Dr. Piyush Srivastava
Assistant Professor, CoEDMM
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Assistant Professor, CoEDMM
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Dr. Piyush Srivastava
Dr. Piyush Srivastava is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management (CoEDMM), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and Visiting Researcher at University of Leeds. He joined IIT Roorkee in May 2021 as an INSPIRE Faculty and transitioned to the role of Assistant Professor in May 2022. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, under Prof. Maithili Sharan on the topic "Modeling and Analyzing Surface Layer Processes for their Representation in Atmospheric Models". Following his doctoral studies, he pursued a Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Leeds under Prof. Ian Brooks from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Srivastava's research interests lie in Atmospheric Science and Boundary Layer Meteorology.
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee May 2022 - till date
Visiting Researcher, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom January 2021- till date
INSPIRE Faculty, CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee January 2021 - May 2022
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom February 2019 - January 2021
Project Scientist, Centre for Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi May 2018 - February 2019
Invited Lectures
06-May-2024: Prof. Piyush Srivastava delivered a lecture on "Climate Change and Climate Variability" at the Training course on Cryospheric Modelling and Hazards held at CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee, in collaboration with NIH Roorkee.
20-September-2023: Prof. Piyush Srivastava delivered an Invited Lecture on "Forecasting of Renewable Energy Generation Resources" at the workshop organized by the Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy, IIT Roorkee
Educational Background
2010 to 2017 - Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from IIT Delhi. Supervisor: Prof. Maithili Sharan
Dissertation: "Modelling and Analysis of Surface Layer Processes for their Representation in Atmospheric Models"2008 to 2010 - M.Sc. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee
Awards & Honours
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship in April 2020
Early career Scientist travel award for participating in the Interdisciplinary field course held in the Russian Siberian gateway to the Arctive(2020)
Prof. M. P. Singh Award, for outstanding Research work done at CAS, IIT Delhi, during 2018
Student Travel Award from Americal Geophysical Union(AGU) for presenting a paper at the 2017-AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana (2017).
Selected in the Faculty Alumni Network(FAN) symposium-2016 organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (2016)
Awarded Financial Assistance from SERB-DST, India, for presenting a paper at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2015).
Qualified CSIR-JRF in 2011.
Teaching Experience
Course Instructor, CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee
DMN - 502, Natural Hazards and Impact Assessment
DMN - 508, Climate Change Impacts
DMN - 602, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
DMN - 601, Hazard Monitoring, Prediction & Microzonation
DMN - 606, Application of Geospatial Data for Disaster Mitigation (Spring 2023)
Teaching Assistant, IIT Delhi
Dynamic Meteorology {2012 to 2017}