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Assistant Professor,

Primary affiliation: Civil Engineering

Secondary Affiliation: Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Engineering Centre

Email: praveenag@iitpkd.ac.in

Project Director,

Global Sanitation Centre of Excellence

IIT Palakkad

Email: pd-gscoe@iitpkd.ac.in

Praveena Gangadharan is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, India. Dr. Praveena is an expert in addressing complex challenges related to water quality, pollution control, and the intersection of engineering with public health. In addition to being an accomplished academic researcher, Dr. Praveena also holds a position as Project Director at the Global Sanitation Centre of Excellence (GSCOE), IIT Palakkad, a center that was established with the support from Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Her expertise in the area of sanitation has been instrumental in shaping up the Centre in line with its proposed motto of clean sanitation through new generation sanitation technologies. She provides technical support to start-ups in the sanitation area by associating with the Technology Innovation Foundation of IIT Palakkad (TECHIN).

Dr. Praveena leads a dynamic research team dedicated to advancing solutions for pressing environmental issues. Her research in resource recovery from source-separated urine, innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies, etc., has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Praveena is a recipient of prestigious awards, including the Early Career Research (ECR) Award (2019), Magudam Award constituted by CNN News 18 (2017), Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Iyengar Award (2017), Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (2015), and Women Scientists Scheme-A (WOS-A) fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, India. Dr. Praveena also leads community-driven sanitation initiatives in underserved regions, demonstrating her dedication to equity and inclusivity.

The Team

The project "Urine fed self-driven stacked electrochemical resource recovery reactor for smart phone charging and biofertilizer production" was exhibited at ‘IInvenTive 2024’, a mega R&D fair where all IITs, NITs, IISERs, IIITs and other top 50 ranked NIRF Institutions in the country showcased their R&D at the Convention Centre, IIT Hyderabad, January 19-20, 2024. The team interacted with the Honourable Minister Shri. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of education and Skill Development, & Entrepreneurship, Government of India, and also scientists, researchers, industrialists and academicians from diverse fields during their exhibition.