Prof. Pankaj Kumar Roy is currently the Professor and the Former Director of the School of Water Resources Engineering and the School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University with a teaching and research experience of 25 years. He has acted as DEAN of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Law and Management, Jadavpur University from 2019-2021. He earned his Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering and Management from Jadavpur University which was mainly concentrated on modeling hydrological regimes under the impact of climate change scenarios. His thrust area of research includes hydraulics and water resources engineering, fluid mechanics, climate change and its impact on water resources engineering, surface water pollution and its mitigation, groundwater dynamics, watershed technology and management, water conservation technology, hydro-geological investigation, surface and ground water interaction, solid waste management, environmental modelling, waste water treatment, groundwater treatment and remediation using low cost natural adsorbent/biochar etc. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards such as Young Scientist (Institute of Engineers, Govt. of India), Senior Research Scholar Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, 1st National Doctorate Fellow by All India Council for Technical Education at JU (Govt. of India), Exchange Faculty Fellowship (University of Pisa, Italy) and IEI Young Engineers Award (Institution
of Engineers (India), Government of India. He has acted as the invited speaker and the chair-person in as many as 40 reputed national and international seminars, conferences and workshops, most notedly International Conference on Climate Change 2019, Berlin, Germany. His h-index is 43 and i10-index is 226 according to Google Scholar citation. He was the coordinator of International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources
Management conducted by School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University in collaboration with Women’s College Calcutta and National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. He has completed more than 20 national and international research projects funded by State DST, DST-NRDMS, PHED, WBCPCB etc. and has conducted more than 100 consultancy research projects. He is the reviewer of reputed journals, namely, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Elsevier, Environmental Science & Technology, ACS publications and many more. He has published more than 310 research articles in national and international journals and published more than 50 research articles as book chapters. Recently he has edited a book entitled “Advances in Water Resources Management for Sustainable Use” published by Springer Nature. He has acted as a sectional recorder of the Engineering Science section of The Indian Science Congress Association, for the period of 2018-19 and 2019-20. He is now a member of as many as 20 learned societies. He is now working with SwitchON Foundation and Water for People (India) to train and support rural women by offering skill enhancement of groundwater monitoring and level measurement to make them empowered and environmental benefits. He is currently supervising 26 Research Scholars. Hello is the Principal Investigator of the World Bank project entitled “Appointment of Agency for Baseline and User Satisfaction Survey of West Bengal Inland Water
Transport Logistics and Spatial Development Project” which has a duration of 3 years and costs over 2.35 Crore. He is also the course coordinator of institutional strengthening program of rural West Bengal funded by the World Bank. Prof. Roy is the coordinator of the Sustainable Water Management from Jadavpur University (Research Hub by Govt. of India) in ANRF-PAIR program.