Santanu Mukherjee

Dr. Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the school of agricultural sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of Bonn, Germany, and worked as a guest scientist in FZJ, Juelich, Germany. He was a visiting researcher in Savannah River Ecological Laboratory, USA. He is the recipient of multiple accolades such as the India-Japan Hiyoshi Young Leaf award, EGU-Young Scientist Travel Award, ISES Early Career Scientists travel award, Early Career Travel Grant by The Geochemical Society (GS) and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), ICAR international fellowship, Hutchison Young Scientists Foundation Awards, DST-SERB-GOI Fellowships, DST-SERB TARE grant, DST-SERB Start-up grant, GRIFA (Italian Pesticide Agency) grant, and EU-COST action biochar grant. His research interest includes the fate of emerging contaminants, biogeochemical transformation of nutrients, and the role of dissolved and particulate organic matter in deciding contaminants' fate in the environment. He is serving as an editorial board member of Biochar, guest editor of Sustainability, reviewer of many Scopus-indexed journals, and has edited three books, and published many peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (Google Scholar h-index 15).