Fellows

Priyanka Jamwal
Sr. Fellow

Priyanka Jamwal is a Programme Leader and Senior Fellow at the Water and Society Programme. She is a civil engineer by training and holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering and Management from IIT Delhi. She received a Research Associateship fellowship from IISc Bangalore to pursue her interest in groundwater quality management in rural areas.

Priyanka works at the intersection of science and policy, with key areas of interest including water quality management, urban lake restoration, nature-based solutions, wastewater management, and public health. She has an extensive array of publications across disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals and has received several fellowships and awards, including the Fulbright Nehru Academic Excellence Fellowship and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Fellowship.

She runs the Water and Soil Lab at ATREE, which aims to understand the fate and transport of contaminants and pollutants in hydrological systems.

Projects

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Publications

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Teaching

List of courses coordinated 
  • Fundamentals of Environmental Science (C1B), Research methods (C4) co-taught, ATREE PhD programme (Internal)
  • Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems, M.E water resources course, co-taught in the Civil Engineering Department,  IISc Bangalore (External)
  • Occasional lectures on introduction to water and wastewater treatment, for early and mid-career professionals based in academic centers and NGOs (External)
  • Environmental Auditing, iCED, Jaipur (Government of India), India (External) 
  • Environmental Auditing, Regional Training Centre (RTC) (Karnataka state Government), (External).
List of students

Sminu M, Doctoral Student, ATREE, 2020:

Thesis title – Low-cost technology to address water quality issues in urbanising catchments.

 

Ruchi Verma,  Doctoral Student, ATREE, 2017:

Thesis title – Assessing the impact of land use change on river ecosystem health using remote sensing. 

 

Sumita Bhattacharyya, Doctoral Student, ATREE, 2017:

Thesis title – Low-cost technology to address water quality issues in urbanising catchments.

Policy Outreach

List of courses coordinated 
  • Fundamentals of Environmental Science (C1B), Research methods (C4) co-taught, ATREE PhD programme (Internal)
  • Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems, M.E water resources course, co-taught in the Civil Engineering Department,  IISc Bangalore (External)
  • Occasional lectures on introduction to water and wastewater treatment, for early and mid-career professionals based in academic centers and NGOs (External)
  • Environmental Auditing, iCED, Jaipur (Government of India), India (External) 
  • Environmental Auditing, Regional Training Centre (RTC) (Karnataka state Government), (External).
List of students

Ruchi Verma,  Doctoral Student, ATREE, 2017:

Thesis title – Assessing the impact of land use change on river ecosystem health using remote sensing. 

 

Sumita Bhattacharyya, Doctoral Student, ATREE, 2017:

Thesis title – Low-cost technology to address water quality issues in urbanising catchments.

Videos

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Testing Still Waters
Navigating Urban Floods
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Navigating Urban Floods: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India (English)
Navigating Urban Floods
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Navigating Urban Floods: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India (Kannada)
TamiraSES
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TamiraSES
River or Sewer
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River or Sewer: The Story of Vrishabhavathy River in Bengaluru, Southern India (Kannada version)
Changing Waterscapes
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Changing Waterscapes of the Western Ghats
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ATREE@25: Waterscapes
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World Water Week
RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar #6 - Nature Based Solutions and Co-Designing Community Garden 0-2 screenshot
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RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar
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GEO AquaWatch webinar
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How Communities Turn Sewage into Safe Drinking Water
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Wetland Rejuvenation

Team

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Sr. Library & Information Officer
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Sriram Ravichandran
Placement, Communications, and Certificate Course Manager
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Madhavi Latha
Coordinator
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Pallavi Varma Patil
Lead – Collaborations and Partnerships
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Siddhartha Krishnan
Sr. Fellow

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