PhD in Environmental Science (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
Hydrogeochemistry
Pollution of water resources by geogenic and anthropogenic activities
Groundwater-seawater interaction
Aquifer vulnerability
Water quality and health
Mining, Water resources management and GIS
Post-Doctoral Research (2016 to 2020, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Young Scientist Award 2022 in Groundwater Investigation and Management by the Indian National Chapter - International Association of Hydrogeologists (INC-IAH), 2024.
Young Scientist Award 2025 by Melpadom Sabha
Best Lightning Talk Award in the category Environmental Science and Environmental Sustainability at the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference, Milan, Italy, 2024
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) program at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
Erasmus Mundus (AREaS+) Doctoral Exchange Scholarship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
Chair of Research Funding Working Group of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) since September 2023.
Member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) since February 2024.
One of three Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA) Country Representatives for India since November 2024
Founding member of International Water Association ( IWA)-Young Water Professionals (YWP) Chapter in India.
Awarded a small grant from the DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for the high-impact paper publication.
Tiwari A K and Singh A K (2014) Hydrogeochemical investigation and groundwater quality assessment of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of the Geological Society of India (Springer) 83:329-343
Tiwari A K, De Maio M, Singh P K, Mahato M K (2015) Evaluation of Surface Water Quality by Using GIS and a Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI) Model in a Coal Mining Area, India. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Springer) 95(3):304-310.
Tiwari A K, Singh P K, Mahato M K (2016) Environmental geochemistry and quality assessment of mine water of the West Bokaro coalfield, India. Mine Water and the Environment (Springer) 35:525–535.
Tiwari A K, Singh P K, De Maio M (2016) Evaluation of aquifer vulnerability in a coal mining of India by using GIS based DRASTIC model. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer) 9(6):1-15.
Tiwari A K, Pisciotta A, De Maio M (2019) Evaluation of groundwater salinization and pollution level on Favignana Island, Italy. Environmental Pollution (Elsevier) 249: 969-981.
Micallef, A, Person, M, Haroon, A, Weymer BA, Jegen M, Schwalenberg K, Faghih Z, Duan S, Cohen D, Mountjoy JJ Woelz S, Gable C, Averes T, Tiwari A K (2020) 3D characterisation and quantification of an offshore freshened groundwater system in the Canterbury Bight. Nature Communications (Nature publication) 11:1372.
Tiwari A K, Suozzi E, Fiorucci A, Lo Russo S (2020) Assessment of groundwater geochemistry and human health risk of an intensively cropped alluvial plain, NW Italy. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2020.1775484
De Maio M and Tiwari A K (2020) Applied Geology: Approaches to Future Resource Management, (Edited Book), Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43953-8