Dr. Piyush Kant Pandey is the Vice Chancellor of the Amity University Chhattisgarh, Raipur. He studied Ferrous-Metallurgical Chemistry at the Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur received a Master's Degree in 1987 and a Ph.D. Degree in Environmental Depositions Chemistry in 1998. During his doctoral program, he was awarded Research Fellowship (1994) in Environmental Protection and Formation at Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Czech Republic, by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, and the Czech Republic. He also obtained PG-Diploma in Management and later he was awarded Ph.D. (Fellow of Management) in 2018 from IIM Indore in OB&HR. He was the first to identify Arsenic and fluoride toxicity in the region of Central India. His study team then concentrated on all areas of health, contamination extent, bioaccumulation, polluted water treatment, and contaminated soil remediation, among other things. As a result of these accomplishments, he was appointed as a Government of India Regulator and recognized EIA Expert. He served for three years as a member of the Government of India's State Environmental Assessment Committee (SEAC), which the Ministry of Environment and Forest appointed through a gazette notification. He has already supervised 25 Ph.D. students plus 2 pursuing scholars, 25 Master's students, and 27 Master's Diploma theses. He is a productive researcher who has worked on Funded Research projects nationally and internationally (Completed 12 Research Projects).