DrRajat Nag

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Biosystems and Food Engineering
  • 01 716 7364
  • University College Dublin, School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Environmental and human health risk assessment
Probabilistic and stochastic modelling – Monte Carlo simulation
Microbial risks following application of anaerobic digestate on agricultural land
Heavy metal and metalloid pollution
Surface water and groundwater quality, hydrological model
Risk assessment of fish pathogen trapping technology using protein
Impact of treated wastewater for sprinkler irrigation on fresh produce
Health effects of micro and nano-plastics
Bovine mastitis and milk loss under climate change scenarios
Emerging contaminants in the dairy food chain – A focus on perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)
Mycotoxin in dairy products – feed to food chain under climate change scenarios
Engineered nanoparticles through environmental systems and the food chain
Migration modelling of Bisphenol A (BPA) through packaging to meat products
Carbon, water, and ecological footprinting
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Time-series forecasting

GRANTS

  • PROGRAMME
    Risk analysis of Salmonella contamination on poultry farms incorporating novel biosecurity
    Dept. Agriculture Food and the Marine (Dafm)1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nag R
  • PROJECT GRANT
    Floating Offshore Wind Dynamic Cables (FlOWDyn)
    Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)1 Jun 2024 - 31 May 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    Advanced Multi-Platform UAV, Sensor, and AI Suite for Integrated Geospatial Data Acquisition and Analysis
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Enhancing knowledge of BIOmolecular solutions for the well-being of European AQUAculture sector (BIOAQUA)
    Cost - European Cooperation in Science and Technology1 Nov 2023 - 30 Oct 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROJECT GRANT
    OBRSS Research Support Scheme
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Oct 2023 - 1 Oct 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nag R