Professor Joint Faculty in Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE)
Aerosol Science and Technology, Low-Cost Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring, Air pollution source identification in near real-time, Aerosol-Land Use-Rainfall-Climate coupling, Large-Scale Chamber Aerosol Experiments for Reactor Safety.
Office
FB-314,
Departement of Civil Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Air Quality, Climate Change
PhD, (Environmental Engineering), University of Reading, UK (2000)
M.Tech, (Environmental Engineering), MNIT-Allahabad (1995)
B.Tech, (Civil Engineering), IIT-BHU (1992)
Air Pollution and its Control
Earth and Environment
Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry
Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Natural Systems
Environmental Quality and Pollution
Computational Methods in Engineering
Advanced Mathematics for Civil Engineers
Modeling of Natural Systems
Nov 2019 onwardsAdjunct Professor, Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA), Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Delhi, IndiaAugust 2018 onwardsHigher Administrative Grade Professor (HAG) Professor, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, IndiaJune 2018–May 2021Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, IndiaDec 2015Visiting Professor, School of Civil Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Nov 2014-Oct 2017 Coordinator, Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Nov 2014 onwards Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Kanpur
June-July 2014 Visiting Professor, School of Civil Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
May-July 2012 Professor, Laboratoire de Physique etChimie de Environnement, University of Orleans, France.
April 2012-till date Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
Aug 2009-July 2010 Senior Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
Jan 2008-Mar 2012 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
May-July 2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Centre for Climate System Research, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
June 2004 Visiting Researcher, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, USA.
July 2003-Dec 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur.
Jan 2002-July 2003 Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK.
Dec 2000-Dec 2001 Visiting Scientist, Environmental Assessment Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
Current Ph.D. Students
Ashutosh Shukla | Cont. | Source apportionment using UMR and PMF and network analysis | ||
Sidyant Kumar Rao (Jointly with Dr. Sanjay Kumar, AE) | Cont. | Study of shock wave and droplet interaction | ||
Manish Kumar | Cont. | Study of Aerosol deposition in piping system during severe nuclear accident and its validation with ASTEC | ||
Vipul Lalchandani | Cont. | Vipul Lalchandani Cont. Chemical characterization of particulate matter, and understanding organic aerosol sources and evolution at downwind location of Delhi during winter season | ||
Suneeti Mishra | Cont. | Aerosol size distribution and chemical analysis in Indian cities | ||
Mithun Krishnan K.V. | Cont. | Seasonal and annual variations of surface energy fluxes, parameters and it’s modeling using weather research forecast models over Indo-Gangetic basin | ||
Himadri Sekhar Bhowmik | Cont. | Chemical characterization and source appointment of aerosols using real time instruments | ||
Vaishali Jain | Cont. | Chemical characterization and source appointment of aerosols using real-time instruments |
Current M.Tech. Students
Parmesh Lawani | Cont. | Calibration of low cost sensor |
Himanshu Patel | Cont. | Source Apportionment |
Ravi Prakash Maurya | Cont. | WRF-Chem Modelling |
Sant Kumar Jha | Cont. | WRF-Chem Modelling |
Project Members
Veerendra Sahu | Post Doc Fellow | Air quality monitoring using low cost sensor of Delhi. |
Sandeep Madhwal | Post Doc Fellow | Air quality monitoring using low cost sensor in Lucknow |
Mohit Kumar | Post Doc Fellow | Deep learning based calibration of air quality sensors |
