Pooja Ghosh, Ph.D.

Dr. Pooja Ghosh specializes in environmental biotechnology and is currently employed as an Associate Professor in the Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT) at IIT Delhi. Her current research  focuses on environmental risk assessment of emerging contaminants (microplastics, PFAS) and developing effective remediation technologies for water and wastewater treatment. With over 50 high-impact publications in journals such as Trends in Biotechnology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and Bioresource Technology, she has strong technical expertise in emerging contaminants, bioremediation and environmental toxicology. 

She has collaborated with University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University, as a co-investigator in a pilot project (2022-2024) on “Circular Economy Solutions for Microplastics”. She was also the co-ordinator for a joint multidisciplinary course between University of Eastern Finland and IIT Delhi (2022-2024) on "Development of multidisciplinary education in circular economy (DEDUCE)". She has also collaborated with University of Brunel, UK (2019-2021) on “Concentrating Solar Thermophilic Anaerobic Reactor for Municipal Solid Waste (COSTARMSW)” sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, GOI, and UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI). She has also been an investigator in consulting projects sponsored by Central Pollution Control Board (2020-2023) which involved inspection of ~300 Grossly Polluting Industries located in the Yamuna River basin. Additionally, she is also the regional principal investigator for Delhi-NCR region in a major nation-wide governmental program called ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’, that enables higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth.