Education

  • Post Doctoral Fellowship
    Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM), Météo-France, Toulouse, France
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Atmospheric Sciences
    Centre for Atmospheric Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, (IIT Delhi), India.
  • Master of Technology, Atmospheric Sciences and Technology
    Department of Physics and Meteorology Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, (IIT Kgp), India.
  • Master of Science, Physics
    Calcutta University, India.

Distinguished Achievements

  • Listed in Who's Who in the World® 2016 (33rd Edition)
  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO) invitation and travel support for IWAQFR Participation at Geneva, Switzerland
  • Worked as a Young Scientist in Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
  • All India Rank(AIR) rank is 64 for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) exam in Physics
  • Received National Scholarship from University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt of India for Graduation result

Projects

  • 2019 – Continue: - Co – PI in “Prediction of ground-level particulate matter concentrations from Multi-Satellite AOD over the Indian Subcontinent” funded by Space Application Centre (SAC), ISRO, Govt of India, Total fund: - 22, 08,000/-
  • 2017 – Continue:- PI in “Lightning impact on ozone precursor over Indian region and its implications on tropospheric ozone” funded by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), New Delhi, India. Total fund: - 34,60,000/-
  • 2016 – 2017:- Collaborator for “Air Pollution and Precipitation Chemistry at Jaipur” by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, MoES, Govt of India
  • 2010 – 2014:- Co-PI in “Physical and optical properties of Aerosols over Jaipur, India” funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India) Total Fund: - 38, 95,600/-
  • 2009 - Continue Project PI ‘Aerosol measurements over Jaipur’ as a part of AERONET campaign, GSFC, NASA, USA.

Phd Guidance

  • Degree Awarded: - Two
  • Dr. Manish Soni, 6-Aug-2019, Numerical Modelling of Air Quality over Northwest India
  • Dr Divya Prakash, 17-Jan-2018, The characterization of aerosols over an urban location in Northwestern India

Awards and Honors

  • 2016 Listed in Who'sWho in the World® 2016 (33rd Edition)
  • 2013 Fellowship to work in CNRM, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France
  • 2012 World Meteorological Organizat n (WMO) support for IWAQFR Participation at Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2010 DST, Govt of India support for participation in AAAR-2012 at Florida, USA
  • 2009 GSFC, NASA support for participation in the second International Conference of Aerosol Science and Global Change at Hangzhou, China
  • 2008 Research Staff at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
  • 2005 Worked as a Young Scientist in Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1999 Received GATE Scholarship (All India Rank: - 64) for M Tech at IIT Kharagpur, 1999-2001
  • 1997 Received National Scholarship from University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt of India for graduation result.