Dr. Ashootosh Mandpe got awarded his Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR) with a 9.53 CGPA in April 2021. The title of his doctoral thesis was titled ‘Sustainable Utilization of Fly Ash in In-vessel Composting of Agricultural Wastes’ from which he has published five research/review articles in high impact factor, SCI-indexed, peer-reviewed journals.

He completed his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune in First Class with Distinction, and the title of his B.E. project was ‘Study of Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Development’. Further, he pursued Masters of Technology with a specialization in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE) from the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), Maharashtra, India, during which he worked on ‘Study of Biomethanation of Organic Fraction of Municipal solid waste’ for his Master’s dissertation. He has also done Post-Graduate Certification in Geo-informatics and Diploma in Creative Writing in English from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

Dr. Mandpe had cleared various national-level examinations multiple times, including GATE and UGC-NET. He was also awarded fellowships like CSIR-Direct SRF, UGC-NET JRF, and BANRF-BARTI (Govt. of Maharashtra) to pursue his doctoral studies. He has presented his work at many international conferences and has won several awards. He has thorough knowledge regarding various aspects of Environmental Engineering, specifically in Solid Waste Management and has experience of more than five years of working in the CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur.

Dr. Ashootosh Mandpe is currently employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Indore. He is currently working in the field of Solid Waste Management in general, focusing on Biovalorization of Municipal solid wastes, Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), Landfill mining, Waste to Energy and Circular Economy.

He has published his work in reputed journals such as Bioresource technology, Chemosphere, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science and Journal of Environmental Management.

Get in touch at as_mandpe@iiti.ac.in