Dr. Antara Das is currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at FLAME University, under the mentorship of Dr. Barun Kumar Thakur. She received her doctorate degree from the School of Environmental Studies (SOES), Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2023). She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and a degree in Bachelors of Science (H) in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta.
Her research interest are primarily concerned with environmental contamination in the soil-water-food nexus (special emphasis on arsenic), impact study, risk assessment study, socio-economic-environmental sustainability analysis and management. She is well versed in environmental analysis with sophisticated laboratory instruments like AAS, ICP-OES, XRF, UV-Spectrophotometer, Flame Photometer, ISE, Lumex Fluorimeter, etc. Earlier, she worked as Research Fellow fellow on distinguished research projects funded by BRNS (Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences), Dept. of Atomic Energy, India, and Dept. of Science and Technology and Biotechnology, West Bengal (WBDST). She was selected as an awardee of ICSSR short-term doctoral fellowship (2022–23), qualified WB-SET in 2023 (Environmental Science) and certified on ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor, Environmental Management System by IRCLASS Systems & Solutions Pvt. Ltd., accredited by IRCA. She has one (1) year of working experience in academia and consultancy associated with Adamas University, West Bengal, and Prayukti International Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata.
She has a strong publication record in reputed international (Sci indexed) and national journals and books (Google Scholar). Her work has also been covered by various national newspapers and magazines like ‘30 Stades’, ‘Down to Earth’, ‘Outlook’, ‘India Today’, ‘Bartaman Patrika’, ‘Ei Somoy’ etc.Notable Publications:
- Das, A., Joardar, M., De, A., Mridha, D., Ghosh, S., Das, B., Mandal, J., Thakur, B. K. & Roychowdhury, T. (2024). Appraisal of treated drinking water quality from arsenic removal units in West Bengal, India: Approach on safety, efficiency, sustainability, future health risk and socioeconomics. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 465, 133216.
- De, A., Das, A., Joardar, M., Majumdar, A., Dey, A., Das, J., Thakur, B. K. & Roychowdhury, T. (2024). Investigation of Groundwater Fluoride Dynamics in the Lower Gangetic Plain Including Natural Influences with Economic and Health Issues. ACS ES&T Water
- Das, A., Joardar, M., Chowdhury, N. R., Mridha, D., De, A., Majumder, S., & Roychowdhury, T. (2022). Significance of the prime factors regulating arsenic toxicity and associated health risk: A hypothesis-based investigation in a critically exposed population of West Bengal, India. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 1- 24
- Nath, B., Das, A., Majumder, S., Roychowdhury, T., Ni-Meister, W., & Rahman, M. M. (2022). Geospatial Machine Learning Prediction of Arsenic Distribution in the Groundwater of Murshidabad District, West Bengal, India: Analyzing Spatiotemporal Patterns to Understand Human Health Risk. ACS ES&T Water, 2(12), 2409-2421
- Das, A., Joardar, M., De, A., Mridha, D., Chowdhury, N. R., Khan, M. T. B. K., & Roychowdhury, T. (2021). Pollution index and health risk assessment of arsenic through different groundwater sources and its load on soil-paddy-rice system in a part of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 15, 100652.
- Das, A., Joardar, M., Chowdhury, N. R., De, A., Mridha, D., & Roychowdhury, T. (2021). Arsenic toxicity in livestock growing in arsenic endemic and control sites of West Bengal: risk for human and environment. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 43, 3005-3025.
- Joardar, M., Das, A., Mridha, D., De, A., Chowdhury, N. R., & Roychowdhury, T. (2021). Evaluation of acute and chronic arsenic exposure on school children from exposed and apparently control areas of West Bengal, India. Exposure and Health, 13, 33-50.
- Das, A., Das, S. S., Chowdhury, N. R., Joardar, M., Ghosh, B., & Roychowdhury, T. (2020). Quality and health risk evaluation for groundwater in Nadia district, West Bengal: an approach on its suitability for drinking and domestic purpose. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 10, 100351.
- Chowdhury, N. R., Das, A., Joardar, M., De, A., Mridha, D., Das, R., Rahman, M. M. & Roychowdhury, T. (2020). Flow of arsenic between rice grain and water: Its interaction, accumulation and distribution in different fractions of cooked rice. Science of the Total Environment, 731, 138937.
- Chowdhury, N. R., Das, A., Mukherjee, M., Swain, S., Joardar, M., De, A., Mridha, D. & Roychowdhury, T. (2020). Monsoonal paddy cultivation with phase-wise arsenic distribution in exposed and control sites of West Bengal, alongside its assimilation in rice grain. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 400,123206.
Conference:
- Das, A., De, A., Joardar, M., Majumdar, A., Mridha, D., & Roychowdhury, T. (2023, July). The vicious cycle of arsenic toxicity in environment: a study for livestock and human health threat in West Bengal, India. In Goldschmidt 2023 Conference. GOLDSCHMIDT.
- Das, A., Chowdhury, N. R., Joardar, M., De, A., Mridha, D., Ghosh, R., Bhowmick, A. & Roychowdhury, T. (2019, September). Arsenic accumulation in paddy plant during pre-monsoon cultivation and its additional entry in rice grain through Post harvesting technology. In 2019 International Conference on Energy Management for Green Environment (UEMGREEN) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
- “Role of arsenic contaminated water during cooking of rice grain: an inverse relation”, 8th International Congress and Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment, Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development (As2021), Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands