Rajiv Srivastava

About me

Rajiv Srivastava is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability—WISE and in Process Metallurgy at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He ranks within the top 0.33% of researchers worldwide in metals recycling.

His major research is related to sustainable hydrometallurgy of energy-critical and strategic elements. With extensive experience bridging academic research and industrial scale-up, he specializes in (chemical, electro, and bio)leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation, and electrowinning of metals used in battery precursors, catalytic activity, and permanent magnets (i.e., rare earths, PGMs, Re, Mo, Au, V, W, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn, etc.). The benefits of his research to society can be seen as some of his developed technologies are successfully implemented in metal recycling industries in different countries. He actively contributes to several journals, while authored more than 50 scientific papers, holds 6 patents, edited 4 books, and wrote numerous book chapters and conference papers.