Awarded in Sustainability Science
Thesis: “Rooting for forest resilience: Implications of climate and land-use change on tropical rainforests”
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Awarded in Environmental Science and Engineering (First Class with Distinction)
Thesis: “Estimation of biomass using remote sensing and GIS for tropical forest”
Awarded in Civil Engineering (First Class)
Thesis: “Study of Nano-concete”
- Investigating deforestation carbon footprint of agricultural commodities and the role of global supply-chains in driving deforestation
- Working with high-resolution remote sensing and agricultural census data; and trade models
- Developed a global scale commodity-driven deforestation (carbon) footprint model – DeDuCE
- Assisting with teaching, presenting at conferences and developing potential publications and grant opportunities
Visiting Researcher: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands — 1 year
Visiting Researcher: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria — 3 months
- Investigated how hydroclimatic changes brought on by climate and land-use change influence forest resilience and lead to rainforest tipping
- Examined subsoil forest dynamics and their impact on the ecohydrology of terrestrial ecosystems
- Worked with remote sensing, climate datasets, and process-based models
- Assisted with teaching and presented my research at international conferences
- Investigated the influence of water scarcity on Indian agriculture
- Helping faculty with lectures and labs as part of the master’s scholarship
Refining mining and mineral extraction-driven estimates of Deforestation, land-Use change and Carbon Emissions (ReDUCE+)
Refining mining and mineral extraction-driven estimates of Deforestation, land-Use change and Carbon Emissions (ReDUCE+)
Forest to fork
Forest, Food and Finance: Enhancing the Granularity of Amazon’s Deforestation Footprint, and its linkages to trade and financial actors
Participating in a Tipping Dynamics in the Earth Systems workshop (and contributing to Tipping Elements Model Intercomparison Project) in Germany
Youth for Water and Climate Programme
Attending EGU Conference
Self-influencing feedback of deforestation on the actors responsible
Erasmus+ mobility fellowship for research stay at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
Scholarship to pursue a two-year master’s programme in engineering based on the nationwide Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score