Sasmita Chand is working as an Assistant Professor in Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India. She has completed her PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT Dhanbad, MTech in Environmental Science and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi, and MSc in Environmental Sciences from Utkal University, Odisha, India. She has key research interest in the field of industrial waste management and leaching of constituent elements from industrial solid waste.