Tanveer Adyel

Dr Tanveer Adyel is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at RMIT. He also co-leads the "Monitoring" research pillar at the RMIT Centre for Nature Positive Solutions. Tanveer, with an academic background in Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering, works on a) plastic pollution and b) urban stormwater engineering areas.

Tanveer’s multidisciplinary research on plastic pollution covers diverse spatial areas, including coastal wetlands, constructed wetlands, freshwater ecosystems and soil. Tanveer has published opinion pieces, including (3x) Letters in Science; Correspondences in Nature and Nature Sustainability;, and Comment in The Lancet Planetary Health, respectively, on plastic/microplastic research. His works apply advanced analytical tools, microbial ecology and modelling to assess the fate and transport of plastic pollution within the environmental matrix. He is expanding his research domain on the circular economy and alternative financial approaches/accounting on plastic pollution management. Recently, Tanveer received a highly prestigious and competitive Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to work on microplastics within Australian coastal wetlands. He also received the Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology (2024) for oxygen profiling in microplastic-exposed sediment.

Tanveer also works on urban stormwater management using nature-based solutions (NbS) or water sensitive urban design (WSUD) approaches. He is particularly interested in working with constructed wetlands and rain gardens on urban stormwater pollutant attenuation.

Tanveer has several awards and fellowships in recognition of his research, including the Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year (2022); Deakin University Award for Scientific Publication (2022); AGU 100 Centennial Award (2019), etc.

Hiring fully funded PhD candidates: Fully funded PhD scholarships are available. Pls see LinkedIn Post: 

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7335536019812876290/ 

Some potential PhD topics are:

1. Plastic in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
2. Alternative financial approach/accounting on plastic pollution management 
3. Circular economy in the plastic waste sector
4. Plastic treaty on horizon: measure policy effectiveness
5. Plastic weathering/aging and its implications in global biogeochemical cycles
6. Molecular fingerprinting of DOM from plastics (in water, Ag soil)
7. Fate of coastal wetland carbon under microplastic pollution
8. Plastisphere as a new biotope
9. Role of oxygen dynamics on the effects of microplastics on blue carbon ecosystems 
10. Microsensor and 2D planar optode for monitoring coastal wetlands impacted by nano/microplastics 
11. Plastic as a "Double-edged sword" in carbon dynamics 
12. Plastic pollution and environmental justice

If you are motivated and meet all required conditions, pls reach out. In your email, please attach your CV, transcripts, English proficiency test score (if applicable), a short proposal for the proposed project, and a short video explaining why you are interested and the best fit for this project. You can also propose your own topic.