DR. SHEIKH ADIL EDRISI
Assistant Professor
PhD in Botany, MPhil in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, India
Assistant Professor, TSLAS, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bhadson Road, Patiala-147004, Punjab
Bioenergy Production, Land Restoration, Restoration Ecology, Socio-economics, Sustainability Sciences.
sheikhadil.edrisi@thapar.edu
Sheikh Adil Edrisi is one of the 25 globally recognized potential young scientists to be awarded for the Green Talents Awards-2019, which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. He is exploring possibilities to restore and utilize the marginal and degraded lands for biomass and bioenergy production and meanwhile regaining its various ecosystem services for environmental protection and sustainable development in India. He is focused to address multiple UN-SDGs associated with land restoration and sustainable bioenergy production in Indian scenarios through multidisciplinary approaches. He is utilizing the application of geospatial modelling to classify, explore and sustainably manage the degraded lands for bioenergy production and regaining other ecosystem services via conservation and restoration practices. To this, he has screened various multipurpose, perennial plant species and developed a novel spatial technique for a strategic tree plantation across India. He has also proposed the management strategies towards the invasive plant species for halting the biodiversity loss in the ecosystems and maintaining its viability, which aimed to protect the ecological systems. He has further developed different soil quality indicators for different types of degraded lands. Through his interdisciplinary approach, he conducted the ecological profiling of degraded lands, so that policy makers can adopt inventive measures for the site-specific restoration of these devastated sites. Therefore, Adil is very much interested in exploring the different multidisciplinary dimensions of geospatial modelling, restoration ecology, soil sciences, socio-economics, policy outlining for the restoration of degraded lands and bioenergy production.
Before joining Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Adil has worked as Post-doctoral Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Prior to that he has also worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at Beijing Normal University, China (2017) and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia (2018) and completed his Doctoral Research from Banaras Hindu University, India in 2019. He has completed his MPhil in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (2013) and MSc in Botany (2012) from Banaras Hindu University, India. Besides the Green Talent Award, Adil has also been honoured with the NASI-Springer Award in 2018 provided by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) for the best research in his field. He has also been awarded the National Travel Grant from DST-SERB, Govt. of India to present his research in Slovenia. Currently, he is also delivering his role as editorial as well as review board member for various international peer-reviewed journals of different prestigious publishers like Elsevier, Wiley, Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Plos, Cell Press, Taylor & Francis. Apart from his contribution in various publications, he has co-authored in the book published by International Resource Panel-United Nations Environment Programme (IRP-UNEP) and serving as an active member of various international organizations including IUCN Commissions (CEM, CEC and CEESP) for tackling global challenges in sustainability.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
- Upadhyay, S.K., Edrisi, S.A. Developing Sustainable Measures to Restore Fly Ash Contaminated Lands: Current Challenges and Future Prospects. Land Degradation & Development (2021), Wiley, IF: 4.977,
- Edrisi, S.A*., Abhilash, P.C. Need of Transdisciplinary Research for Accelerating Land Restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Restoration Ecology (2021), Wiley, IF: 3.404,
- Edrisi, S.A., Tripathi, V., Chaturvedi, R.K., Dubey, D.K., Patel, G., Abhilash, P.C*. Saline soil reclamation index as an efficient tool for assessing restoration progress of saline land. Land Degradation & Development (2021), Wiley, IF: 4.977,
- Edrisi, S.A., El-Keblawy, A., Abhilash, P.C*. Sustainability analysis of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC based restoration of degraded land in North India. Land (2020), MDPI, IF: 3.395,
- Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., Chaurasia, R., Pandey, K.K., Dinesh, D., Srivastava, R., Srivastava, P., Abhilash, P.C.* Restoring HCHs polluted lands as one of the priority activities during the UN-International Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030): A call for global action. Science of the Total Environment (2019), Elsevier, IF: 7.963,
- Edrisi, S.A., Tripathi, V., Abhilash, P.C.* Performance analysis and soil quality indexing for Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. grown in marginal and degraded land of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Land (2019), MDPI, IF: 3.395,
