Former Team
Vaishali Jain
Thesis Title: Chemical characterization and source apportionment of aerosols using real-time instruments
Current Affiliation: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Sidyant Kumar Rao
Thesis Title: Shock Induced Secondary Atomization, currentPosition: Assistant Professor, KLS GIT, Belagavi, Maharashtra
Current Affiliation:
Himadri Sekhar Bhowmik
Thesis Title: Comparison and integration of Offline and Online techniques for source identification of winter time water soluble organic aerosols in Delhi and their implication on human health
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems - Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Ashutosh Shukla
Thesis Title: Source apportionment using UMR and PMF and network analysis
Current Affiliation: University of California, Davis, USA
Manish Kumar
Thesis Title: Understanding Deposition, Resuspension, and Cloud Formation Potential of Aerosols in Context of Severe Nuclear Accident
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, TKIE, Shree Warna Vibhag Shikshan Mandal, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Suneeti Mishra
Thesis Title: New Particle Formation and Particle growth study in the Delhi NCR (India) with connection to Haze Formation
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, PSC, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI
Vipul Lalchandani
Thesis Title: Chemical characterization of particulate matter, and understanding organic aerosol sources and evolution at downwind location of Delhi during winter season
Current Affiliation: Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
Gaurav Mishra
Thesis Title: Growth characteristics of cesium compound aerosols under various saturation conditions
Current Affiliation: Research Scientist, IRSN, Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, France
Kunal Ghosh
Thesis Title: Role of ion in aerosol microphysical processes (modeling and experimental studies).
Current Affiliation: Research Scientist, University of Leeds
Navaneeth M. Thamban
Thesis Title: Evolution of size, composition and mixing state of carbonaceous aerosols in Indo-Gangetic Plain
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Manchester, UK
Anil Kumar Mandariya
Thesis Title: Impact of ambient relative humidity on the growth and evolution of organic aerosol.
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral, CESAM Chamber, CNRS - LISA, Créteil, France
Anubhav Dwivedi
Thesis Title: Experimental and numerical study on micro-physical properties of aerosols and its behaviour under varying thermal-hydraulic conditions.
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark
Manish Joshi
Thesis Title: Formation and evolution characteristics of nuclei mode particles in dense atmospheric and confined aerosol environments.
Current Affiliation: Scientific Officer ‘E’, BARC, Mumbai
Shamjad P.M
Thesis Title: Impact of carbonaceous aerosol absorption and mixing state on direct radiative forcing in Kanpur-India.
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Chandan Sarangi
Thesis Title: Understanding aerosol-surface-cloud-rainfall interactions within Indian summer monsoon region.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Abhishek Chakraborty
Thesis Title: Fog and organic aerosols interactions: processing, sources,and composition.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Deepika Bhattu
Thesis Title: Effect of aerosol size, chemical composition, mixing stateand volatility on cloud condensation nuclei activity in the ambient atmosphere.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Chiranjib Chaudhari
Thesis Title: Characteristics of historical climate change over Indo- Gangeticbasic: Observational analysis and numerical modelling.
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Daya Shankar Kaul
Thesis Title: Understanding the formation of organic aerosol in urban environment during foggy and non-foggy episodes.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, SoT, PDP University, Gujarat
J. Jaidevi
Thesis Title: Effects of fine particulate matter on human health and climate.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IITRAM, Ahmedabad
Sumit Kumar Mishra
Thesis Title: Numerical estimation of optical properties of pure and polluted mineral dust particle.
Current Affiliation: Scientist, Radio and Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
Sagnik Dey
Thesis Title: Aerosol radiative effects in Kanpur in the Indo-Gangetic basin,northern India.
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Institute Chair, Department of Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi and Faculty, Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA), IIT Delhi
Aseem Dubey
Thesis Title: Improving Low - Cost PM2.5 Sensor Accuracy through Predictive Modelling using Machine Learning
Saurabh Kumar Maurya
Thesis Title: Optimal Deployment of Movable Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring
Nishant Ajnoti
Thesis Title: Hybrid Instruments Network Optimization for Air Quality Monitoring
Ayush Nagal
Thesis Title: Robust Statistical Calibration and Characterization of Portable Low-Cost Air Quality Monitoring Sensors
Saurabh Kukreti
Thesis Title: Impact of variability in initial and boundary conditions of meteorology on the simulated particulate matter concentrations over Delhi during winters using WRF-Chem
Pratapaditya Ghosh
Thesis Title: Understanding the non - local and local contributions during a high PM2.5 loading winter episode over the megacity of Delhi using WRF-Chem
Shubham Naresh
Thesis Title: Spatial and temporal variability in ionic and metal composition of PM2.5, across five sites of Gangetic plain; seasonality in secondary inorganic aerosol and preliminary source apportionment.
Current Affiliation: Environmental Engineer, THDC India Limited, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Himadri Sekhar Bhowmik
Thesis Title: Inter and Intra seasonality in carbonaceous species(EC, OC) of PM2.5 aerosol over five sites of Indo - Gangetic plain, preliminary source apportionment and case study on multi - day regional SOA formation during winter at Faridabad.
Current Affiliation: Pursuing Ph.D under my guidance in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
Saad Ahmed
Thesis Title: Application of microwave radiometer in now casting of convective activity.
