Dibyendu Sarkar is a professor of environmental engineering and the founding director of Stevens Center for Sustainability at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He is a broadly trained environmental geochemist with research interests in soil and water chemistry, environmental remediation, risk assessment, and green technology development. Dr. Sarkar graduated with a PhD in geochemistry from the University of Tennessee in 1997. He is also a professional geologist licensed in Texas. Thus far, he has advised over 35 PhD and MS/ME students, over 25 postdoctoral associates, and many visiting scholars. He has published over 200 journal articles, 20 book chapters, and over 300 technical abstracts and conference proceedings; he has also edited three books and authored one research monograph. So far, he has generated more than USD 18 million in grant funding as a principal investigator/ co-principal investigator to support the research activities of his group. Dr. Sarkar is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. He is also the founding principal of SIROM Scientific Solutions, LLC, an environmental R & D start-up incorporated in New Jersey. Besides, he is the editor-in-chief of Springer’s Current Pollution Reports and serves in the editorial board of several other journals.