Dr. Rahul Silori

About

I earned my Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES; NIRF Ranking- 52), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India and Master of Technology in Environmental Engineering and Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. I joined UPES University in 2016 as an assistant professor and had around 9+ years of teaching and research experience. I have guided >15 postgraduate and undergraduate students project during the tenure.
My research's overarching objective is to comprehend, and develop various dimensions of the occurrence, fate, transport, and remediation of heavy metals and emerging contaminants in the water and wastewater systems. I have contributed 15 international journal articles, 9 book chapters, and 15 conference papers with h-index 11. I received international recognitions like one of the research entitled “Global groundwater vulnerability for Pharmaceutical and Personal care products (PPCPs): The scenario of the second decade of 21st century“ has featured in the Science for Environment Policy news service by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General (2023). My published research has been sent out to over 20,000 policymakers, academics, and business people across Europe to assist in the development of effective, evidence-based policies. I have won Best Research Oral Award & Best Poster Award at 4th International Sustainability Conference on Health, Safety, Fire and Environmental Advances (HSFEA 2023)- Sustainability Fair 2.0, 3rd rank in Spectrum event in Cognizance (I.I.T Roorkee technical festival) in 2012. I have done several industrial/academia trainings like Advanced Construction Techniques at Larsen & Toubro Construction, New Delhi (2017), Solid Waste Management at NIT Kurukshetra (2016), Tapovan Vishnugad Hydro Electric Power Project at Larsen & Toubro Construction, Joshimath, Uttarakhand (2012). I render my reviewer services to several reputed journals like Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Environmental Research, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology and Groundwater for Sustainable Development. I am actively engaged in consultancy related to environmental and geotechnical engineering.

Employment

• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Associate Professor
  2016 - Present

Education

• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies PhD
  2018 - 2023
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur M.Tech.
  2013 - 2015
• Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology B.Tech.
  2009 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Global distribution, synergistic interactions, and advances in in-situ remediation of prevalent heavy metal(loid)s in groundwater systems
  Groundwater for Sustainable Development 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101559
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• Spatiotemporal forecasting of river Ganges water quality using a hybrid ARIMA LSTM-Random Forest model: Enabling data-driven sustainable water management
  Environmental Engineering Research 2026 DOI: 10.4491/eer.2025.581
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• From Regional Disputes to Global Solutions: A Fairness-Based Game-Theoretic Model for Sustainable River Water Allocation
  Water Resources Management 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11269-025-04364-7
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• Deciphering groundwater quality dynamics and dominant hydrochemical drivers in Himalayan foothill aquifer systems
  Acta Geochimica 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11631-026-00882-2
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• Seasonality in negative removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products at the Himalayan foothills wastewater treatment plants
  Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.116803
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• Microplastic pollution in the German aquatic environment: Existence, interactions and research needs
  Environmental Engineering Research 2024 DOI: 10.4491/eer.2024.609
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• Screening of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) along wastewater treatment system equipped with root zone treatment: A potential model for domestic waste leachate management
  Journal of Environmental Management 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117494
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• Understanding the underestimated: Occurrence, distribution, and interactions of microplastics in the sediment and soil of China, India, and Japan
  Environmental Pollution 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120978
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• Wars and Pandemics: AMR Accelerators of the 21st Century?
  Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00020
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• Insight into the perspectives of waste foundry sand as a partial or full replacement of fine aggregate in concrete
  Total Environment Research Themes 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.totert.2023.100048
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