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Joyabrata Mal

PhD fellow

Biography

Joyabrata Mal started as PhD Fellow at UNESCO-IHE from October 2013, at Environmental Engineering and Water Technology (EEWT) Department. He is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Fellow (2013-2016): Erasmus Mundus-EMJD: Environmental Technology for Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments (ETeCoS3). He is currently working on "Microbial synthesis of chalcogenide nanoparticles (Se, Te, CdSe) by using anaerobic granular sludge".

Joy is from India where he received his bachelor (B.Tech) and master (M.Tech) of Technology in Biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology and Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), respectively. During his M.Tech time, he did his specialization in Environment Biotechnology and worked on synthesis of biohydrogen from carbon monooxide.

Publications

1. Mal, J.; Nancharaiah, Y.V.; van Hullebusch, E.D.; Lens, P.N.L. Effect of heavy metal co contaminants on selenite bioreduction by anaerobic granular sludge. Bioresour Technol. 2016, 206, 1.

2. Pakshirajan, K.; Mal, J. Biohydrogen production using native carbon monoxide converting anaerobic microbial consortium predominantly Petrobacter sp. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2013, 38 (36), 16020.

Topic

Biological removal of tellurium and selenium from electroplating wastewater

He is working on several projoects related to chalcogens (selenium and tellurium) bioremediation, bioreduction and recovery. The main aim is to develop a low cost, environmentally friendly method, which will combine the bioremediation approaches, i.e. chalcogen oxyanion reduction to tackle natural processes to convert environmentally toxic wastes into less toxic forms as well as production of some highly important  nanoparticles like Se, Te, CdSe.

He is currently in Short term scientific mission (STSM, COST Action ES1302) with Dr. Gilles Guibaud, University of Limoges (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/essem/ES1302) and working on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extraction and characterization from anaerobic granular sludge.