Previous positions:

2016 – 2017:  "Senior Humboldt research fellow, Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2013 – 2016:  Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, Center of Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2011 – 2012:  Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2008 – 2010: DAAD doctoral researcher, Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2007 – 2011:  PhD student, Department of Microbiology, University of Pune, Pune, India

Research output:

Pear-reviewed Publications in International Journals:    55
Book Chapters:                             13
H factor (Scopus/Google scholar):                 29/31

For details, please refer to:
Google Scholar
Research Gate
Scopus

Teaching:

Environmental impact and risk assessment (EES407)
Environmental Microbiology (EES642)
Environmental Biotechnology (EES643)
Environmental Sanitation, Hygiene, and Waste Management (IDC408)

Selected awards honors and achievements:

Managing guest editor, Special issue on Microbial processes for Resource Recovery of Bioresource Technology Reports journal, Elsevier (2022)

Guest Co-editor, Special issue on Microbial Electrochemical Technologies of Bioresource Technology Reports journal, Elsevier, (2019)

IISER Mohali Best teacher award 2021, IISER Mohali

Associate editor, Microbiotechnology specialty section of Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Frontiers in Environmental Science journals (since Dec 2020)

Elected board member, International Society of Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (ISMET) (Oct 2020)

Applied Energy – 2020 highly cited paper award for our paper titled “Strategies for optimizing the power output of microbial fuel cells: Transitioning from fundamental studies to practical implementation”

Founding member, Electrochemical Society of India (ECSI) local chapter, Chandigarh region.

Editorial board member, Bioresource Technology Reports (journal link)

Humboldt fellowship for the experienced researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany (2016-2017).

Applied Energy – Highly cited paper award (2016, 2019)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (MC-IEF) by the European Commission (2013-2015).

Ph.D. scholarship by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (2008-2010).

Shivaji University Merit Scholarship (2004-2005).

First rank in M.Sc. (Microbiology) in Shivaji University, Kolhapur (2003-2005).