
Environmental Recovery, Surveillance and Treatment Lab
(EnReST)



Welcome to EnReST Lab
The Environmental Recovery, Surveillance and Treatment Lab focuses on understanding material-microbe interactions, monitoring environmental conditions, and recovery of critical resources from waste sources
News and Announcements
Applications are now open for motivated PhD candidates to join EnReST Lab in the following topics:
1. Algal biorefinery
2. Dark fermentation of high strength wastewater
Congratulations to Anwesha and Varshini for best oral presentation and poster presentation award at International Conference on Energy and Resource Recovery For Sustainable Circular Economy (ICERSC 2026) at IIT Madras (09-10 April, 2026)
Wishing Vikrant all the best for his time at Monash University, Australia under the IITB-Monash Joint PhD program!
The lab welcomed Nithya, Shivam, Elizabeth (PhD students ) and Varshini (Intern) who joined as new members of EnReST Lab in January 2026