Hello!
I am Arifin Sandhi and worked as a Researcher in the Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, SWEDEN (2018-2023).
This is my personal webpage, where you can get brief information about my current and previous completed research works.
I look forward to new research collaboration, especially in the field of heavy metal pollution problems in soil, water and plant species as well as their management. I have done a number of investigations regarding heavy metal and metalloid contents in different locations both in Sweden and Bangladesh.
I am one of the experts in Phytoremediation techniques, where we have used high heavy metal accumulating plant species to remove heavy metals from soil and water resources.
We have discovered the first arsenic hyperfilter aquatic moss species (Warnstorfia fluitans) in 2018 and it could accumulate arsenic from the contaminated water system, especially in the mining areas located in the northern part of Sweden.
I completed my PhD in Land & Water Resources Engineering from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SWEDEN in the year of 2018.
Whats New!
2025 (12 December)- New article! Our research article about Assessment of Heavy Metals in Water, Sediment and Macrophytes in Old Glasswork Sites: Implications for Phytoremediation Management has been published in Water, Air and Soil Pollution (Springer, Open-access).
2025 (18 October)- New article! Our research article about using biochar on circumneutral Urban Allotment Soils and the reduction of heavy metals in lettuce has been published in Water, Air and Soil Pollution (Springer, Open-access).
2025(17 October)- New article! Our investigation on gentle remediation option (GRO) for the Assessment of heavy metal uptake in lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) from contaminated urban sediment has been published on Discover Plants (Springer, open- access).
2024 (11 March)- New article! Our review article regarding 'Municipal solid waste management in Scandinavia and key factors for improved waste segregation: A review' is now available in Cleaner Waste Systems (Elsevier)
2023 (1 October)-New article! Our research work regarding sustainable, eco-friendly management of contaminated sediment (Oskarshamn, Sweden) and the circular economy perspective has been published in Environmental Advances from Elsevier (Link).
2023(3 July)-We have received a internal research grant regarding advanced material development Application of biosensors for the sustainable detection of heavy metals from the contaminated aquatic system. My role as CO-PI and it's a joint project between the department of environmental sciences and dept. of biomedical sciences from Linnaeus University, SWEDEN.
2023 (2-3 May)- The 1st Int. Environmental Pollution & Risk Management conference has successfully organized at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2022 (22 November)- I received International network grant as a Project Leader from FORMAS regarding 'Research capacity and network building regarding heavy metal contamination and risk assessment modelling for SDGs evaluation in Bangladesh.'
2022 (28 September)-New article! One new publication 'Heavy metal stress avoidance and tolerance mechanisms in plants in arid climate-a review in Gesunde Pflanzen (Springer-Nature) is now available.
2022 (22 August)-New book chapter 'Remediation of Vanadium in the soil environment' has published by The Taylor & Francis group (Link).
2022 (1 June)-Received grant from the Crafoord foundation as Co-PI and we will investigate the effect of biochar on heavy metal availability for the crops in the contaminated soil.
2022 (12 May)-New article! Our recent article about Arsenic in the water and agricultural crop production system: Bangladesh perspectives has accepted in Environmental Science and Pollution Research journal from Springer-Nature group (Link).
2021- I have received a research grant from Sveriges Ingenjöer regarding assessment of aquatic plants and their use in the floating wetland system in the contaminated glassworks site in Småland county, Sweden.
2021- I am working as a course coordinator for following 2 courses, Environmental toxicology (1MX039) and Environmental Risk Analysis (4MX005) at LNU, SWEDEN.
2021- We have completed the investigation about using bioenergy plant species for remediation of contaminated sediment collected from Oskarshamn harbour, Sweden.
2018-I have won research grant (Mijöfonden) from Swedish Engineers Association regarding a project about removal of heavy metals from the excavated sediment by using bioenergy plant species Salix spp as a part of phytoremediation techniques.
