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Prof. V. P. Aneja

(BT/CHE/1971)

He is a professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, US.

Profile

Dr. Viney Aneja obtained his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1971 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the North Carolina State University.

He has carried out extensive research on environmental engineering research, investigating the transport and fate of pollutants in the environment and biogeochemical cycling of pollutants. He is well known for his contributions to the scientific understanding of sources of atmospheric pollution and methods of pollution control. Dr. Aneja's seminal research on natural emissions of sulfur from marine environments laid the groundwork for some of today's most important research on biogeochemical cycling of trace gases. He has applied his understanding of pollutants to the full range of current regional environmental problems, from acid deposition and eutrophication to the radio active forcing of climate and photochemical oxidants. Dr. Aneja has received several awards from professional bodies and has held many important positions with the governments and corporates.

He is Member of the Editorial Boards for Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Environmental Manager; Member Technical Advisory Committee, Environmental Defense Fund; North Carolina State Scholar of the North Carolina Progress Board; and Member, Publications Committee for the Air and Waste Management Association.

Dr. Aneja contributes regularly to the technical and patent literature, and frequently organizes and chairs symposia at national and international meetings. He has been invited to discuss issues of environmental importance by universities and government institutes across the globe, including the University of Munich, Germany, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan, the University of Sydney, Australia, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, the Ministry of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, at the Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden; and at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Key Professional Roles and Recognitions

2017 - Appointed to the NC Secretaries' Science Advisory Board.
2015 -Awarded the position of the Rossby Visiting Fellow at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and the Indira Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow at TERI University, New Delhi, India.
2014-present - Serves in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.
2014-2017 - Chair of the BOSC Subcommittee for Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE) research program.
2012-2013 - Member of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) Panel on Estimating Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations.
2010-2022 - Member Representative of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
2010 - Member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee; served on the Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing.
2009 - Member of the Aging Drinking Water and Waste Water Infrastructure Research Initiative.
2006-2010 - Strategy and Multi-Year Plan; appointed by the Governor of North Carolina, Mike Easley, to the NC Governor's Task Force on Hazardous Materials.
2001-2008 -Member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
He served as a Director of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Chair of the Association's Education Council; served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the North Carolina Environmental Defense Fund; and served as a member of the North Carolina Progress Board.He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Environmental Management; and currently serves as Editorial Board Member of the international journals Atmosphere; Pollutants; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; and Environmental Science; and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health; International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences; International Journal of Atmospheric Pollution Research;

Achievements and Honors


  • Stanford University's list of the world's top 2% scientists (2022)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur (2010)
  • Invited by the U.S. White House Council on Environmental Quality to assist in the BP Gulf Spill investigation and assessment (2010)
  • North Carolina Award in Science (the highest award a civilian can receive from the Governor of North Carolina) (2007)
  • The Air and Waste Management Association's Lyman A. Ripperton Award (2001)
  • The Air and Waste Management Association Fellow (1999)
  • The Air and Waste Management Association's Frank A. Chambers Award (1998)
  • Outstanding Extension Service Award, North Carolina State University (1991-92)
  • The General Electric Managerial Award (1986)
  • The Air Pollution Control Association Award for Distinguished Service (1984)
  • Noryl Division Proprietary Innovation Award, General Electric (1983)

Last updated Aug 18, 2025