Dr. Paromita Chakraborty is Professor and Head at Centre for Research in Environment, Sustainability Advocacy and Climate Change (REACH) in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. Dr.Chakraborty leads the Environmental Science and Technology research group, and her group is intensively working on fate, transport and cost-effective remediation techniques for legacy and emerging organic contaminants including endocrine disruptors. Dr.Chakraborty is the principal investigator for projects funded by national funding agencies like DST, MoEFCC, and international funding agencies like Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Embassy and Swiss Development Cooperation. She has published 100+ scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals including Water Research, Environmental Science and Technology etc. She has edited 4 books and 25+ book chapters mostly in Springer and Elsevier publishing houses. She is an associate editor for the “Science of Total Environment? and the Arabian Journal of Geosciences.