Dr. Paromita Chakraborty

Dr. Paromita Chakraborty

Associate Professor
Area: Environmental Engineering
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Kattankulathur Campus, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University).

Email: paromitc@srmist.edu.in

Other Details:

Courses

• National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning class on India's Urban Water Crisis Part, 2021
• National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning class on Water Quality Organic Pollutant in the Freshwater, 2021
• Environmental Science, 2020
• M.Tech Thesis coordinator for even semester 2016
• Transport of Water and Waste Water (Laboratory and Theory), 2016
• Solid Waste Management, 2013
• Solid Waste Management, 2012

Research Interests

• Multi-media movement of organic pollutants viz., pesticides, industrial chemicals and plasticizers in the hotspots of Indian cities
• Long Range Atmospheric Transport of persistent organic pollutants
• Quantification and ecological impact assessment of plasticizers in riverine and marine environment of India
• Cost-effective remediation techniques for emerging organic contaminants in soil, sediment, water and wastewater
• Fabricating new products from recycled and waste plastic
• Waste management and waste to wealth technologies

Selected Publications

• Persistent organic pollutants in human breast milk in India. Gnanasekaran, D.; Subramanian, A.; Someya, M.;    Sudaryanto, A.; Kunisue, T.; Takahashi, S., Paromita Chakraborty; Tanabe, S. Environmental Pollution, 2008. Jan; 157(1): pp. 148-54. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 29460084)
• Passive Atmospheric Sampling of Organochlorine Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Urban, Rural, and Wetland Sites along the Coastal Length of India. Zhang, G.; Paromita Chakraborty; Sampathkumar, P.; Balasubramanian, T.; Kathiresan, K.; Takahashi, S.; Subramanian, A.; Tanabe, S.; Jones, K. C. Environmental Science and Technology; 2008, 42 (22), pp. 8218–8223; DOI: 10.1021/es8016667. Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 19068797)
• Accumulating characteristics of platinum group elements (PGE) in urban environments, China Suhong Pan, Gan Zhang, Yali Sun , Paromita Chakraborty. Science of the Total Environment, 2008. Jul 1;407(14): pp. 4248-52. Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 19410274)
• Persistent Organic Pollutants in Breast Milk of Mothers residing around an Open Dumping Site in Kolkata, India: Specific Dioxin-Like PCB Levels as a Potential Source. Masayuki Someya, Masako Ohtake, Tatsuya Kunisue, Annamalai Subramanian, Shin Takahashi, Paromita Chakraborty, Ramesh Ramachandran, Shinsuke Tanabe. Environment International, 2009, 36 (1), pp. 27-35. Impact Factor: 9.621  (PMID: 19854513)
• Selected organochlorine pesticides in the atmosphere of major Indian cities: levels, regional versus local variations and sources. Paromita Chakraborty; Zhang, G.; Takahashi, S.; Subramanian, A.; Tanabe, S.; Jones, K. C. Environmental Science and Technology, 2010, 44 (21), pp. 8038–8043. Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 20879790)
• Passive air sampling of organochlorine pesticides in a northeastern state of India, Manipur.  Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi, Qi Shihua, Paromita Chakraborty, Gan Zhang, Ishwar Chandra Yadav.  Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2010, 23(5): pp. 808-15. Impact Factor: 5.565 (PMID: 21790054)
• Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in agricultural soils from NCR, Delhi, India. Bhupander Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Gargi Goel,Richa Gaur, Meenu Mishra, S. K. Singh, Dev Prakash, Paromita Chakraborty, and C. S. Sharma. Annals of Biological Research, 2011. Vol-2, Issue-3, pp. 247-254.
• Perfluorinated compounds in the Asian atmosphere, Jun Li, Sabino Del Vento, Jasmin Schuster, Gan Zhang, Paromita Chakraborty, Yuso Kobara and Kevin C. Jones. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011; 45 (17), pp. 7241–7248. Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 21800818)
• Are reductions in atmospheric PCBs in rich countries been achieved partly by export of toxic wastes?  Knut Breivik, Rosalinda Gioia, Paromita Chakraborty, Gan Zhang and Kevin C. Jones. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011.  ISSN 0013-936X.  45(21), pp. 9154- 9160. Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 21958155)
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Sediments of the River Chenab, Pakistan: Current levels and Their Toxicological Concerns. Syed Ali-Musstjab-Akber-Shah Eqani, Riffat Naseem Malik, Gan Zhang, Ashiq Mohammad, Paromita Chakraborty. Chemistry and Ecology, 2011, 28(4), pp. 327-339. Impact Factor 2.244 (PMID: 24643386)
• Long-range atmospheric transport of persistent organochlorines from India and Mainland South-eastern Asia at a remote mountain site in south-western China.Yue Xu , Gan Zhang, Jun Li, Paromita Chakraborty, Hua Yu , Xiang Liu.  Journal of Environ. Monitoring, 2011, 13, pp. 3119-3127. Impact Factor: 4.238 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C1EM10470E)
• Distribution and risk assessment of organochlorine contaminants in surface water from River Chenab, Pakistan. Eqani, S., Malik, R. N., Katsoyiannis, A., Zhang, G., Chakraborty, P., Mohammad, A., Jones, K.C. Journal of Environ. Monitoring, 2011, 14(6), pp.1645-1654, . Impact Factor: 4.238 (PMID: 22581020)
• Spatial studies of platinum group elements (PGE), 2-(4-morpholinyl) benzothiazole (24MoBT) and N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolame (NCBA) in urban dusts along motorways, China. Suhong Pan, Yali Sun, Gan Zhang, Qilai Xie and Paromita Chakraborty. Atmospheric Environment, 2012, 56, pp. 246-249. Impact Factor: 4.798
• Evaluation of wastewater treatment by-products as soil amendment: growth of sorghum-sudan grass and trace elements concentrations. Paramasivam Sivapatham, Mariel C. Potts, Jeffrey A. Delise, Kenneth S. Sajwan, Ashok K. Alva, Kuppuswamy Jayaraman and Paromita Chakraborty, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, 47(11), 2011 pp.1678-1686.  Impact Factor: 1.990 (PMID: 22702829)
• Hexachlorocyclohexane and Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in the Sediments from the Deltaic Coast of Bay of Bengal, in the East Coast of India, Kumar Bhupander, Mukherjee Debapriya, Chakraborty Paromita*, Journal of International Environmental Application & Science, 2012, Vol. 7 (4): pp. 750-761.
• Spatial distributions and characteristics of platinum group elements (PGE) in urban dusts from China. Suhong Pan, Yali Sun, Gan Zhang, and Paromita Chakraborty, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2013, 128 (2013) pp. 153–157. Impact Factor :3.746 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2013.02.002)
• Selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in surface soils from three major states of the northeastern part of India. Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi, Paromita Chakraborty, Qi Shihua and Gan Zhang, Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2013, 185: pp. 6667–6676, 2013 Impact Factor :2.273 (PMID: 23288598)
• A comparison study of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three Indian cities using PUF disk passive air samplers. 2013. Hairong Cheng, Zongming Deng, Paromita Chakraborty, Di Liu, Ruijie Zhang, Yue Xu, Chunlin Luo, Gan Zhang, Jun Li. Atmospheric Environment, 2013, 73, pp. 16-21, Impact Factor: 4.798. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.03.001)
• Human Health Risk from HCH and DDT Pesticides, through Consumption of Vegetables: Estimation of Daily Intake and Hazard Quotients (HQs). Bhupander Kumar, Verma VK, Naskar AK, Paromita Chakraborty, Sanjay Kumar Sharma CS. Journal of Xenobiotics, 2013; pp. 3: 6. (https://doi.org/10.4081/xeno.2013.e6)
• Atmospheric Polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities: Levels, Emission Sources and Toxicity. Paromita Chakraborty*; Gan Zhang; Sabine Eckhardt; Jun Li; Knut Breivik; Paul Lam; Shinsuke Tanabe; Kevin Jones. Environmental Pollution 2013; pp. 182: 283-290. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 23954623)
• Atmospheric polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in India and Pakistan. Yue Xu, Jun Li, Paromita Chakraborty, Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Yan Wang, Chongguo Tian, Chunling Luo, Gan Zhang, Kevin C. Jones. Science of the Total Environment, 2014, 28; pp. 466-467:1030-6. Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 23988747)
• Modeling the emission sources for polychlorinated biphenyls in India: implications for human health risk assessment. Paromita Chakraborty*. Reviews on Environmental Health, 2014, 2191-0308, 29(1-2), pp.37-40. Impact Factor:3.458 (PMID: 24695028)
• Spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the surface water of River Brahmaputra and River Ganga in India. Paromita Chakraborty*, S. Sakthivel, Bhupander Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Meenu Mishra, V.K. Verma and Richa Gaur. Reviews on Environmental Health, 2014, 29(1-2), pp.45-48. Impact Factor:3.458 (PMID: 24659603)
• Screening of Atmospheric Short- and Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in India and Pakistan using Polyurethane Foam Based Passive Air Samplers. Chakra Chaemfa, Yue Xu, Jun Li, Paromita Chakraborty, Jabir Hussain Syed, Riffat Naseem Malik, Yan Wang, Jun Wen Lie, Gan Zhang, and Kevin C Jones. Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48, pp. 4799−4808. Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 24666432)
• Distribution and risk assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the remote air and soil of Manipur, India. NL Devi, IC Yadav, Q Shihua, Paromita Chakraborty, Y Dan. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014, pp. 1-13. Impact Factor: 2.784 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3284-8)
• Occurrence and sources of selected organochlorine pesticides in the soil of seven major Indian cities: Assessment of air-soil exchange. Paromita Chakraborty*, Zhang G, Li J, Sivakumar A, Jones KC. Environmental Pollution, 2015, 204, pp74-80. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 25932785)
• CALUX bioassay: a cost-effective rapid screening technique for screening dioxins like compounds. Sakthivel Selvaraj, Balasubramanian Prithiviraj, Masafumi Nakamura, Shunkei Ko and Paromita Chakraborty* Reviews on environmental health, 2016; 31: pp. 149-152. Impact Factor: 3.458 (PMID: 26943601)
• Soil concentrations, occurrence, sources and estimation of air–soil exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities. *Paromita Chakraborty, Zhang G, Li J, Sakthivel Selveraj, Knut Breivik and Kevin Jones.  Science of the Total Environment 2016; 562: pp. 928-934.  Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 27136304)
• Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in River Brahmaputra from the outer Himalayan Range and River Hooghly emptying into the Bay of Bengal: occurrence, sources and ecotoxicological risk assessment. Paromita Chakraborty*, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Srimurali Sampath, Ningombam Linthhoi Devi, John Bang, Athanasios Katsoyiannis. Environmental Pollution, 2016, 219, pp. 998–1006.Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 27503054)
• Polychlorinated biphenyls in settled dust from informal electronic waste recycling workshops and nearby highways in urban centers and suburban industrial roadsides of Chennai city, India: Levels, Congener profiles and Exposure Assessment. Paromita Chakraborty*, Balasubramanian Prithiviraj, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Virendra Kumar and Bhupander Kumar. Science of Total Environment, 2016, 573, pp. 1413–1421. Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 27503630)
• Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Variation of Phthalates using Passive Air Sampling in Southern India, Srimurali Sampath, Krishna Kumar Selvaraj, Govindaraj Shanmugam, Vimalkumar Krishnamoorthy, Paromita Chakraborty, Babu Rajendran Ramaswamy. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 221, pp. 407–417. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 27979682)
• Passive air sampling of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai: Levels, homologous profiling and source apportionment. Paromita Chakraborty*, Gan Zhang, Hairong Cheng, Prithiviraj Balasubramanian, Jun Li and Kevin C Jones. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 231, Part 1, pp. 1181-1187. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 28911793)
• PCBs and PCDD/Fs in soil from informal e-waste recycling sites and open dumpsites in India: Levels, congener profiles and health risk assessment. Paromita Chakraborty*, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Masafumi Nakamura, Balasubramanian Prithiviraj, Alessandra Cincinelli, John J. Bange; Science of The Total Environment, 2018, 621, pp. 930-938. Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 29223911)
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface waters and riverine sediments of the Hooghly and Brahmaputra Rivers in the Eastern and Northeastern India. Khuman, S.N., Chakraborty, P*., Cincinelli, A., Snow, D. and Kumar, B., 2018. Science of The Total Environment, 2018, 636, pp.751-760. Impact Factor: 7.963.(PMID: 29723840)
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Surface Soil from North-East India: Implication for Sources Apportionment and Health-Risk Assessment, Devi, N.L., Yadav, I.C., Chakraborty, P. and Shihua, Q., Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology, 2018, pp.1-13. Impact Factor: 2.804 (PMID: 29713743)
• Prevention-intervention strategies to reduce exposure to e-waste. Heacock, M., Trottier, B., Adhikary, S., Asante, K.A., Basu, N., Brune, M.N., Caravanos, J., Carpenter, D., Cazabon, D., Chakraborty, P. and Chen, A., Reviews on environmental health, 2018, 33(2), pp.219-228. Impact Factor: 3.458 (PMID: 29750656)
• Seasonal variation of atmospheric organochlorine pesticides and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India: Implication for atmospheric transport. Chakraborty, P*., Zhang, G., Li, J., Sampathkumar, P., Balasubramanian, T., Kathiresan, K., Takahashi, S., Subramanian, A., Tanabe, S. and Jones, K.C. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 649, pp.1653-1660. Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 30172482)
• Baseline investigation on plasticizers, bisphenol A, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals in the surface soil of the informal electronic waste recycling workshops and nearby open dumpsites in Indian metropolitan cities, Paromita Chakraborty*, Srimurali Sampath, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Sakthivel Selvraj, Girija K Bharat, Luca Nizzetto; Environmental Pollution, 2019, 248, pp.1036-1045 Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 31091636)
• Characterization of some naphthalene utilizing bacteria isolated from contaminated Cooum Riverine sediment of the Bay of Bengal (India). Sancho Rajan, Anwesha Pattanaik, Venkatesh Kumaresan, Prasanth Bhatt, Senthilarasu Gunasekaran, Jesu Arockiaraj, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Vladimir P. Beskoski and Paromita Chakraborty*; Journal of Serbian Chemistry Society, 2018, 84(2), pp. 225-236. Impact Factor: 1.097 (https://doi.org/10.2298/JSC180724088R)
• Occurrences of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon from Adayar and Cooum Riverine Sediment in Chennai city, India. Sancho Rajan., Geethu, V., Srimurali Sampath and Paromita Chakraborty*, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2018, pp.1-10. Impact Factor: 2.860 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-018-2125-9)
• Effect of Ultrasonication for Pre-treatment of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Sewage Sludge-A Review. Jairaj, Sija Arun, R. Mohan Kumar and Paromita Chakraborty* 2018. Jour of Adv Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, Vol. 10, 08-Special Issue. ISSN 1943-023X SJR: 0.13.
• Air-water exchange of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants in the lower stretch of the transboundary river India Ganga, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman and Paromita Chakraborty*, Chemosphere, 2019, 233, pp. 966-974. Impact Factor: 7.086 (PMID: 31340424)
• Qualitative evaluation of antibiotics from various water resources in and around Perungudi dumpsite, Chennai, Sija Arun*, S. Krithiga and Paromita Chakraborty, Rasayan J Chem, 2019, 12 (2), pp. 915 – 920 pp, ISSN: 0974-1496 Impact Factor: 1.23 (http://dx.doi.org/10.31788/RJC.2019.1225161)
• Is informal electronic waste recycling a newer source for atmospheric industrial persistent organic pollutants in Indian metropolitan cities?, Balasubramanian Prithiviraj and Paromita Chakraborty*, 2019, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2019, 8, pp. 29-35, ISSN 2468-5844. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2019.03.007)
• Mercury and Organochlorines in the Terrestrial Environment of Schirmacher Hills, Antarctica Subhavana, K.L., Asif Qureshi, Paromita Chakraborty*. Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology, 2019, 102(1), pp 13-18; Impact Factor: 2.151 (PMID: 30443660)
• Organic micropollutants in the surface riverine sediment along the lower stretch of the transboundary river Ganga: Occurrences, sources and ecological risk assessment. Paromita Chakraborty*, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Srimurali Sampath, Babu Rajendran Ramaswamy, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Alessandra Cincinelli, Daniel Snow, Environmental Pollution, 2019, 249, pp. 1071-1080. Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 31146313)
• A review on sources and health impacts of Bisphenol A, Anna Abraham and Paromita Chakraborty*, Reviews on environmental health, 2019, 20190034, eISSN 2191-0308, ISSN 0048-7554.  Impact Factor: 3.458 (PMID: 31743105)
• Atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls from an urban site near electronic waste recycling area and a suburban site of Chennai city, India; Balasubramanian Prithviraj and Paromita Chakraborty*, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 710, p.135526.; Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 31784153)
• Spatial distribution and sources of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants in the Hooghly riverine sediment; Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Girija Bharat and Paromita Chakraborty*; Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020, 27(4), pp.4137-4147; Impact Factor: 4.223 (PMID: 31828711)
• Adaptive co-management model for the East Kolkata wetlands: A sustainable solution to manage the rapid ecological transformation of a peri-urban landscape, Avanti Roy-Basu, Girija K. Bharat, Paromita Chakraborty, S.K. Sarkar, Science of The Total Environment, 2020 Volume 698, 2020, 134203, ISSN 0048-9697; Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 31783445)
• Plasticizers and bisphenol A in Adyar and Cooum riverine sediment, south India: occurrences, sources and risk assessment; Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Srimurali Sampath, Juan Muñoz-Arnanz, Begoña Jiménez, Paromita Chakraborty*, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2020, pp.1-14; Impact Factor: 4.609 (PMID: 31974692)
