Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey featured in the world’s top 2% scientists curated by Stanford University, United States. Dr. Pandey is a leading researcher in the field of environmental engineering, particularly phytomanagement of polluted sites. His research focuses mainly on the remediation and management of degraded lands, including heavy metal-polluted lands and post-industrial lands polluted with fly ash, red mud, mine spoil, and others, to regain ecosystem services and support a bio-based economy with phytoproducts through affordable green technology such as phytoremediation. His research interests also lie in exploring industrial crop-based phytoremediation to attain bioeconomy security and restoration, adaptive phytoremediation practices, phytoremediation based biofortification, carbon sequestration in waste dumpsites, fostering bioremediation for utilizing polluted lands, and attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals. Recently, Dr. Pandey worked as a CSIR-Pool Scientist (Senior Research Associate) in the Department of Environmental Science at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. Dr. Pandey also worked as Consultant at the Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh; He is the recipient of a number of awards / honors / fellowships and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences India. Dr. Pandey serves as a subject expert and panel member for the evaluation of research and professional activities in India and abroad for fostering environmental sustainability. He has published over 100 scientific articles/book chapters in peer-reviewed journals/books. Dr. Pandey is also the author and editor of eight books published by Elsevier, with several more forthcoming. He is associate editor of Land Degradation and Development (Wiley); editor of Restoration Ecology (Wiley); associate editor of Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer); associate editor of Ecological Processes (Springer Nature); academic editor of PLOS ONE (PLOS); advisory board member of Ambio (Springer); editorial board member of Environmental Management (Springer); and editorial board member of Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Springer). He also works/ worked as guest editor for many reputed journals.