Rate My Professor Sreenivasulu Chadalavada

Dr. Sreenivasulu Chadalavada serves as Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER) in the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle since 2016. Previously, he was Adjunct Research Fellow and Senior Hydrogeologist at the University of South Australia and Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Currently, he coordinates programs for the Department of Defence and BHP at CRC CARE, headquartered at the University of Newcastle, managing grants, project assessments, and demonstrating cost-effective remediation for contaminated sites nationwide. He also offers consultation services, teaches Hydrogeology and environmental remediation, and supervises PhD students.

His PhD, obtained from the Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation at the University of South Australia, focused on simulation-optimization modelling to pinpoint unknown groundwater pollution sources, resulting in a novel hydrogeological modelling software tool. Over the past decade, his research has emphasized cutting-edge groundwater modelling, hydrogeology, and site characterization for contamination. Core interests encompass genetic algorithms, simulation-optimization methods, vapour intrusion models, and mathematical simulations of hydrogeological processes and contaminant transport. As an investigator, he has obtained grants exceeding $1.8 million from CRC CARE. Select publications feature "Two-dimensional chlorinated vapour intrusion model involving advective transport of vapours with a highly permeable granular layer in the vadose zone serving as the preferential pathway" (2023, Science of the Total Environment), "Evaluating the role of preferential pathways in exacerbating vapour intrusion risks" (2023, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances), "Insights into vapour intrusion phenomena: Current outlook and preferential pathway scenario" (2021, Science of the Total Environment), "Recent advances in the analysis of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—A review" (2020, Environmental Technology & Innovation), and "Petroleum hydrocarbons (PH) in groundwater aquifers: An overview of environmental fate, toxicity, microbial degradation and risk-based remediation approaches" (2018, Environmental Technology & Innovation). His contributions advance remediation strategies in environmental science.