• Occurrence, source and risk assessment of fluoroquinolones in dumpsite soil and sewage sludge from Chennai, India, Sija Arun, R.Mohan Kumar, Jai Raj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, K. Ilango, Paromita Chakraborty*, 79, 103410, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, May 2020.  Impact Factor: 4.860 (PMID: 32422279)
• Spatial distribution and compositional profiles of organochlorine pesticides in the surface soil from the agricultural, coastal and backwater transects along the south-west coast of India, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, P. G. Vinod, Girija Bharat, YS Mohana Kumar, and Paromita Chakraborty*. Chemosphere, 2020, pp 126699, Impact Factor: 7.086 (PMID: 32361015)
• Recycling of high impact polystyrene and low-density polyethylene plastic wastes in lightweight based concrete for sustainable construction, Oluwarotimi Olofinnade, Sarath Chandra, Paromita Chakraborty (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.05.176), Volume 38, Part 5, 2021, Pages 2151-2156, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, SNIP 0.576
• Placental levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their association with birth weight of infants Priyanka Agarwal, Madhu Anand, Paromita Chakraborty, Laxmi Singh, Jamson Masih &Ajay Taneja, 45:2, 868-87, 7Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2020,  https://doi.org/10.1080/01480545.2020.1783285, Impact Factor: 3.356 (PMID: 32597233)
• Atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls in a non-metropolitan city in northern India: Levels, seasonality and sources. Prithiviraj, Balasubramanian, Ajay Taneja, and Paromita Chakraborty.  Chemosphere 263 (2021): 127700. Impact Factor: 7.086 (PMID: 33296997)
• Legacy and current pesticide residues in Syr Darya, Kazakhstan: Contamination status, seasonal variation and preliminary ecological risk assessment. Snow DD, Chakraborty P, Uralbekov B, Satybaldiev B, Sallach JB, Hampton LT, Jeffries M, Kolok AS, Bartelt-Hunt SB. Water Research. 2020 Jul 7:116141; Impact Factor: 11.236 (PMID: 32784075)
• Distribution and Eco-toxicological Risk Assessment of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants in Surface Water of Talar, Babolrood and Haraz Rivers. Dahmardeh Behrooz, R.; Esmaili-Sari, A.; Chakraborty, P. Water 2020, 12, 3104, Impact Factor: 3.229 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12113104)
• Legacy persistent organochlorine pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the surface soil from the industrial corridor of south India: occurrence, sources and risk assessment. Sakthivel Selvaraj, Omkar Gaonkar, Bhupander Kumar, Alessandra Cincinelli, Paromita Chakraborty*., Environmental Geochemistry and Health. vol. 43,5 (2021): 2105-2120 Impact Factor: 4.609 (PMID: 33392898)
• Surveillance of plasticizers, bisphenol A, steroids and caffeine in surface water of River Ganga and Sunderban wetland along the Bay of Bengal: occurrence, sources, estrogenicity screening and ecotoxicological risk assessment, Paromita Chakraborty*, Nancy W. Shappell, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Sathaporn Onanong, Ronnie Rex K, Daniel Snow, Water Research, 2021, Volume 190, 116668 Impact Factor: 11.236 (PMID: 33285458)
• Human Exposure to Organochlorine, Pyrethroid and Neonicotinoid Pesticides: Comparison between Urban and Semi-Urban regions of India, Niharika Ananda, Paromita Chakraborty, Sujata Ray, Environmental Pollution Feb 2020, vol. 270 (2021): 116156 Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 33321437)
• Plasticizers and bisphenol A: emerging organic pollutants along the lower stretch of river Ganga, north-east coast of the Bay of Bengal. Mukhopadhyay, Moitraiyee, and Paromita Chakraborty. Environmental Pollution (2021): 116697, Impact Factor: 8.071 (PMID: 33611200)
• Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) at Urban Settings in Pakistan: Spatial Variations, Sources and Health Risks. Ishtiaq, J., Syed, J.H., Jadoon, W.A., Hamid, N., Chaudhry, M.J.I., Shahnawaz, M., Nasir, J., Rizvi, S.H.H., Chakraborty, P., Li, J. and Zhang, G., 2021. Chemosphere, vol. 274 (2021): 129811, Impact Factor: 7.086 (PMID: 33561720)
• Assessing Diazinon Pollution in the Three Major Rivers Flowing into the Caspian Sea (Iran). Dahmardeh Behrooz, Reza, Abbas Esmaili-sari, Magdalena Urbaniak, and Paromita Chakraborty. Water 13, no. 3 (2021): 335, Impact Factor: 3.229 (https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030335)
• First surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and organic tracers in community wastewater during post lockdown in Chennai, South India: Methods, occurrence and concurrence. Chakraborty, Paromita*, Mukesh Pasupuleti, MR Jai Shankar, Girija K. Bharat, Sundar Krishnasamy, Sakshi Chadha Dasgupta, Shyamal Kumar Sarkar, and Kevin C. Jones. Science of The Total Environment (2021): 146252; Impact Factor: 7.963 (PMID: 34030369)
