Ravindra Khaiwal is an Associate Professor of Environment Health at School of Public Health
(SPH), PGIMER, Chandigarh after working around five years as ‘Scientist’ in
‘Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research (CAIR)’, University of
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He also holds visiting professor positions at
University of Antwerp, Belgium and University of Padova, Italy. Ravindra has an
outstanding academic record and obtained a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree with
a specialization in Analytical Chemistry / Environmental Sciences from University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has authored more than 80
articles including original research papers, reviews and book chapters. Some of
his articles are listed as highly cited by ‘ISI Web of Science’. His articles
are cited over 4500 times and he has a HIRSCH factor of ‘26’ based on Scopus,
ISI and other sources. He wrote/edited 6 books in the field of ‘Environmental
Sciences’. He has guided 4 PhD students and one DM and one MD. Currently he is supervising
four PhD students. Ravindra has received several awards and scholarships in the
field of ‘Environmental Science and Engineering’. He has won an ‘Environmentalist
of the Year 2007: Around the Globe’ award by the National Environmental Science
Academy (NESA), India and was the finalist of ‘Elsevier NASI-SCOPUS 2014’ Young
Scientist Award. His
research interests involve monitoring of pollutants, chemical composition and
source characterization, health risks assessment and mitigation policies for persistent
and emerging pollutants; including global climate change and environmental
impact assessment. He has already worked on several international projects such
as InterREG, EXPER/PF, ENVIRISK, CAIR4HEALTH, HENVINET,
MEGAPOLI and TRANSPHORM. Currently he is working as associated partner on (EU) projects
and jointly acquired funding of over $ 640 thousands to the School of Public
Health. Ravindra is serving various international journal and grant commission
as a referee and is also a member of editorial board of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, Air, Soil
and Water Research, Forum Geographic, Journal of Environmental Biology (IF:0.56), Aerosol and Air Quality Research (IF:2.0), and
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (IF:1.6).