Curriculum vitae
Surendra K Pradhan (02 December 1973)
Project Researcher
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland,
P.O. Box 1627,70211 Kuopio,
Ph: +358 400973372; email-surendra.pradhan@gmail.com
Personal Website: - https://sites.google.com/site/surendrapradhan/
Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/surendra-pradhan-296ba11b/
Professional profile_______________________________________________________________
With PhD degree and several years of working on WASH sector I have a wide range of experience across sanitation, eco-sanitation, public health, nutrient recycle, waste management, wastewater treatment, waste business, circular economy etc. My dedication to WASH helped me to develop a new technique to “produce mineral fertilizer from waste” and develop several business models for waste recycle. Conducting projects in Nepal, Ghana and Finland proves my adaptability in different climate and circumstance.
Core Skills______________________________________________________________________
· WASH (Water, sanitation and hygiene) * Circular economy
· Waste business * Public health
· Wastewater treatment ·* Biogas
· Report writing * Nutrients recycle · School sanitation * Data analysis (SPSS)
· Microsoft office * Language (English, Nepali)
Professional work experience_______________________________________________________
2019-Present University of Eastern Finland, Project Researcher
Working as a project researcher in P-harvest project. The main idea of this project is to develop a new biochemical process to recover P (phosphorus) from waste. Produce value added product from recovered P to promote circular economy.
Key responsibilities
Design and kickoff the project
Analyze the findings, develop the process replicable, and upscalable.
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2015- 2019 Aalto University, Project Researcher
Worked as a project researcher in NPharvest project. Raki2 Project (2017-2020) was funded by Ministry of Environment, Finland. A Climate Kic, pathfinder project 2016 was funded by EU Nordic. The main idea of these projects is to develop new technique on nutrients recycle and look for business possibilities.
Key responsibilities
· Develop a new idea to recover nitrogen and phosphorus from different liquid waste.
· Develop a new concept on waste recycles to support a circular economy, especially in the biogas sector.
· Feasibility study and market analysis of nutrient recovery technique and recycled fertilizer.
· Project management including; writing proposal, conduct project, organize meetings, reporting donors, report writing.
· Develop a business model for the nutrient harvesting technique
· Teach circular economy, waste recycle and environmental health
· Mentor for master’s thesis
Key Achievement
· Developed “Nutrients harvesting technique” and produced ammonium sulfate (mineral fertilizer from urine and wastewater.
(Patent Pending) (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017140957A1/en)
· Developed several business models for the nutrient harvesting technique
· Produced several research and peer review papers
2012-2015 IWMI (International Water Management Institute). Post-doctoral fellow.
IWMI is an international research institute having an office in several countries all over the world. I was based in Ghana. I was working with resource recovery and reuse unit.
Key responsibilities
· Human waste recycles in agriculture and develop business.
· Develop a business model for human waste-based fertilizer.
· Coordinate with different stakeholders (private and public sectors)
· Support other research groups such as aquaculture in wastewater to generate revenue from the wastewater treatment plant.
· Project management in Ghana and Nepal
· Supervise interns and field workers
Key Achievement
· Produced pellet fertilizer from fecal sludge and tested its fertilizer value.
· marketed the fecal sludge pellet fertilizer.
· Produced biochar from fecal sludge and test for the soil amendment.
· Developed a sustainable business model for compost/pellet and implement PPP (public-private partnership) model in Accra.
· Completed several small projects in Ghana and a fecal sludge flow survey project in Nepal.
2010-2012- University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus. Research worker
Key responsibilities
· Study the effect of Fe+3, Al+3 and Microthrix parvicella in biogas production with wastewater sludge.
Key Achievement
· Learned the biogas process and effecting factors. The achieved result showed that M parvicella did not affect the biogas production in our study environment.
2005-2010- University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus, Finland. PhD student
Key responsibilities
· Study the fertilizer value of human urine, wood ash and animal manure in different vegetables.
· Conduct a questionnaire study of people’s attitude on the use of urine fertilizer, practical demonstration of eco-toilet and its benefits in Nepal.
· Quality analysis of waste based fertilizer and agricultural products.
· Survival of enteric microbes in urine.
· Water treatment with solar radiation (SODIS)
· Wastewater treatment using different chemicals (PIX, PAX) for flocculation, use of disinfectants (PAA, PFA, H2O2) and UV.
· Supervise master’s students.
Key Achievement
· Urine has similar fertilizer value as mineral fertilizer and cattle manure.
· Peoples attitude about urine fertilizer can be changed by a practical demonstration and show its benefits.
· Stored urine showed less pathogenic risk for agricultural use.
2000-2004- Tri-Chandra College, Kathmandu, Nepal. Assistant lecturer
Key responsibilities
· Teaching theory and practical class.
2000-2001 Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. master’s student
· prevalence of helminth parasites among children were studied in Nepal.
Education and qualification _____________________________________________________
21.04.2010 PhD
Department of Environmental Science,
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
20.09.2005 MPH (Master’s in Public Health)
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus, Finland
27.02.2002 MSc in Zoology (Parasitology)
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Special training _________________________________________________________
(a) International biogas training (IBBK-2010), Germany, (b) Personal skill development (Sri Lanka)
Recent Projects___________________________________________________________________
· Raki2 (2017-2020), funding from ministry of Environment, Finland to study the “nutrients recovery from liquid waste: technology to market”.
· Climate Kic, Pathfinder project 2016: - study of different liquid waste especially reject water situation in Finland.
Referees_______________________________________________________________________
· Dr. Helvi Heinonen-Tanski. (helvi.heinonentanski@uef.fi)
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Phone +358 40 355 3152,
· Dr. Eila Torvinen (Eila.torvinen@uef.fi)
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Phone +358 40 355 3183
· Theme Leader Drechsel Pay (P.drechsel@cgiar.org)
Resource Recovery and Reuse, CRP5, International water management Institute, 127, Sunil Mawatha, Pelawatte, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.
· Professor Riku Vahala. Riku.vahala@aalto.fi
Department of civil and environmental engineering, Aalto University.
Reviewer experience
Reviewing several manuscripts asked by different respected internal journals i.e., (1) Environment, Development and Sustainability, (2) Environmental Technology, (3) Journal of Environmental management, (4) Geojournal (5) CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water, (6) Ambio, (7) Environmental science and technology, (8) Water research
Rewards
2016 Pre innovation reward by Aalto University.
Publications and other outputs can be found in publication tab