• Passive Air Sampling of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PAEs, DEHA, and PAHs from Informal Electronic Waste Recycling and Allied Sectors in Indian Megacities. Chakraborty, Paromita*, Harish Gadhavi, Balasubramanian Prithiviraj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Masafumi Nakamura, and Scott N. Spak. 55, 14, 9469–9478, Environmental Science & Technology (2021); Impact Factor: 9.028 (PMID: 34029059)
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM10 of a north-western city, India: distribution, sources, toxicity and health risk assessment. Simerpreet Kaur, Bhupander Kumar, Paromita Chakraborty, Vaneet Kumar, NC Kothiyal, In Press International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology; Impact Factor: 2.860 (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-161643/v1)
• Soil concentrations, compositional profiles, sources and bioavailability of polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins/furans, polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in open municipal dumpsites of Chennai city, India; Sancho Rajan, Ronnie Rex K, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Juan Muñoz-Arnanz, Begoña Jiménez, Paromita Chakraborty*, Waste Management, 2021, 131, pp 331-340, Impact Factor: 7.145; (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.06.015)
• A comprehensive assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in an Indian food basket: levels, dietary intakes, and comparison with European data. Brij Mohan Sharma, Girija K. Bharat, Paromita Chakraborty, Jakub Martiník, Ondřej Audy, Petr Kukučka, Petra Přibylová, Praveen Kumar Kukreti, Anežka Sharma, Jiří Kalina, Eirik Hovland Steindal, Luca Nizzetto. Volume 288, 1 November 2021, 117750, Environmental Pollution 2021, Impact Factor: 8.071 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117750)
• Seasonality, atmospheric transport and inhalation risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 and PM10 from industrial belt of Odisha, India, Susmita Ekka, Sanjat Kumar Sahu , Sanjeev Dwivedi, Sanjenbam,  Nirmala Khuman, Shirshendu Das, and Paromita Chakraborty, Accepted in Environmental Geochemistry and Health 2021, Impact Factor: 4.609
• Water-sanitation-health nexus in the Indus-Ganga-Brahmaputra River Basin: need for wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for preparedness of future waves of pandemic, Paromita Chakraborty*, P.G. Vinod, Jabir Hussain Syed, Balram Pokhrel, Girija Bharat, Avanti Roy Basu, Tama Fouzder, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Magdalena Urbaniak, Vladimir P. Beskoski, Accepted in Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology 2021, Impact Factor: 3.215
• In utero exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, maternal factors and alterations in the epigenetic landscape underlying later-life health effects" Christy Litea, Glancis Luzeena Rajab, Melita Juliet J, Vasisht Varsh Sridhar, K. Divya Subhashree, Praveen Kumara, Paromita Chakraborty*, Jesu Arockiaraj* Accepted in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology Impact Factor: 4.860
• Recycling Plastics Containing Decabromodiphenyl Ether into New Consumer Products including Children’s Toys Purchased in Japan and Seventeen Other Countries. Natsuko Kajiwara, Hidenori Matsukami, Govindan Malarvannan, Paromita Chakraborty, Adrian Covaci, Hidetaka Takigami, Accepted in Chemosphere, Impact Factor: 7.086
• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals used as common plastic additives: levels, profiles, and human dietary exposure from the Indian food basket, 810, 152200 Paromita Chakraborty*, Girija K Bharat, Omkar Gaonkar, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Sarath Chandra, Eirik Hovland Steindal, Luca Nizzetto, Accepted in Science of the Total Environment, Impact Factor: 7.963
• Migration of plasticizers from polyethylene terephthalate and low-density polyethylene casing into bottled water: a case study from India Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Mohammed Jalal, G. Vignesh, Muhammed Ziauddin, Srimurali Sampath, Girija Bharat, Luca Nizetto, Paromita Chakraborty*, Accepted in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Impact Factor: 2.151
• Interlinkage between persistent organic pollutants and plastic in the waste management system of India-an overview. Paromita Charaborty*, Sarath Chandra, Malene Vågen Dimmen, Rachel Hurley, Smita Mohanty, Girija Bharat, Eirik Hovland Steindal, Marianne Olsen, Luca Nizzetto. Accepted in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Impact Factor: 2.151
• Chemical remediation and advanced oxidation process of polychlorinated biphenyls in contaminated soils: a review. Hashmi, M.Z., Kalim, M., Farooq, U., Xiaomei Su, Paromita Chakraborty & Shams Ur Rehman, Environ Sci Pollut Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18668-3, Impact Factor: 4.2

