Dr Manjula Nair

Assistant Professor

Role
Assistant Professor
Section
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Email
Manjula Nair

About

Dr Manjula Nair is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS), Heriot-Watt University, Dubai Campus, since September 2018.

She teaches Chemical Reactivity, Industrial Chemical Processes, Thermodynamics, Introduction to Process Engineering and Bioprocessing courses for UG students.

Biography

Academic Leadership and Affiliations:

Dr Manjula Nair is the Year coordinator for Stages 1 &2 of the Chemical Engineering program. She is a member of the International Desalination Association and serves as an honorary member of the research wing at Banasthali University. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

Qualifications

  • PhD - University of Banasthali
  • M.Sc - Bombay University
Research

Manjula’s research interests are in the area of water desalination and water remediation. She has published research papers on detection and removal of heavy metal ions from water, textile effluent treatment and environmental impact of desalination.

She has reviewed papers for reputed journals like Elsevier, Deswater and for the Water Resource and Environment Conferences.

Publications

Publications

  • NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Water desalination and challenges: The Middle East perspective: a review”. Desalination and Water Treatment,51, 2030-2040, 2013.
  • DHILLON A, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Analytical methods for sensing of health hazardous arsenic from biotic and abiotic natural resources”. Analytical Methods, 7, 10088-10108, 2015.
  • DHILLON A, NAIR M ,KUMAR D &BHARGAVA,S. “Excellent fluoride decontamination and antibacterial efficacy of Fe–Ca–Zr hybrid metal oxide nanomaterial”. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 457,289-297, 2015.
  • DHILLON A, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Analytical methods for determination and sensing of fluoride in biotic and abiotic sources: A review. Analytical Methods, 8, 5338-5352,2016.
  • KUMAR D, SHARMA N & NAIR M. “Synthesis, spectral and extended spectrum beta-lactamase studies of transition metal tetraaza macrocyclic complexes”. Journal of Biological and Inorganic Chemistry, 22,535-543, 2017.
  • SHARMA R, RAGHAV S, NAIR M &KUMAR D. “Kinetic and Adsorption studies of Mercury and Lead by Ceria nanoparticles entrapped in turmeric powder”. ACS Omega, 3,14606-14619, 2018.
  • KUMAR D, NAIR M & PAINULA R. “Highly Responsive Bioinspired AgNPs Probe for the Precise Colorimetric Detection of the Mn(II) in Aqueous Systems”. Plasmonics, 14, 303-311,2018 .
  • RAGHAV S, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Trimetallic oxide entrapped in alginate polymeric matrix employed for adsorption studies of fluoride”. Surfaces and Interfaces, 13, 112-132, 2018 
  • NEHRA S, NAIR M & KUMAR D.” Hydrothermally Shape-Controlled Synthesis of TiO2/Graphene for Fluoride Adsorption Studies”. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data,64, 5373-5384,2019 
  • RAGHAV S, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Tetragonal prism shaped Ni-Al bimetallic adsorbent for study of adsorptive removal of fluoride and role of ion-exchange”. Applied Surface Science, 494,2019.
  • NEHRA S, DHILLON A, SHARMA R, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Water-dispersible magnetite montmorillonite encapsulated cellulose beads for fluoride removals and their kinetics and mechanism”. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management,18,2022. 

 Book Chapters

  • TALREJA N, NAIR M & KUMAR D. “Early Diagnosis of Cancer using NMR spectroscopy: A novel diagnostic approach”. Bentham eBooks, Applications of NMR Spectroscopy,7,164-185,2019.
  • SHARMA N, NAIR M &KUMAR D.” Water Pollution arising from the Chemical industry and its impact on environmental and human health”. Nova Publishers, Advances in Environmental Research,74,2020.
  • NAIR M, PANCHAL K. “Metal Organic Frameworks for water treatment”.CRC Press, Applications of Advanced Nanomaterials in water treatment,45-62, 2022