Dr Mondal completed her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2010 on ‘arsenic health risk assessment in Bengal delta’, funded by Dorothy Hodgkin postgraduate award. She developed a conceptual framework for global health risk assessment and management for combined exposure routes in a population living with exposure to a class I human carcinogen. She had BSc and MSc Chemistry degree from India. Her post-doctoral training at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine includes detailed public health framework and epidemiology of emerging contaminants: PFOA and PFOS in 69,000 participants in mid-Ohio valley, USA as a part of C8 Science Panel study. Before joining St George’s, Dr Mondal was at the University of Salford and for the last eight years, she has been teaching, tutoring, and supervising both undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students.

Dr Mondal has successfully drawn on work from different fields of environmental sciences, with a particular interest in the effects of arsenic contamination on human health, biomarkers of arsenic exposure, and identification of molecular and physiological mechanisms of arsenic toxicity.

Certain outcomes had a major societal impact, for example, Mondal and Polya, (2008); Mondal et al. (2010); and Banerjee et al. (2013) demonstrated the potential arsenic exposure and human health risks from rice intake over drinking water. These were paradigm-challenging papers relevant to risk communication for management and policy development. The federal Indian and state governments subsequently joined with the research team to combat the high incidence of arsenic induced human health effects termed as ‘world worst mass poisoning’. Because of her significant contribution to public health research, Dr Mondal was invited to join the research advisory board member of the Bihar State Pollution Control Board to develop a consortium to tackle the current environmental and public health challenges in the Bihar state of India.

In June 2018, she was awarded the University of Salford VC First Prize for Research Excellence and the panel felt that her research work indicated strong leadership and organizational skills and demonstrated a coherent research programme over ten years looking at a broader set of global determinants affecting human health, with a focused strategy towards tackling the global challenges of environmental health by developing a cross-disciplinary research programme and cross-geography knowledge transfer and communication with ODA countries. Her track record for prizes also includes the University of Salford VC Research TEAM Excellence Award 2013/14; The University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Medal for Postgraduate Researcher of the year (2009) among others.

Publications

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5144-626X; Google scholar h-index: 21

