-Pacific Young Water Professionals (APWYP-2012) Conference, Tokyo.
19. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post-doctoral fellowship (2010-2012) The University of Tokyo, Japan.
20. Post-doctoral fellowship (2009) under Brain-Korea (BK-21) project, Kunsan National University, South Korea.
21. Young Researcher Fund (2007) from JSPS Centers of Excellence (COE), Tokyo, Japan.
22. Monbukagakusho Scholarship (2006) in Environmental Sciences through the HRD Ministry of India.
23. Linnaeus-Palme stipend (2005) as an exchange student from SIDA, Sweden.
24. National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship in Environmental Sciences (December 2003) conducted by University Grant Commission (UGC), India.
25. Junior Research Fellowship / National Eligibility Test (JRF/NET) for Lectureship in Life Sciences (December 2003), conducted by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.

Accomplishments:

1. h-index >36, i10-index>88 with total citation (>4800) as per Google Scholar.
2. Research Gate Score (43.1) is > five percentile of the research gate members worldwide.
3. A reviewer of Research Proposal from STARS (Scheme for Translational and Advancement Research in Sciences).
4. Associate Editor of three international journals, including Elsevier.
5. Accomplished Four special issues for international journals as the Lead Guest editor.
6. Seven Ph.D. awarded and 23 M.Sc., 4 M. Tech, and 1 M. A thesis was completed under my supervision.
7. Member, Volunteer Committee, International Geological Congress (IGC) 2020
8. Reviewer for Major Research Proposal submitted to the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES).
9. Reviewer for Vikram Sarabhai Innovation Competition (VISION):2019, conducted by PRL.
10. Over six published works have appeared among the most downloaded papers in various journals.
11. Kumar et al., 2009, entitled "Nutrient chemistry and salinity mapping of the Delhi aquifer, India: source identification perspective," appeared on the cover of Environmental Geology: Vol. 56 (6).
12. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing awarded in recognition of the contribution to the journal Water Research, Chemosphere, Science of the Total Environment, and several others.
13. Kumar et al., 2006 secured first position in the most downloaded paper on Environmental Geology.
14. The second position in the All India Entrance Examination-2002 for M.Phil / Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (Area–II) of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
15. First prize in the Remote sensing training program held at Ahmedabad in 2002.

Ongoing Grants/Contracts

1. UNICEF Gujarat, India -Wastewater Surveillance of COVID-19 in Ahmedabad (PI)
2. KPCSD, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India -Wastewater Surveillance of COVID-19 of Gandhinagar (PI)
3. DST, MoST, GoI-National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC). (Co-PI)
4. MOES/NCESS-Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) along the Gujarat Coast. (PI)
5. GSBTM- GoG, Development of Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Composite Solution for Municipal Solid Waste Management, (PI)
6. DST-UKIERI, Vulnerability Assessment and Sustainable Solution for Water Quality Management in the Urban Environment. (PI)
7. Completed Grants/Contracts
8. WIN Foundation, USA, Pilot-scale in-situ application for arsenic and fluoride removal from the groundwater: A safe drinking water production perspective. (PI)
9. Asia Pacific Network (APN) 2016-2018 for Global Change Research, Development of New Water Supply Strategies in Two Major cities of India and Sri Lanka in the context of climate change, rapid urbanization and population growth: A Vulnerability Assessment Approach. (PI)
10. WIN Foundation, USA, Micro-components quantification of end uses of water consumption in low-income settings. (PI)
11. Internal Funding, IIT Gandhinagar, Predictive modeling of geogenic contaminants in the groundwater. (PI)
12. IJCSP (India-Japan Cooperative Science Program), 2016-2018 Development of new water supply strategies for Brahmaputra watersheds of India under climate change regime. (PI)
13. BRNS-DAE Uranium Project, BARC, India, 2015-2018 Spatial distribution of uranium and associated water quality parameters in groundwater/drinking water of six districts (Golaghat, Karbi Anglong, Udalguri, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia) of Assam. (PI)
14. Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF) Research Grant Award (2014-2015) Phase distribution of metals in a Tropical River of India during the Monsoon. PI
15. University Grant Commission (UGC- Major Research Project), 2012-2015 Tracing Source and Distribution of Heavy Metals in the Sediment and Water of the Brahmaputra River through Coupling of Speciation and Isotopic Fingerprinting. (PI)
16. Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) – Dept of Science and Technology (DST), India funded Fast Track Research Projects for Young Scientists (2012-2015), Hydrogeochemical investigation of arsenic-contaminated alluvial aquifers of India through multilayer sampling and evaluation of remediation technique. (PI)
17. SERB-DST, Fast Track Projects for Young Scientists (DST), Understanding of arsenic phase distribution and co-contamination perspective with fluoride in the Brahmaputra flood plains. (Mentor)
18. Consultancy Projects [Worth ~ 5 million INR)
19. Study Report for Groundwater Contamination Under CPCB Guideline for the Unit of M/S GCTL, Pvt Ltd. (PI)- CNS/GCTL/EH/237/2021/001 (11.8 Lakh)
20. Study Report for Groundwater Contamination Under CPCB Guideline for the Unit of M/S AMBUJA Intermediates Pvt Ltd. (PI)- CNS/AIPL/EH/237/2021/003 (11.8 Lakh)
21. Evaluation of the damage assessment of the Lime Stone mines in Junagadh and Gir Somnath District GPCB/LGL:NGT: Gen:109(2)/571461 (20.6 Lakh)

