Speakers

Prof. AMIT KUMAR

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, china

Speech Title: Greenhouse gas emission from Hydropower Reservoirs: Present and future challenges

Prof Kumar is an Environmentalist cum hydrologist and has worked on wide areas such as sources, fate and transport of carbon in water, air, and soil; GHG emission from reservoirs/ Lakes/ forest etc. Prof Kumar completed his M.Tech & Ph.D from IIT Roorkee under the umbrella of MHRD fellowship, Postdoc research from Hohai University (College of Hydrology and Water Resources). Since then (Nov. 2019), working with Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China, as a Professor. During his academic career, Dr Kumar edited 5 books, published more than 150 research/review articles of international repute and attended several training and conferences with due fellow of ICAR, ETH, CAS, MOEF, DAAD etc. Apart from academic life, Prof Kumar is an honorary Associate editor in Frontier in Environmental Science, Frontier in Microbiology, Applied Water Science (Springer), Advisory board member (Ecological Indicator, Elsevier) and IJRBM (Taylor & Francis)). Till now, Prof. Kumar has completed 2 young scientist projects, 1 consultancy project and 1 NSFC project.