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SES organises Microplastic Analysis Seminar

SES organises Microplastic Analysis Seminar

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School of Environmental Sciences

 

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MICROPLASTIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR

 

09 December 2019 ( 3.30 – 5.30 PM)

in School of Environmental Sciences

 

by

Dr Sathrugnan and Dr Ichi Watanabe

 

Abstract: With increasing alarm about the amount of plastic materials present in the world’s oceans waterways, and human food chain. Microplastics are an issue of real environmental and societal concern globally. These microplastics are filling the seas and working their way in creatures. This means, ocean microplastics are entering our food chain and finally to our bodies. Similarly, there are reports, detecting microplastics in bottled water, canned food and indoor air dust. This is a widespread problem in microplastics research that makes it hard or impossible to compare studies. It is mainly because we don’t have any good method yet to analyze microplastics in different matrices. In this talk, we will present an overview of microplastic problem globally, our understanding on its impact and challenges in their analysis. The analytical solution will be major focus of this seminar.

 

Dr Sathrugnan received his PhD in chemistry from CUSAT and did his post doctoral research in USA and Japan before moving to Singapore. He has more than 15 years of experience in Environmental and Food Safety research. Currently, He is working as Technical Manager at Frontier Laboratories (Japan) and based in Singapore.

 

Dr Ichi Watanabe is VP, Global Marketing of Frontier Laboratories. He received his PhD from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. He has strong experience of Polymer analysis with PYGCMS as well as Tandem micro reactor for catalyst screening and pyrolysis research

 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.