Pankaj Pareek

Skilled professional specializing in cold plasma-liquid interactions, diagnostics, and reactive chemistry. Experience in diagnostics techniques including UV/VIS, FTIR, OES, Raman, HPLC, and IC. Proficient in electrical characterization of plasma sources and chemical analysis methods. Committed to advancing scientific research through innovative applications of technology and precise analytical methodologies.

• UK grant Comenius University 2023 (UK/206/2023), Diagnostics of plasma-liquid interface 2023-2025, Principal investigator: Pareek P.
• Slovak Research and Development Agency-SK-FR-22-0014, Principal investigator: Janda, M., Associate investigator: Machala, Z. Co-investigator(s): Pareek P.

• Extraordinary Scholarship, Comenius University (twice) 2021/2022, 2022/2023
• Secured All India Rank 384 in IIT JAM Physics Exam, 2019
• Qualified National Defense Academy (NDA) Exam, 2016

• Tuning composition of plasma activated water generated by transient spark discharge with electrospray, Pankaj Pareek, Saeed Kooshki, Peter Tóth, Mário Janda, Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 493,2024,152583, ISSN 1385-8947, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.152583. Impact Factor: 13.3
• Efficient treatment of bio-contaminated wastewater using plasma technology for its reuse in sustainable agriculture, Saeed Kooshki, Pankaj Pareek, Robin Mentheour, Mário Janda, Zdenko Machala, Environmental Technology & Innovation, Volume 32, 2023,103287, ISSN 2352-1864, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2023.103287. Impact Factor: 6.6
• Selective reactive oxygen and nitrogen species production in plasma-activated water via dielectric barrier discharge reactor: An innovative method for tuning and its impact on dye degradation, Saeed Kooshki, Pankaj Pareek, Mario Janda, Zdenko Machala, Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume 63, 2024, 105477, ISSN 2214-7144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.105477. Impact Factor: 6.3
• Production of reactive species by using surface dielectric barrier discharge in direct contact with water, Oleksandr Galmiz, Richard Cimmerman, Pankaj Pareek, Mário Janda and Zdenko Machala, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 34 (2025) 025011 (17pp), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/adb3cb. Impact Factor: 6.3
• Quantification of eroded Fe contamination in plasma activated water using acoustic levitation assisted Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy by a novel method-multi-line calibration curve, Jairo C. Peralta1, Pankaj Pareek, Ivan A. Urbinai, Sanath J. Shetty, Matej Veis, Mario Janda and Pavel Veis, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Under Review.
• Transient Spark Discharge and Ozone-Driven Nitrogen Fixation to Water, Pankaj Pareek, Gokul Selvaraj, Karol Hensel and Mário Janda, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Under Review.

• Pareek P., Selvaraj G., Hensel K., Janda M.: Transient spark discharge and ozone-based nitrogen fixation: The study of reaction pathways, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases 36th Edition (ICPIG 2025), July 20 – 25 (2025), oral.
• Pareek P., Toth P., Kooshki S., Machala Z., Janda M.: Achieving selectivity in reactive species compositions in PAW by different reactor geometries in transient spark and DBD plasma setups, 3rd Training School PIAgri COST ACTION CA19110, Kaunas (Lithuania), June 11 - 14 (2024), s. 17 - 18.
• Pareek P., Janda M.: Optical diagnostic of transient spark with electrospray, 1st Training School 2022 Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Medicine, Caparica (Portugal), February 14 - 16 (2022), s. 75 - 75.
• Pareek P., Kooshki S., Toth P., Janda M.: Production Mechanism of Hydrogen Peroxide in Transient Spark Discharge and Electrospray System, 24th Symposium on Application of Plasma Processes and 13th EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, Štrbské Pleso (Slovakia), January 27 - February 1 (2023), s. 152 - 155.
• Pareek P., Toth P., Janda M.: The impact of humidity and circuit parameters in the generation of NO2 and HNO2 by transient spark discharge, 9th Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (CESPC-9), Štrbské Pleso (Slovakia), September 4 - 9 (2022), s. 78 - 78.
• Kooshki S., Pareek P., Szárazová K., Machala Z.: High flow rate plasma activated water generation using dielectric barrier discharge reactor, 9th Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (CESPC-9), Štrbské Pleso (Slovakia), September 4 - 9 (2022), s. 120 - 120.
• Kooshki S., Pareek P., Machala Z.: Plasma-Activated Water (PAW) as a Sustainable Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Agricultural Development, Non-Thermal Plasmas for Sustainable Chemistry, Bad Honnef (Germany), April 23 - 27 (2023), s. [1 – 1].
• Kooshki S., Pareek P., Menthéour R., Janda M., Machala Z.: Plasma-Activated Water (PAW): Sustainable Technology for Wastewater Treatment and its Reuse as a Green Fertilizer, ICPIG 35, Egmond aan Zee (Netherlands), July 9 - 14 (2023), s. 251 - 251.
• Polprasarn K., Pareek P., Sadi D., Janda M., Guiatella O., Pai D.: In Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Plasma Electrochemical and Plasma Catalytic Reactors, ECS Meeting Abstracts, 2024, s. [1 - 1].
• Polprasarn K., Pareek P., Janda M., Pai D.: Probing the aqueous interface of plasma electrochemical reactors using in situ Raman spectroscopy, Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2024), San Diego (USA), September 30 - October 4 (2024), s. [1 - 1].
• Janda M., Pareek P.: Transient Spark with Electrospray for Better Understanding of Plasma Activated Water Formation, Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology, Prague (Czech Republic), June 17 20 (2024), s. 11 - 11.
• Janda M., Pareek P., Toth P., Machala Z.: Tuning plasma activated water composition generated by transient spark with electrospray, 3rd Workshop on Plasma Applications for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture, Ljubljana (Slovenia), May 2023, s. 4 - 4.
• Janda M., Pareek P., Hensel K., Machala Z.: Tuning the composition of plasma-activated water for agricultural applications, Bari (Italy), 2024, s. [1 - 1].
• Janda M., Pareek P., Hassan M.E.A., Toth P., Hensel K., Machala Z.: The role of HNO2 in the generation of plasma activated water, Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (CESPC-9), Štrbské Pleso (Slovakia), September 4 - 9 (2022), s. 68-68.
• Janda M., Polprasarn K., Pareek P., Pai D.: In-situ Diagnostic of Electrospray by Raman Light Sheet Microspectroscopy, 25th Symposium on Application of Plasma Processes, 2025, s. 99 - 104.
• Janda M., Polprasarn K., Pareek P., Pai D.: Raman light sheet microspectroscopy diagnostic of water electrospray, ESEE2025, Nicosia (Cyprus), 2025, s. [1 - 1].
• Machala Z., Hassan M.E.A., Pareek P., Kooshki S., Galmiz O., Štipala P., Hensel K., Janda M.: Transport of Reactive Species from Plasma Discharges into Water Determines the Plasma-Activated Water Properties and Applications, ICPIG 35, Egmond aan Zee (Netherlands), July 9 - 14 (2023), s. 43 - 43.
• Janda M., Hensel K., Toth P., Pareek P., Hassan M.E.A., Machala Z.: The role of HNO2 on plasma activated water generation by transient spark in contact with electrospray microdroplets, ICPM 9 - International Conference on Plasma Medicine, Utrecht (Netherlands), June 27 - July 1 (2022), s. 14-14.