Dr. Sharda Dhadse is presently working as a Senior Scientist at Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur, MS, India. She is M.Sc., Ph.D. in Zoology from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur and started her carrier as a project assistant from Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment Division, CSIR-NEERI Nagpur. She has twenty years of research and professional experience in the field of environmental Sciences. She is NABET accredited EIA coordinator for sectors Mining, River valley and Thermal power plant and functional area expert (FAE) of Ecology and Biodiversity. She is the recipient of various fellowships like Senior Research Fellowship of CSIR, Research Associate of CSIR, Woman Post-Doctoral Fellowship of UGC. She worked for 60 EIA projects of different industrial sectors She has published 30 research papers in different international and national Journals. She received four best paper awards in different conferences including young scientist award from Nagpur University. She has done her Ph.D. on “Industrial wastewater treatment by Vermitechnology” and post-doctoral research on “Anerobic biogas energy generation by wastewater treatment”.