Dr. Sayantan Sarkar
Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi (Since Dec., 2024)
Email: sayantan@iitmandi.ac.in
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2020-2024: Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environment Engineering, IIT Mandi
2017-2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) - Kolkata, India
2015-2017: Research Fellow, NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2013-2015: Research Associate, Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health, Albany, NY, USA
2013-2015: Adjunct Research Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY - Albany, NY, USA
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2007-2012: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Members (Ph.D. and I. Ph.D.)
Email: sumedha_lawande@projects.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Email: dd23017@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Understanding secondary organic aerosol (SOA): sources, formation and transportation pathways on a regional scale.
Email: d23090@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Brown carbon (BrC) in the northwestern Himalayan region.
Email: d22044@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Exposure to size-segregated aerosols in occupational settings and corresponding health effects.
Email: d21072@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Microplastics in the Himalayan region.
Email: d21027@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Organic aerosols over the Himalayan region.
Email: d21112@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Aerosol climate forcing agents in biofuel emissions in Himalayan states.
Alumni (Ph.D. and I. Ph.D.)
Email: ar17ip020@iiserkol.ac.in
Research: Diurnal profiles and sources of black carbon (BC), BrC and nitroaromatics in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain.
At present: Pursuing postdoc at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
Email: d21058@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Water-soluble organic aerosol in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain, characterization and climate forcing.
At present: Pursuing postdoc at I.I.T. Madras.
Email: d21045@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research: Population exposure to aerosols from residential fuel use in northeastern India.
At present: pursuing postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Project Fellows
Megha Anand
(September 2021 - September 2023) - Swedish Research Council (SRC) project.
Komal Choudhary
(November 2022 - June 2023) - Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) project.
MS Thesis students
Preyas Prabhakaran (Oxidative potential of size-segregated aerosols and humic-like substances from the northwestern Himalayas)
Atul Kubare (Urban heat island effect in Delhi and Kolkata)
Sukanya Kumar (Extreme precipitation events over northeastern India)
Niharika Garg (Satellite-derived aerosol composition over the Himalayas)
Debajit Sarkar (Effects of air pollutants on plant physico-chemical parameters)
Anuraag J. Polana (Aerosol acidity and its neutralization in the eastern IGP)
Arya Mukherjee (Chemical-optical characterization of HULIS aerosols)
Shruti Singh (Carbonaceous aerosol profiles and tracers for biomass burning)
Shubham Mahajan (Satellite-derived trends of trace gases over Kolkata)
Vismay K (Source apportionment of road dust-associated heavy metals)
Prashant Rawat (Long-term AOD trends and relative source contributions)
Hemanta Chakladar (Trends of criteria pollutants over Indian megacities)
Internship students/Interns
Shivangi (Forest Research Institute, Dehradun)
Tanvi Kaushal (National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur)
Akshat Seth (Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati)
Preyas Prabhakaran (Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham)
Vaishnavi P. (Mahatma Gandhi University)
Shreyasi Upadhyay (Central University of Rajasthan)
Ishani Mukherjee (Vidyasagar University)
Poulami Das (Ranchi University)
Sukanya Kumar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata)
Vikram Raj (Central University of South Bihar)
Rajiv Ranjan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata))