Principal Investigator

ABOUT ME

Professor Brajesh Kr. Dubey has his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

He is presently an Associate Professor (Integrated Waste Management and Sustainable Engineering) in the Division of Environmental Engineering and Management at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India.

Dr. Dubey has more than 17 years of research, teaching, training and industrial outreach experience in the areas of Integrated Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, and Sustainable Engineering and Application of Life Cycle Assessment techniques.

He has been teaching courses in the area of Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Management, Life Cycle Analysis and Environmental Risk Assessment among other courses for nearly a decade. He has taught at several universities in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, China, and India.

Dr. Dubey has authored/co-authored more than 200 publications in his area of expertise and has presented at several national and international conferences. He has worked as Waste Management Expert for UN agencies and World Bank.

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EDUCATION

2005

Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering Sciences) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

1997

B.Tech (Hons) Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, WB, India.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2008 Certificate of Academic Excellence from Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Gainesville, Florida
2005 Outstanding International Student Award from College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
2004 Ron Cockcroft Award (RCA) from International Research Group on Wood Protection (IRG-WP), 2004; Stockholm, Sweden

Experience (Academic)

2015 onwards Associate Professor (Environmental Engineering) Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), West Bengal, 721302
2011- 2015 Assistant Professor & Graduate Faculty, Environmental Engineering Program, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
2014 - onward Adjunct International Faculty, Amrita Center for Sustainable Development, Amrita Nagar, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
2009- 2011 Assistant Professor& Graduate Faculty, Department of Environmental Health, 65 Lamb Hall, East Tennessee State University, PO Box 70682, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA
2008- 2009 Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 1142.
2006 - 2008 Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611
2001- 2005 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611.

Experience (Industry)

1997-2001 Environmental Engineer, Engineers India Limited, New Delhi, India.
2006 (part-time) Project Environmental Engineer, Innovative Waste Consulting Services LLC. Gainesville, FL

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Integrated Solid Waste Management Issues, including construction, operational issues of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Treatment units including Construction and Demolition Debris Waste, Industrial Waste etc.

Beneficial Reuse and Resource Recovery of Potential Solid Waste Components, Potential Industrial Waste Streams (e.g., Coal combustion products, Ash from Waste Incinerators); Source Reduction, Electronics Waste Management (including Environmental, Social Issues Including Environmental Justice)

Green Engineering, Pollution Prevention, Sustainable Environmental Technologies, including Treatment Technologies, Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainable Design

Environmental Nanotechnology including its Remediation Application, Fate and Transport of Manufactured Nanomaterials in the Environment