Current Affiliation: Senior Engineer, Tata Consulting Engineers, Noida
Mithun Krishnan K.V.
Thesis Title: Seasonal dynamics of surface energy balance over a semi - natural grass land in central Indo - Gangetic Basin.
Geet George
Thesis Title: Characterisation of cloud vertical structure(CVS) and cloud radiative forcing(CRF) over Kanpur.
Bhuvana Joshi
Thesis Title: Real time size resolved analysis of organics in Kanpur city: A comparative study between fog and no - fog periods.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor - Civil Engineering, Govt.Engineering College, Banswara, Rajasthan
Kuntamukkala Pavan Kumar
Thesis Title: Black carbon aerosol microphysical properties variation and electron microscopy study of PM205 in Kanpur.
Current Affiliation: Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra Pune, Maharashtra
Tirthankar Chakraborty
Thesis Title: Understanding urban micrometeorology and its impact on the heat island of greater Kanpur.
Current Affiliation: PhD student, Yale University, USA.
Kundan Kumar
Thesis Title: Aerosol Direct Radiative forcing over Indo - Gangetic basin during pre - mansoon season using WRF-CHEM.
Current Affiliation: Assistant Executive Engineer, Office of the Panchayat Raj Superintendent Engineer, Panchayat Raj Circle Adilabad, Tilangana
Vipul Lalchandani
Thesis Title: The need for site -, season - and instrument - specific calibrations of a photo - reference method for determining aerosol Black Carbon concentrations and examining color signal of Organic carbon particles.
Current Affiliation: The need for site -, season - and instrument - specific calibrations of a photo - reference method for determining aerosol Black Carbon concentrations and examining color signal of Organic carbon particles. ,Pursuing PhD under my guidance in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur
Amit Sharma
Thesis Title: Assessing health impact of Particulate Matter using Weather Research Forecasting-Chem model over IG Basin
Current Affiliation: Assessing health impact of Particulate Matter using Weather Research Forecasting-Chem model over IG Basin Ahmedabad
Anubhav Dwivedi
Thesis Title: Investigation of activation kinetics of laboratory generated and ambient particles
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University Denmark
Rosalin Dalai
Thesis Title: Role of aerosol type and mixing state on CCN activity
Current Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology - Bhubaneswar
Shamjad P.M
Thesis Title: Hygroscopicity, mixing state and enhanced absorption of aerosols.
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Priya Choudhry
Thesis Title: Validation of MODIS - retrieved AOD over Indo - Gangetic Plain.
Current Affiliation: Group Engineer at SNC - Lavalin Atkins, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Monika Srivastava
Thesis Title: Aircraft - based CCN Closure
Current Affiliation: BBD University, Lucknow
Pawan Kumar Bharti
Thesis Title: A study of inter and intra variation seasonal of surface Cloud Condensation Nuclei and chemical closure in Kanpur
Current Affiliation: SIDBI, Ludhiana
Vishnu Patidar
Thesis Title: First surface, spatial and vertical measurements of Cloud Condensation Nuclei(CCN) over Indian CTCZ region.
Current Affiliation: Environmental Engineer
Jariwala Chinmay G.
Thesis Title: An observational and laboratory study on the effects of Cloud Condensation Nuclei and black carbon aerosol on fog persistence.
Current Affiliation: Environmental Engineer, Dar AL - Handasah, Pune
Vivek Pratap Singh
Thesis Title: An experimental investigation of the effects of environmental and fog condensation nuclei parameters on rate of fog dissipation.
Current Affiliation: Engineer, Manali
Sanjay Prakash Baxla
Thesis Title: A study of ambient ultra - fine aerosols using SMPS.
Current Affiliation: Sr.Process Design Engineer at SS GAS LAB ASIA PVT LTD, New Delhi
Anirban Roy
Thesis Title: Measurement and simulation of particulate aerosols.
Current Affiliation: Post - Doctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Anilkumar D.Vanga
Thesis Title: A numerical study of new particle formation in cirrus cloud.
Current Affiliation: Engineer, Jones Lang LaSalle, Mumbai
Sudip Chakraborty
Thesis Title: Long term changes in surface and columnar water vapor over North India.
Current Affiliation: Research Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Defense & Space, Pasadena, CA
Abani Patnaik
Thesis Title: Climatology of cloud and aerosol over the Indian subcontinent and adjoining oceans.
Current Affiliation: Offshore Structural Engineer, L & T, Mumba
Roma Srivastava
Thesis Title: Study of trace gas concentration over Kanpur region.
Current Affiliation: Lecturer, Hindustan College of Engineering, Agra
Parul Sharma
Thesis Title: Study of aerosol chemical composition over Kanpur region.
Current Affiliation: Sr.Director(HTEM) at Fraud and Identity, Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, Milpitas, California
Tanveer Ahmed
Thesis Title: Charging of radioactive aerosols containment wall of pressurized water reactor.
Current Affiliation: Data Scientist, Enterprise Intelligent Automation Practice, Tata Consultancy Services - North America
Nagesh Chinnam
Thesis Title: Analysis of ambient particles by high volume sampler and PM10.
Shyam Kishor
Thesis Title: Investigation into seasonal and diurnal formation of atmospheric nitrate