Assistant Professor

Dr Deep Raj

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering

Interests

  1. Environmental Monitoring, Pollution Review
  2. Soil and Water Pollution, Phytoremediation, Environmental Biotechnology
  3. Mercury and Heavy Metals Analysis, Risk Assessment, Microplastic Estimation

Faculty Details

Education

2011

Vinayaka Missions University,
Salem, India

BE

2014

Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, India

MSc Tech

2020

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad,
India
PhD

Experience

  • November 2020 to July 2021 – Postdoctoral Fellow – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
  • January 2015 to May 2015 – Assistant Professor – Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India

Research Interest

  • Sources, toxicity and remediation of heavy metals (mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium).
  • Environmental Monitoring and pollution assessment.
  • Application of pollution indices like contamination factor, geo-accumulation index, pollution load index, ecological risk index, ecological risk factor, human health risk assessment.
  • Estimation of microplastics in solid waste, soil, and water.
  • Assessment of heavy metals in soil – sample collection, laboratory analysis and application of statistical tools like ANOVA, HCA, PCA.
  • Phytoremediation – use of plant species for removing or minimizing the pollution level. Calculation of phytoremediation potential of plant species.

Publications

JOURNALS

  • 2025
  • Kumari, P., Parida, V.K., Raj, D., Kumar, P., Narayan, M. and Gupta, U., 2025. Assessment of Water, Sediment, and Fish Contamination by Metals in the Lentic Ecosystems of a Mineral-Rich State in India.Biological Trace Element Research, pp.1-16.
  • Bashir, Z., Raj, D. and Selvasembian, R., 2025. Source profiling, pollution and health risk assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soils around an industrial cluster using PCA and GIS-assisted PMF. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197(7), pp.1-22. (Corresponding Author).
  • Kumari, P., Sinha, S., Raj, D., Kumar, P. and Gupta, U., 2025. The potential of fungi in the bioremediation of xenobiotics: a mycological approach to water treatment. Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, 107(6), pp.1208-1245.
  • Mandal, R.R. and Raj, D., 2025. Distribution and probabilistic human health and ecological risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in water, sediments and aquatic plants: a comprehensive study to understand the impacts of active coal mine on the lentic ecosystem. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 47(7), pp.1-31. (Corresponding Author).
  • Mandal, R. R., Bashir, Z., & Raj, D. (2025). Microbe-assisted phytoremediation for sustainable management of heavy metal in wastewater-A green approach to escalate the remediation of heavy metals. Journal of Environmental Management, 375, 124199.
  • Das, R. and Raj, D., 2025. Sources, distribution, and impacts of emerging contaminants–a critical review on contamination of landfill leachate. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, p.100602.
  • 2024
  • Dayal, L., Yadav, K., Dey, U., Das, K., Kumari, P., Raj, D. and Mandal, R.R., 2024. Recent advancement in microplastic removal process from wastewater-a critical review. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, p.100460.
  • Dayal, L., Raj, D., Kumari, P. and Sinha, S., 2024. Abundance of Microplastics in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystem and its Impact on Biotic and Abiotic Components. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 235(6), pp.1-18.
  • Bashir, Z., Raj, D. and Selvasembian, R., 2024. A combined bibliometric and sustainable approach of phytostabilization towards eco-restoration of coal mine overburden dumps. Chemosphere, p.142774.
  • Mandal, R.R., Bashir, Z., Mandal, J.R., Raj, D., 2024. Potential strategies for phytoremediation of heavy metals from wastewater with circular bioeconomy approach. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196, 502.
  • Kumari, P. and Raj, D., 2024. Microplastics in Indian aquatic systems and its effects on plants, aquatic organisms and humans, and its methods of remediation. Chemistry and Ecology, 40(2), 136-165.
  • Ali, S., Verma, S., Agarwal, M.B., Islam, R., Mehrotra, M., Deolia, R.K., Kumar, J., Singh, S., Mohammadi, A.A., Raj, D. and Gupta, M.K., 2024. Groundwater quality assessment using water quality index and principal component analysis in the Achnera block, Agra district, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5381.
  • 2023
  • Dey, U., Raj, D., Mondal, M., Roy, P., Mukherjee, A., Mondal, N. K., & Das, K. (2023). Microplastics in groundwater: An overview of source, distribution, mobility constraints and potential health impacts during the anthropocene. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 101036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2023.101036
  • Raj, D., and Maiti, S.K., 2023. Critical assessment of approach towards estimation of microplastic in environmental matrices. Land Degradation & Development, 34(10), 2735-2749.
  • Singh, S., Maiti, S.K. and Raj, D., 2023. An approach to quantify heavy metals and their source apportionment in coal mine soil: a study through PMF model. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(2), 306.
  • 2022
  • Kumar, A., Raj, D., Maiti, S.K., Maleva, M. and Borisova, G., 2022. Soil Pollution and Plant Efficiency Indices for Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal (loid)s: Two-Decade Study (2002–2021). Metals, 12(8), 1330.
  • Raj, D., Kumar, A. and Maiti, S.K., 2022. Health Risk Assessment of Children Exposed to the Soil Containing Potentially Toxic Elements: A Case Study from Coal Mining Areas. Metals, 12(11), 1795.
  • 2020
  • Raj, D. and Maiti, S.K., 2020. Risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soils and vegetables around coal-fired thermal power plant: a case study of Dhanbad, India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 192(11), pp.1-18.
  • Raj, D., Kumar, A. and Maiti, S.K., 2020. Mercury remediation potential of Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. for clean-up of flyash contaminated sites. Chemosphere, 248, p.125857.
  • Raj, D. and Maiti, S.K., 2020. Sources, bioaccumulation, health risks and remediation of potentially toxic metal (loid)s (As, Cd, Cr, Pb and Hg): an epitomised review. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 192(2), pp.1-20.
  • Raj, D., Kumar, A. and Maiti, S.K., 2020. Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. (Indian mustard): a putative plant species to facilitate the phytoremediation of mercury contaminated soils. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 22(7), pp.733-744.
  • Ghosh, S.P., Raj, D. and Maiti, S.K., 2020. Risks assessment of heavy metal pollution in roadside soil and vegetation of national highway crossing through industrial area. Environmental Processes, 7(4), pp.1197-1220.
  • 2019
  • Raj, D., Kumar, A. and Maiti, S.K., 2019. Evaluation of toxic metal (loid)s concentration in soils around an open-cast coal mine (Eastern India). Environmental Earth Sciences, 78(22), pp.1-19.
  • Raj, D. and Maiti, S.K., 2019. Sources, toxicity, and remediation of mercury: an essence review. Environmental monitoring and assessment, 191(9), pp.1-22.
  • Raj, D. and Maiti, S.K., 2019. Bioaccumulation of potentially toxic elements in tree and vegetable species with associated health and ecological risks: a case study from a thermal power plant, Chandrapura, India. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 30(3), pp.649-665.
  • Raj, D., 2019. Bioaccumulation of mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead in plants grown on coal mine soil. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 25(3), pp.659-671.
  • 2017
  • Raj, D., Chowdhury, A. and Maiti, S.K., 2017. Ecological risk assessment of mercury and other heavy metals in soils of coal mining area: A case study from the eastern part of a Jharia coal field, India. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 23(4), pp.767-787.
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