Lab Members



Group Leader
Dr. Sayantan Sarkar

Assistant Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi (since February 2020)
Email: sayantan@iitmandi.ac.in
Google Scholar: Link here
ResearchGate: Link here
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.)

Anand Prabhakar

Email: dd23017@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
SOA tracer quantification, source apportionment, SOA formation and transportation pathways on regional scale.


Rahul Kant Yadav

Email: d23090@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
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Pronoy Ghosh

Email: d22044@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Exposure to size-segregated aerosols in occupational settings and corresponding health effects


Sneha Shekhar

Email: d21072@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Microplastics in the Himalayan region


Aditi Rana

Email: d21027@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Aqueous and methanol-soluble brown carbon in the Himalayas


Prashant Rawat

Email: d21112@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Aerosol climate forcing agents in biofuel emissions in Himalayan states


Supriya Dey

Email: d21058@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Water-soluble organic aerosol in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain - characterization and climate forcing


Bijay Sharma

Email: d21045@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Research:
Population exposure to aerosols from residential fuel use in NE India


Archita Rana

Email: ar17ip020@iiserkol.ac.in
Research:
Diurnal profiles and sources of BC, BrC and nitroaromatics in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain

Project Fellows

Sumedha Appasaheb Lawande

(December 2023 onwards) - Swedish Research Council project.

Megha Anand

(September 2021 - September 2023) - Swedish Research Council project.

Komal Choudhary

(November 2022 - June 2023) - Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) project.

Pronoy Ghosh

(December 2020 - April 2022) - SERB, DST project.

MS Thesis Students

2020-2021:

Atul Kubare (Urban heat island effect in Delhi and Kolkata)

Sukanya Kumar (Extreme precipitation events over NE India)

Niharika Garg (Satellite-derived aerosol composition over the Himalayas)


2019-2020:

Debajit Sarkar (Effects of air pollutants on plant physico-chemical parameters)


2018-2019:

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)


2017-2018:

Prashant Rawat (Long-term AOD trends and relative source contributions)

Hemanta Chakladar (Trends of criteria pollutants over Indian megacities)

Internship students/Interns

Summer 2024

Preyas Prabhakaran (Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham)


Summer 2023

Akshat Seth (IIT Tirupati)


Summer 2023

Preyas Prabhakaran (Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham)


Summer 2023

Vaishnavi P. (Mahatma Gandhi University)


Summer 2022

Shreyasi Upadhyay (Central University of Rajasthan)


Summer 2020

Ishani Mukherjee (Vidyasagar University)


Summer 2019

Poulami Das (Ranchi University)


Summer 2018 and 2019

Sukanya Kumar (IISER Kolkata)


Summer 2018

Vikram Raj (Central University of South Bihar)


Summer 2018

Rajiv Ranjan (IISER Kolkata)