Prof bags James Morgan award

Dr Naresh Kumar Rawat, an Indian scientist, who is working as Assistant Professor at  Wageningen University in The Netherlands, gets James Morgan award by the American Chemical Society for 2025.

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Prof Rawat said he was the first Indian to get the honour. The James Morgan Early Career Award, established in 2014, is given each year by the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society and its flagship journal Environmental Science & Technology in honour of Prof James J Morgan, the first editor-in-chief of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). The award recognises scientists early in their careers who are making waves in the area of environmental science and technology.

Prof Rawat leads an environmental geochemistry research group at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands, where he and his team study the fate of nutrient and contaminants in redox dynamic systems at soil-water interface. Kumar will deliver a presentation when receiving the award during the ACS national meeting in March 2025 in San Diego.

Prof Rawat belongs to a small village Sagwan in Bhiwani district. After his MSc and MTech from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar, he did his PhD from Aix-Marseille University in France with EU’s most prestigious Marie Curie fellowship and then worked as research scientist at the world’s best Stanford University in USA. He was a group leader at the University of Vienna in Austria before taking professorship at Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 2021. Wageningen University is the top ranked university in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.