Educational Details

• Ph.D.in Natural Sciences (Earth Sytsem Modelling, Meteorology), University of Hamburg, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany  (2011).  QS world university ranking UoH in 2023 = 228   &    THE = 128

  • M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and GIS, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands. QS world university ranking UT in 2023 = 212   & THE = 251-300

• B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka

• Higher Secondary Education (XIth and XIIth): Science stream (PCMB) from UN College, Soro, Odisha

Employment Details

• Associate Professor & Head, Department of Geoinformatics, School of Natural Resource & Management, Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) – Jan 2024 to present. 

• UGC-Assistant Professor, Department of Geoinformatics, School of Natural Resource & Management, Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) – Sep. 2016 to Jan 2024. 

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering/Center for Environmental Sci. & Eng. (CESE), Shiv Nadar University (SNU) – Aug. 2012 to Aug. 2016. 

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA -Aug. 2011 to July 2012.

• Research Associate, Geoinformatics center, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand.

• Research Associate, Water Resource Development & Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. 

International Fellow

• Bonn International Fellowships (2025)— Visited Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn during July 2025 

Relevant and Interested Teaching Areas

• Elements of Surveying 

• Engineering Hydrology 

• Fluid Mechanics 

• Remote Sensing & Image Interpretation 

• Digital Image Processing   | Hyperspectral Imaging | Microwave Remote Sensing 

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Global Positioning System (GPS)

• Statistical computing in R 

• The Climate System and Climate Change

• Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System

• Remote sensing applications in Agriculture, Forestry and Disaster mitigation

  Last update on Jan, 2025

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