Rita S DhodapkarDr. Rita S Dhodapkar is Science Secretary, and Principal Technical Officer & AcSIR Faculty of CSIR-NEERI, India. She has nearly 32 years of research experience in Water and Wastewater Management, application of advanced treatment technologies i.e., mmbrane processes, solar and UV photocatalysis, adsorption processes for water and wastewater treatment, environmental monitoring, and remediation of chemicals of emerging concern e.g., PCPPs and pseudo-persistent pollutants, Super absorbent polymers for environmental remediation. She has worked in Industry-sponsored research and consultancy projects for wastewater management related problems in Sewage treatment plants, refineries, paper industry, metal and minerals, coke oven and steel, distilleries, textile, tanneries etc. for the past 20 years. She is a recipient of several national and international collaborative projects (Royal Society, UK, Global Challenges Research Fund-Research Council UK, CEMI, PTB, Germany etc.), and was awarded the Commonwealth Science Council training fellowship, Honorary Diploma-Seche Environment Award for excellence in Research in Wastes Valorization, at the 2nd International Conference on Engineering for Waste Valorization which was held at Patras, Greece. She serves as an external advisory board member to EU Horizon 2020 project on “WATERSPOUTT”. She has more than fifty-five original research publications in high impact journals of national and international repute and has also authored one Indian patent applications and three design registration applications. Dr. Rita Dhodapkar is the Indian Coordinator of the Department of Science and Technology sponsored Indo-EU multi-consortium “PANIWATER” project Read More Read Less