Keynote Speaker Ⅰ

Ajay Kumar Mishra

Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Title: Nano-engineered Materials for Wastewater Remediations

Abstract: Nano-engineered materials have been used extensively for a variety of applications. Environmental pollution raised bigger concerns on the discharge of textile waste. Nanotechnology is fast growing on research and bringing sustainable solution in the minimization of the waste. The minimization of the risk of risk and health hazards with the development of industry, environmental pollution and energy shortages have raised awareness of a potential global crisis. Nano-engineered materials can be better solution in finding solution of environmental sustainability more specific to the textile waste remediation due to the large surface areas, diverse morphologies, abundant surface states, and easy device modeling. It is a challenge of great importance to identify and design nano-engineered materials that are efficient, stable, and abundant for the remediation of textile waste. The current talk will be focused on the recent advancement and applications of nano-engineered materials for wastewater remediations.

Bio: Prof Ajay Kumar MishraMSc, MPhil, PhD, CSci, FRSC currently working as Professor at Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. He is actively working as Director: Academy of Nanotechnology and Waste Water Innovations (ANWWI), Johannesburg, South Africa; Professor at KIIT DU, Bhubaneswar, India; Visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK; Bashir State University, Ufa, Russia; Vaal University of Technology, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Adjunct Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology and Jiangsu University, China. After completing his MPhil & PhD in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India he has joined as postdoctoral fellow at University of the Free State followed by University of Johannesburg, South Africa during year 2006-2009. He started his academic career as Senior Lecturer in 2009 at University of Johannesburg where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. He also served there as Director of the Centre of Nanomaterials before moving to University of South Africa in 2015 as full Professor. Prof Mishra is also a chair for IEEE Nanotechnology Council, South Africa Chapter since 2016 to date.

Prof Mishra's active research profile named him in the list of the top 2% of the most-cited scientists since 2019 to date. He has more than 400 publications to his excellent academic profile what includes peer revied international journals articles, conference proceeding, book chapters and many others. Prof Mishra has been playing an effective role in many scientific advisory boards including promotion committee, editorial board member, panel member of funding agencies world wide and also the prestigious Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award reviewer panel board, India. He has edited around 40 books and delivered more than 139 plenary/keynote/invited/guest lectures in various research institutions/universities/conferences/seminars/workshops. He has successfully graduated 19 PhD's, 23 Master's students of which mostly graduated cum laude (more than 75%), and hosted around many international visiting researchers and postdoctoral fellows. Prof Mishra is also reviewers of several international journals besides playing an active role as an external examiner for national and international Masters/PhD students. He has secured number of international grants with considerable national and international recognition, as well as awards including “Fellow member” and “Chartered Scientist” by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and Chancellor's Prize (Unisa), 2020 for excellent achievement in research.