Dr. Sheikh Adil Edrisi

Dr. Adil is working as an Assistant Professor at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in Patiala, India. He pursued his Doctoral Research at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. His research is focused on utilizing geospatial modeling to systematically classify and explore the marginal and degraded lands for their efficient management in producing various value-added bioproducts, including biomass and bioenergy, regaining ecosystem services, and attaining multiple UN-SDGs for a sustainable future. He has screened different multipurpose plant species and developed a novel polyculture zonation technique. He suggests exploring and utilizing indigenous, fast-growing, multipurpose, climate-adaptive plant species to restore degraded lands. He is particularly interested in soil quality indexing, restoration ecology, and emergy-based product sustainability assessment for policy outline. In line with the recognition for his work, he has been awarded the prestigious Green Talents Award 2019 by the BMBF, Germany. He has also been awarded the National Travel Grant (DST-SERB) to present his research work abroad (Slovenia, Europe), awarded with the NASI-Springer Award-2018 from the National Academy of Science, India (NASI), and multiple young scientist awards. Additionally, he holds editorial roles in the journals of Springer and Wiley.