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Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

Assistant Professor
Ashwani Kumar Tiwari
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Environmental Sciences
Off. Phone
011-26708881
Email
ashwaniktiwari@mail.jnu.ac.in, ashwani.enviro@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD in Environmental Science (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Hydrogeochemistry

Pollution of water resources by geogenic and anthropogenic activities

Groundwater-seawater interaction

Aquifer vulnerability

Water quality and health

Mining, Water resources management and GIS

Experience

Post-Doctoral Research (2016 to 2020, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Awards & Honours

Young Scientist Award in Groundwater Investigation and Management 2022 by the Indian National Chapter - International Association of Hydrogeologists (INC-IAH).

Best Lightning Talk Award in the category Environmental Science and Environmental Sustainability at the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, 2024

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.

Erasmus Mundus (AREaS+) Doctoral Exchange Scholarship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Chair of Research Funding Working Group of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), since September 2023.

Member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), since February 2024. 

University Co-ordination, International Water Association ( IWA)-Young Water Professionals (YWP) Chapter in India.

Awarded a small grant from the DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for the high-impact paper publication.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Tiwari A K and Singh A K (2014) Hydrogeochemical investigation and groundwater quality assessment of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of the Geological Society of India (Springer) 83:329-343

Tiwari A K, De Maio M, Singh P K, Mahato M K (2015) Evaluation of Surface Water Quality by Using GIS and a Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI) Model in a Coal Mining Area, India. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Springer) 95(3):304-310.

Tiwari A K, Singh P K, Mahato M K (2016) Environmental geochemistry and quality assessment of mine water of the West Bokaro coalfield, India. Mine Water and the Environment (Springer) 35:525–535.

Tiwari A K, Singh P K, De Maio M (2016) Evaluation of aquifer vulnerability in a coal mining of India by using GIS based DRASTIC model. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer) 9(6):1-15.

Tiwari A K, Pisciotta A, De Maio M (2019) Evaluation of groundwater salinization and pollution level on Favignana Island, Italy. Environmental Pollution (Elsevier) 249: 969-981.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Micallef, A, Person, M, Haroon, A, Weymer BA, Jegen M, Schwalenberg K, Faghih Z, Duan S, Cohen D, Mountjoy JJ Woelz S, Gable C, Averes T, Tiwari A K (2020) 3D characterisation and quantification of an offshore freshened groundwater system in the Canterbury Bight. Nature Communications (Nature publication) 11:1372.

Tiwari A K, Suozzi E, Fiorucci A, Lo Russo S (2020) Assessment of groundwater geochemistry and human health risk of an intensively cropped alluvial plain, NW Italy. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2020.1775484

De Maio M and Tiwari A K (2020) Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management, (Edited Book), Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43953-8

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.