Dr. Vikas Poonia

Group Lead

Assistant Professor

Qualification: PhD (Hydro-climatology), IIT Indore

Research Interest: Drought and flood monitoring, Flash drought and forecasting, Flood Climate change impact assessment, Extreme events, Risk and resilience assessment, Crop modelling, Climate-vegetation interactions

Doctoral Scholars

Ankita Mukherjee

Year of Joining - 2024 (June)

Funding - Institute Funding

Qualification -

M.Sc (GIS and Remote Sensing), Amity University, GATE qualified (2023)
B.Sc (Geography), University of Calcutta

Research Interest - Hydro-climatic Extremes

Shweta Kushwaha

Year of Joining- 2024 (June) Part Time

Funding- Part Time

Qualification -

ME (Geotechnical), Jabalpur Engineering College
BE (Civil)

Research Interest - Sedimentation in Reservoirs

Joitree Mukherjee

Year of Joining - 2025 (June)

Funding - Institute Funding

Qualification -

M.Sc (Applied Geology), Aligarh Muslim University, UGC-NET qualified (2025)
B.Sc (Geology), Kazi Nazrul University

Research Interest - Marine Heatwaves and Glaciers

Deepika Yadav

Year of Joining - 2025 (August)

Funding - Institute Funding

Qualification -

M.Tech (Agri. Engineering), Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Jabalpur, M.P, ICAR-NET qualified (2018)
B.Tech (Agri. Engineering), Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Jabalpur M.P.

Research Interest - Micro Irrigation, Precision Farming & protected cultivation

Master Students

Himanshu Jhariya

Year of Joining - 2023 (August)

Qualification -

M.Tech (Water Resource Engineering and Management), MANIT Bhopal
B.Tech (Civil), GEC Chhatarpur

Research Interest - Heatwaves

Pragya Baheshwar

Year of Joining - 2025 (July)

Qualification -

M.Tech (Water Resource Engineering and Management), MANIT Bhopal
B.Tech (Agricultural Engineering), Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University

Research Interest - Compound Drought and Heatwave Events (CDHW)