Prof. Brajesh Kr. Dubey is presently an Associate Professor – Environmental Engineering and Management, the In-charge of Sustainable Engineering and Circular Economy Research Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), India.

Prof. Dubey received Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He received Outstanding International Student Award from the University of Florida during his PhD program. He has received BTech (Hons) in Civil Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur, India.

Prof. Dubey has over 16 years (post PhD) of research, teaching, and consulting experience within the broad fields of environmental, sustainable/resilient engineering and circular economy approaches, addressing the nexus among sustainability, resiliency, infrastructure, waste, energy, and the environment. His research expertise includes:

(1) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and techno-economic assessment of emerging/next-generation technologies for solving sustainability challenges related to energy systems, built infrastructure and processing and manufacturing;

(2) Decarbonization of the urban infrastructure, especially for integrated waste management systems;

(3) Characterization and engineering applications of waste/recycled materials including beneficial reuse risk assessment;

(4) Resource Recovery from solid and liquid waste streams.

His research has been funded by several national, international agencies such as United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); National Geographic Society (NGS); International Transport Forum (ITF) – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris; Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Circular Initiative, Singapore; Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Department of Science and Technology (DST), India; Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation; Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Auckland Regional Council, New Zealand among others. Prior to PhD, he has 4 years of industry experience as a Civil/Environmental Engineer in petrochemical, refineries and offshore oil platforms.

Prof. Dubey is author of 115 journal papers, 4 edited books/conference proceedings, 25 book chapters, and 27 full conference papers (with h-index of 39. I10-index of 81 with over 4,700 citations as per Google Scholar, Scopus h-index of 32).. Dr. Dubey has given more than 50 invited presentations in various countries in the world including Canada, USA, China, Germany, India, South Korea, Thailand, and U.K.). Dr. Dubey has served or currently serves as an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Members of 5 different journals, including ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Journal of Waste Management & Research -The journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, and Frontier Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science and Expert Opinion on Environmental Biology. He has also served on various professional committees, including the State Level Advisory Committee for Solid Waste Management, Ministry of Urban Development and Urban Affairs, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata, India. CoChair of Member, Organic Waste Facility Public Liaison Committee, City of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He has served as ISWA Working Group member for the Groups on “Waste Minimization and Recycling”, and on “Climate Change and Waste Management”.