Dr. Narsi Ram Bishnoi

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Narsi R. Bishnoi, Ph.D.

Professor & Dean of Faculty of Law
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology
Hisar-125001, India
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], www.gjust.ac.in

Academic qualification
Ph. D. (1989), Ist Division from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India.
M.Sc. (1984), Ist Division from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India.
B.Sc. (1982), Ist Division from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India.
Matric (1978), Ist Division from Haryana Education Board, Chandigarh, India.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE- 29 years
Designation Institute From To
Professor Guru Jambheshwar University 23.4.2006 Continue
of Science and Technology,
Hisar
Associate Professor Guru Jambheshwar University 21.4.1998 21.4.2005
of Science and Technology,
Hisar
Assistant Professor CCS Haryana Agricultural 21.4.1992 21.4.1998
University, Hisar
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RESEARCH INTEREST & SPECIALIZATION
Biofuels production, Environmental abatement and Bioremediation of wastewater.
Teaching & Research Experience 29 Yrs
Total publications 203
Scopus Index 23
Total Citations 1713
Google h-index 29
i-10 Index 55
TotalCitations 2800
Ph.D. Supervised (Completed) 12
Ph.D. under supervision (Ongoing) 10
M. Tech. Dissertations (Completed) 66
M. Tech. Students under supervision 3
Major Research ProjectsCompleted 4
Major Research Projects Ongoing 1

 AICTE, Research Promotion Scheme -2013-16 (Rs. 22,00000)
 UGC Major Research Project – 2013-17 (Rs. 15,00000)]
 Coordinator: DST FIST Project- 2011-16 (Rs. 80,00000)
 Conferences organized – Three (CETAS-2009, MAFAESE-2011 & EAESE-2017)
 Workshops organized - Three
 Visits abroad – Spain & USA
 Consultancy of various Industries & Thermal power plant (1.5 cror)

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Appointed as referee/reviewer of International Journals related to Environmental Science
and Engineering.
ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
 Currently, Dean of Colleges, GJUS & T, Hisar w.e.f. 1st April 2016.
 Program Coordinator, DST-FIST, (Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure
in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (FIST)”
 Dean, Faculty of Non Conventional Energy Resources and Environmental
Sciences w.e.f. March 2008 to March 2011.
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 Chairman, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Guru
Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar-125001, w.e.f. August
2008 to August 2011.
 Chairman, Post-graduate Board of Studies, Deptt. of Environmental Science &
Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar-
125001 w.e.f. August 2008 to August 2011.
 Chairman, Faculty of Non Conventional Energy Resources and Environmental
Sciences w.e.f. March 2008 to March 2011.
 Coordinator, PGDEM.
 Coordinator – Central instrumentation laboratory (4 years)

AWARDS AND HONORS
 Best Scientist of the year Award-2015 conferred by National Environmental
Science Academy, New Delhi.
 Certificate of Honor by department of Plant Breeding, CCS HAU, Hisar for
development of Hybrid HHB 94 of Bajra in January, 2001.
 Certificate of Honor by department of Plant Breeding, CCS HAU, Hisar for
development of Composite of HC 10 of Bajra in January, 2001.
 Bharat Jyoti award by India International Friendship Society on 26th April, 2006.
 Best Citizen Award by Best Citizens of India on 2nd November, 2006.
 Rashtriya Gaurav Award by India International Friendship Society on 19th
January, 2010.

RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED
 UGC sponsored Major Research Project completed entitled “Characterization &
optimization of metal binding capacity and selectivity of biosorbents for
bioremediation of metal contaminated effluents of electroplating industry” July
2003 to June 2006. Narsi Ram Bishnoi, Principal Investigator and J.B. Dahiya,
Co-principal Investigator, Amount Sanctioned was Rs. 4, 96,000/-.
 R&D research project sponsored by Haryana State Council for Science and
Technology entitled “Bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated wastewater”
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2007-2009. Narsi Ram Bishnoi, Principal Investigator and Namita Singh, Co-
principal Investigator, Total Amount sanction was Rs. 4, 44,360/-.
 UGC sponsored Major Research Project entitled “Development of bio-fuel
production technology from agro waste by using indigenous microbes” 2008 to
2011. Narsi Ram Bishnoi, Principal Investigator and Dr. Namita Singh, Co-
principal Investigator, Amount sanctioned was Rs. 10, 24,000/-.
RESEARCH PROJECTS ONGOING
 UGC sponsored Major Research Project entitled “Potential of
thermophilic lignolytic bacterial enzymes for biomass conversion to biofuel” from
2013 to 2017. Narsi R. Bishnoi, Principal Investigator, Amount sanctioned is Rs.
14, 10,800/-.
 AICTE sponsored Major Research Project entitled “Biodiesel Production And
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration By Different Fresh Water Microalgae Species”
from 2013 to 2016, Narsi R. Bishnoi, Principal Investigator, Amount sanctioned
is Rs. 20, 58,824/-.
MEMBER OF ACADEMIC BODIES
 Member of Academic Council, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &
Technology, Hisar.
 Member of Executive Council Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &
Technology, Hisar-125001
 Member of Post-graduate Board of Studies, Deptt. of Environmental Science &
Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar-
125001.
 Served as member of Jambh Vaani Sahitya Academy, Bikaner, Rajasthan.
 Member of Post-graduate Board of Studies, Deptt. of Environmental Science,
Chaudhary Devi Lal University Sirsa -125055, (Haryana).
 Served as Member of Academic Audit, Department of Environmental Science,
MDU, Rohtak (2016).
 Served as Member of Academic Audit, Department of Environmental Science,
CDLU, Sirsa (2015).
 Served as member of subject expert committee for the selection of Principle by
Manipur Public Service Commission, Imphal (2015).
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 Served as member of subject expert committee for the selection of Assistant
Professor in December, 2015 by Manipur Public Service Commission, Imphal.
 Served as member of subject expert committee for UGC SAP evaluation (2015).
 Served as member of UGBOS of Department of Environmental Science, CDLU,
Sirsa (2014-15).
 Served as member of subject expert committee for Screening of proposal for
Special Assistance Programme (SAP) in the subject Environmental Science in
December 2014.
 Served as member of subject expert committee for UGC Major Research Project
Evaluation (2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015) of Environmental Sciences.
 Served as Expert Member of Steering Committee on Science & Technology for
Preparation of Vision Document Haryana State Council for Science &
Technology for XII Five year Plan (2012-2017)2010.
 Served as member of Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of Haryana,
Chandigarh.(2010-2011)
 Served as member of Haryana State Advisory Group for Preparation of State
Action Plan on Climate Change (2011).
 Served as member of NAAC Accreditation Committee.
 Served as member of subject expert committee for the appointment of Assistant
and Associate Professor in Punjab University, Chandigarh, CDLU, Sirsa and
MDU, Rohtak in 2015.
 Appointed as subject expert on “Screening-cum-evaluation committee” for the
screening of Assistant professor in MDU Rohtak.
 Served as one of the member of expert committee in the discipline of
Environmental Sciences for screening of MRP in UGC, New Delhi.
 Served as subject expert for interviews for the post of lecturer in Environmental
Studies, Govt College, Hisar in 2007.
 Served as member of expert committee for evaluation and assessment of
proposals submitted by college teachers for International Travel Grant Assistance,
in UGC New Delhi in 2014.
 Acted as Resource Person in the “Refresher Course” at Punjab University, Patiala
(Punjab) in 2014.
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 Served as member for the committee for setting of private universities under
“Haryana Private Universities act, 2006” by Manglam Edu Gate, New Delhi in
Nov 2011.
 Nominated as member of “UGC –ASC Advisory Committee” for a period of 2
years w.e.f. 11.07.2011.
 Delivered an invited talk during ICEMCH, 2016 held on Feb 17-19, 2016
organized by Department of Botanical and Environmental sciences, GNDU,
Amritsar (Punjab).
 Acted as Resource Person in the “Refresher Course” at Punjab University, Patiala
(Punjab) in 2015.
 Acted as Resource Person in the training on “Bacteriological Techniques for
Water and Waste Water Analysis and Quality Assurance” held on Feb 18-22,
2013 organized by School of public health, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
 Acted as Resource Person in the training on “Bacteriological Techniques for
Water and Waste Water Analysis and Quality Assurance” held on March 17-21,
2015 jointly organized by School of public health, PGIMER, Chandigarh and
Department of Environmental Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
 Appointed as coordinator/ Liaison officer regarding the cases of UGC in July
2012
 Served as subject expert of selection committee for CAS promotion case in Sept
2014

MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
 Life member of National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), New Delhi.
 Life member of Indian National Science Congress, India.
 Life member of Indian Society of Plant Physiology, India.
 Member of Journal of Biology, India.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
 Radio talk on religion and environment at Radio Station, Hisar.
 T.V. Programme on the topic of environmental awareness on Doordarshan, Zee
TV, ETV and MH 1 TV etc.
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS PUBLISHED
 Bishnoi, K.R. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2011). Adhyatmik Paryavaran ki Mimansa.
Arihant Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.
 Bishnoi, K.R. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2010). Religion and Environment. Vol. III.
Arihant Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.
 Bishnoi, K.R. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2011). Religion and Environment. Vol. II.
Arihant Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.
 Bishnoi, K.R. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2000). Religion and Environment. Vol. I.
Commonwealth Publication, New Delhi.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
 Kumar, S. S., Malyan, S. K., Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016).
“Microbial fuel cells Technology: Food to energy conversion by Anode respiring
bacteria.” Accepted as book chapter in Environmental Concerns of 21st century:
National conference on Indian and Global context held at Zakir Hussain Delhi
College (Evening), University of Delhi.
 Bajwa, K. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Microalgae as a potential feedstock for
biodiesel production: A review. In Microalgae windows of opportunity. Edited by
Mona Sharma, Deepak Bansal and Abhishek Chauhan. SBW Publishers, New
Delhi.
 Sharma, J. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Integrated approaches for sustainable
Biofuel production using algal feedstock: A review. In Microalgae windows of
opportunity. Edited by Mona Sharma, Deepak Bansal and Abhishek Chauhan.
SBW Publishers, New Delhi.
 Shalu, Verma, A. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Biogenic Manganese Oxides: An
Advanced Technology for Heavy Metal Removal: A Review. In Environmental
Science & Engineering. Vol. 8: Biodegradation and Bioremediation pp 439-455.
 Kirrolia, A., Singh, R., Bishnoi, N.R., Singh, N. (2012). Comparison of different
media compositions on the growth parameters of marine green microalgae
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Chlorella spp. In: Energy-Water-Waste Nexus for Environment Management.
Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.
 Kirrolia, A., Singh, R., Bishnoi, N.R., Singh, N. (2012). Algal Biofuels: A novel
strategy to combat future fuel crisis. In: Energy-Water-Waste Nexus for
Environment Management. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

