Organisations

Dr Krishna Kumar is Scientist & Program Manager at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune-411008.

Research Interest: Climate Change, Monsoons.

Designation: Professor, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Room MS 808 (Main Building), Indian Institute of Technology,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016

Specialization: Vehicular Pollution

Details:
Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Co-ordinator, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme and Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology; Consultancies with several national & international institutions & ministry dealing with health, transport, safety and automobile.
International BJD Ambassador;
Former Co-ordinator, The BJD-INDIA: NAN (2000 – 2004);
Member, American Society of Biomechanics / Institution of Engineers, India / International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention / National Safety Council, India / Board of International Research Council on Biomechanics of Impacts / International Commission on Occupational Health, Scientific Committee on Accident Prevention / WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Accident Prevention.
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 2002;
2001 Bertil Aldman Award;
national Distinguished Career Award (American Public Health Association) 2000;
Inter Haddon Memorial Award for Best Paper in Safety Research 1996;
Award of Merit for outstanding research in traffic safety 1991;
Award and Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Traffic Medicine 1991;
University of Michigan, Rakham School of graduate Studies Fellowship 1972;
E.I. Dupont Fellowship 1969;
Member of several national & international professional Societies;
Chief Investigator of several research projects.

She is working in Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP), Department of Civil engineering, Room MS 808 (Main Building), Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016

Dr. Geetam Tiwari obtained her B. Arch form the IIT Roorkee and Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently she is TRIPP Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus based public transport systems. Some of her projects include Development of a Bicycle Masterplan for Delhi, analysis of traffic on Indian Highways, crash analysis on rural and urban roads, public transport planning.

She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals, peer reviewed seminar proceedings and edited four books on transportation planning and road safety.

Dr Tiwari received the International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize in Barcelona, the Stockholm Partnerships award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability, the Centre for excellence grant from Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), and the Prince Michaels award for promoting road safety research.

She is advisor to Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by London School of Economics since 2005. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

Dr B Sengupta by Profession:Scientist, GOI/SG/IAS/IFS/Retd IAS.

Specialization: Air Pollution Control, Noise Pollution, Toxicology, Vehicular Pollution

Dr Sarath Kumar Guttikunda is Environment Consultant in Delhi.

A TED fellow and a trained Chemical Engineer, Sarath's research interests follow from his thesis work on the “Impact of Asian Megacity Emissions at a local, regional and global level” from the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa. Developer of the SIM-air (Simple Interactive Models for Better Air Quality) family of tools, dedicated for sharing information on air pollution and climate change among the developing country cities with applications in cities like Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Dhaka, Manila, Hanoi, Shanghai, Lagos, and Tana. He was part of the team which built India's first air quality forecasting system, piloted during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and now exploring opportunities to expand to other cities in Asia. for more information: www.urbanemissions.info.

His Research Areas:

Air Pollution Modeling – Emissions, Dispersion, & Impact Assessment
Integrated Environmental Modeling
Urban Air Pollution Source Apportionment
Chemical & Weather Forecasting

Dr T Jayaraman, Programme Coordinator and Professor, Centre for Science, Technology and Society, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, V N Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai-400088.

Dr R C Dhiman is Assistant Director to National Institute of Malaria Research, Sector-8, Dwarka, New Delhi.

Designation: Professor, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Broad areas of research focus include forestry, rural energy, community and sustainable development, natural resource monitoring, climate change and related issues. My current research interests include i) climate change – mitigation, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in the land use and forest sector including inventory of land use sectors, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) & Reducing Deforestation (REDD) in forest sector, ii) Biofuels, iii) Renewable energy.

Author for eight books, out of which four books are on climate change, one is on renewable energy, two are on community forestry and the other is on biomass energy. Contributed to research on "Climate Change and Forests" at national as well as international level. Author for eight IPCC Assessment Reports during the last 10 years, including the latest IPCC Report, 2007.

Dr A S Unnikrishnan is Scientist F, Leader - Physical Oceanography, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Panaji-403004
Interest Area: Climate Science, Physical Oceanography, Monsoons.

Dr S Satpathy is Director of Climate Change Division in Ministry Of Environment & Forests, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Dr Akhilesh Gupta is Adviser/ Scientist-G & Coordinator of Climate Change Programme in Department Of Science And Technology (DST).

Designation: Adviser/ Scientist G, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi.

Profession: Assistant Professor, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012

Research Interests:
• Global climate change
• Earth System Modeling - Coupled Climate and Carbon Cycle modeling
• Land use change and its impacts on climate and carbon cycle
• Radiative forcing and climate sensitivity
• Climate modeling of geoengineering
• High-resolution climate modeling

Ph.D Thesis
• Title: On the interaction between Slantwise Convection and Marine Cyclones.

Profession: Assistant Professor at Centre For Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi.

Profession: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai-400076

Research Interest: Uncertainty Modeling
Applications of
• Probability and Statistics
• Risk Based Approach
• Fuzzy Systems Theory
• Imrecise Probability
• Possibility Theory

Water Resources Systems
• Water Quality Management
• Reservoir Operation

Hydroclimatology
• Statistical Downscaling
• GCM and Scenario Uncertainty

Dr H. Pathak is working as Scientist at International Rice Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi

Dr A Arivudai Nambi is Project Director, Climate Change Programme at M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

Professor at Dept of Water Resources Dev & Mgmt, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Research Interest :Surface Water Hydrology, Planning and Management of Water Resources Systems, Hydropower Engineering.

Designation: Professor at Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute.
Education: Ph. D., Economics (Harvard)
Areas of interest: Environment and development, evolutionary models of behavior.

Areas of Interest : Monsoon Studies, Climate Modelling, High Performance Computing.