GROUP MEMBERS
Dr. Sayantan Sarkar
Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi (since February 2020)
Email: sayantan@iitmandi.ac.in
Google Scholar:
2017-2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) - Kolkata, India.
2015-2017: Research Fellow, NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2013-2015: Research Associate, Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health, Albany, NY, USA
2013-2015: Adjunct Research Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY - Albany, NY, USA
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2007-2012: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Ph.D. and Integrated Ph.D. scholars
Bijay Sharma
Email: d21045@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Population exposure to aerosols from residential fuel use in NE India
Prashant Rawat
Email: d21112@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Aerosol climate forcing agents in biofuel emissions in Himalayan states
Supriya Dey
Email: d21058@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Water-soluble organic aerosol in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain - characterization and climate forcing
Archita Rana
Email: ar17ip020@iiserkol.ac.in
Research: Diurnal profiles and sources of BC, BrC and nitroaromatics in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain
Aditi Rana
Email: d21027@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Aqueous and methanol-soluble brown carbon in the Himalayas
Pronoy Ghosh
Email: d22044@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Exposure to size-segregated aerosols in occupational settings and corresponding health effects
Project Fellows
Komal Choudhary: (November 2022 - June 2023) - MoES project.
Megha Anand: (September 2021 onwards) - Swedish Research Council project.
Pronoy Ghosh: (December 2020 - April 2022) - SERB, DST project.
MS Thesis students
2020-2021: Atul Kubare (Urban heat island effect in Delhi and Kolkata)
Sukanya Kumar (Extreme precipitation events over NE India)
Niharika Garg (Satellite-derived aerosol composition over the Himalayas)
2019-2020: Debajit Sarkar (Effects of air pollutants on plant physico-chemical parameters)
2018-2019: Anuraag J. Polana (Aerosol acidity and its neutralization in the eastern IGP)
Arya Mukherjee (Chemical-optical characterization of HULIS aerosols)
Shruti Singh (Carbonaceous aerosol profiles and tracers for biomass burning)
Shubham Mahajan (Satellite-derived trends of trace gases over Kolkata)
Vismay K (Source apportionment of road dust-associated heavy metals)
2017-2018: Prashant Rawat (Long-term AOD trends and relative source contributions)
Hemanta Chakladar (Trends of criteria pollutants over Indian megacities)
Internship students
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Akshat Seth (June 2023 to July 2023) - IIT Tirupati
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Preyas Prabhakaran. (June 2023 to July 2023) - Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham
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Vaishnavi P. (December 2022 to March 2023) - Mahatma Gandhi University
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Shreyasi Upadhyay (Summer 2022) - Central University of Rajasthan
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Ishani Mukherjee (2019-2020) - Vidyasagar University
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Poulami Das (Summer 2019) - Ranchi University
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Sukanya Kumar (Summer 2018 and 2019) - IISER Kolkata
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Vikram Raj (Summer 2018) - Central University of South Bihar
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Rajiv Ranjan (Summer 2018) - IISER Kolkata