About me

  • Positions Held
  • Academic Background
  • Professional Recognitions
  • Service to Community
  • Other Recognitions
  • Administrative Experience

Positions Held

Date Position
October 2024 onwards Project Director- Airawat Research Foundation (AI CoE - Sustainable Cities)
July 2024 onwards Dean, Kotak School of Sustainability, IIT Kanpur, India
May 2023 onwards Professor, Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
August 2018 onwards Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) Professor, Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
June 2018 - July 2021 Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
December 2015 Visiting Professor, School of Civil Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
November 2014 - October 2017 Coordinator, Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
November 2014 - October 2016 Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur, India
June - July 2014 Visiting Professor, School of Civil Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
May - July 2012 Professor, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de Environment, University of Orleans, France
April 2012 - July 2018 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & CESE, IIT Kanpur, India
August 2009 - July 2010 Senior Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA
January 2008 - March 2012 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & CESE, IIT Kanpur, India
May - July 2006 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
June 2004 Visiting Researcher, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, USA
July 2003 - December 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
January 2002 - July 2003 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
December 2000 - December 2001 Visiting Scientist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Academic Background

Academic Background
Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering), University of Reading, UK (2000)
M.Tech. (Environmental Engineering), NIT-Allahabad (1995)
B.Tech. (Civil Engineering), IIT-BHU (1992)

Professional Recognitions

Professional Recognitions
Alexander von Humboldt Medal 2025, European Geophysical Union.
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Chair Professor, 2024-27.
The Infosys Prize 2023 in Engineering and Computer Science.
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, 2021-22
J C Bose National Fellow, awarded by SERB, Department of Science & Technology, 2021-26
Arjun Dev Joneja Faculty Chair, IIT-Kanpur, 2021-24
Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2020
U.P. Ratna Award, Government of Uttar Pradesh, 2018
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Banaras Hindu University, 2015
Elected Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Rajeeva and Sangeeta Lahri Chair Professor, 2015-18
Elected Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2015
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, 2014
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Research Fellowship for excellence in teaching and Research, 2009-12
NASA Senior Fellowship, 2009-10
NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for highest citation in Earth Sciences, 2009
All India Council of Technical Education, Young Teacher Career Award, 2003

