Sustainable Transportation Systems

Prof. Bhola Ram Gurjar holds a PhD in the area of Environmental Risk Analysis from India's premier technological institution I.I.T. Delhi followed by Postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany. He is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering Department and a Joint Faculty in Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Transportation Systems (CTRANS) at I.I.T. Roorkee. He has been Dean of Resources and Alumni Affairs (DORA) from June 2017 - April 2021 and Head of CTRANS from February 2015 - February 2018 at IIT Roorkee. He has also headed the Max Planck Partner Group for Megacities & Global Change at IIT Roorkee from 2006-2011. Prof. Gurjar has about 30 years’ progressive professional experience in industry, teaching, training, research, and consultancy. He is among the leading academics and researchers who have worked extensively in the area of environmental science and engineering specially focused on air and water pollution, and environmental quality and health risk assessment, which is reflected in his several highly cited research papers published on these themes. His present research interests include megacities; air and water pollution; environmental impact and risk assessment; atmospheric emissions and climate change; Biofuels and their emissions, and integrated cross-disciplinary study of science and policy issues of the environment, health, energy, economy, technology, infrastructure and resources – particularly from the global change, sustainable development and risk governance perspectives.