fluoride and fluorocarbon toxicity: sources, issues, and remediation

Dr. Nitish Kumar is a senior assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, India. He completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, India. He has the research and teaching experience of more than 12 years in the field of plant and microbial biotechnology and heavy metal bioremediation. He has published more than 70 research articles in international and national journals and more than 20 book chapters and 10 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He also serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene. He has an h-index of 22 and an i10-index of 30 as per the Google Scholar database 2022.