 Kumar, S. S., Basu, S. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2017). Effect of cathode environment
on bioelectricity generation using a novel consortium in anode side of a microbial
fuel cell. Biochemical Engineering Journal. 121: 17-24 (Impact factor-2.463).
 Kumar, S. S., Malyan, S. K. and Bishnoi, N.R. (2017). Performance of buffered
ferric chloride as terminal electron acceptor in dual chamber microbial fuel cell.
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 5: 1238-1243.
 Singh, R., Kumar, M. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Development of biomaterial for
chromium (VI) detoxification using Aspergillus flavus system supported with
iron. Ecological Engineering. 91:31-40 (Impact factor-2.74).
 Shalu, Parmar, R. Verma, A. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Sequestration of Ni(II)
and Zn(II) ions from electroplating wastewater using biogenic manganese oxides.
Advances in Research. 7(1): 1-12, 2016.
 Verma, A., Bishnoi, N.R. & Gupta, A. (2016). Optimization study for Pb (II) and
COD sequestration by consortium of sulphate-reducing bacteria. Applied water
Science. DOI 1007/s13201-016-0402-7.
 Kumar, S.S., Yadav, C., Malyan, S.K., Manju, Bajwa, K. and Bishnoi, N.R.
(2016). Dose optimization of aluminium and iron based coagulants viz.
aluminium sulphate, ferric chloride and ferrous sulphate for COD removal from
landfill leachate at its natural pH. Accepted in Annals of Agri Bio Res
(Manuscript No. 2016/42).
 Bajwa, K., Silambarasan, T., Smita and Bishnoi, N.R. (2016). Effect of glucose
supplementation and mixotrophic effects of glycerol and glucose on the
production of biomass, lipid yield and different physiological, biochemical
attributes of Chlorella pyrenoidosa. J. algal biomass utiln.7 (1):93-103.
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 Bajwa, K. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Single cell oil of Bacterial strains as a new
source of high-value biodiesel! Isolation and screening for storage lipids in
cytoplasm. Annals of Biology.32 (1):1-6.
 Kumar, S. S., Mery Celin, S., Bishnoi N.R. and Malyan, S. K. (2016).
Phytoremediation of HMX contaminated soil through Jatropha Curcas.
International Journal of Recent Scientific Research, Vol. 5, Issue, 8, pp. 1444-
1450, August, 2014 ISSN: 0976-3031.
 Shalu and Bishnoi N.R. (2016). A Review of Biosorption of Potentially Toxic
Metallic pollutant from wastewaters by Bacterial Adsorbents. Journal of Applied
Sciences International. (In press)
 Kumar, S. S., Malyan, S. K., Kumar, A. and Bishnoi N.R. (2016). Optimization
of Fenton’s oxidation by Box-Behneken Design of Respond Surface Methodology
for landfill leachate. Accepted in J. Mater. Environ. Sci (Manuscript no.JMES-
2603-2016-kumar). (In press)
 Manju, Kumar, A., Kumar, M., and Bishnoi, N. R. (2016). Kinetic study of
methylene blue removal on immobilized biomass left after enzyme production
using response surface methodology. J. Appl. Life Sci. Int., 6(3), 1-9.
 Manju and Bishnoi N.R. (2016). Isolation, screening and identification of enzyme
producing fungi isolated from degraded wood, fruits and animal dung. Int. J. Adv.
Multidiscip. Res., 3(6), 21-28.
 Manju and Bishnoi N.R. (2016). Adsorption of Methylene Blue on spent
immobilized biomass of rice straw left after enzyme production. Int. J. Adv.
Multidiscip. Res., 3(7), 12-18.
 Manju and Bishnoi N.R. (2016). A decolorization study of congo red dye from
aqueous solution using fungus immobilized biomass. Int. J. Rec. Sci. Res., 7(6),
11737-11743.
 Manju, Kumari, S., Sharma, J., Gupta, S., Kumar, M., Kumar, A., Verma, A.,
Shalu, Sharma, P., Kumar, S.S., Lal S. and. Bishnoi N. R. (2016). An assessment
of Cadmium removal from simulated waste water using leftover biomass of water
hyacinth immobilized via Emericella nidulans. J. Appl. Life Sci. Int (Under
Review) In Press
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 Kumar, S. Smita, and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Coagulation of landfill leachate by
FeCl : process optimization using Box-Behnken design (RSM). Appl. Water Sci.
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DOI 10.1007/s13201-015-0372-1.
 Singh, R. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Biotransformation dynamics of chromium
(VI) detoxification using Aspergillus flavus system. Eco. Engg. 75:103-109.
(Impact factor-2.74)
 Ranga, S., Kumari, A., and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Microbial decolorization of
reactive orange 16 textile azo dye by bacterial consortium. Prog. Res. Intern. J. 10
: 2317-2320.
 Bajwa, K. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Screening, characterization and
optimization of lipase producing Bacillus sp. isolated from petroleum
hydrocarbons contaminated site. J. Environ. Res. Develop.10 (02):324-332.
 Bajwa, K. and Bishnoi, N. R. (2015). Osmotic stress induced by salinity for lipid
overproduction in batch culture of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and effect on others
physiological as well as physiochemical attributes .J. algal biomass Utiln. 6 (4):
26 – 34.
 Bansal, D., Bishnoi, N. R. and Sharma, M. (2015). Challenges and benefits of
implementing an Environmental Management System: A review. International
Journal of Advanced Scientific and Technical Research. 5 (2): 159-180.
 Manju and Bishnoi N.R. (2015). Enzyme production from low cost cellulosic
biomass of water hyacinth by solid state fermentation. Ann. Biol., 319(2), 165-
170.
 Verma, A., Dua, R., Singh, A., Bishnoi, N.R. (2015). Biogenic sulfides for
sequestration of Cr (VI), COD and sulfate from synthetic wastewater. Water Sci.
29: 19-25.
 Verma, A., Shalu, Gupta, A., Bishnoi, N.R. (2015). Penicillium citrinum as a
potential biosorbent for Ni (II) sequestration from simulated wastewater. Int. j.
adv. sci. tech. res. 2: 628-637.
 Verma, A., Bishnoi, N.R., Gupta, A. (2015). Evaluation of carbon sources to
augment sulfate-reducing activity for removal of Cd (II) from simulated
wastewater. Int. J. Sci. Res. 4: 59-60.