Dr M.V. Prasanna currently working as a Professor and Head of Applied Sciences Department in Curtin University, Malaysia. He completed his Ph.D degree in 2008 at Annamalai University, India. He was a gold medalist in Post graduate degree. He has qualified State Educational Test (SET) under University Grants Commission (UGC), India for lectureship. He is a Fellow in Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He has 15 years of teaching and research experience, produced 3 PhD and 3 M.Phil students under his guidance. He has published more than 100 Journal papers (indexed in Web of Science and Scopus) and 13 book chapters. Currently, he has the h-index of 36 from Web of Science and Scopus database. He has co-edited books and journal special issues, published by Elsevier and Springer. Currently, he is focusing on geochemical controls on water and sediment characteristics and their impact to human health and the environment.