Dr. Deeksha Dave is working as Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies, IGNOU. She has a rich experience of several years of teaching and research in Environmental Studies. She has authored several textbooks on Environmental Studies published by repute publishers. To her credit are several book chapters, research papers and articles in various journals and magazines. She has also participated and presented her research work in several national and international seminars and conferences.

At IGNOU, she is co-ordinating course on Population and Sustainable Development and Certificate in Solid Waste Management and developing important programmes like M.Sc. Environmental Science. She is also associated with courses on Sustainability Science. Her area of research includes waste management, ecology and sustainability education.