BIOGRAPHY

Mynepalli K. C. Sridhar is Professor of Environmental Health, and a Consultant in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He obtained his Academic degrees from Andhra University (BSc)Waltair, MS University of Baroda (MSc), and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (PhD), all in India. He joined University of Ibadan in 1977 and continued several years to date in various capacities. His researches started with wastewater treatment using activated sludge process originally built by Gilbert J. Fowler, the founder While in Nigeria from 1977, he continued his researches on several pressing needs of the communities. In particular, water resources, water quality and treatment, water safety, greywater and blackwater, municipal solid wastes and hazardous wastes. Professor Sridhar revived the interest in solid waste management applying the 3R principles (now 5Rs) and immensely contributed to large scale application of composting, biogas and waste to energy technologies. As a Consultant to UNICEF worked on WASH in about 9 States in Nigeria), UNDP (developed community scale organic fertilizer plant from market wastes), UNHABITAT (waste segregation and recycling in communities), and World Bank (Healthcare waste management in corridor countries and capacity building), he collected baseline data on waste management practices (on waste recycling, hazardous and infectious wastes) and disseminated to government and public. He supervised over 350 postgraduate students on environmental health projects. He obtained over 12 patents, published several books, technical reports and over 350scientific papers in International Journals. He traveled widely and spent several periods in USA (Cornell), Switzerland (EAWAG), Denmark (Chemcontrol), Lebanon (American University of Beirut), Kuwait (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), and University of The Gambia. Received the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, prestigious ‘Outstanding Researcher’ award in the year 2016. He initiated ‘Renewable Resources Centre’ in the University of Ibadan in 2013 where over 25 viable waste to energy turnkey projects in resource conservation and recycling are showcased for ready commercialization. He is a member of several scientific organizations in the areas of Environment and Health.