Sustainable Management of Land, Water and Pollution of Built-up Area

Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha (1962-), Ph.D.(Imperial College, London)  is Institute Chair Professor since 2018 in Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee. He has more than 39 years of teaching and research experience at University of Roorkee /IIT Roorkee. He was Head, Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee (April 2015-March 2019). He was Curtis Visiting Professorship at Purdue University, USA in 2012 and  Adjunct Prof. at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA in 2018-2020. He has more than 200  International Journal publications including 80 in ASCE Journals. He has also supervised 57 PhD students and executed more than 75 research and consultancy projects.  He has co-authored/co-edited  eleven books published by Oxford University (2), ASCE(3), Elsevier(1), Springer(2), Kluwer(1), IWA(1), Taylor and Francis(1). He has been recipient of ASCE research paper awards in 2001, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2018 and 2022; ASCE state of Award in Civil Engineering in 2014, and  Visiting Fellowship of ASCE in 2010. He is  recipient of Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship from AvH Foundation, Germany; JSPS Fellowship from Japan, STINT Fellowship from Sweden, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of Royal Academy of Engineering U.K., Commonwealth Research Scholarship from Association of Commonwealth Universities. He is Fellow ASCE since 2017 and  Fellow INAE since 2020.