Photo- and Electrochemical Water Treatment

Prof. Halan Prakash is as an Associate Professor, and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, (BITS-Pilani), K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India . Prof. Prakash's area of research includes Inorganic Photochemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, and Environmental Chemistry. His current research is focused on the development of novel advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for the degradation of organic pollutants, as well as inactivation of bacteria in water. He is an executive member of the Society of Environmental Chemistry and Allied Sciences (SECAS), India, and he was the convener of the fourth International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP-2016). He is the leader for the drinking water work package of the Department of Science and Technology sponsored Indo-EU multi-consortium "PANIWATER" project.


Dr. Rita S Dhodapkar is Science Secretary, and Principal Technical Officer & AcSIR Faculty of CSIR-NEERI, India. She has nearly 32 years of research experience in water and wastewater management, and the application of advanced treatment technologies. She has worked on several national and international collaborative projects (Royal Society, UK, Global Challenges Research Fund-Research Council UK, CEMI, PTB, Germany etc.), and was awarded the Commonwealth Science Council training fellowship, Honorary Diploma-Seche Environment Award for excellence in Research in Wastes Valorization, at the 2nd International Conference on Engineering for Waste Valorization. She serves as an external advisory board member to EU Horizon 2020 project on "WATERSPOUTT". She is the Indian Coordinator of the Department of Science and Technology sponsored Indo-EU multi-consortium "PANIWATER" project


Prof. Kevin McGuigan is Professor of Medical Physics in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and is the director of the RCSI Solar Disinfection Research Group which develops appropriate solar-based technologies for water treatment in resource-poor rural environments. His specialised areas of expertise are in solar disinfection of drinking water (SODIS), household water treatment, and storage, and design of health impact assessment field studies in low-to middle income nations. Prof McGuigan has coordinated field studies of these technologies across Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. He is the European coordinator of the EU Horizon2020 "PANIWATER" Project in India. In 2019 he received the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.