Biography:

Dr. Arun Srivastava, is a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. Prof. Srivastava did his Master’s in Applied Geology from University of Allahabad and then M. Phil and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His M.Phil. was on climatology of an Indian Antarctic station while Ph.D. was on the indoor air quality of Delhi. Afterwards he did postdoctoral studies from Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and Institute for Methodologies in Environmental Analysis (Council of National Research), Tito Scalo, Italy. His main field of expertise is different aspects of air pollution such as indoor air pollution, bio-aerosols, source apportionment, aerosol optical depth and health implications of air pollution. Dr. Srivastava has published over 50 research articles in refereed journals and completed 5 research projects. He has so far supervised around 25 M.Phil and 6 Ph.D. scholars.