EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, 2006
- M.S. University of Pune, Pune 2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. October 2011 – present
- Visiting Scholar Jun – Jul 2015. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Post doctoral researcher (with Prof. M. O. Andreae and Dr. U. Pöschl), Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany. July 2006 – Sep 2011
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions; effect of increasing anthropogenic aerosols on Indian summer monsoon
Characterizing properties of atmospheric aerosols (including biological aerosols) to study the climatic and health impact (field measurements, laboratory experiments, and numerical modeling)