Vishnu Murari | Post Doc Fellow | Identification of aerosol source at different locations in India |
Shamitaksha Talukdar | Post Doc Fellow | Source apportionment study in Delhi |
P. Pranav Kumar | Project Associate | Calibration of air quality sensors |
Amit Vishvakarma | Project Associate | Calibration of air quality sensors |
Ravi Sahu | Post Doc | |
Harish C. Vishwakarma | Assistant Project Manager | AERONET and MPLNET site maintenance, Technical work and official work for Projects. |
Hari Shankar | Sr. Project Mechanic | Technical work and official work for Project and Lab. |
Past Members
Ph.D. Thesis Student
Gaurav Mishra | 2021 | Growth characteristics of cesium compound aerosols under various saturation conditions. |
Kunal Ghosh | 2021 | Role of ion in aerosol microphysical processes (modeling and experimental studies). |
Navaneeth M.Thamban | 2021 | Evolution of size, composition and mixing state of carbonaceous aerosols in Indo-Gangetic Plain. |
Anil Kumar Mandaria | 2021 | Impact of ambient relative humidity on the growth and evolution of organic aerosol. |
Anubhav Dwivedi (Jointly with Dr. Naveen Tiwari, CHE) | 2020 | Aerosol nucleation in mixing chamber under various flow conditions |
Manish Joshi | 2018 | Formation and evolution characteristics of nuclei mode particles in dense atmospheric and confined aerosol environments. |
Shamjad P.M. | 2017 | Impact of carbonaceous aerosol absorption and mixing state on direct radiative forcing in Kanpur-India. |
Chandan Sarangi | 2017 | Understanding aerosolsurfacecloudrainfall interactions within Indian summer monsoon region. |
Abhishek Chakraborty | 2016 | Fog and organic aerosols interactions: processing, sources, and composition. |
Deepika Bhattu | 2016 | Effect of aerosol size, chemical composition, mixing state and volatility on cloud condensation nuclei activity in the ambient atmosphere. |
Chiranjib Chaudhari | 2015 | Characteristics of historical climate change over Indo- Gangetic basic: Observational analysis and numirical modeling. |
2014 | Understanding the formation of organic aerosol in urban environment during foggy and nonfoggy episodes. | |
J. Jaidevi | 2012 | Effects of fine particulate matter on human health and climate. |
Sumit Kumar Mishra | 2011 | Numerical estimation of optical properties of pure and polluted mineral dust particle. |
Sagnik Dey | 2008 | Aerosol radiative effects in Kanpur in the Indo-Gangetic basin, northern India. |
M.Tech Thesis students
Saurabh Kukreti | 2020 | 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 | 2020 | 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 | 2019 | 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. |
Himadri Sekhar Bhowmik | 2019 | 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. |
Saad Ahmed | 2018 | Application of microwave radiometer in nowcasting of convective activity. |
Mithun Krishnan | 2017 | Seasonal dynamics of surface energy balance over a semi-natural grassland in central Indo-Gangetic Basin. |
Geet George | 2017 | Characterisation of cloud vertical structure (CVS) and cloud radiative forcing (CRF) over Kanpur. |
Bhuvana Joshi | 2016 | Real time size resolved analysis of organics in Kanpur city: A comparative study between fog and no-fog periods. |
Kuntamukkala Pavan Kumar | 2016 | Black carbon aerosol microphysical properties variation and electron microscopy study of PM205 in Kanpur. |
Bharath Kumar | 2015 | Source apportionment of sub micron aerosol over Kanpur. |
Karn Vohra | 2015 | A chamber study to understand aerosol deposition phenomena. |
Tirthankar Chakraborty | 2015 | Understanding urban micrometeorology and its impact on the heat island of greater Kanpur. |
Kundan Kumar | 2015 | Aerosol direct radiative forcing over Indo-Gangetic basin during pre-mansoon season using WRF-CHEM. |
Vipul Lalchandani | 2014 | The need for site-, season- and instrument-specific calibrations of a |
Amit Sharma | 2014 | Quantifying health benefits of reducing PM2.5 & ozone concentration using WRF-CHEM model. |
Alabhya Mishra | 2014 | Electrical properties of Titan and Earth atmospheres. |
