Pradip Kalbar was awarded PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai. Presently, he works as Associate Professor at the Environmental Science and Engineering Department (ESED) at IITB. Prior to joining IITB as faculty, Pradip worked for two-years as postdoctoral researcher at the Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Dept. of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The postdoctoral fellowship was awarded under HC Ørsted Postdoc Fellowship program Co-funded by Marie Curie Actions Program of EU.

He has received prestigious awards such as “Excellence in Ph.D. thesis Award 2014” from IIT Bombay, Young Faculty Award 2016, IIT Bombay, "Early Research Achiever Award 2019" from IIT Bombay and “PRISMA - Sustainability Assessment and Policy Award -2020”. Recently he has been appointed as first Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair in Climate and Sustainability at IIT Bombay.

Pradip has authored several scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Recently, interventions based on his work for improving water supply in India are recommended by the Ministry of Jal Shakti for implementation in all the states. He also has wide industrial and consulting experience in the area of the water sector, urban waste management and environmental sustainability. He is the Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Water Supply of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and member of the management committee of International Water Association's Specialist Group on Intermittent Water Supply. Recently he has joined as Editor of the Water Reuse journal (IWA Publishing)

Following are his areas expertise:

Water Supply: Alternate low-cost designs; improving intermittent water supply; reduction in non-revenue water; water audit; GIS applications; Hydraulic modelling; Optimization

Wastewater Management: Sanitation; Sewerage; Appropriate technology selection; Reuse and Recycle; Resource Recovery; Techno-economic aspects; Natural Treatment Systems; Implementation, scale-up and adaptation of technologies

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Carbon Footprinting; transportation systems assessment and mitigation; energy sector assessments and mitigation; Urban climate change impacts and mitigation; prioritization of mitigation strategies; resilient infrastructure; adaptation

Sustainability Assessment: Life Cycle Assessment; Material Flow Analysis; Circular Economy; Urban Water-Energy-Food Nexus; Water Footprinting; Multiple Criteria Decision Making