Articles in refereed journals

1. Richards, L.A., Parashar, N., Kumari, R., Kumar, A., Mondal, D., Ghosh, A. and Polya, D.A., 2022. Household and community systems for groundwater remediation in Bihar, India: Arsenic and inorganic contaminant removal, controls and implications for remediation selection. Science of The Total Environment, p.154580. (IF: 6.55; contribution: 25%)
2. Mondal, D. and Rahman, M.M., 2022. Exposure Pathways, Characterization and Risk Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in the Food Chain. Frontiers in Environmental Science, p.251. (IF: 4.58; contribution 100%)
3. Mandal, J., Sengupta, S., Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Wood, M.D., Hutchinson, S.M. and Mondal, D*. (2021). Meta-analysis enables prediction of the maximum permissible arsenic concentration in Asian paddy soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science, p.547. (IF: 4.58; contribution 70%)
4. Siddique, A.B., Rahman, M.M., Islam, M., Mondal, D. and Naidu, R. (2021). Response of iron and cadmium on yield and yield components of rice and translocation in grain: health risk estimation. Frontiers in Environmental Science, p.292. (IF: 4.58; contribution 10%)
5. Xu, L., Suman, S., Sharma, P., Kumar, R., Singh, S.K., Bose, N., Ghosh, A., Rahman, M.M., Polya, D.A. and Mondal, D*. (2021). Assessment of hypertension association with arsenic exposure from food and drinking water in Bihar, India. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 223, p.112572. (IF: 6.29; contribution 70%)
6. Lang, J., Matějová, L., Cuentas-Gallegos, A.K., Lobato-Peralta, D.R., Ainassaari, K., Gómez, M.M., Solís, J.L., Mondal, D., Keiski, R.L. and Cruz, G.J.F. (2021). Evaluation and selection of biochars and hydrochars derived from agricultural wastes for the use as adsorbent and energy storage materials. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(5), p.105979. (IF: 5.90; contribution 10%)
7. Duttagupta, S., Bhanja, S.N., Dutta, A., Sarkar, S., Chakraborty, M., Ghosh, A., Mondal, D. and Mukherjee, A., (2021). Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Availability of Drinking Water in the Arsenic-Affected Ganges River Basin. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(6), p.2832. (IF: 2.84; contribution 10%)
8. Rahman, M.M., Alauddin, M., Alauddin, S.T., Siddique, A.B., Islam, M.R., Agosta, G., Mondal, D. and Naidu, R (2021). Bioaccessibility and speciation of arsenic in children’s diets and health risk assessment of an endemic area in Bangladesh. Journal of Hazardous Materials, p.124064. (IF: 9.03; contribution: 25%)
9. Mondal, D*., Rahman, M.M., Suman, S., Sharma, P., Siddique, A.B., Rahman, M.A., Bari, A.F., Kumar, R., Bose, N., Singh, S.K. and Ghosh, A, Polya, D.A (2021) Arsenic exposure from food exceeds that from drinking water in endemic area of Bihar, India. Science of the Total Environment, p.142082. (IF: 6.55; contribution: 75%)
10. Duttagupta, S., Mukherjee, A., Bhanja, S.N., Chattopadhyay, S., Sarkar, S., Das, K., Chakraborty, S. and Mondal, D (2021). Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for Clean Water in India: Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on Groundwater Microbial Pollution. Environmental Management, pp.1-14. (IF: 2.56; contribution: 15%)
11. Xu, L., Polya, D.A., Li, Q. and Mondal, D (2020) Association of low-level inorganic arsenic exposure from rice with age-standardized mortality risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England and Wales. Science of the Total Environment, p.140534.(IF: 6.5; contribution: 50%)
12. Xu, L., Mondal, D*., and Polya, D.A (2020) Positive association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) with chronic exposure to drinking water Arsenic (As) at concentrations below the WHO provisional guideline value: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), p.2536. (IF: 2.8; citation: 1; contribution: 75%)
13. Cruz, G.J.F., Mondal, D., Rimaycuna, J., Soukup, K., Gomez, M.M. et al. (2020) Agrowaste derived biochars impregnated with ZnO for removal of arsenic and lead in water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 8(3), p.103800. (IF: 4.3; citation: 1; contribution: 25%)
14. Suman, S., Sharma, P.K., Siddiquee, A.B., Rahmane, M.A., ..M.M., Bose, N., Singh, S.K., Ghosh, A.K., Matthews, H., Mondal, D*(2020). Wheat is an emerging exposure route for arsenic in Bihar, India. Science of The Total Environment, 703, 134774. (IF:6.5; citation: 4; contribution: 80%)
15. Mondal, D*., Periche, R., Tineo, B., Bermejo, L.A., Rahman, M.M., Siddique, A.B., Rahman, M.A., Solis, J.L. and Cruz, G.J (2020). Arsenic in Peruvian rice cultivated in the major rice growing region of Tumbes river basin. Chemosphere, p.125070.(IF:5.10; citation: 3; contribution: 80%)
16. Mondal, D*., Mwale, T., Xu, L., Matthews, H., Oyeka, A., Lace-Costigan, G., Polya, D.A (2019) Risk perception of arsenic exposure from rice intake in a UK population. Palgrave Communications, 5(89) (citation: 4; contribution: 80%)
17. Mwale, T., Rahman, MM., Mondal, D* (2018) Risk and Benefit of Different Cooking Methods on Essential Elements and Arsenic in Rice. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 15(6), 1056 (IF: 2.10; citation: 14; contribution: 80%)
18. Siegenthaler, A., Mastin, A., Dufaut, C., Mondal, D. and Benvenuto, C (2018) Background matching in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon: adaptive camouflage and behavioural-plasticity. Scientific reports, 8(1), p.3292. (IF: 4.84; citation: 12; contribution: 20%)