Arun Yadav | 2013 | An evaluation of WRF-Chem model over the Indian Domain |
Anubhav Dwivedi | 2013 | Investigation of activation kinetics of laboratory generated and ambient particles |
Rosalin Dalai | 2013 | Role of aerosol type and mixing state on CCN activity |
Akhilesh Rawal | 2012 | Study of ion-aerosol near-cloud mechanism to explain cosmic ray-cloud-climate conundrum |
Shamjad P.M. | 2011 | Hygroscopicity, mixing state and enhanced absorption of aerosols |
Priya Choudhry | 2011 | Validation of MODIS-retrieved AOD over Indo-Gangetic Plain |
Monika Srivastava | 2011 | Aircraft-based CCN Closure |
Pawan Kumar Bharti | 2010 | A study of inter and intra variation seasonal of surface Cloud Condensation Nuclei and chemical closure in Kanpur |
Vishnu Patidar | 2009 | First surface, spatial and vertical measurements of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)over Indian CTCZ region. |
Jariwala Chinmay G. | 2009 | An observational and laboratory study on the effects of Cloud Condensation Nuclei and black carbon aerosol on fog persistence. |
Vivek Pratap Singh | 2008 | An experimental investigation of the effects of environmental and fog condensationnuclei parameters on rate of fog dissipation. |
Sanjay Prakash Baxla | 2008 | A study of ambient ultra fine aerosols using SMPS. |
Anirban Roy | 2008 | Measurement and simulation of particulate aerosols. |
Anilkumar D. Vanga | 2007 | A numerical study of new particle formation in cirrus cloud. |
Sudip Chakraborty | 2006 | Long term changes in surface and columnar water vapor over North India. |
Abani Patnaik | 2006 | Climatology of cloud and aerosol over the Indian subcontinent and adjoining oceans. |
Roma Srivastava | 2006 | Study of trace gas concentration over Kanpur region. |
Parul Sharma | 2006 | Study of aerosol chemical composition over Kanpur region. |
Tanveer Ahmed | 2005 | Charging of radioactive aerosols containment wall of pressurized water reactor. |
Nagesh Chinnam | 2005 | Analysis of ambient particles by high volume sampler and PM10 |
Shyam Kishor | 2005 | Investigation into seasonal and diurnal formation of atmospheric nitrate. |
Project Employees
Kuldeep Dixit | Current Position: Project Scientist, CAS, IIT Delhi |
Jitendra Kumar Meher | Current Position: Kreate Energy (I) Pvt. Ltd., Kreate Global, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, UP |
Dinesh Nath | Current Position: |
Shilpa Shirodkar | Current Position: IIT Kanpur |
Pravin Kumar Verma | Current Position: Mumbai |
Vijay Kanawade | Current Position: UGC-Assistant Professor, Centre for Earth and Space Sciences (UCESS), University of Hyderabad, Prof C R Rao Road, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, |
M S Gandhi | Current Position: Pennagaram, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu |
Mary Michael | Current Position: Trivandrum |
Beena Umrao | Current Position: New Delhi |
Bhola N. Singh | Current Position: Branch Manager, SBI, Lucknow |
A.R. Ragi | Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Department of CAS, IIT Delhi |
Arindam Ghosh | Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan |
Tanmay Dhar | Current Position: Research Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay |
Litty Thomas | Current Position: Kerala |
Desh Deepak | Current Position: Mumbai |
Nikita Tripathi | Current Position: Chandigarh |
Bodhaditya Santra | Email: [email protected] |
Rishi Jain | Email: [email protected] |
M. S. Modgil | Email: [email protected] |
Sanjeev Kumar | Current Position: Self-Employed |
Rina Dutta | Current Position: Doctoral Student, IIT Kharagpur (WB) |
Manoj K. Sagar | Current Position: Bangalore |
Saurav Dayal | Current Position: Research Engineer |
Nimisha Srivastava | Current Position: Research Engineer |
Narayan | Current Position: Doctoral Student, Mississippi State University, USA |
Praveen Pandey | Current Position: Doctoral Student, Katholik University of Leuven, Belgium |
Atul Srivastava | Current Position: Scientist, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, New Delhi |
Subhash Tiwari | Current Position: Self employe Email: [email protected] |