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Selected Phthalic Acid Esters in the Aqueous Environment of Asian Countries: A Review on Fate and Distribution” Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay and Paromita Chakraborty*, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques, Springer, Germany, Series ISSN 2524-6402
• “Pharmaceuticals in Indian Aquatic Environment: Risk and Implications for Management” Bhupandar Kumar*, Premanjali Rai, Paromita Chakraborty, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques, Springer, Germany, Series ISSN 2524-6402
• “Optical Techniques for Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Water and Wastewater” Prachi Rajput, Paromita Chakraborty, and Pooja Devi*, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques, Springer, Germany, Series ISSN 2524-6402
• “Effective removal of naphthalene adsorbed on biochar by low frequency ultrasonication in a customized reactor” Shruthi.R, Omkar Gaonkar, R Mohan Kumar, Debayan Mazumdar, Peramaiah Karthik, Sunil Kumar, Neppolian Bernardshaw, Paromita Chakraborty*, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques, Springer, Germany, Series ISSN 2524-6402
• “A review on distribution and removal techniques for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in water and wastewater”, Kubendran Pavithra, Avanti Roy-Basu, Girija Bharat, Paromita Chakraborty*, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques, Springer, Germany, Series ISSN 2524-`       16402
• Emerging Issue of Microplastic in Sediments and Surface Water in South Asia: A Review of Status, Research Needs, and Data Gaps, Jalal Bayar, Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Muhammad Abdullah Khan, Siwatt Pongpiachan, Xiaomei Su, and Paromita Chakaraborty, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022
• Current Scenario of New Persistent Organic Pollutants in India: Review on Quantification Techniques, Omkar Gaonkar, Avanti Roy-Basu, Girija Bharat, Paromita Chakraborty*, Taylor and Francis Group, eBook ISBN9781003046806, 2021
• Bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from contaminated dumpsite soil in Chennai city, India; Sancho Rajan, Geethu V. and Paromita Chakraborty*, Biological Approaches to Controlling Pollutant, 2021, Elsevier Publications
• “Endosulphan: Practices, Policies, and Eco-toxicological Impacts in India” in the book series, Endosulfan: Uses and Toxicological Effects, 2019, NOVA. Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Girija Bharat, Avanti Roy-Basu, Piyush Mohapatro and Paromita Chakraborty*.
• “Recycling Processes and Plastic in Electronic Waste Is an Emerging Problem for India: Implications for Future Prospect”;Paromita Chakraborty*, Ronnie Rex, Revathy Rajakumaran, Omkar Gaonkar , Elvis Dsouza
• “Biochar for Effective Cleaning of Contaminated Dumpsite Soil: A Sustainable and Cost-Effective Remediation Technique for Developing Nations”; Paromita Chakraborty*, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, R. Shruthi, Debayan Mazumdar, Daniel Snow, Jim Jiang Wang; Environmental Biotechnology: For Sustainable Future. Springer, pp. 3-29 ISBN 978-981-10-7283-3.
• “Sources of Organochlorine Pesticidal residues in the paddy fields along the Ganga-Brahmaputra River Basin: Implications for long range atmospheric transport”; Paromita Chakraborty*, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Bhupander Kumar, Daniel Snow; Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils. Springer, pp. 69-83. ISBN 978-3-319-93670-3 (Cited by:1)
• Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soil- “A review on antibiotics consumption, physio-chemical properties and their sources in Asian soil”; SijaArun, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Paromita Chakraborty*; 2017; eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66260-2, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-6620-2; Series Volume:51; Springer International Publishing (Cited by:4)
• ACS Symposium Series-Persistent Organic Chemicals in the Environment: “Status and Trends in the Pacific Basin Countries I Contamination Status. Electronic Waste and associated hazardous substances in South-Asian countries of Asia Pacific region: Dioxins and furans from informal electronic waste recycling sites and open dump-sitesof India using CALUX Bioassay.” 2017. Paromita Chakraborty*, S. Sakthivel, MasafumiNakamua, Balasubramanian P, ShunkeiKo, BommannaLoganathanISBN13: 9780841231979; eISBN: 9780841231962 (Cited by:5)
• ACS Symposium Series-Persistent Organic Chemicals in the Environment: Status and Trends in the Pacific Basin Countries I Contamination Status. Electronic Waste and associated hazardous substances in South-Asian countries of Asia Pacific region: Paromita Chakraborty*, S. Sakthivel, Masafumi Nakamua, Balasubramanian P, ShunkeiKo, BommannaLoganathan. ISBN13: 9780841231979; eISBN: 9780841231962; DOI: 10.1021/bk-2016-1243. (Cited by:5)
• Xenobiotics in the Soil Environment: Monitoring, Toxicity and Management. Springer, Germany: “Current Status of HCH and DDT Residues in Indian Soil: Implications for Atmospheric Input and Risk Assessment.” Paromita Chakraborty*, Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman, Bhupandar Kumarand Bommanna Loganathan. (Cited by:12)
• Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the Indian atmosphere. In the chapter, "Contamination Profiles of POPs in India" in the book, Global Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals’'.Taylor and Francis Books/ CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. 2011. Paromita Chakraborty and Gan Zhang. Editors: Bomanna Loganathan and Paul K.S. Lam (Cited by:2)