22. Metagenomics study of the Ferment sample from M/S Synergia Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. CNS/SLS/EH/P0237/2021/0005 (2.5 Lakh)

     

Books Edited and Editing 

1. Kumar, M., Snow, D.D., Honda, R., Mukherjee, S. (2020). Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Drinking and Wastewater Source: Current Status, Challenges, and Reigning Technologies. (ISBN 978-981-15-4599-3). Springer Nature. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811545986  
2. Kumar, M., Munoz-Arriola, F., Furumai, H., Chaminda, T. (2020). Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems. (ISBN 978-981-15-4667-9), Springer Nature. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811546679
3. Kumar, M., Snow, D.D., Honda, R. (2020). Emerging Issues in the Water Environment during Anthropocene: A South East Asian Perspective. Springer Nature, (ISBN 978-93-81891-41-4) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813297708
4. Kurisu, F., Ramanathan, AL., Kazmi, A.A., Kumar, M. (2015). Trends in Environmental Science and Technology. Capital-Springer, (ISBN 978-93-81891-28-5) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319392578
5. Kumar, M (2012) "Problems, Perspectives and Challenges of Agricultural Water Management" In-Tech international publication, ISBN 979-953-307-706-1 https://www.intechopen.com/books/problems-perspectives-and-challenges-of-agricultural-water-management
6. Chidambaram, S., Srinivasamoorthy, K., Ramanathan, AL., Anandhan, P., Manivannan, R., Prasad, M.B.K., Kumar, M. (2010) "Groundwater Monitoring and Management through hydrogeochemical Modeling approach," IK International, 142p ISBN-13:978-9380578163. https://www.ikbooks.com/books/book/engineering-computer-science/civil-engineering/groundwater-monitoring-management-through-hydrogeochemical-modeling-approach/9789380578163/
7. Kumar, M., Vithanage, M., Mohapatra, S., Acharya, K., (In Press). Legacy, Pathogenic and Emerging Contaminants in the Environment of Post COVID-19 Anthropocene. Volume. 1 CRC Press
8. Tyagi, V.K., Kumar, M., Zeynep, C.G., Alicia., An., (In Press). Clean Energy & Resource Recovery: Wastewater Treatment Plants are Biorefineries. Elsevier,
9. Ramanathan, Al., Kumar, M., Kuroda, K., Mukherjee, S., (Contract signed). Sustainable strategies and sustenance of aquatic systems in Asia. Elsevier,
10. Kumar, M., Mohapatra, S. (Proposal Accepted). Impact of COVID-19 on Emerging Contaminants. Springer Nature, (ISBN 978-93-81891-41-4) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813297708
11. Kumar, M., Mohapatra, S., Acharya, K., (Proposal Accepted). Legacy, Pathogenic and Emerging Contaminants in the Environment of Post COVID-19 Anthropocene. Volume. 2. CRC Press for Sustainable Water Development Book Series.
12. Kumar, M., Mohapatra, S. (Proposal Accepted). Impact of COVID-19 on Emerging Contaminants. Springer Nature.