
Professor Rakesh Kanda
Vice Dean International / Professor - Exposome Science
Halsbury Building 130
- Email: rakesh.kanda@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267803
- Environmental Sciences
- Department of Life Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Topics
I am interested in supervising PhD topics in the following broad areas:
- Environmental Organic Chemistry
- Environmental Chemistry of Trace Elements
- Wastewater Treatment & Characterisation
- Potable Water Treatment & Characterisation
- Disinfection-by-products e.g. projects concerned with the qualitative and quantitative understanding of DBPs in water samples
- Exposome Science
- Environmental Science e.g. projects concerned with effect directed characterisation of the ecotoxicity/toxicity of samples
- Environmental Analysis e.g. projects utilizing Advanced Analytical Chemistry techniques e.g. Chromatography (HPLC/UPLC/GC), Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS, HRM), Chemometrics and Sampling
I am also interested in research topics in related subjects
Research supervision
I supervise a number of PhD students in Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering as principal and second supervisor.
I’m interested to hear from potential postgraduate researchers in the following areas:
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Environmental Chemistry/Environmental Analysis
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Environmental Mass Spectrometry
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Water Quality
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Wastewater and potable water treatment