Manish Kumar

Dr. Manish Kumar serves as a full-time Distinguished Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, he directed the Sustainability Cluster within the School of Advanced Engineering at UPES in Dehradun, India, and held faculty positions at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar in Gujarat and Tezpur National University in Assam. He is a fellow of prominent organizations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and the Indo- U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).

He is an International Associate Member of the Japan Society of Water Environment. He has received the Brain Korea 21 and Linnaeus–Palme (Sweden) fellowships and has served as a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research is on multiple aspects of the fate, transport, and remediation of geogenic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in water. He has authored more than 300 SCI/SCIE articles, which have collectively been cited over 17,000 times. With an h-index exceeding 65 and an i10 index surpassing 250, Manish Kumar has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally, as published by Elsevier.

He led India’s first wastewater detection of SARS-CoV-2, served on the UNEP antimicrobial resistance expert panel, and currently directs multi-institutional projects with UNICEF, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), and the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI). His research has been featured in the EU newsletters, WHO reports, and the U.S. EPA research calls. Editorial roles include npj Clean Water, npj Materials Sustainability, Current Pollution Reports, and others.

Manish Kumar joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Water Science for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.Phil., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• M.Sc., Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University

• Mootapally, Chandrashekar & Sharma, Parth & Dash, Siddhant & Kumar, Manish & Sharma, Shiksha & Kothari, Ramesh & Nathani, Neelam. (2025). Microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles in deep sediments of the Kathiawar Peninsula Gulfs of India. Science of The Total Environment. 965. 178609. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178609. 
• Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Manish & Bahukhandi, kanchan Deoli & Zang, Jian. (2024). Traversing the prevalence of microplastics in soil-agro ecosystems: Origin, occurrence, and pollutants synergies. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 266. 104398. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104398. 
• Torres-Martínez, Juan Antonio & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish & Loge, Frank & Kaown, Dugin. (2024). Advancing groundwater quality predictions: Machine learning challenges and solutions. Science of The Total Environment. 949. 174973. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174973. 
• Sudarsan, Jayaraman & Dogra, Kanika & Kumar, Rakesh & Raval, Nirav & Leifels, Mats & Mukherjee, Santanu & Trivedi, Mrugesh & Jain, Shirish & Zang, Jian & Barceló, Damià & Mahlknecht, Jürgen & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Tricks and tracks of prevalence, occurrences, treatment technologies, and challenges of mixtures of emerging contaminants in the environment: With special emphasis on microplastic. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104389. 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104389. 
• Park, Kyu-hyun & Furumai, Hiroaki & Kumar, Manish. (2024). Suburban Runoff Modeling for Seasonal Water Management in Rice Paddy Fields: An Elaborated Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry. ACS ES&T Water. 4. 10.1021/acsestwater.4c00124. 

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