English language proficiency: Native speaker

Area of research: Environmental biotechnology for restoration of natural and technogenic disturbed environment

Research interests

• Plant-Soil-Microbe interaction,
• Solid and Hazardous Waste Management,
• Sustainable Waste Management, Ecotoxicology,
• Carbon Dynamics,
• Health Hazard assessment

A graduate can perform the works in fully instrument-equipped laboratories of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. Possibility to visit for short-term research work with the Colorado State University USA, Jagiellonian University, Poland, IIT-ISM- India. Bhartiyar University, India, inner Mongolia University, China.

Supervisor’s specific requirements to prospective PhD students:

• Field of study: 06.06.01 Biological sciences
• Communicative English
• Skills in using academic literature databases
• Knowledge of biotechnological and environmental equipment
• Working experience with MS-EXCEL/statistical software
• Basic knowledge of plant, soil and water contamination
• Basic knowledge of preparing a draft of the manuscript for publication

Additional publications:

• Tripti, Kumar, A., Maleva, M. et al. Nickel and copper accumulation strategies in Odontarrhena obovata growing on copper smelter-influenced and non-influenced serpentine soils: a comparative field study. Environ Geochem Health 43, 1401–1413 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00575-6
• Jitendra Ahirwal, Sneha Kumari, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Adarsh Kumar, Subodh Kumar Maiti, Changes in soil properties and carbon fluxes following afforestation and agriculture in tropical forest, Ecological Indicators, Volume 123, 2021, 107354, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107354
• Adarsh Kumar,  Tripti, Olga Voropaeva, Maria Maleva, Ksenia Panikovskaya, Galina Borisova, Mani Rajkumar, L. Benedict Bruno, Bioaugmentation with copper tolerant endophyte Pseudomonas lurida strain EOO26 for improved plant growth and copper phytoremediation by Helianthus annuus, Chemosphere, Volume 266, 2021, 128983, ISSN 0045-6535, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128983.
• Kumar, A., Tripti, Maleva, M. et al. Toxic metal(loid)s contamination and potential human health risk assessment in the vicinity of century-old copper smelter, Karabash, Russia. Environ Geochem Health 42, 4113–4124 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00414-3
• Filimonova, E., Lukina, N., Glazyrina, M. et al. A comparative study of Epipactis atrorubens in two different forest communities of the Middle Urals, Russia. J. For. Res. 31, 2111–2120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-019-01010-y