Abhijit Mukherjee has a PhD from the University of Kentucky, USA and has also served as the Physical Hydrogeologist at the Alberta Geological Survey in Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the IIT in Kharagpur, India. Abhijit has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. Among many awards and recognitions, in 2016, he was conferred the National Geoscience Award by the President of India. Dr. Mukherjee has been selected for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize, the highest multidisciplinary science awards in India, for the year 2020 in Earth Atmosphere Ocean and Planetary Sciences. He has been Associate Editor of several journals, including the Journal of Hydrology, Applied Geochemistry, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Journal of Earth System Science.