Amit Kumar won an award from the Air & Waste Management Association international doctoral dissertation award 2011 with his PhD thesis in Biological Engineering. The thesis is entitled "Mass transport and degradation of gaseous pollutants in membrane biofilm reactors: an environmental bioprocess engineering approach". Kumar also received the second poster prize in the category ‘Exploiting the water-energy nexus’, and co-authored one of the winning posters in another category ‘Microbial Resource Analysis’ at the first international symposium on Microbial Resource Management in Biotechnology, held at the end of June in Belgium.
Amit Kumar is presently a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow (IEF) at the Pollution Prevention and Control Core in the Environmental Resources Department at UNESCO-IHE. He has a PhD in Biological Engineering: Environmental Technology from Ghent University, Belgium and a Master of Technology in Environmental Engineering & Science from GJ University of Science & Technology, India.
He did his masters research thesis at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD). He also studied at the University of Massachusetts, USA during his PhD and was a visiting fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
His research interests are focused around environmental bioprocess engineering, including biological air pollution control, hollow fiber membrane bioreactor systems, sediment microbial fuel cells, and biosequestration of industrial CO2. He has been awarded several awards including a young scientist research award at NPL, a paper award during IWA Biofilm Technology Conference in Singapore and a paper award during the North American Membrane Society Annual Conference (NAMS), South Carolina, USA and NAMS annual award. He shared a paper award during the WRC Conference, University of Massachusetts, USA.
About A&WMS
The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that enhances knowledge and expertise by providing a neutral forum for information exchange, professional development, networking opportunities, public education, and outreach to more than 8000 environmental professionals in 65 countries.
A&WMA also promotes global environmental responsibility and increases the effectiveness of organizations to make critical decisions that benefit society. The Mission of A&WMA is to assist in the professional development and critical environmental decision-making of our members to benefit society. The core Purpose of A&WMA is to improve environmental knowledge and decisions by providing a neutral forum for exchanging information.
About the Symposium
The 2011 Air & Waste Management Associations Conference & Exposition, June 21-24, in Orlando, brought together more than 2,400 environmental industry professionals for three days to take part in one of the best technical programmes in the industry. 500 presentations, two poster sessions displayed over 150 posters and over 150 exhibitors and networking events were organized.
This year’s theme, "Beyond All Borders", focused on how environmental challenges often stretches beyond political, regional, and cultural lines, and involves diverse communities in working out solutions. Regional topics included the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; air quality modeling; carbon dioxide; environmental management of ports, marinas, and shipyards; waste disposal on the Gulf Coast; and environmental issues related to transportation.
The Air & Waste Management Association acknowledges up to two theses per year. These awards were created by the Association to encourage our academic members to serve as models for others to emulate and, in doing so, further the mission and objectives of the Association. Any faculty advisor who is a member of A&WMA is encouraged to nominate an exceptional student for these prestigious awards.
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