Sheikh Adil Edrisi

Sheikh Adil Edrisi is an Assistant Professor at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts & Sciences (TSLAS) at the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in Patiala, India. He pursued his Doctoral Research at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. His research focuses on using geospatial modeling to systematically classify and explore marginal and degraded lands for efficient management to produce various value-added bioproducts, including biomass and bioenergy, restore ecosystem services, and achieve multiple UN-SDGs for a sustainable future. He has screened different multipurpose plant species and developed a novel polyculture zonation technique. He suggests exploring and utilizing indigenous, fast-growing, multipurpose, climate-adaptive plant species to restore degraded lands. He is particularly interested in soil quality indexing, restoration ecology, and emergy-based product sustainability assessment for policy outline. In recognition of his work, he has been awarded the prestigious Green Talents Award 2019 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. He has also been awarded the National Travel Grant (DST-SERB) to present his research abroad (Slovenia, Europe) and the NASI-Springer Award-2018 from the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). He is currently handling a Special Issue, "Restoring Degraded Lands to Attain UN-SDGs" as a Guest Editor in Land, MDPI, and also an active Reviewer Board Member of leading journals, subjectively focusing on the Land Degradation, Restoration, Cleaner and Greener Productions such as Land, Resources, and Plants (MDPI). He has also been recognized as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Energy Research and has reviewed for various International peer-reviewed journals published by prestigious publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, Nature Publishing Group, Springer, PLOS, Cell Press, and Taylor & Francis. He is also contributing to International Reports, particularly the Global Status Report of Renewable Energy Policy Network of the 21st Century (REN21+). He also co-authored the "Land Restoration for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: An International Resource Panel Think Piece" for IRP-UNEP and served as an active member of GLP, ISDS, ISPRS, GSBI, and IUCN Commissions (CEM, CEC, and CEESP) to tackle global sustainability challenges.