Dr. Arindam Malakar, Ph.D. (he/him), Water Research Scientist: He is a new addition to the Nebraska Water Center team and transitioned from a postdoctoral position to a research assistant professor position in June 2021. Malakar’s academic home is in the School of Natural Resources. Malakar began his association with UNL as a postdoctoral researcher in May 2017. Malakar received his Ph.D. in April 2017 at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Kolkata, under the University of Calcutta, India, one of the top-ranking research facilities in India. During his Ph.D., Malakar was selected for the prestigious “Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI)” Internship Program, supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). He has been conferred the prestigious “Young Scientist” award from the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) for his excellent transdisciplinary environmental and materials science research. He works with the local stakeholders and leads research efforts by integrating experimental and modeling approaches to understand the impact of land surface processes influenced by agricultural activities on the state groundwater quality and validate and verify next-generation cropping system models. His research focuses on understanding nitrogen, carbon, and metal dynamics in the agroecosystem and critical zone. His expertise includes nanogeosciences, environmental materials science, hydrogeochemistry, and critical zone processes. He believes in putting his science to work and strives to bring his research to solve contemporary environmental challenges.