Bioaerosols and Indoor Air Quality

Sneha Gautam is Professor (Research) in the Division of Civil Engineering at the Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, and affiliated with 4Geo Climate Risk Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

She earned her PhD in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an MTech in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT-ISM Dhanbad. After her PhD, she worked as a researcher at INCLEN and the University of California, Berkeley. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and conducted postdoctoral research at NCTU, Taiwan.

Her academic achievements have been recognized globally, as she has been featured consecutively (2021–2025) in Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists of the World list. She has received numerous awards, including the Young Scientist Award 2023 by the Academy of Sciences, Chennai, Young Scientist Award 2022, IEI Special Appreciation Award 2021, IEI Young Achiever Award 2020, IEI Young Scientist Award 2019, an Outstanding Reviewer Award from Elsevier, and an International Travel Grant from the Government of India.

Dr. Gautam serves as an Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Guest Editor for several high-impact journals. With over 192 articles published in leading journals (h-index 44, i10-index 124, and over 6776 citations), she has established a strong global network of collaborators. Her research has also garnered attention from prominent media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Times of India, and Trinity.

Chafai Azri is a Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax, Tunisia.

He obtained his HDR in Environmental Geochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax in 2007. Prior to that, he earned his MSc and PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He completed his Diploma in Geological Engineering from the National School of Engineering of Sfax in 1992.

His current teaching responsibilities include courses related to air, water, and soil pollution. His research interests primarily focus on the physical chemistry of the atmosphere, the environmental impact of air and water pollution, and the statistical analysis of environmental data.

Md. Badiuzzaman Khan is a Professor and the former Head of the Department of Environmental Science at Bangladesh Agricultural University.

He earned his PhD in Environmental Science from Ca’ Foscari University in Italy in 2016, specializing in organic contaminants in atmospheric aerosols. From 2005 to 2006, he was a visiting scientist at NIAES in Japan, where he conducted research on CO2 flow studies in Bangladesh.

He began his academic career as a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science at Bangladesh Agricultural University in 2005. He later pursued his MSc from the University of Manchester, graduating in 2010.

Dr. Khan has published 45 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been widely cited in the field of air quality monitoring by researchers worldwide. His research has been strongly supported by the government of Bangladesh, leading him to successfully complete six significant projects over the past five years. These projects were funded by various agencies including BAURES (2016–2017; 2019–2020), UGC (2018–2019), MOST (2019–2020), ICT (2019–2020), MoE (2020–2022), and the Ministry of Planning (2020–2021). The findings from these research studies have been presented at numerous national and international forums.