PATENT

• Title: A Polymer Pencil from Recycled plastic. File No.201641005428. TEMP/E1/4765/2016CHE. Inventors: Dr. Paromita Chakraborty and Mr. Elvis Dsouza

Academic Experience:

• Associate Professor - Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India            March 2017- Present
• Nodal Person of the “Special Directorate on Chemical and Waste Management with Special Focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)”, CSIR NEERI, established with the support of UNEP special program on chemical and waste management.      2019-2022
• Specialist Mentor for the ACU Blue Charter Fellowship for world-class research and innovation in marine plastics, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK 2018-2019
• Specialist Mentor for the ACU Blue Charter Fellowship for world-class research and innovation in climate change, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK 2019-2020
• IUSSTF Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellow, Water Sciences Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA  June -Nov’2017
• Assistant Professor - Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India Jan 2012-Feb 2017
• Post-doctoral Research Associate - Savannah State University, USA  2011-2012
• Post-doctoral Research Scholar - City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR 2010-2011

Other Professional Experiences

• 3 Years Industrial experience in the Chemical and Biochemical Industry in India.

Achievements and Awards

• Full-Time PhD Scholarship awarded by the ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences’ to pursue PHD from Guangzhou Institute of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China (2006-2009).
• Travel Award by the 13th International conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium, to deliver talk in Perth, Australia (2009).
• 1st Runner-Up Best Policy Analysis paper for 2011, in the journal of American Chemical Society: Environmental Science and Technology.
• Travel Award by the 15th International conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium, to deliver talk in Hawaii, USA (2013) to present a poster titled “Spatial Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants in The Surface Water of River Brahmaputra and River Ganga in India”
• Young Scientist of The Year Award for 2014 awarded in International Conference on Environment and Ecology, 2-4 March, 2015, Science city, Kolkata organized by Foundation of Science and Environment, Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment.
• Outstanding Contribution to the organization of the first web-based poster symposium on Water, Energy and Health in India and USA sponsored by American Chemical Society (ACS), October 1-25,2014
• Early Career Chemist, recognition awarded by the 2015 International Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2015), Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2015.
• Eminent Young Scientist of the Year 2015 for Environmental Science and Technology awarded in International Conference on Environment and Ecology, Bharthiar University, Coimbatore, organized by Foundation of Science and Environment, Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, 7thMarch, 2016,
• Recipient of Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship-2016, supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA, the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) June 1 – Dec 8 2017.
• Distinguished Young Scientist of the Year 2016 for Environmental Conservation awarded in International Conference on Environment and Ecology, St Xaviers College, Ranchi, organized by Foundation of Science and Environment, Scientific and Environmental Research Institute, Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, 27thMarch, 2017.
• Travel Grant awarded by University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA to attend Dioxin Meet held at Vancouver, Canada from 20th to 25th August, 2017 to deliver a talk on “Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and polychlorinated biphenyls in soil from informal electronic waste units and nearby open dumpsites of India: CALUX Bioassay screening, Concentrations, Homologous profiling and Toxicity Equivalents” 
• Funded by University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA to deliver a talk on “Occurrence and potential eco-toxicological impacts of organochlorine pesticides in the riverine environments of Ganga and Brahmaputra Rivers in South and Central Asia” at SETAC North America Meet, Minneapolis, USA, 2017.
• Grant for young scientist awarded by American Chemical Society to present paper and participate in PITTCON 2018 held at Florida, USA from 26th Feb to 1st March 2018 to resent a poster on Quantification of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans during informal electronic waste recycling in Indian cities: Atmospheric transport and human health risk assessment/.
• Travel Grant awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Institute of Health, US Department Health and Human Services, to participate in Global E-waste Workshop at Indian Habitat Center, New-Delhi, 18th April 2018
• Travel Grant awarded by World Water Week, August 2018; Stockholm, Sweden.
• Travel Grant awarded by Ministry of Environmental Protection of Serbia inder Green Fund Project call on November 2018 in Serbia
• Travel Grant to attend MoRAPCE training course at Guangzhou, China, Dec 2018
• Judge for Carbon Zero Challenge conducted by IIT Madras, to shortlist Top 25 teams that can be awarded prototype funding of up to 5 lakhs (INR), mentorship support & entrepreneurship training by CZC 2019.
• Grant awarded by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) in Baltimore, USA, Feb’ 2019 and present paper and be a panelist for the special session on “E-waste”.
• Grant awarded by the SETAC, Asia/Pacific Focus Meeting on Environment Pollution and Health in Coastal Zones along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Guangzhou, China, April 23-26, 2019
• Aqua Foundation’s Excellence Award 2020 in the individual achiever’s category and best start-up award by the Environmental Health and Safety Global Summit
• Hiyoshi Environmental Award 2020 for novel, innovative, outstanding scientific research and application in the areas of environmental conservation in India.
• Conducted and presented in “World Sustainability Development Summit, 2022” inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, as part of the EDIFY and INOPOL projects in collaboration with “Norwegian Institute for Water Research”, “The Energy and Resources Institute”

MEMBERSHIPS

• Life Member, Indian Science Congress (ISC)
• Life Member, International Water Association (IWA)
• Life Member, American Chemical Association (ACS)