Bio-Sketch

Dr. Athar Hussain is working as a professor and Head (Civil Engineering Department) at NSUT WEST CAMPUS (former CBPGEC Jaffarpur), New Delhi. Dr. Hussain completed his B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) from Jamia Millia Islamia in 1998, M.Tech. from AMU Aligarh in 2001 and completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from IIT Roorkee in year 2007. His research area includes industrial wastewater treatment, water quality management and solid waste management with special focus on anaerobic treatment of wastewater and solid waste with prime focus on renewable energy. He has supervised many Ph.D. Research Scholars in diversified areas of environmental engineering of which some has been awarded degree. Dr. Hussain has more than 15 years of experience in the area of teaching, research and consultancy. He has also guided more than 60 M.Tech dissertations. He has published more than 160 papers in international referred journals and international conferences. Dr. Hussain has published few books on water and wastewater treatment, IGI Global USA and is also serving as a reviewer for many International journals like Taylor and Francis, Inderscience Publishers, Elsevier Science etc. He is also a Fellow member of The Institution of Engineers (IE) India, Member ASCE, Member of Institution of valuers” (IV) N. Delhi, India and Member of Indian Society of Wind Engineering, India. Dr. Hussain has represented India many times through international conferences and also through training Programmes held abroad being sponsored jointly by NPC, India and APO, Tokyo.

Areas of Interest

 Water and Wastewater Treatment, Solid Waste Disposal and Management, Air Quality monitoring and modeling, Material composites, ground water modeling

Publications (Click to expand)

a. Treatment of phenolic wastewater in UASB reactor: Effect of Nitrogen and Phosphorous, Athar Hussain, Indu Mehrotra and Pradeep Kumar, Vol 99 (17), 8497–8503, 2008, Bioresource Technology, Elsevier Science(I.F. 7.539) doi.org/10.1016/ j. biortech.2008.03. 059.

b. Nitrogen biotransformation in anaerobic treatment of phenolic wastewater by Athar Hussain, Indu Mehrotra and Pradeep Kumar, Vol. 250, 35-41, 2010, (I.F. 7.098) Desalination, Elsevier Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.09.018.

c. Biomethanation Potential for Co-digestion of Municipal Solid Waste and Rice Straw: A Batch Study by Athar Hussain, Suraj Negi, Hiya Dhar, Sunil Kumar, Vol. 254, pp 139-144, 2018, Bioresource Technology, Elsevier, (I.F. 7.539) doi.org/10.1016/j. biortech. 2018. 01.070