Forward Osmosis in Wastewater Treatment

S.K. Nataraj works as Associate Director and Professor at the Centre for Nano and Material Sciences (CNMS), Jain University, Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD on "Membrane Based Separation Processes for Industrial Effluent Treatment" in 2008 from the Centre of Excellence in Polymer Science (CEPS), Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. After completion of his PhD, he moved to Alan G MacDiarmid Energy Research Institute (AMERI), Chonnam National University, South Korea, as a Postdoctoral Associate (2007-2009) to work on Energy Materials. Between 2010 and 201, he worked as Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Atomic Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, to develop ion-exchange membranes for Fuel Cell applications. Further, he was awarded Qatar University visiting fellowship at Cambridge University (2010-2011) and continued as a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate (2011-2013) at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Later, he moved to India to work as DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow (2013-2015) at CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, where his main areas of research were to develop Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy and Environmental applications, including supercapacitors, fuel cells, membrane processes for wastewater treatment, functional nanomaterial-based devices for wastewater treatment, and the value addition of bioresources. Dr. Nataraj serves as Member of Editorial Board of prestigious journals that include Chemical Engineering Journal, AQUA - Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, and Journal of Protective Coatings & Linings (JPCL).

He teaches courses in Separation and Purification Technologies, Battery-Fuel Cells and Solid-State Materials at the postgraduate level. The following is a quick summary of credentials: he has now published more than 200 research articles, 14 US/PCT patents, more than 45 book chapters, 5 authored books and 1 edited book to his credit. He has over 8,300 citations and delivered more than 60 invited talks. His socially relevant works have been highlighted in several magazines and news articles like Nature Asia and Outlook.

Professor S.K. Nataraj has also appeared as a top 2% researcher in the list for the last six years issued by Stanford University.