19. Siegenthaler, A., Mondal, D. and Benvenuto, C (2017) Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2(1). (citation: 9; contribution 20%)
20. Lopez-Espinosa MJ., Mondal D., Armstrong BG., Eskenazi B., Fletcher T (2016) Perfluoroalkyl Substances, Sex Hormones, and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 at 6–9 Years of Age: A Cross-Sectional Analysis within the C8 Health Project. Environmental Health Perspectives, 124(8):1269-1275. (IF: 9.78 ; citation: 43; contribution: 40%)
21. Mondal, D., Galloway, TS., Bailey, TC and Mathews, F (2014) Elevated risk of stillbirth in males: systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 30 million births. BMC Medicine, 12:220.(IF: 8.83; citation: 84; contribution 80%)
22. Mondal, D., Ganguli, B., Sen Roy, S., Halder, B., Banerjee, N., Banerjee, M., et al. (2014) Diarrhoeal Health Risks Attributable to Water-Borne-Pathogens in Arsenic-Mitigated Drinking Water in West Bengal are Largely Independent of the Microbiological Quality of the Supplied Water. Water 6(5), 1100-1117. (IF:2.07 ; citation: 8; contribution 80%)
23. Mondal, D., Weldon RH., Armstrong B., Gibson L., Lopez, MJ., Shin HH., Fletcher, T (2014) Breastfeeding, a potential excretion route for mothers and implication for infant exposure to Perflyouoalkyl Acids. Environmental Health Perspectives, 122 (2), 187-192. (IF: 9.78; citation: 91; contribution 80%)
24. Adams, JA., Galloway, TS., Mondal, D., Esteves, SC., Mathews, F (2014) Effect of mobile telephones on sperm quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Environmental International, 70, 106–112. (IF: 7.72; citation: 153; contribution 30%)
25. Rahman, MM., Mondal, D., Das, B., Sengupta, MM., Ahamed, S., Hossain., MA. et al. (2014) Status of groundwater arsenic contamination in all 17 blocks of Nadia district in the state of West Bengal, India: A 23-year study report. Journal of Hydrology, 518(C), 363-372. (IF: 04; citation: 34; contribution 50%)
26. Fletcher,T., Galloway,T., Melzer, D., Holcroft, P., Cipelli, R., Mondal, D., Luster, M., Harries,L (2013) Associations between PFOA or PFOS and changes in the expression of genes involved in cholesterol metabolism in humans. Environment International , 57-58, 2-10. (IF:7.72 ; citation: 92; contribution 20%)
27. Banerjee, M., Banerjee, N., Bhattacharjee, P. Mondal, D., Lythgoe,P., Giri, AK, Polya, DA (2013) High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans. Scientific Reports, 3: 2195. (IF: 4.84 ; citation: 129; contribution 30%)
28. Lawson, M., Polya, DA., Boyce, AJ., Bryant,C., Mondal D., Shantz, A., Ballentine, CJ (2013). Pond derived organic carbon drives changes in arsenic hazard found in Asian groundwaters. Environmental Science & Technology , 47(13), 7085-94. (IF: 6.19; citation: 73; contribution 20%)
29. Mondal, D*., Lopez, MJ., Armstrong, B., Fletcher, T (2012). Relationships of Perfluorooctanoate and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Serum Concentrations Between Child-Mother Pairs in a Population with Perfluorooctanoate Exposure from Drinking Water. Environmental Health Perspectives, 120 (5), 752-757. (IF: 9.78; citation: 63; contribution 80%)
30. Lopez, MJ., Mondal, D., Armstrong, B., Bloom, MS., Fletcher, T (2012)Thyroid Function and Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Children Living Near a Chemical Plant. Environmental Health Perspectives, 120 (7), 1036-1041. (IF: 9.78; citation: 143; contribution 50%)
31. Lopez, M.J., Fletcher,T., Armstrong, B., Genser,B., Dhatariya, K., Mondal, D., Ducatman, A., Leonardi, G. (2011) Association of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) with age of puberty among children living near a chemical plant. Environmental Science & Technology, 45, 8160–8166 (IF: 6.19; citation: 154; contribution 20%)
32. Mondal, D., Banerjee, M., Kundu, M., Banerjee, N., Bhattacharya, U., Giri, AK., et al. (2010) Comparison of drinking water, raw rice and cooking of rice as arsenic exposure routes in three contrasting areas of West Bengal, India. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 32(6),463-477. (IF: 2.61; citation: 112; contribution 80%)
33. M., VanDongen, BE., Gill, F., Mondal. D., Vaughan, DJ., Pancost., RD, Polya, DA and Lloyd, JR. (2010). Arsenic release and attenuation in low organic carbon aquifer sediments from West Bengal. Geomicrobiology, 8(2),155-168. (IF: 1.71 ; citation: 107; contribution 20%)
34. Pal, A., Chowdhury,UK., Mondal, D., Das, B., Nayak, B., Ghosh, A., Maity, S., and Chakraborti, D. (2009) Arsenic Burden from Cooked Rice in the Populations of Arsenic Affected and Non affected Areas and Kolkata City in West-Bengal, India. Environmental Science & Technology, 43(9) 3349-3355. (IF: 6.19; citation: 84; contribution 40%)
35. Mondal, D. and Polya, DA. (2008) Rice is a major exposure route for arsenic in Chakdha Block, West Bengal: a Probabilistic Risk Assessment. Applied Geochemistry,23(11), 2986- 2997 (IF: 2.67; citation: 296; contribution 90%)
36. Mondal, D., Adamson, GCD., Nickson, R. and Polya, DA. (2008) A comparison of two techniques for calculating groundwater arsenic-related lung, bladder and liver cancer disease burden using data from Chakdha Block, West Bengal. Applied Geochemistry 2008; 23, 2998- 3008 (IF: 2.67; citation: 14; contribution 90%)
37. Hossain, AM., Sengupta, MK., Ahamed, S., Rahman, MM., Mondal, D., Lodh, D. et al. (2005) Ineffectiveness and Poor Reliability of Arsenic Removal Plants in West Bengal, India. Environmental Science &Technology,39, 4300-4306 (IF: 6.19; citation: 128; contribution 20%)