- Edrisi, S.A., Tripathi, V., Abhilash, P.C*. Towards the sustainable restoration of marginal and degraded lands of India. Tropical Ecology (2018), ISTE, IF: 0.850,
- Edrisi, S.A.*, Tripathi, V. Managing soil resources for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production (2018), Elsevier, IF: 9.297,
- Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., Chen, B., Gupta, V.K.*, Abhilash, P.C.*, Vilu, R., Gathergood, N. Biotechnological Advances for Restoring Degraded Land for Sustainable Development. Trends in Biotechnology (2017), Cell-Press, IF: 19.536,
- Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., O"Donovan, A., Gupta, V.K.*, Abhilash, P.C.* Bioremediation for fueling the biobased economy. Trends in Biotechnology (2016), Cell-Press, IF: 19.536,
- Abhilash, P.C.*, Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., Dubey, R. K., Bakshi, M., Dubey, P. K., Singh, H. B., Ebbs, S.D. Sustainability of Crop production from polluted lands. Energy, Ecology & Environment (2016), Springer, IF: NA,
- Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., Abhilash, P.C*. Towards the coupling of phytoremediation with bioenergy production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2016), Elsevier, IF: 14.982,
- Edrisi, S.A., Abhilash, P.C*. Exploring marginal and degraded lands for biomass production: An Indian scenario. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2016), Elsevier, IF: 14.982,
- Edrisi, S.A., Abhilash, P.C*. Book review: Socio-economic impacts of bioenergy production. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2015), Elsevier, IF: 5.890,
- Edrisi, S.A., Abhilash, P.C*. Sustainable bioenergy production from woody biomass: Prospects and promises. Journal of Cleaner Production (2015), Elsevier, IF: 9.297,
- Abhilash, P.C., Tripathi, V., Dubey, R. K., Edrisi, S. A. Coping with changes: adaptation of trees in a changing environment. Trends in Plant Science (2015), Cell-Press, IF: 18.313,
- Edrisi, S.A., Dubey, R.K., Tripathi, V., Bakshi, M., Srivastava, P., Jamil, S., Singh, H.B., Singh, N., Abhilash, P.C*. Jatropha curcas L.: A crucified plant waiting for resurgence. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2015), Elsevier, IF: 14.982,
- Tripathi, V., Dubey, R.K., Edrisi, S.A., Narain, K., Singh, H.B., Singh, N., Abhilash, P.C*. Towards the ecological profiling of a pesticide contaminated site for remediation and management. Ecological Engineering (2014), Elsevier, IF: 4.035,
Book Chapters
- Edrisi, S.A., Tripathi, V., Abhilash, P.C.* Carbon sequestration and harnessing biomaterials from terrestrial plantations for mitigating climate change impacts. In: Biomass, biochemicals, biofuels: climate change mitigation and sequestration of greenhouse gases. Thakur, I.S., Pandey, A., Ngo, H.H., Soccol, C.R., Larroche, C. (Eds.). Publisher: Elsevier [Forthcoming].
- Edrisi, S.A., Rakshit, A., Dubey, P.K., Abhilash, P.C., Singh, S.K., Patra, A.K., Pathak, H. (2021) Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability. In: Rakshit A., Singh S., Abhilash P., Biswas A. (eds) Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances. Springer, Singapore
- Dubey, R.K., Tripathi, V., Edrisi, S.A., Bakshi, M., Dubey, P.K., Singh, A., Verma, J.P., Singh, A., Sarma, B.K., Raskhit, A., Singh, D.P., Singh, H.B., Abhilash, P.C.* Role of Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms in Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Remediation. Published in Advances in PGPR Research. Sarma, B.K., Singh, H.B., Keswani, C. (Eds.). Publisher: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), Wallingford, United Kingdom (2017), ISBN: 9781786390325, 466 pp, .
Special Issues
- Abhilash, P.C., Edrisi, S.A., Callaham Jr, M., Tripathi, V., Frouz, J., El-Keblawy, A., Török, P., Rao, C.S. (Eds.). Challenges and Opportunities of Global Land Restoration During the UN-Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Land Degradation and Development. .
- Abhilash, P.C., Edrisi, S.A., Tripathi, V., Chaturvedi, R.K., Baral, H., El-Keblawy, A. (Eds.). Restoring Degraded Lands to Attain UN-SDGs. .
Reports
- Herrick, J.E., ... Edrisi, S.A., ... Zeleke, G. Land Restoration for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: An International Resource Panel Think Piece. A think piece of the International Resource Panel. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. IRP (2019), ISBN: 978-92-807-3758-5, .
Conference proceedings/ Souvenirs
- Edrisi, S.A., Rakshit, A., Dubey, P.K., Abhilash, P.C., Singh, S.K., Patra, A.K., Pathak, H. Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability. 84th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Soil Science & National Seminar on Developments in Soil Science. Publisher: Varanasi Chapter of the Indian Society of Soil Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. November, 2019, .
- Edrisi, S.A., Abhilash, P.C. Managing soil sustainability indicators for sustainable biomass and biofuel production. 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection. Bioenergy and Biofuels. Conference Proceedings. University of Maribor Press. ISBN: 78-961-286-048-6; 403-413p June, 2017, .
Papers presented in Conferences
More than 20 papers presented in various national and international conferences across India as well as abroad.
