Dr. Pooja Devi is a Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO). She did her M. Tech from IIT Roorkee and PhD from AcSIR, New Delhi. Her research focuses on the design of Materials for hydrogen production, water/air pollutants degradation, and monitoring of environmental contaminants.Dr. Pooja has an impressive portfolio of over 102 research papers published in high-impact journals, and 23 book chapters. Her work has resulted into more than 4500 citations. She has also edited 7 books as lead editor, filed 3 patents, secured 2 design registrations, and 2 copyrights/trademarks. She has developed 4 technologies, with 2 successfully transferred to industry. Her contributions to science have been recognized through numerous prestigious awards, including the IIT Roorkee Distinguished Young Alumni Award (2024), NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2021), INAE Young Engineer Award (2020), SERB Women Excellence Award (2020), IEI Young Engineer Award, and Haryana Yuva Vigyan Ratan Award (2019) among others. She has been honored with international fellowships such as the CSIR Raman Research Fellowship to visit Drexel University, USA; IUSSTF Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship, and the Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship. Dr. Pooja is also an active member of several national and international science academies, including the Global Young Academy (Germany), Indian National Academy of Engineers, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Young Academy of Sciences. She has represented India in BRICS Young Scientist Conclave and the SCO Young Scientist Conclave. Recently, she was recognized among the Eminent 125 Women in Science by the CII Compendium and listed in the top 2% of researchers globally, according to a Stanford University and Elsevier study in 2022 and 2023. She is also prolific orator and delivered more than 72 talks at national and international platform, and is coordinating science outreach activities in Chandigarh and Haryana schools at her institute level. Dr. Pardeep Singh is presently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Environment Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, India in 2011 and then his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), India, in 2017. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management and co-edited over 30 books with various publishers. Dr. Sushil Kansal is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has nearly 20 years teaching and research experience in Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. He has many fellowships and awards in his credit and is a regular reviewer for many international journals, as well as having many publications in journals and books. He has been awarded with Smt. Prem Lata Jain Best Researcher Award (2017) by Smt. Prem Lata Jain and Prof. D. V. S. Jain Research Foundation.
