2023

Climate-KIC SILP Experimentation Fund Stage 1; grant amount ~ €2,000. 

Alongwith Nandini Mehrotra at the Technology for Wildlife Foundation, we developed an approach to remove some of the funding and expertise bottlenecks across ecosystem restoration projects in India in a collaborative and low-cost manner. We were invited to further develop the idea in Stage 2, but unfortunately were unsuccessful in securing the Fund. Onwards and upwards!

2023:

Bengaluru Sustainability Forum Small Grant Progamme; grant amount ~ €5,600. 

Responding to the theme of Urban Climate Change, I have developed and won a grant which aims to develop Ward-level (the most decentralised administrative unit in urban areas in India) Heatwave Action Plans in Bengaluru, together with my collaborators at the Bangalore Creative Circus (BCC) and the Initiative for Climate Action (ICA). Work under this project will be initiated in the start of 2023, so stay tuned for more updates!

2018 - 2022:

PhD Fellowship at the Institute of Social Ecology, Universität für Bodenkultur (Austria); grant amount ~ €100,000. 

Contribution to two research projects: (1) Hidden Emissions of Forest Transitions (HEFT), financed by a European Research Council Starting Grant to the Principal Investigator Dr. Simone Gingrich, and (2) Consumption-based Accounting of Land Use Change Emissions (CoBALUCE), financed by a German Research Foundation research grant to Principal Investigators Prof. Karl-Heinz Erb and Dr. Thomas Kastner.

2021-2022:

Marietta Blau Research Stipendium at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium); grant amount ~ €10,000.

Awarded by the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalization (OeAD), the grant allowed me to collaborate with Prof. Patrick Meyfroidt at UCL over two stints: May-July 2021 and November 2021- January 2022.

2019:

Young Scientists Summer Programme (YSSP) Fellowship at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria); grant amount ~ €4,000.

The YSSP Fellowship is an annual summer-long research award given to outstanding PhD students globally, allowing them to collaborate with scientists at IIASA. I collaborated with Dr. Steffen Fritz at IIASA to study the relationship between satellite-derived estimates of tree cover and biomass carbon stocks in the tropical region. 

2015:

Masters’ Dissertation Fieldwork Research Grant at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS, India); grant amount ~ GBP 1,000.

The research grant allowed to perform fieldwork in the rainforests of the Western Ghats as part of my Masters' thesis at the University of Oxford. I collaborated with Prof. Mahesh Sankaran at NCBS.

2014-2015:

Louis Dreyfus – Weidenfeld Masters Scholarship at the University of Oxford; grant amount ~ GBP 35,000.

I was generously awarded a full scholarship to pursue my Masters' in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford.

2011 - 2014:

Science Meritorious Award, Hansraj College, University of Delhi.

My academic excellence in my Bachelors' programme was consistently recognised by the University of Delhi.