Dr. S. Packialakshmi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai, India. She completed her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Government College of Engineering Erode, Bharathiar University between 1995 and 1999. She then pursued her postgraduation and doctoral research in Water Resources at the Center for Water Resources, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University. Her doctoral research was funded by the South Asian Waters fellowship (SAWA) from Wageningen University, Government of Netherlands, from 2008 to 2012. Her research interests include Water Resources Development and Management, Advanced Groundwater Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Water Quality Modeling and Management, Socio-environmental Impacts on Water Resources, and Water and Wastewater Treatment.
She has received several awards and fellowships, including the Mevlana Teaching Mobility Programme from Turkey Higher Education Council in 2018 and a certification as a lecturer for a virtual civil engineering class from FAVAG, a Brazilian institution of the U.Experience consortium, in September 2023. She has presented research papers in numerous national and international conferences and has published over 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She has also published a book on Groundwater Resources and nine book chapters. Currently, she is guiding six Ph.D. students and has guided six postgraduate projects and 40 undergraduate projects. She has received funding from DST, ISRO, AICTE, and MoES for conducting workshops, training programs, and other activities.