Nov 2025 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India 

Apr 2025 - Oct 2025: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, USA

May 2023 - March 2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

2024: Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in PhD. Research, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2023: Harry Bloomfield Postdoctoral Matching Fellowship, Tel Aviv University, Israel

2022: Best Presentation Award, SuWAM Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2022: Best Oral Presentation Award, ICESE, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2019: First Prize in Poster Presentation, NEC, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2013: Merit Scholarship, Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal

2012: Merit Scholarship, Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal

Journal Publications:

1) Negi, R., & Chandel, M. K. (2024). Life cycle Assessment of Wastewater Reuse Alternatives in Urban Water System. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 204, 107469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107469

2) Negi, R., & Chandel, M. K. (2024). Embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater reuse strategies in Indian Himalayan region. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 192, 114269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114269

3) Kumar, R., Negi, R., Singh, B., Saini, G. K., & Jawed, M. (2023). Assessment of Cu (II) impact on aerobic sludge biomass and its post-exposure self-recovery potential. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 56, 104501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2023.104501

4) Negi, R., & Chandel, M. K. (2022). Assessment on Embodied Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Urban Water System from Life Cycle Perspective: A Typical Case of India. Sustainable Cities and Society, 104152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104152

5) Negi, R., Kumar, R., & Jawed, M. (2022). Recovery Potential of Aerobic Sludge Biomass from Co (II) Stress in Sequencing Batch Reactors. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19965-7

6) Negi, R., & Chandel, M. K. (2021). Analysing Water-Energy-GHG Nexus in a Wastewater Treatment Plant of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India. Environmental Research, 196, 110931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110931

7) Negi, R., Kumar, R., & Jawed, M. (2021). Effect of Nickel (II) and Cobalt (II) Mixture on Aerobic Sludge Biomass. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science, 16(2), 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1680/jenes.20.00035

8) Negi, R., Kumar, R. and Jawed, M. (2020). Reactor Performance and Morphology of Aerobic Sludge Biomass in the Presence and Absence of Ni (II) Ion in Feed. Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 101(1), 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-019-00407-6

Book Chapter:

1) Negi, R., Singh, V., Chandel, M. (2021). Effect of Non-revenue Water Reduction in the Life Cycle of Water- Energy Nexus: A Case Study in India. In: Springer Proceedings in Energy Manaswita Bose and Anish Modi (Eds): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/978- 981-15-5955-6_94

1) Negi, R., Mamane, H., Imbar, A., Langkau, S., & Blass, V., 2024. Life Cycle Assessment of a Novel Photocatalysis Process for Micropollutants Treatment: Impact Reduction Potential in the Transition from Lab to Pilot Scale Setup. In: The 6^th Graduate Student’s Water Research Conference Program 2024, Haifa, Israel, held on 29 December, 2024

2) Mamane, H., Negi, R., & Gaulhofer, F., 2024. CO₂-Reduction in oxidation of mircopollutants – Energy Intensive vs. Novel Solar Based Processes (CatMemReac). In: German-Israeli Cooperation in Water Technology Research Status Seminar 2024, Koblenz, Germany, held on 18 – 19 June, 2024

3) Ben Haim, L., Lieberman I., Runyan, S., Sztokman, E., Zvi, L., Negi, R., Lifshitz, J., & Blass, V., 2024. Life cycle assessment of Basse Brazil Nuts. In: The open openLCA LCA conference 2024, Berlin, Germany, held on 15 – 17 April, 2024.

4) Negi, R., & Chandel, M., 2022. Analysis of embodied energy and GHG emissions from wastewater reuse strategies: A case study of urban water system in the Indian Himalayan region. In: 17^th conference on sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems, Paphos, Cyprus, held on 6 – 10 November, 2022.

5) Negi, R., & Chandel, M., 2022. Effect of water quality on energy use of a large conventional water treatment plant. In: First International conference on circular economy for sustainable water management (SuWaM-2022), IIT Madras, India held on 23 – 25 March, 2022. (Best Presentation Award)

6) Negi, R., & Chandel, M., 2022. Correlating energy use and wastewater quality index in a wastewater treatment and reuse system. In: International conference on environmental science and engineering (ICESE-2022), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India held on 20 - 22 January, 2022. (Best Presentation Award)

7) Negi, R., Kumar, R., Jawed, M., 2020. Effect of Ni(II) and Co(II) Mixture on Reactor Performance and Metabolic Activity of Aerobic Sludge Biomass. In: Second ASCE India Conference on Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies, Kolkata (India) held on 2 - 4 March, 2020

8) Negi, R., Singh, V., Chandel, M., 2019. Effect of Non-Revenue Water Reduction in the Life Cycle of Water- Energy Nexus: A Case Study In India. In: 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research, IIT Bombay, Mumbai (India) held on 10 - 12 December, 2019.

9) Negi, R., Chandel, M., 2019. Analysis of Water-Energy Nexus for Water Utilities in Thane Region of Maharashtra, India. In: National Environmental Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai (India) held on 31 January - 2 February, 2019.

10) Negi, R., Kumar, R., Jawed, M., 2019. Impact of Ni(II) Ion on Reactor Performance and Morphology of Bulking Aerobic Sludge Biomass. In: National Environmental Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, (India) held on 31 January - 2 February, 2019. (Best Poster Presentation Award)

11) Negi, R., Goswami, A., Kalamdhad, A., 2016. Heavy Metal Contamination in Ground and Surface Water Sources near Boragaon Dumpsite, Guwahati. In: International Conference on Waste Management, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, (India) held on 1-2 April, 2016. (Poster Presentation).