Activities and professional engagements

                                                                                Experiences

• Postdoctoral Researcher (January 2022-January 2024)

    Organisation: University College Dublin 

    Works: EPA Water Research, Supervision of M Tech and PhD students

•  Junior Research Fellow (Mar 2016 – June 2016 )

    Project: NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINING THE HIMALAYAN ECOSYSTEM (NMSHE)

    Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India 

• Assistant Professor (July 2021-January 2022)

    School of Agricultural and Bio-engineering

    Centurion University of Technology and Management

ACTIVITIES

Organizing Committee member

• Organising committee member for International GIS DAY (2021)

• Organizing committee member for GIAN course on Improved climate change adaptation strategies in water resources (2018)

• Organizing committee member for ITRA-Water Evaluation Workshop (2017)

Referee Service

      Total number of manuscripts reviewed since 2016: 52

1. Water Resources Research (3)

2. Journal of Hydrology (5)

3. Science of Total Environment (2)

4. Water Resources Management (7)

5. Journal of Environmental Management (1)

6. International Journal of Climatology (1)

7. Land degradation and Management (1)

8. Hydrological Sciences Journal (2)

9. Acta Geophysica (1)

10. Journal of Water and Climate Change (5)

11. International journal of Bio-meteorology (1)

12. Current World Environment Journal (3)

13. CATENA (1)

14. Sustainability (2)

15. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (1)

16. Water (2)

Awards/Fellowships

Travel Grant by IIT Kharagpur for presenting paper at American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2018 at Washington D.C.

2016:  MHRD, Govt. of India scholarship to pursue PhD degree at IIT Kharagpur

2016: All India 112th rank (91.24 percentile) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)

2014: All India 11th rank (98.25 percentile) in All India Entrance Examination for Admission for post-graduation (AIEEA-UG)

2014: All India 133th rank (87.25 percentile) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)

2014-16: ICAR-Junior Research Fellowship to pursue M. Tech

2010-14:  CAFAS Merit fellowship from Govt. of Odisha to pursue B. Tech  

2005: National Rural Talent Scholarship Examination (NRTS) (at Grade 7th)

Qualified ICAR-NET (67.5%) (2018)

Cleared National Defence Academy Examination (2009)

Professional workshops

1. Hydrological modeling using RS/GIS with special reference to climate change. NIH Roorkee.

2. Application of RS/GIS in Water Resources Management, IIRS, Dehradun.

3. Improved climate change adaptation strategies in Water resources, GIAN, IIT Kharagpur.

4. Recent advancements in groundwater contamination modeling, GIAN, IIT Kharagpur.

5. Land cover and land use changes and their impacts on climate, GIAN, IIT Kharagpur.

6. Introduction to SWAT using open source software: QGIS & QSWAT, IIT Madras.

7. Groundwater modeling characterization and management, GIAN, IIT Kharagpur.

8. Exploring how to ensure hydrological model results are fit for purpose, IIT Kharagpur.

9. River-reservoir water management and modeling, IIT Kharagpur.