Dr. Nupur Bahadur is Senior Fellow & Associate Director, NMCG-TERI CoE on Water Reuse, Environment and Waste Management Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2005 from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and her 23 years of work experience involves R&D, Innovation, IP, Technology Development & Demonstration, Teaching, Policy, Advocacy, Capacity Building & Consultancy. Her areas of expertise involve Nanotechnology, Material Science, Advanced Oxidation Photocatalysis (AOP) for Wastewater Treatment, ZLD & Water Reuse, Solar Disinfection, Circular Economy, Decarbonization, Micropollutants, Microplastics, GHG emission & mitigation in wastewater sector.

She is Vice-Chairman, IWA-India; Member, Consultative Group of Experts Committee of CPCB, MoEFCC, GoI for the preparation of BREF/COINDS Document for Textile Sector in India; Member of FICCI Water Mission Committee and Working Groups on Reuse, Recycle and Recovery, Corporate Water Stewardship and Water & Agriculture, IWA Project Innovation Awards Jury 2021 and Programme Committee of Singapore International Water Week (2019-2022). Team Lead, World Bank Consultancy Project for BWSSB in wastewater management; Adjunct Faculty, TERI School of Advanced Studies.She is the Inventor of TERI's TADOX® Technology to treat Municipal & Industrial Wastewater, has six Patents filed and a registered TM to her credit, 25 SCI Journal publications have avg. Impact Factor of 8.337 and 1158 citations in Google Scholar.

She received following Awards: (1) Design & Manufacturing Technologies for ‘Make in India’ (IISF-2015) by Ministry of Science & Technology, GoI (2) VIWA-2018 Outstanding Women in Science (Chemistry) by Venus International Foundation, Chennai (3) Aqua Foundation Excellence Awards 2019 for Development of Technology (4) STE Water Award 2019 for Technological Innovation in Wastewater Treatment (5) STE Meritorious Award 2020 (6) TERI Roll of Honour 2021 (7) FICCI Water Award 2022 for Innovation in Water Technology (8) 2023-Featured amongst 10 Indian Water Sheroes by the O/o PSA to GoI, Red Dot Foundation and UN Women (9) 2023-Indian Women Scientist Association, Member Achievement Award.