Dr. Bhola R. Gurjar is on the faculty of the Civil Engineering department of India’s premier technological institution, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Roorkee. He has extensive industrial, teaching, training and research experience. His present research interests include air and water pollution; environmental impact and risk assessment; atmospheric emissions and climate change; and integrated cross-disciplinary study of science and policy issues of the environment, health, energy, economy, entrepreneurship, technology, infrastructure and resources – particularly from the global change, sustainable development and risk governance perspectives.

He is co-author/co-editor of five books, and has a number of research papers to his credit. He has received several awards and fellowships including the prestigious Advanced Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Max Planck Society (Germany), which was awarded to him to work at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany, for three years. Based on his outstanding research work at the MPIC – Mainz, the Scientific Steering Committee of the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START), Washington, D.C., U.S.A., honored him with the 2004 START Young Scientist Award. Click here to learn more about Dr. Gurjar.