Dr. Dharmveer Yadav

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: dyadav[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +919799330525(O)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:

Keynote speaker: The Institution of Engineers (India)-IEI Prayagraj, One Day Seminar titled “Sustainable Development of Water Resources” on "Water Resource Management and Technological Advancements", May 9th 2026.

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

Green synthesis of OGF Nanocomposite Foam for oil recovery with excellent recyclability. Yadav, D., Das, R.K., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., ICWT, IIT Bombay, India. 1 - 2nd Dec 2022. (Best Presentation Award)

Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene-based Foam for Sorption of Organic Contaminants, Yadav, D., Deb, M., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., 20 – 22nd January 2022, ICESE 2022, IIT Bombay. (Best Poster Award)

Synthesis of Novel Graphene-Based Porous Material from Waste, Yadav, D., De, J., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., 26th Nov to 1st Dec 2023, MRS fall meeting-2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Carbon Quantum Dots based Nanocomposite for Selective Mercury Detection, Yadav, D., Das, R.K., Singh, G.P., Palwe, A., Kumar, C., Saxena, S., Shukla, S., 20th -23rd March 2024, iSNIOE² -2024, New Delhi.

Artificial Intelligence in Contaminate Sensing and Treatment, Yadav, D., De, J., Saxena, S., Shukla, S., 20th -22nd February 2025, InDACON – 2025, HBTU Kanpur.

Influence of Nanomaterials on Surface Wettability and Correlation Studies with Contact Angle, Yadav, D., De, J., Mondala, R., Chakraborty, T., Saxena, S., Shukla, S., 24th- 26th March, ICONN-2025, SRM, Tamilnadu, India

Graphene-based Nanocomposite Foam for Recovery of Oil and Organic Solvents from Waste Effluent, Yadav, D., De, J., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., 25th 29th May 2023, NBL-2023, NIT Srinagar.

Antifouling Nanomagnetic-polymer Composite Membrane for Environmental Remediation, Yadav, D., Bedar, A., Kirti, S., Das, R.K., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., 9th -12th March 2023, ICMW-2023, MGU Kerala.

Graphene-based Foam for Sustainable Water Purification and Solar Distillation, Yadav, D., Thakur, A.K., Saxena, S., Shukla, S., 1 - 2nd Dec 2022, ICWT-2022, IIT Bombay, India.

Fabrication of Scaffold-Based Polyvinyl Alcohol Membrane for Oil-Water Separation and Environmental Remediation, Yadav, D., Jeni, A., Saxena, S. and Shukla, S., 18th-22nd October 2021, F-EIR, Chandigarh, India.

Graphene Composite Foams for efficient Oil-Water Separation and Environmental Remediation, Yadav D., Das, R.K., Saxena S., Shukla, S., 1st -3rd Feb 2021, ICONN, 2021, SRM, India.

Award and Honors:

Winner of INDIA-ISRAEL Hackathon on “The Circular Economy Water Challenge.” held at GH Raisoni University, Nagpur, 28–29 January 2026.

Silver medal by Wiley for 3-minute thesis presentation at the International Conference on Sustainable Nanomaterials Integration & Organization for Energy and Environment-2024 held at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, in collaboration with UNSW Sydney and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, March 20-23, 2024.

Vishwakarma Award-2023, in the Water & Sanitation theme, organized by Maker Bhavan Foundation and WIN Foundation, at IIT Delhi on Jan 6, 2024.

International travel grant (Full) funded by IIT Bombay for presenting at MRS Fall Meeting 2023 held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from Nov 26 to Dec 01, 2023.

Commendation Prize at New Generation Ideation Contest (NGIC)-2022, organized by the Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) at Bengaluru, on 17 March 2023

Best Oral Presentation Award on “Green Synthesis of OGF Nanocomposite Foam for Oil Recovery with Excellent Recyclability”, in the international conference on water technology ICWT-2022 held on 1 & 2nd December 2022, at IIT Bombay.

Best Poster Presentation Award on Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene-based Foam for Sorption of Organic Contaminants, in the international conference ICESE 2022 held on 20th – 22nd Jan. 2022, at IIT Bombay.

Award for Best dissertation in MTech (Environmental Engineering) in the area of environmental aspects at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on Sept. 30, 2016.

Awarded Certificate of Excellence at the Rio+23 World Humanitarian Summit by the United Nations in 2016. (Centre for United Nations annual short-term course and workshop series about sustainable development in the context of UN Future).

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

Conducted an invited workshop on “Carbon composite materials for organic contaminant removal” at the annual technical meet Anveshan-21 at IIT BHU, Varanasi, from 25th-27th June 2021.

Overseas Assignments:

Received DAAD scholarship for MTech Research work at the Technical University Dresden, Germany in 2015-16.

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (Elsevier)

Scientific Reports (Nature)

Adsorption (Springer Nature)

IWA Publishing (IWA)

Other Significant Achievements:

Completed Level-1 of startup incubation program by IDEAS Cohort 11-2023, SINE, IIT Bombay.

Two months training on transforming research into a robust start-up under the umbrella of GDC I-NCUBATE Cohort 16- 2021, organised by IIT Madras, India

Four months FLY Scholar program for the development of the non-cognitive skills of Conscientiousness, Innovativeness, Initiative, Perseverance and Problem Solving through a change of mindset in 2021, organised by the Competitiveness Mindset Institute (CMI), New Jersey, USA.

MHRD-TEQIP “Faculty Induction Workshop” under knowledge incubation on the theme of Pedagogy and Research from January 22-26, 2018, at IIT Bombay.