Date of Birth:
6th December, 1985

Qualification:
B.Sc., 2004, CCSU, Meerut
M.Sc., 2006, JNU, New Delhi
Ph.D., 2013, JNU, New Delhi

Contact Address:
Department of Environmental Studies
Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
Santiniketan – 731235

Email:
shweta.yadav@visva-bharati.ac.in; shwetayadav.jnu@gmail.com

Fax:
+91-3463-262728

Phone numbers (mobile and/or landline):
+91-3463-261913 (O)
+91-9475381083 (M)
+91-9910088546 (R)

Research areas:
Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Aerosol Dynamics

Awards:
• Qualified University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test for Junior Research Fellowship & Lectureship (UGC-NET-JRF) in Environmental Sciences (December 2005).
• Recipient of Jawahar Bhawan Trust Scholarship in M.Sc. for scoring highest grade points.

Other Academic Distinctions:
• Resource person for initiating characterization of organic aerosols using Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (TD-GC-MS) in India.
• Trained through XXIII National Training Programme in Electron Microscopy for Scientific Investigators, 2007 (Basic & Advance Course), organized by AIIMS, New Delhi – 110029.

Research Experience:
• Junior Research Fellow in a CSIR funded project- Chemical Characterization of lower Tropospheric aerosol load in Delhi and its implication to Ozone formation. (September, 2006 – July, 2007)

Technical Skills:
Gained working experience of chemical analysis of aerosol/environmental samples using following techniques on routine basis:
• Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (TD-GC-MS)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES)
• Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (WD-XRF)
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS)
• CHNS-O analyzer

Significant publications in Referred International Journals:
• Yadav, S., Tandon, A., Attri, A.K. (2013). Monthly and seasonal variations in aerosol associated n-alkane profile in relation to meteorological parameters in New Delhi, India. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 13, 287-300. doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.01.0004. [IF: 2.827]
• Yadav, S., Tandon, A., Attri, A.K. (2013). Characterization of Aerosol Associated Non-Polar Organic Compounds using TD-GC-MS: A Four Year Study from Delhi, India. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 252-253, 29-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.02.024. [Elsevier; IF: 4.173]
• Tandon, A., Yadav, S., Attri, A.K. (2012), Analysis of Annual Cyclic Variations in Total Ozone Column over Indian Region. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 69(4), 321-335.doi: 10.1007/s10874-012-9243-4. [Springer; IF: 0.985]
• Tandon, A., Yadav, S., Attri, A.K. (2013). Non-linear analysis of short term variations in ambient visibility. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 4, doi: 10.5094/APR.2013.020.