Rajveer SinghUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 405 Mathews Ave., Urbana, Illinois, United States
Biography
Dr. Rajveer Singh is a Research Associate at Beckman Institute for Advance Science and Technology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He received his Ph.D. from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in 2011 and masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India both in Environmental Engineering after which he worked as postdoctoral research associate in Civil and Environmental Engineering/ Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests lie in bioremediation of contaminated groundwater aquifers, reactive transport in porous media, geological carbon sequestration, enhanced oil recovery from reservoirs and their environmental impacts, developing Raman spectroscopy for environmental monitoring and environmental microfluidics.
Research Interest
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering: Environmental chemistry and biotechnology, Fate and transport of chemical and biological agents in simulated porous environment, Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater aquifers, Geological carbon sequestration, Water quality, Water and wastewater treatment, Watershed and groundwater hydrology
Energy Resources Recovery and their Environmental Impact: Microbial enhanced oil recovery, Biosouring mitigation in oil reservoirs, Biogeochemistry and petrology of subsurface reservoir systems, Biomineralization processes,
Environmental Microfluidics and Raman Spectroscopy: Using microfluidic techniques for developing prototypes of natural and engineered systems, Integration of Raman spectroscopy with microfluidics to develop innovative and environmentally friendly non-invasive chemical measurements as an alternate to wet chemistry methods