Dibyendu Sarkar, PhD profile page

Dibyendu ‘Dibs’ Sarkar is professor of environmental engineering and the founding director of the Stevens Center for Sustainability at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a broadly trained environmental geochemist with research interests in environmental remediation, risk assessment and green technology development. Prior to joining Stevens, he was a professor of environmental science and founding director of the Environmental Science and Management PhD program at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Before that he served as an assistant and associate professor and associate dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dibs graduated with a PhD in geochemistry from the University of Tennessee and worked as a postdoctoral scientist in soil and water chemistry at the University of Florida. He is a licensed Professional Geologist in the State of Texas. Thus far, he has advised/advising 35+ PhD and MS/ME students, 20+ postdoctoral associates, and many visiting scholars. He has published 3 books, 180+ journal articles, 20 book chapters, and 300+ technical abstracts and conference proceedings. He has received more than $17 million in grant funding as a PI or Co-PI to support the research activities. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Current Pollution Reports (Springer), founding section editor-in-chief of Environmental Sciences section of Applied Sciences (MDPI), founding technical editor of International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (Springer), and associate editor of Environmental Technology and Innovation (Elsevier) and Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer). Dibs serves as a reviewer for many journals, and in panels of several grant funding agencies.