Dr. Nitin Khandelwal | Aquananolab

Dr. Nitin Khandelwal, AMRSC

Assistant Professor, Department of Hydrology

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee

Uttarakhand, India- 247667
Former Royal Society Newton International Fellow (RS-NIF)
Visiting Researcher-Imperial College London

Email- nitin.khandelwal@hy.iitr.ac.in
Phone- +91-1332-285276

Professional Experience

July 2023- Present

IIT Roorkee

Assistant Professor,

Department of Hydrology

IIT Roorkee, India

Mar 2023- July 2023

Imperial College London

Royal Society Newton International Fellow
Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK
Project: “Nucleating redox-active iron-based nanostructures on porous substrates for developing next generation water-warriors”

Oct 2023- Feb 2023

McGill University

Postdoctoral Researcher
Environmental Engineering Laboratory

Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Canada
Project: “Redox-active nanocomposites for the degradation of halogenated organic compounds”

Educational Background

2017-2022

IISER Kolkata

Integrated MS-PhD, Earth Sciences

IISER Kolkata, India
Dissertation: “Eco-friendly Geo-nanocomposites for Achieving Aqueous Sustainability”

2014-2017

University of Delhi

University of Delhi, India
B.Sc. (Hons.) Geology
Gold Medalist

Awards and Honors

Alan Tetlow Memorial Award in Water Science (RSC-WSF) 2024
Leon Peters Early Career Researcher Award #EnvChem2023
The Royal Society Newton International Fellowship- 2022
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship- 2022
Prof. Sabu Thomas Best PhD thesis award 2022 (Nanoscience and Technology)
SERB-International Travel Award (2022)
RSC Researcher Development Grant (2021, 2022)
Early-career Goldschmidt conference grant (2020, 2021, 2022)
IUSSTF Indo-US WARI Fellowship (2020)
IPh.D. Scholar, Junior Research Fellowship, IISER Kolkata (2019-2024)
IPh.D. Scholar, MS Research Scholarship, IISER Kolkata (2017-2019)
Academic Excellence Award, RLA College, University of Delhi (2017)
Gold medalist (1st rank holder), University of Delhi (2017)
SHE INSPIRE Scholarship, DST (2014-2019)

Teaching courses

HYC 513 Environmental Quality (Autumn 2024)
HYS 501 Natural Resources, Society and Environment (Autumn 2024)
HYN-102 Engineering Hydrology (Spring 2023)
HYN-572 Hydrogeochemistry (Spring 2023)
HYN 556 Environmental Quality Lab (Spring 2023)

Memberships

Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, IAHS (2024- Present)
Associate Member (AMRSC), Royal society of chemistry (2023- Present)
Newton International Fellow Alumni of Royal Society, RS-NIF (2023-Present)
Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC (2023-Present)
Member, European Association of Geochemistry (2023-Present)
Life Member, Society for materials chemistry, BARC, India (2019-Present)
Member, American Chemical Society (2023-Present)