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Climate Researcher and Advocate
AIM:
Monitoring various Earth resources for their effective management and utilization in order to achieve sustainable development goals.
Institute Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
Former Research Associate, Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India
Former Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF), Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), Kharagpur, India
Introduction
Rahul Kashyap is a 29 year old, climate researcher and climate advocate working in the domain of land-atmosphere interactions, particularly vegetation carbon dynamics and terrestrial carbon and water cycle relation in India and global vegetated land based on earth observation, reanalyses and climate projection data.
He has a background of Integrated M.Tech in Geoinformatics at the Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. He has experiences as research intern in organisations such as Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT G), Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Ranchi, Jharkhand Space Application Centre (JSAC). He has defended his PhD as a Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF) at the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) on Aug 7, 2025. He worked as Research Associate (RA) at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Goverment of India from Sep 15, 2025 to July 6, 2026. He joined Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) on July 9, 2026. He has also recently secured the National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) by the Anushandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Goverment of India for postdoctoral research at IISc.
His research interest are in domains of Vegetation Dynamics, Vegetation-Climate Interactions, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Carbon Dynamics, Ecohydrology, Landscape Dynamics, Food Security, Extreme Events, Biodiversity, GHGs and Climate Change based on geospatial techniques, statistical models and machine learning.
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