Rate My Professor Suman Mor

Dr. Suman Mor is a Professor in the Department of Environment Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, a position she holds after serving as Associate Professor since 2006. She obtained her M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2006. Her research interests include environment, sanitation, and health, with expertise in environmental pollution, municipal solid waste management, air pollution, groundwater pollution, waste characterization, emissions from crop residue burning, adsorption of heavy metals, health risk assessment, climate change impacts, and cleaner production strategies. She has served as Chairperson of the Department of Environment Studies and is actively involved in initiatives such as the CHAMP project on clean air and as Coordinator-India (North) for the Climate Compatible Growth Programme.

Dr. Mor has produced over 135 publications, including 111 journal articles, 3 book chapters, and others, demonstrating substantial impact in environmental science. Key publications encompass 'Leachate characterization and assessment of groundwater pollution near municipal solid waste landfill site' (2006, with K. Ravindra et al.), 'Generalized additive models: Building evidence of air pollution, climate change and human health' (2019, with K. Ravindra et al.), 'Emissions of air pollutants from primary crop residue burning in India and their mitigation strategies for cleaner emissions' (2019, with K. Ravindra and T. Singh), 'Municipal solid waste landfills in lower-and middle-income countries: Environmental impacts, challenges and sustainable management practices' (2023, with K. Ravindra), 'Distribution and health risk assessment of arsenic and selected heavy metals in Groundwater of Chandigarh, India' (2019, with K. Ravindra), and studies on air quality changes during COVID-19 lockdowns (2020-2021). Her collaborative research, often with Khaiwal Ravindra, has amassed thousands of citations. In 2022, she received the National Award for Outstanding Efforts in Science & Technology Communication through Innovative and Traditional Methods.