SH

Dr. Subrata Hait

Indian Institute of Technology Patna Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Department of Civil Engineering, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College

ORCID iD 0000-0001-5945-0354
Follow

About

Dr. Subrata Hait is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Bihar. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Civil Engineering for the research work titled “High-growth Membrane Bioreactor for Sewage Treatment Coupled with Vermicomposting of Sludges” from IIT Kanpur in the year 2011. Prior to joining as an Assistant Professor at IIT Patna in June 2012, he worked as a Senior Project Engineer at IIT Kanpur within a consortia of 7 IITs towards the Preparation of Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan (GRB EMP), a project sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Govt. of India (GoI), for abatement of pollution and to restore continuous and unpolluted flow in the Ganga River. He has also served as the Head of the Department (HoD) of Civil and Environmental Engineering at IIT Patna for three years (2016-2019). His current research interests in the broad area of Pollution Prevention and Resource Recovery (P2R2) include e-waste treatment and metal recovery, composting and vermicomposting of organic waste, removal of micro-plastics, and emerging contaminants from aqueous matrices, utilization of agro-industrial waste as supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in concrete. He has authored many papers at his credit in various international journals in addition to several book chapters. Recently, he co-edited a book titled ‘Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and Approaches’ with Elsevier. Apart from serving as Reviewer for different international journals published by leading publishers including Elsevier, Dr. Hait is serving as an Academic Editor of PLOS One and PLOS Water, and an Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences, Springer Nature. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) in the Environmental Engineering Division. He is also affiliated with the organizations like the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), and International Water Association (IWA).

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Patna Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor
    2020 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Patna Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor
    2012 - 2020
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Department of Civil Engineering Senior Project Engineer, Project: Preparation of Ganga River Basin Environment Management Plan (GRB EMP)
    2010 - 2012

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Department of Civil Engineering Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Environmental Engineering)
    2004 - 2011
  • Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Master of Engineering (M.E.) (Environmental Engineering)
    2002 - 2004
  • Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) (Civil Engineering)
    1998 - 2002

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (71)