DESCRIPTION :

Dr. Yadav joined CSIR-IMMT in 2008 as Scientist and has been undertaking research independently on various aspects of biological treatment of waste and wastewater. Dr. Yadav earned his Ph.D. form Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has worked in Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (Germany), KTH Stockholm, (Sweden), Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw (Poland). Dr. Yadav has received many international level recognitions /scholarships.

• SCIENTIST: (January, 2008 – Continuing) Environment and Sustainability Department, CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
• Postdoctoral Resarch Associate: (September, 2011 – March, 2013) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton USA.

• Constructed Wetlands Technology for Wastewater Treatment, Microbial Fuel Cell, Biological Wastewater and Waste Treatment, Pollutants Monitoring and Environmental Management.

• Recipient of Indo-American Research Professorship (ASM).
• National Doctoral Fellowship (AICTE, Govt. of India).
• Senior Research Fellowship ( CSIR, Govt. of India).
• Recipient of VLIR scholarships, Belgium.
• Recipient of Nuffic fellowship, The Netherlands.

• Asheesh K Yadav, N. Kumar, T. R. Sreekrishnan, S. Satya, N.R. Bishnoi (2010). Removal of chromium and nickel from aqueous solution in constructed wetland:Mass balance, adsorption–desorption and FTIR study, Chemical Engineering Journal, 160, 122–128.
• Asheesh K Yadav, R. Abbassi, N. Kumar, S. Satya , T. R. Sreekrishnan (2012).The removal of heavy metals in wetland microcosms: effects of bed depth, plant species, and metal mobility, Chemical Engineering Journal, 211–212, 501–507.
• Asheesh K Yadav, S. Jena, B.C. Acharya, B.K Mishra (2012). Removal of azo dye in innovative constructed wetlands: Influence of iron scrap and sulphate reducing bacterial enrichment, Ecological Engineering, 49, 53-58.
• Asheesh K Yadav, B. P Bag, P. Panda, Performance improvement of microbial fuel cell using different waste-sludge as inoculum, Energy Sources, Part A Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, In Press.
• Asheesh K Yadav, S K Nayak, B C Acharya , B K Mishra, Algal assisted microbial fuel cell for wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation, Energy Sources Part A Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, In Press.
• Asheesh K Yadav, R. Abbassi, A Gupta. M. Dadashzadeh (2013). Removal of fluoride from aqueous solution and groundwater by wheat straw, sawdust and activated bagasse carbon of sugarcane, Ecological Engineering 52, 211–218.
• Asheesh K Yadav, P. Dash, A. Mohanty, R. Abbassi, B. K. Mishra (2012). Performance assessment of innovative constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell for electricity production and dye removal, Ecological Engineering, 47,126-131.