Dr. Prama Roy (she/her) is a second-generation settler of Bangladeshi Hindu origin. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Queen's University (2025), situated on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat Peoples, who steward these lands and waters. Her doctoral research established a sustainable, nature-based bioremediation framework for petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the Canadian boreal ecozone using plants, fungi, and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria. Her research expertise spans phytoremediation, environmental microbiology, environmental DNA molecular workflows (including isolation, amplification, and next-generation sequencing), and downstream data analysis.

She also has a Master's research background and teaching experience in ecotoxicology, risk assessment, environmental forensics, and organic geochemistry. She has served as a Youth Outreach and Education Coordinator with the Contaminants of Emerging Concern – Research Excellence Network (CEC-REN), an interdisciplinary research organization focused on the detection, fate, and treatment of emerging contaminants in natural and built environments.

She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow working on the Transforming Education of Present and Future Chemical Risk Professionals with Indigenous Expertise sub-project of the CMITEx project. She has volunteered with Akwe:kon ('All of Us' in Kanienʼkéha) youth programming through her local Native Friendship Centre and has participated in local Indigenous-led circles and ceremonies. She is passionate about anticolonial environmental education and stewardship, human and 'more-than-human' rights, geo-socio-political ethics, and advancing Indigenous justice through respectful, relational, reciprocal, and responsible engagement with communities.

She enjoys cycling, fitness, music, kayaking, and reading the works of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jared Diamond, Hajime Isayama, Linda Howard, Albert Camus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Her role models are Wangarĩ Maathai, Sacagawea, and Jane Goodall.

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