Landfill Mining of Legacy Msw: Global Insights and Indian Experience
暫譯: 舊有城市固體廢棄物的填埋場開採：全球洞察與印度經驗

Mohit Somani has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the School of Infrastructure at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India since October 2023. He earned his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, India in 2021. His research specialization lies in Geoenvironmental Engineering, with a primary focus on landfills, remediation of contaminated soil, and resource recovery. Before joining IIT Bhubaneswar, Dr. Somani worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Norwegian Geotechnical Engineering, Oslo in Norway. He has authored 30 research papers published in international journals and conferences. Noteworthy recognitions include Distinction in Doctoral Research and the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from IIT Delhi. His contributions extend internationally, having received prestigious fellowships and scholarships, such as the Newton-Bhabha Fellowship from the British Council, Mobilitas Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Estonia (European Union), Research Mobility Grant from Campus France, and the ISWASWIS Scholarship for attending a winter school at UTA Arlington, Texas.

Manoj Datta is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1980. His areas of interest include soil mechanics, geotechnical & geoenvironmental engineering, landfill engineering, foundation engineering, ground engineering and earth dams. He has co-authored a book on Geotechnical Engineering and edited three books in the areas of landfills, solid waste management and ash ponds. He has published over 180 papers in journals and conferences and has been consultant to over 150 projects in the areas of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. He has been involved in planning, design, construction and remediation of over two dozen HW & MSW Landfills and contaminated waste disposal sites in India. He has been associated with the Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forests as well as Ministry of Urban Development in framing of guidelines and design manuals for Municipal Solid Waste landfills and Hazardous Waste landfills. Prof. Datta was the Chairperson of the 6th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnology held by ISSMGE in New Delhi in 2010. Prof. Datta has received several best-paper awards of the Indian Geotechnical Society, Leadership and Lifetime Achievement Awards of IGS (Delhi Chapter). He delivered the prestigious IGS Annual Lecture in 2011 at IGC, Kochi He was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by IIT Delhi in 2018.

G. V. Ramana is a Professor (HAG) of Geotechnical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has been with IIT Delhi for the last 27 years and was the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering from 2020 to 2022. He concurrently holds Manoj Datta 'Chair Professor' position (2022 - 2024). He was seconded to AIT (Asian Institute of Technology) Bangkok to teach the course Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering by the Government of India in 2005. He is one of the two co-authors of the text book Principles of Soil Dynamics published by CENGAGE in 2010. He was the Associate Editor (for 4 years) of ISET Journal of Earthquake Engineering for Soil Dynamics and Member, Editorial Advisory Panel of "Geotechnical Engineering" published by ICE (for two years). He has supervised 24 Doctoral students and several tens of Masters and Bachelor students. His research works are documented in several International Journals, national journals, international conferences, national conferences and these are often cited (citations > 3200 with an i10 index of 59 and h-index of 28). He has been a member of various expert committees. He has been actively involved with Industries.

Mohit Somani 自 2023 年 10 月起擔任印度布巴內斯瓦爾印度理工學院 (IIT Bhubaneswar) 基礎設施學院的助理教授。他於 2021 年在印度德里印度理工學院 (IIT Delhi) 獲得博士學位。他的研究專長為地環境工程，主要集中於垃圾填埋場、受污染土壤的修復及資源回收。在加入 IIT Bhubaneswar 之前，Somani 博士曾在挪威奧斯陸的挪威岩土工程擔任博士後研究員。他已發表 30 篇國際期刊和會議的研究論文。值得注意的榮譽包括在博士研究中獲得的優異獎和 IIT Delhi 的最佳博士論文獎。他的貢獻延伸至國際，曾獲得多項著名的獎學金和獎助金，如英國文化協會的 Newton-Bhabha 獎學金、愛沙尼亞政府 (歐盟) 的 Mobilitas 博士後獎學金、法國校園的研究流動獎助金，以及 ISWASWIS 獎學金以參加德克薩斯州阿靈頓的冬季學校。

Manoj Datta 是德里印度理工學院土木工程系的名譽教授，自 1980 年以來一直從事教學和研究。他的研究興趣包括土壤力學、岩土工程與地環境工程、垃圾填埋工程、基礎工程、地基工程和土壤壩。他共同撰寫了一本岩土工程的書籍，並編輯了三本有關垃圾填埋場、固體廢物管理和灰燼池的書籍。他在期刊和會議上發表了超過 180 篇論文，並擔任超過 150 個岩土工程和地環境工程項目的顧問。他參與了印度超過兩打的有害廢物 (HW) 和市政固體廢物 (MSW) 垃圾填埋場及受污染廢物處置場的規劃、設計、建設和修復工作。他曾與中央污染控制委員會、環境與森林部以及城市發展部合作，制定市政固體廢物垃圾填埋場和有害廢物垃圾填埋場的指導方針和設計手冊。Datta 教授曾擔任 2010 年在新德里舉行的第六屆國際環境岩土技術大會的主席。他獲得了印度岩土工程學會的多項最佳論文獎，以及 IGS (德里分會) 的領導力和終身成就獎。他於 2011 年在科欽的 IGC 發表了著名的 IGS 年度講座，並於 2018 年獲得 IIT Delhi 的教學卓越獎。

G. V. Ramana 是德里印度理工學院的岩土工程教授 (HAG)。他在 IIT Delhi 工作了 27 年，並於 2020 年至 2022 年擔任土木工程系主任。他同時擔任 Manoj Datta 的「講座教授」職位 (2022 - 2024)。他於 2005 年被印度政府派往泰國亞洲科技大學 (AIT) 教授土壤動力學和地震工程課程。他是 2010 年由 CENGAGE 出版的教科書《土壤動力學原理》的兩位共同作者之一。他曾擔任 ISET 地震工程期刊的副編輯 (4 年)，並是 ICE 出版的《岩土工程》編輯諮詢小組成員 (兩年)。他已指導 24 位博士生及數十位碩士和學士生。他的研究成果發表在多個國際期刊、國內期刊、國際會議和國內會議上，並經常被引用 (引用次數超過 3200，i10 指數為 59，h 指數為 28)。他曾是多個專家委員會的成員，並積極參與產業界的合作。