Dr.C.T Aravindakumar

Dr. C. T. Aravindakumar Personal Website

Professor, School of Environmental Sciences

Hon.Director, Inter University Instrumentation Centre

Coordinator, Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF), Kottayam

(A National Centre of DST, New Delhi)

(Vice-Chancellor(interim), Mahatma Gandhi University)

cta@mgu.ac.in

Education: M.Sc. (University of Pune), Ph.D. (University of Pune; under exchange programme with Max-Planck Institute, Germany)

Post Doctoral Research :

i) Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

ii) Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

iii) Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Research Interest: Environmental Chemistry, Water purification technology, Air pollution, Radiation science, Photochemistry; polar research (Indian Polar Expedition), Environmental Education & Governance

Job details:

Lecturer in Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, MGU (1993-2002)

Reader, School of Chemical Sciences, MGU (2002-2009)

Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, MGU (2009-2010)

Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, MGU (2010-till date)

Visiting Faculty/Scientist/Professor

Collaborative Researcher	September 1999	Environment Engineering, California Institute of Technology,(Caltech), USA
Visiting Faculty	March.2006, Dec.2009	Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Visiting Scientist	April-June, 2005, 2007	GSF-National Research Institute,Germany
Visiting Faculty	May 2011, Oct.2012	University of Paris (S)
Visiting Faculty	Oct.2012	Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Visiting Professor (with Full Professor Status)	April 2013, June 2015	University of Paris -Est (Marne- la-vallee), France
Collaborative Researcher	May 2014	Duke University, Brown University and Plymouth State University, USA
Academic visit	July 2014	Russian Academy of Science (TIPS-RAS), Moskow & St.Petersburg University, Russia
Collaborative Researcher	June 2015 & May 2017	Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Collaborative Researcher	April 2018	Hokkaido University, Japan
Academic Visit	Nov.2018	Melbourne University, Australia
Collaborative Researcher	Nov.2018	University of Malaya, Kaula Lumbur, Malaysia
ERASMUS Fellow	May 2019	Technical University of Kosice,Slovakia
Collaborative Researcher	May 2019	Technical University of Brno,Czech Republic
Academic Visit	May 2019	University of Pannonia, Hungary

Scholarship/awards/recognition

NCL-University of Pune Fellow 1986
Department of Atomic Energy, Govt.of India, Junior Research Fellow 1989
ICSC-World Laboratory (Switzerland) Fellow 1990
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt.of India, Senior Research Fellow 1992
Buxandale-Bursary Young scientist award for Miller Conference, Italy, 1995
Research council post-doctoral fellowship, Katholieke universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1996
Max-Planck-Society post-doctoral fellow, 2000
NWO (The Netherlands) Visitor Fellowship, 2001
GSF-National Research Centre, Visiting Scientist 2005
University of Paris-Est (Marne-la-vallee) Visiting Professorship, 2013, 2015
Team Leader, Indian Arctic Expedition July/Agu.2017 Himadri (Indian Station at Arctic)
Selected for LEAP (Leadership for Academicians Programme) by MHRD, 2019
ERASMUS visiting fellowship from European Union 2019

Research Collaborations (past & present)

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay
Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi
Rubber Research Institute of India, Kottayam, Kerala
National Centre for Ultrafast Process, Madras
National Centre for Free Radical Research Pune
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
GSF-National Research Centre, Munich, Germany
Pohang University of Science & Technology, South Korea
University of Sherbrooke, Canada,
University of Paris (south), France
University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallee
Duke University, USA
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Norwegion University of Life Sciences, Norway

Research Supervision

20 Ph.D and 15 M.Phil degrees, already awarded
8 Ph.D, presently working

Research Projects (ongoing and completed)

(Total 17 major research projects; > 10 Crs)

A: International

Name of the Project	Funding Agency	Duration	Status
Investigation of the base release from some pyrimidine nucleosides and nucleotides in aqueous medium: A radiation and photochemical study	Third World Academy of Science (ICTP), Italy	1-Yr (1995-’96)	Completed
Oxidative DNA damage induced by reactive oxygen substances	Indo-German DST-DAAD Project	2 Yrs	Completed
Pulse radiolysis of biomolecules	Indo-French ARCUS Project	2 Yrs	Completed
An Interdisciplinary and Community Oriented Innovative Approach Towards SustainableDevelopment (Rs.1.25 Crore); (as Coordinator	Obama-Singh 21^st Century Knowledge initiative (Indo-US under UGC)	3 yrs	Completed
Indo-Denmark Network Programme “Nanofibre structures for efficient enzyme immobilization in membrane applications”	Danish Research Council	1 yr	Completed
Layer-by-Layer assisted antimicrobial Membranes for water purification (as Co-PI)	Indo-Israel SPARC project	2 yr	ongoing
Towards sustainable surface water ecosystems in India: Predicting the fate, transport and effects of urban wastewater pollutants in rivers	Indo-UK SPARC project	2 yr	ongoing

B. National

Name of the Project	Funding Agency	Duration	Status
Heavy ion radiolysis studies of some Completed substituted benzenes and heterocyclic systems in aqueous medium	Nuclear Science Centre,New Delhi	3 Yrs (1996-1999)
Radiation chemical studies of some substituted thymines and cytosines	Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS),Bombay	4 Yrs	Completed
Charge transport in DNA	Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Bombay	3 Yrs	Completed
Radiation and photochemical studies of chitosan modified polycyclicaromati hydrocarbon	BRNS	3 Yrs	Completed
Radiation Induced Modification of Some Pyrimidine Nucleosides and Nucleotides	DAE-IUC	3 Yrs	Completed
Sonochemical degradation of organic water pollutants	KSCSTE	3 Yrs	Completed
Setting up of the National Centre (Sophicated Analytical Instrument Facility) (Rs. 6.5 Crores)	DST	5 yrs	ongoing
Nationwide Environmental Gamma Radiation Monitoring Using TLDs	BRNS	2 yrs	Completed
Investigation of the spacial distributio of uranium and associated water quality parameters in five central districts of Kerala. (Idukki, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Trissur and Palakkad)	BRNS	2 Yrs	Completed
Investigation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Ongoing Care products in Vembanadu Lake	KSCST,Tvm	3 Yrs	Ongoing

Membership in Academic / Administrative bodies (past & present)

Convener, The ERUDITE (from HEC), MG University (2010-till date)
Member, Board of Studies (Chemistry) Cochin University of Science & Technology
Member, Board of Studies (Environmental Science), CUSAT, Kochi
Member, Research Council, Centre for Water Resource Development & Management (CWRDM), Calicut (under KSCSTE) (since 2017)
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) on Water Technology Initiative, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi (since Sept.2015)
Member, Research & Development Committee, Department of Environment & Climate Change, Govt of Kerala (2018-2019)
Member, Expert Technical Committee, Suchitwa Mission, Govt of Kerala (2017-2019)
Member, Research Advisory Committee on Ecology and Environment of the KSCSTE (since 2018)
Member, International Expert committee, Russian Science Foundation (RSF) (since 2017)
Director, School of Environmental Sciences, MG University (June 7, 2012-Feb.21,2017 (total 4 yrs & 7 months))
Dean, Faculty of Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences, MG University 2012/14 & 2016/18 (total 4 yrs)
Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Mahatma Gandhi University (2018-2019)
Coordinator of PIG, DST PURSE programme-I in MG University (2012-15)
Member, Academic Council, MG University
Member, Board of Studies (Env.Sci.), MG University
Member, Syndicate, MG University
Member, Senate, MG University
Member, University Research Committee
Chairman, Board of Studies, Environmental Science, MG University
Director: Planning & Development Advisory Committee, MG University

Selected Invited/Plenary talks

Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia, 8 May 2019
Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic, 6^th May, 2019
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan, April 9, 2018
Department of Chemistry, Melbourne University, Australia, Nov.5, 2018
Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCAT), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov.9, 2018
Water DTU 3^rd Partner Seminar, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, May 23-24, 2017
Plenary Talk; 3rd International Conference on Environment and Renewable Energy (ICERE 2017) , Hanoi, Vietnam, February 25-27, 2017
Plenary talk. Third International Conference On Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology – ASET 2015, 28-29 December, 2015 , Bangkok, Thailand
VIII EPOA-Meeting of Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes: II CIPOA- Iberoamerican Congress of Advanced Oxidation Processes, Nov.3-6, 2015, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark (July 8, 2015)
University of Paris (E), 2015
University of Barcelona, 2015
International Conference on Advances in Applied Sciences and Environmental Technology, ASET, 21-22 Feb.2015, Bangkok, Thailand
International Conference on Advances in Environmental and Bio-Technology – (AEBT- 2014) , 04-05 January, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand
International Conference on Advances in Environmental and Bio-Technology – (AEBT- 2014) , 04-05 January, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand
Indo-Mexican Workshop on Water and Wastewater use and Management Nagpur, India, July 25-26, 2013
University of Paris-Est-Marne-la-valee, France, April, 2013
Hanoi University of Science & Technology, Vietnam, March 2013
2nd International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Restoration and Management, Vietnam, March, 2013
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, Sept.2012
Pohang University of Science & Technology (South Korea), Feb.2009
Hiroshima University, Japan, Nov.2007
Osaka University, Japan, Nov.2007
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Nov.2007
Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2007
Pohang University of Science & Technology (South Korea), Feb.2006
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Feb 2006
University of Hong Kong, March 2006
Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry, Bombay, Jan.2006
University of Florence, Italy, May 2005
CNR-Instititue, Bologna, Italy, May 2005
National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry, Dharwad, Feb, 2005
Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences, Kottayam, Dec.2002
National conference on Solar Energy Conversion Processes, Madras, March 2001
Indo-French Workshop on Radical Chemistry, University of Pune, India, Jan. 2000
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, Oct. 1999
National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry, Sambalpur, India, Feb.1999
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1998
Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan, Sept. 1998
Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Sept. 1998
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1998
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Oct. 1997
Indo-German workshop on Radiation and Photochemical Research, Pune, Jan.1996
Miller Conference, Cervia/Milano Marittima, Italy, Sept. 1995

