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Dr. Pankaj Kuamr

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Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Science pankaj.evs@svc.ac.in


Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D.
  • M.Sc.
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Areas of Specialization

  • Environmental Pollution and Health; Bioremediation; Microbial Ecology
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Administrative roles/ responsibilities

  • Convenor, Brainiacs: The Data Science Hub
  • Co-coordinator, IQAC Criteria VII
  • Member, Academic Planning Committee
  • Member, Purchase Committee
  • Member, ICT Academy-SVC Committee
  • Member, Viksit Bharat @ 2024: Voice of Youth Committee
  • Member, Eco Club
  • Member, Environmental Audit Committee
  • Member, Annual Report Committee 2022-2023
  • Member, Undergraduate ECA Admission 2023
  • Member, Election Monitoring Committee 2022-2023 (Students’ Union Election)
  • Member, Election Grievance and Monitoring Committee 2023-2024 (ICC Election)
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Courses Taught

  • Environmental Science: Theory into Practice (AEC-I)
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Kumar, P., Mishra, V., Bhardwaj, S., Garg, S., Dumée, L.F., & Sharma, R. S., 2022. Five-Wheel framework for system-based monitoring of heavy metal pollution in rivers. Environmental Quality Management, pp. 1-9.https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.21918


Kumar, P., Mishra, V., Yadav, S., Yadav, A., Garg, S., Poria, P., Farooqi, F., Dumée, L.F. and Sharma, R.S., 2022. Heavy metal pollution and risks in a highly polluted and populated Indian river–city pair using the systems approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, pp. 60212-60231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20034-2


Yadav, A., Kumar, P., Rawat, D., Garg, S., Mukherjee, P., Farooqi, F., Roy, A., Sundaram, S., Sharma, R.S. and Mishra, V., 2022. Microbial fuel cells for mineralization and decolorization of azo dyes: Recent advances in design and materials. Science of The Total Environment, 326, pp. 154038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154038


Garg, S., Kumar, P., Greene, G.W., Mishra, V., Avisar, D., Sharma, R.S. and Dumée, L.F., 2022. Nano-enabled sensing of per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from aqueous systems–A review. Journal of Environmental Management, 308, pp.114655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114655


Garg, S., Wang, J., Kumar, P., Mishra, V., Arafat, H., Sharma, R.S. and Dumée, L.F., 2021. Remediation of water from per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-challenges and perspectives. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9, pp. 105784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.105784


Kumar, P., Maurya, A., Garg, S., Yadav, A., Mishra, V., & Sharma, R. S. (2020). Dead biomass of Morganella morganii acts as an efficient adsorbent to remove Pb (II) from aqueous solution in different aeration–agitation and pH conditions. SN Applied Sciences, 2, 1258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-3013-8


Garg, S., Kumar, P., Singh, S., Yadav, A., Dumée, L. F., Sharma, R. S., & Mishra, V. (2020). Prosopis juliflora peroxidases for phenol remediation from industrial wastewater—An innovative practice for environmental sustainability. Environmental Technology & Innovation, 19, pp. 100865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2020.100865


Garg, S., Kumar, P., Mishra, V., Guijt, R., Singh, P., Dumée, L. F., & Sharma, R. S. (2020). A review on the sources, occurrence and health risks of per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) arising from the manufacture and disposal of electric and electronic products. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 38, pp. 101683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2020.101683


Sharma, R.S., Karmakar, S., Kumar, P., & Mishra, V., 2019. Application of filamentous phages in environment: A tectonic shift in the science and practice of ecorestoration. Ecology and Evolution, 9, pp.2263-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4743


Recent Book chapters/ MONOGRAPHS authored/published/edited

Bhardwaj, S., Kumar, P., and Mishra, V., 2021. Mechanistic Pathways of Neurodegenerative Diseases due to Metal Loaded Particulate Matter. In Mishra, B.K., Singh, C.S., and Gupta, V. (eds.) Environmental Health and Society. Academic Publication. ISBN No. 978-81-934634-9-9. pp 168-180.


Garg, S., Kumar, P., Mishra, V., Dumée, L., and Sharma, R.S., 2021. Environmental menace of pharmaceutical drug diclofenac and its redressal. In Mishra, B.K., Singh, C.S., and Gupta, V. (eds.) Environmental Health and Society. Academic Publication. ISBN No. 978-81-934634-9-9. pp 189-207.


Malhotra, M., Mishra, R., Karmakar, S., Rawat, D., Sharma, S., Singh, S., Kumar, P., Raiping, S., and Mishra, V., 2018. Environmental factors shaping plant-microbe associations: Their significance to improve plant health and vegetation restoration in degraded lands. In Ansari, M.W., Kumar, S., Kaula, B.C., and Wattal, R.K. (eds.) Introduction to challenges and strategies to improve crop productivity in changing environment. Enriched Publications. ISBN No. 978-93-83931-24-8. pp 1-16.


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    Major Research Grant (2023-25) to study “Impact of Tourism on Local Communities and Ecology of Selected High-altitude Lakes of Himachal Pradesh” from Govt. of India.