Earthworm Assisted Remediation of Effluents and Wastes

1.      Municipal and industrial waste effluent treatment



2.      Industrial sludge management and application

3.      Vermifiltration4.      Vermicomposting



5.      Bioremediation of organic contaminants.

6.      Earthworms in sludge toxicity biomonitoring

7.      Organic waste management and application

8.      Earthworms and microorganisms

9.      Agro-waste management

10.  Waste management and risk assessment

Sartaj Ahmad Bhat is working as Post-doctoral Researcher in the River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. for Environmental Sciences from Guru Nanak Dev University, India in 2017. He is efficient in waste management techniques, especially towards the vermicomposting and substrate compatibility, nutrient enrichment and heavy metal accumulation dynamics. So far, Dr. Bhat has authored more than 30 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He is also an editor, editorial board member and reviewer of many international reputed journals published by PLOS, De Gruyter, Springer, SAGE, MDPI, Elsevier and Taylor and Francis. He has been recently awarded as a Top Peer Reviewer 2019 in Environment and Ecology by Publons Web of Science Group and has more than 200 verified reviews to his credit.

Adarsh Pal Vig is a Professor and former Head, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Dr.Vig is having teaching and research experience of more than 26 years, about 105 publications in National/International journals with a h-index of 21 and had supervised 10 Ph.D. students. His research mainly focuses on biological treatment technologies for agricultural and industrial wastes. He has been awarded Distinguished Teachers Award, 2012 and Environmentalist of the Year, 2016 & 2018. Presently also working as Director of UGC- Human Resource Development Centre and Project coordinator, FDC and NRC under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, MHRD, Govt. of India, at Guru Nanak Dev University. Fusheng Li is a Professor in the Division of Water System Safety and Security Studies and the Graduate School of Engineering at Gifu University, Japan. He received his BS degree for environmental engineering from Lanzhou Jiaotong University of China in 1986, MS degree from Kitami Institute of Technology of Japan in 1994 and PhD degree from Gifu University