Research Publications

Total: 344; In International Peer Reviewed Journals: 90, Editorial Publication: 2

In Conference Proceedings.: 252 Book chapters: 2

Book chapters:

Jeeva M. Philip, Usha K. Aravind, C. T. Aravindakumar “Use of Antibiotics in Animals and Its Possible Impacts in the Environment” (pages 77-91), in the “Handbook of Research on Social Marketing and Its Influence on Animal Origin Food Product Consumption” Edited by Diana Bogueva, Dora Marinova, and Talia Raphaely, IGA Global (Idea Group, USA), 2018, ISBN13: 9781522547570
Usha K. Aravind, Subha Sasi, Mary Lidiya Mathew, C. T. Aravindakumar, Layer by layer (LbL) coated multilayer membranes in dye house effluent treatment (Chapter 22) in “Membrane Technology: Sustainable Solutions in Water, Health, Energy and Environmental Sectors” Edited by S. Sridhar, CRC Press 2018

Editorial as Guest Editor (2)

Environ. Chem.,2019 (in press)(Special Issue), Foreword to the Special Issue on the International Conference on Water: From Pollution to Purification, C. T. Aravindakumar, Usha K. Aravind and Roland Kallenborn
Env Sci Pollut. Res., 2018, 25:20281–20282 (Special Issue), Water: From Pollution to Purification C. T. Aravindakumar, Mehmet Oturan and Usha Aravind

In Refereed International Journals (selected 26 publications, representative)

