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About S. A. AbbasiTabassum AbbasiTasneem Abbasi

Tabassum Abbasi is Assistant Professor at Pondicherry University India. She received her Masters from the University of Surrey and her PhD in 2010 from the Anna University of Technology India both in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. She also held a concurrent position of Visiting Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute USA during 2012-2017. Dr. Abbasi was awarded India''s Best Young Engineer Award in 2014 has published over 100 papers with 3500+ citations and authored 10 books. S. A. Abbasi has been a full university professor since 1987 after being Head-in-charge of the Water Quality & Environment Division at the Centre for Water Resources Kozhikode during 1979-87. He was a Visiting-cum-adjunct Professor at California State University during 1984-1987 and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Minnesota Florida Las Vegas California-Berkeley Malaya and Al-Ahsa. With 43 books over 300 papers in indexed journals 8 patents and 9000+ citations Prof Abbasi is among the world''s foremost environmental experts. Among numerous coveted honours and awards received by him are the National Design Award in Environmental Engineering the National Hydrology Award the International Desalination Association''s prize and fellowships of the National Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has been Member Board of Governors IIT Roorkee Member of the BHU Court and has been Chairman/Member of numerous high-level committees of MNES DST MoWR AlCTE and the UGC.