Service to Community

Service to Community
Editorial Advisory Board, Future Cities, Emerald Publishing, 2026 onwards.
External Board Member, NIHR Global Health Research Centre For Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) And Environmental Change, 2025 onwards.
Editor, Aerosol Science and Technology journal (AS&T) published by American association for aerosol Research, 2024 onwards.
Member, Academic Council, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir
Member, Board of Governance, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur
Member, Board of Governance, Rajkiya Engineering College, Ambedkar Nagar (U.P.)
Member, High - Powered Steering Committee, National Institute of Research and Application of Natural Resources to Transform, Adapt and Build Resilience (NIRANTAR), 2023-2025.
President, Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA) for Jan 2023- Dec 2025.
External member, Research and Development Board, Coal India Limited, June 2022.
Member of Committee on Sustainability of The Association of Academies and Societies in Sciences in Asia (AASSA), 2022.
Life Membership, South Asian Meteorological Association, 2022 onwards.
Editor, Transactions of INAE, the flagship Journal of Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2022 onwards.
Technical Advisor to Government of Telangana on Air Quality Management, 2021 onwards.
Member, Building and Works Committee, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow 2020 onwards.
Member, Research and Development subcommittee, Commission on Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and adjacent regions, Government of Uttar Pradesh, 2020 onwards.
Member, Indo-Finnish Working Group on Sustainability to explore new avenues for joint STI collaboration, Department of Science and Technology, 2020 onwards.
Member, National Committee for India-IIASA Programme, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council, Department of Science and Technology, 2020 onwards.
Coordinator, National Knowledge Network to National Clean Air Mission, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC), 2020-24.
Member, Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) on Civil, Infrastructure and Transportation Engineering, SERB, Department of Science and Technology, 2020-23.
National Nodal Faculty, National Knowledge Network to National Clean Air Program, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC), 2019-20.
Member, Technology Assessment Panel, India CEO Forum for Clean Air, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), 2019.
Member, Expert Working Group to Review the Import and Export of Hazardous and other Waste, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, 2019-20.
Member, Expert Committee of Climate Change Programme (CCP) under Strategic Programmes, Large Initiatives and Coordinated Action Enabler (SPLICE) for implementation of two national missions on climate change under Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) viz (a) National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) and (b) National Mission on Strategic knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC), Department of Science and Technology, 2019.
Member, Committee to examine technological and regulatory issues relating to retrofitting of (i) older/petrol/diesel vehicles; (ii) older DG Sets less than 800 kW, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, 2019.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), 2019.
Member, Steering Committee, National Clean Air Program (NCAP), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, 2019.
Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on 'Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation: Emphasis on India and Neighbourhood, CCIVA 2019, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2019.
Member, Cloud Seeding Committee, Uttar Pradesh Government, 2018.
Member, Technical Expert Committee (TEC) for Petcoke and Alternative fuels, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, 2018.
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Aerosol Conference, 2018.
Member, National Advisory and Technical Programme Committee, International Conference on Aerosol Climate Change Connection (AC3), Bose Institute, Darjeeling, April 25-27, 2017
Member, Technical Programme Committee, Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA), conference on Aerosols and Climate Change: Insights and Challenges, PRL, Ahmedabad, December 6-8, 2016.
Member, Advisory Council of Mahamana Malaviya Research Centre for Ganga, River, Development & Water Resource Management, Government of India, 2016 onwards.
Expert member, Committee on Environment and Climate Change to review Central Sector Scheme and Centrally Sponsored Scheme, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
Expert Member, Environmental Domain, MHRD’s IMPRINT programme 2016 onwards.
Expert Member, MoWR’s, Indian National Climate Change Committee, 2015 onwards.
Member, Institute International Relations Committee, 2015-16.
Session Convener, Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, May 2014.
Session Chair, 'Aerosol Characterization: Chemical' in 8th Asian Aerosol Conference, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia, 2013.
Session Convener, Fifth Indo-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Indo–U.S. Science and Technology Forum-U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Agra, India - April 7-10, 2013.
Member, National Advisory Committee, Cloud-Aerosol Interactions and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment (CAIPEEX), Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2008-13.
Evaluator, ‘Atmospheric Brown Clouds’ project administered by United Nation Environment Program, Bangkok, Thailand, 2012-13.
Alternate Member, Nanotechnologies Sectional Committee, MTD 33, 2011.
Member, High Level Working Group, Aerosol and Cloud Nucleation, India Meteorological Department, Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Member, National Fire Facility at Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur.
Member, Geophysical Research Letter Editor Search Committee.
Member, National Steering Committee, Cloud, Aerosol and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment, Largest Project Ever Taken by Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Member, National Steering Committee, Cloud, Aerosol and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment, Largest Project Ever Taken by Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Member, Publications Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2008-10.
Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Aerosol Science and Technology.
Member, Executive Committee, Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association.
Member, Science Team, Mars Orbiter Mission, ISRO Planex Programme.
Convener, Session on Climate effects of the atmospheric particle system: aerosols and clouds, Asia Oceania GeoScience Meeting, Bangkok, 2007.
Participated in Indo-US Frontier of Science and Technology Meeting held in New Delhi, India. October 2006.
Reviewer for DST and CSIR project proposals submitted for funding.
Participated in campaigns of national importance organized by ISRO; Land Campaign II over North India and Integrated Aerosol, Gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB) that covered land, sea and air segment.
Centre for Advanced Studies Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Member, Steering Committee, ISRO Space Borne Lidar Project.
Member, Steering Committee (Cloud Studies), CTCZ experiment Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Member, Indian Association for Aerosol, Science and Technology.
Member, American Geophysical Union.
Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Sciences, Atmospheric Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. Current Science, Aerosol Science and Technology, Tellus B, Space Science Review, Journal of Applied Meteorology, United Nations Environment Programme, Planetary and Space Science, Advances in Space Research.
Executed four projects of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), DST and AICTE; three projects, sponsored by DST and ISRO are ongoing. Total research funding till date: 500 Lakhs.
Panelist, Workshop on Nanoparticles: Science and Technology, organized by Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay under the auspices of Indo-US Forum.
Member, Technical committee, Asian Aerosol Conference, Mumbai, December, 2005.
Convener, Technical (Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association- IASTA Aerosol, Clouds and Indian Monsoon International Conference), Kanpur, November 2004.

Other Recognitions

Other Recognitions
Member, Advisory Board of Journal, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021-2023.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2020 onwards.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), 2019 onwards
Associate Editor, Journal of Indian Geophysical Union, 2018 onwards.
Expert member, Committee on 'Aerosol, Radiation and Trace Gases', NARL, Gadanki, 2018 onwards.
National Coordinator, Department of Science and Technology’s, National Network Programme on Climate Change and Aerosol, 2018-21.
Member, Research Council of CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, 2017-20.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Aerosol Science, 2016-19.
Member, Advisory Board of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts - A Royal Society of Chemistry Publication, 2016-18.
Academic Editor (member of the Editorial Board) of PLOS ONE (2014).

Administrative Experience

Administrative Experience
Dean, Kotak School of Sustainability, 2024-2027
Chairman, Udghosh, IIT Kanpur Main Festival, 2022
Head, Department of Civil Engineering, 2018-2021
Coordinator sustainable habitat theme of Vishwajeet proposal prepared by Institute, 2017
Member, Institute Information Cell (IC), 2016-2017
Coordinator, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, 2014-2017
Member, Senate Library Committee, 2013-2014
Organizer, Alumni Seminar Series, Department of Civil Engineering, 2012-2013
Coordinator, Academic Senate, October 2012 to October 2013
Member, Advisory Committee of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, 2011-2012
Member, DPGC, Environmental Engineering & Management Programme, 2012-2014
Member, Institute Research Development Committee, 2010-2012
Faculty In charge, Computer Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, 2008-2009
Warden-in Charge, Hall V, March 2008-June 2008
Convenor, DPGC Environmental Engineering & Management Programme, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 and 2011-2012
Organiser, Alumni Seminar Series, Department of Civil Engineering, 2003-2004
Member, DUGC, 2003-2004, 2012-2014