Book chapters

1. Lopez, M.J and Mondal, D. (2017) Chemical in the environment. Book chapter in Environment, Health and Sustainable Development (2nd Eds) Open University Press. (contribution: 60%)
2. Polya, D.A., Polizzotto,ML., Fendorf,S., Rodriguez-Lado,L., Hegan,A., Lawson,M., Rowland,HA., Giri,A., Mondal, D., Sovann,C., Wafa LA., van Dongen,B., Gilbert,P., Shantz, A. (2010) Arsenic in Groundwaters of Cambodia. Book Chapter in Water Resources and Development in Southeast Asia. (citation: 4; contribution 10%)
3. Polya, D.A., Mondal, D. and Giri, A.K. (2010). Quantification of deaths and DALYs due to chronic exposure to arsenic in groundwaters utilized for drinking, cooking and irrigation of food-crops. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures (pp. 701-728). Springer New York. (citation: 11; contribution 40%)

Refereed conference publications

1. Mondal, D., Polya, D.A., Giri, A.K., Banerjee, M., Hegan, A., Rodriguez-Lado, L., Bradford, W., Banerjee, N., Kundu, M. and Ganguli, B.(2009) Mitigation of geogenic arsenic bearing groundwaters: assessing the importance of risk substitution arising from waterborne pathogens. In Proceedings of the 19th Goldscmidt Conference, 21–26 June 2009, Davos, Switzerland. (citation: 4; contribution 60%)
2. Polya, D., Mondal, D., Sovann, C., Bradford, W., Watts, M. and Giri, A., 2012, July. Geogenic arsenic attributable health risks in Europe. In Understanding the Geological and Medical Interface of Arsenic-As 2012: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment, 22-27 July 2012, Cairns, Australia (p. 339). CRC Press. (contribution 30%)
3. Mondal, D., Hegan, A., Rodriguez-Lado, L., Banerjee, M., Giri, A.K. and Polya, D.A., (2008) Multiple regression analysis of As ground-water hazard and assessment of As-attributable human health risks in Chakdha Block, West Bengal. Mineralogical Magazine, 72(1), pp.461-465. (IF: 1.28; contribution 80%)
4. Lawson, M., Ballentine, CJ., Polya, DA., Boyce, AJ., Mondal, D., Chatterjee, D.et al. (2008)The geochemical and isotopic composition of ground waters in West Bengal: tracing ground-surface water interaction and its role in arsenic release. Mineralogical Magazine ; 72 (1): 441–444. (IF: 1.28; citation: 14; contribution 20%)

Conference abstracts

5. Fletcher, T., Mondal, D. and Weldon, R., 2013. Impact on maternal and child serum levels of perfluoroalkyl acids on in utero and lactational transfer. In 2013 American journal of epidemiology, 177, pp.S54-S54.
6. Fletcher, T., Yucesoy, B., Bartell, S., Mondal, D., Fitz-Simon, N. and Luster, M., P-204: Genetic Variations in Kidney Transporter Proteins and Serum Half-lives of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS). In 2012 Epidemiology, 23(5S).
7. Weldon, R.H., Hernandez-Weldon, R., Fletcher, T., Mondal, D., Lopez-Espinosa, M.J. and Eskenazi, B. O-101: In utero Exposure to PFOA Associations with Clinical Markers, BMI and Metabolic Syndrome in Children Born in the Mid-Ohio Valley. In 2012 Epidemiology, 23(5S).
8. Polya D.A., Mondal, D., Giri, A., Banerjee, M., Banerjee, N., Bhattacharya, U., Kundu, M. and Lythgo, P., Probabilistic Risk Assessment Of Groundwater Arsenic. In 2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting. (citation: 2; contribution 60%)
9. Lawson, M., Ballentine, C.J., Polya, D.A., Mondal, D. and Chatterjee, D., Isotopic tracers of surface derived components in arsenic-rich shallow aquifers in Southern Asia. In 2008 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 72, p.A520.
10. Press, L., Gault, A.G., Mondal, D., Lythgoe, P.R., De Hoog, J.C.M., Heimann, A.C., Lawson, M., Hery, M., Van Dongen, B.E., Porcelli, D. and Lloyd, J. In 2007 Contrasting behaviour of arsenic, iron, manganese and uranium during anaerobic incubation of aquifer sediments from Nadia, West Bengal. (citation: 1; contribution 20%)

DST-NERC Newton Bhabha Funded India-UK Water Quality Project. Estimated combined value: £ 893,933 comprising NERC £ 570,933  and DST £ 323,000 

DST-UKIERI Thematic Partnership award. Estimated combined value: £ 195,588 comprising British Council £47,000 and DST  £148588 

Future Secular Changes & Remediation of Groundwater Arsenic in the Ganga River Basin (FAR-GANGA)

Nature and nurture in arsenic induced toxicity of Bihar, India (Nutri-SAM) a collaborative project with AN college and Mahavir cancer centre and research institute at Patna, India