University: Established in 1766, Rutgers University-New Brunswick is one of America’s nine original colonial colleges and first land-grant institutions. It is the leading public university in New Jersey, a top 15 public national university, and a top 100 world university. The Department of Environmental Sciences is the oldest environmental sciences department in the nation, with a history dating back over 100 years, and offers programs in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering (jointly with the School of Engineering), Meteorology, and Atmospheric Science. The department is located on Rutgers’ Cook Campus in New Brunswick, NJ, and is equidistant from both Philadelphia and New York City.

Group: The goal of Siddhartha Roy’s research program at Rutgers is to facilitate access to safe and affordable water for all in the 21st century. His group integrates laboratory, field, epidemiological, and computational methods to investigate treatment efficacy, metals release, and isotope fingerprinting in potable water infrastructure, characterize the impacts of exposures to environmental contaminants on human and psychological health, and facilitate citizen science investigations and technological/policy/behavioral interventions to improve access to safe water in domestic, disaster, and global settings.

Postdoctoral Researcher

No current openings.

PhD Position in Environmental Science or Environmental Engineering

Our laboratory is not accepting new graduate students at this time.

General details: Subject to adequate performance, PhD students at Rutgers are guaranteed five years of funding. Candidates with degrees, research experience, or professional background in chemistry, environmental science/engineering, civil engineering, or related fields will receive preference. Please note you will have to apply and be admitted into our graduate program before an assistantship offer can be made. Competitive assistantship.

Undergraduate students at Rutgers

Please check the Aresty Research Assistant Program portal for open projects and apply. Positions for the 2026-27 academic year will open in February 2026.

General interest: Send Sid an email.

Last updated: March 2025.