Dr. Sushil Kumar Shukla is an academician and researcher with more than 8 years of experience in teaching and research in the field of Environmental science and engineering with a focus on wastewater treatment and management. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Transport Science and Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand. He earned his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, UP, India. The area of his doctoral research is the “Treatment of anaerobically digested distillery effluent?. Dr. Shukla was awarded with the prestigious fellowship of UGC Research Fellowship for science meritorious student (UGC-RFSMS Fellowship). He has published various research papers and book chapters in the field of water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, phytoremediation etc.