Emerging Micropollutants in Agro-ecosystems: Sources, Challenges, and Mitigation Approaches

Dr. Kuldeep Bauddh is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at the Centre for Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. Dr. Bauddh is currently engaged in teaching in key areas of environmental sciences like Environmental Pollution and Management, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Toxicology, Soil Science, and Hazardous Waste Management. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal “Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability as well as the co-editor of the magazine “Kahaar. His main research areas are phytoremediation, ecological restoration and slow release fertilizers.

Swati Sachdev is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Department of Liberal Education, Era University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, U. P., India, in 2019. She has worked on biological approaches for management of plant pathogens to reduce disease severity and improve plant productivity. Her expertise and research interest areas are sustainable agriculture, plant-microbe interaction, plant-stress management, and bioremediation. She has more than five years of research and three years of teaching experience. She has published 12 research articles, 1 Authored book, and 11 book chapters. She was a gold medallist in her post-graduate program (2007-2009) and awarded a University Grant Commission-Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) in 2013.

Dr. John Korstad is a Professor of Biology and Past Director of the Honors Program at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA). His educational background includes a BA in Geology and BS in Biology from Calif. Lutheran University, a MS in Environmental Science from Cal. State Hayward, and a MS and Ph.D. in Zoology from the Univ. Michigan. His specialty is Limnology (lake ecology) with specific expertise in nutrient-phytoplankton (microalgae)-zooplankton interactions and lake management. He has vast experience in aquaculture, including two sabbatical years doing research at The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF) in Trondheim, Norway (the second one funded by a Fulbright Fellowship).