Sl.No	Publication/Journal	IF*
	Kishore Kumar Nair, Bennie Viljoen; C T Aravindakumar; H C Swart; Richard A Harris; Usha K Aravind, Synthesis of silver incorporated lithium doped zinc oxide nanocomposites for in-vitro biorational evaluation of Candiasis and Cryptococcosis, *Applied Surface Science , 2020* (in press)	5.2
2	Sunil P.M.Menacherry, DaeWiMina, Daun Jeong, C.T.Aravindakumar, Woojin Lee,Wonyong Choi, Halide-induced dissolution of lead(IV) oxideinfrozen solution *Journal of Hazardous Materials* 2020 (in press)	7.6
3	Mary Lidiya Mathew, G. Akhil, C.T. Aravindakumar and U.K. Aravind, Low – cost multilayered green fiber for the treatment of textile industry waste water, *Journal of Hazardous Materials* 2019, 365, 297-305	7.6
4	Manoj P. Rayaroth, Usha K. Aravind, and C. T. Aravindakumar, Effect of inorganic ions on the ultrasound initiated degradation and product formation of Triphenylmethane dyes, Ultrasonic Sonochemistry, 2018, 48, 482-491	7.2
5	Jeeva M. Philip, Usha K. Aravind and C.T. Aravindakumar, Emerging Contaminants in Indian Environmental Matrices – A Review, **Chemosphere, 2018**, Jan;190:307-326. doi: 10.1016	5.1
6	Manoj P. Rayaroth , Usha K. Aravind, and C. T. Aravindakumar, Role of in-situ nitrite ion formation on the sonochemical transformation of para-aminosalicylic acid, Ultrasonic Sonochemistry, 2017, 40, 213-220	7.2
7	Manoj P. Rayaroth , Chung-Seop Lee, Usha K. Aravind, Charuvila T. Aravindakumar,Yoon-Seok Chang, Oxidative degradation of benzoic acid using Fe⁰– and sulfidized Fe⁰-activated persulfate: A comparative study”, *Chem. Eng. J., 2017* , 315, 426-436	8.4
8	Subha Sasi, M. P. Rayaroth, D. Devadasan, Usha K. Aravind and C. T. Aravindakumar, Influence of inorganic ions and selected emerging contaminants on the degradation of Methylparaben: A sonochemical approach, *Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2015, 300*, 202-209	7.6
9	Jisha Chandran, U.K. Aravind, C.T. Aravindakumar, Sonochemical transformation of thymidine: A mass spectrometric study, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2015, 27, 178-186	7.2
10	Akhil Gopalakrishnan, Mary Lidiya Mathew, JishaChandran, Appala Raju Badireddy, Judith Winglee, Mark Wiesner, C. T. Aravindakumar and Usha K. Aravind, Sustainable Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Surfaces: Possible Matrix for Salt/dye Separation, *ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015,* 2015, 7, 3699-3707	8.4
11	Manoj P. Rayaroth, Usha K. Aravind and C.T. Aravindakumar, Sonochemical Degradation of Coomassie Brilliant Blue: Effect of frequency, power density, pH and various additives, *Chemosphere,* 2015, 119, 848-855	5.1
12	Shoniya Thomas, R. Sreekanth, V.A. Sijumon, Usha K Aravind and C.T. Aravindakumar, Oxidative Degradation of Acid Red 1 in Aqueous Medium, Chem. Eng. J., 2014, 244, 473–482	8.4
13	M. Mathew, S. Sreedhanya, P. Manoj, C. T. Aravindakumar and Usha K. Aravind, Exploring the interaction of bisphenol-S with serum albumins: A better or worse alternative for bisphenol-A?, J. Phys. Chem. B., 2014, 118 (14), 3832–3843	2.9
14	M.M. Sunil Paul, Usha K. Aravind_,G. Pramod, C.T. Aravindakumar, Oxidative Degradation of Fensulfothion by Hydroxyl Radical in Aqueous Medium, *Chemosphere, 2013,* 91, 295–301	5.1
15	R. Sreekanth, K.P. Prasanthkumar, M.M. Sunil Paul, Usha K. Aravind_,,C.T. Aravindakumar, Oxidation Reactions of 1- and 2-naphthols: An Experimental and Theoretical Study, J. Phys. Chem. A., 2013,117, 11261–11270	2.6
16	V.J. Disha, C.T. Aravindakumar, Usha K.Aravind, Phosphate recovery by high flux low pressure multilayer membranes, Langmuir, 2012, 28, 12744–12752	3.7
17	M. S. Baburaj, C.T. Aravindakumar, S. Sreedhanya, A.P. Thomas, Usha K. Aravind, Treatment of model textile effluents with PAA/CHI and PAA/PEI composite membranes **Desalination 2012**, 288, 72–79	6
18	U. K. Aravind , B. George , M. S. Baburaj , S. Thomas , A. P. Thomas and C. T. Aravindakumar. Treatment of industrial effluents using polyelectrolyte membranes, Desalination 2010, 252 27-32	6
19	Jissy Mathew, C. T. Aravindakumar and Usha K. Aravind, Effect of ionic strength and protein concentration on the transport of proteins through chitosan/polystyrene sulfonate multilayer membrane, *Journal of Membrane Science 2008*, 325, 625-632	7
20	Rani Varghese, Usha K. Aravind and Charuvila T. Aravindakumar, Fenton-Enhanced g- Radiolysis of Cyanuric acid, *J. Hazardous Materials 2007*, 142, 555-558	7.6
21	Usha K. Aravind, Jissy Mathew and C. T. Aravindakumar, Transport Studies of BSA, Lysozyme and Ovalbumin through Chitosan/ Polystyrene Sulfonate Multilayer Membrane. *Journal of Membrane Science. 2007* 299, 146-155	7
22	V. M. Manoj, H. Mohan, U. K. Aravind and C. T. Aravindakumar, One-Electron Reduction of S-Nitrosothiols in Aqueous Medium, **Free Rad. Biol. Med. 2006**, 41, 1240-1246	5.7
23	O. A. Larsen, I. H. M. van Stokkum, F. L. de Weerd, A. Mikas Vengris, C.T. Aravindakumar, R. van Grondelle, N. E. Geacintov and H. van Amerongen Ultrafast transient-absorption and steady-state fuorescence measurements on 2-aminopurine substituted dinucleotides and 2-aminopurine substituted DNA duplexes Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6, 154-160	3.6
24	J.A.Theruvathu, C.T.Aravindakumar, R.Flyunt and J.von Sonntag and C.von Sonntag, “Fenton chemistry of 1,3-dimethyl uracil” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 9007-9014	14.7
25	V.M.Manoj and C.T.Aravindakumar, “Hydroxyl radical induced decomposition of S-nitrosoglutathione” *Chem. Commun. 2000,* 2361-2362	6.2
26	C.T.Aravindakumar, J. Ceulemans and M. De Ley, “Nitric oxide induces Zn²⁺ rlease from metallothionein by destroying zinc-sulfur clusturs without concomitant formation of S-nitrosothiol”, Biochem. J. 1999, 344, 253-258	4.3

*IF: Impact Factor as in 2019

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