Rahul Kumar

About

I am a Research Scientist at the Center for Clean Water Technology at Stony Brook University. Prior to this role, I served as a Center for Excellence Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. I have two years of postdoctoral experience at the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering at Arizona State University. I earned my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland.

My research interests lie in Environmental Health and Environmental Chemistry, with a focus on the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in water and wastewater, wastewater-based epidemiology, and water and wastewater treatment.

Employment

• Stony Brook University Research Scientist
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Center of Excellence Fellow
  2023 - 2024
• Arizona State University Member Affiliate
  2022 - 2023
• Arizona State University Postdoctoral Research Scholar
  2020 - 2022
• Anacon Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Environment Scientist
  2013 - 2016

Education

• The University of Auckland Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
  2016 - 2020
• Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad Master of Technology in Environmental Science and Engineering
  2011 - 2013
• Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• Wastewater-based epidemiology in India: current status, prospects, and recommendations
  Journal of Water and Health 2026 DOI: 10.2166/wh.2026.053
  +Save
• Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks, 1990-2022
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.11.007
  +Save
• Leveraging an established neighbourhood-level, open access wastewater monitoring network to address public health priorities: a population-based study
  The Lancet Microbe 2023 DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(22)00289-0
  +Save
• Occurrence of Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and ketamine in wastewater in the United States and Mexico during the Covid-19 pandemic
  Science of the Total Environment 2023 DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2022.159351
  +Save
• Plastic Chemical Constituents in Wastewater, Surface Water, and Drinking Water
  Energy, Environment, and Sustainability 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2062-4_4
  +Save
• Methods and challenges in the detection of microplastics and nanoplastics: a mini‐review
  Polymer International 2022 DOI: 10.1002/pi.6348
  +Save
• Comparison of sorption models to predict analyte loss during sample filtration and evaluation of the impact of filtration on data quality
  Science of The Total Environment 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152624
  +Save
• Towards a novel application of wastewater-based epidemiology in population-wide assessment of exposure to volatile organic compounds
  Science of The Total Environment 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157008
  +Save
• Extensive Wastewater-Based Epidemiology as a Resourceful Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in a Low-to-Middle-Income Country through a Successful Collaborative Quest: WBE, Mobility, and Clinical Tests
  Water 2022 DOI: 10.3390/w14121842
  +Save
• Mass trends of parabens, triclocarban and triclosan in Arizona wastewater collected after the 2017 FDA ban on antimicrobials and during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Water Research 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118894
  +Save