Dr. Chandan Sarangi
Room No:349
Third Floor, NAC II Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Sardar Patel Road,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
Third Floor, NAC II Building,
Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Sardar Patel Road,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
Email ID :chandansarangi@iitm.ac.in
91-44-22574326
Alternative Email ID :chandansarangi@civil.iitm.ac.in
Dr. Chandan Sarangi is an earth system scientist who completed his Post Doctorate Research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA, USA, and Integrated Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur, India. His under graduation is from NIT Warangal, India. He has extensive experience in Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions; Impact of climate change on Cloud systems and rainfall; Impact of aerosols on Evapotranspiration and land-atmosphere interactions; Effect of dust deposition on snow darkening and Himalayan glaciers; Urban heat island effect and air quality over mega cities; Extreme rainfall and coupling with aerosols and urbanization, and Cloud seeding research. He is experienced in large data analysis of remote sensing data and in-situ measurements related to urban air quality and micro- meteorology. He is also a pioneer in high resolution simulations of aerosol-climate interactions and their impact on hydro-climate over India. In last 10 years has been part of many cutting edge research teams and has first author publications in many reputed and high impact journals like Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics etc
Earned Degrees
Integrated M.Tech + Ph.D., 2017
IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kalyanpur
Kanpur -208 016
B.Tech., 2008
NIT Warangal, National Institute of Technology,
Warangal - 506004,
Telangana
Awards and Honours
Editorial board member, "Frontiers of Environmental Sciences†, 2020
Graduate Visitor Program fellowship, Doctoral research at National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado, USA, 2013
Academic Excellence Award,, IIT Kanpur, India, 2011
Research Areas
| Aerosol Science and transport in atmosphere |
| Air quality and air pollution-climate coupling in megacities |
| Numerical simulations of aerosol movement and air quality |
| Cloud vertical structure and cloud radiative forcing |
| Impact of absorbing aerosols on Himalayan snow and glaciers |
| Aerosol-Land-Atmosphere coupling |
| Regional climatic impact of aerosols on hydrological processes |
Professional Experiences
| 2020 – ongoing | : | Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India |
| 2017 – 2020 | : | Post Doctorate Research Associate,, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), WA, USA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard Richland, WA,U.S.A |
| 2010 – 2017 | : | Integrated M.Tech + Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering,, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India |
| 2013 – 2013 | : | Graduate Visitor Program Fellow, Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD), National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A , Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD), National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, CO 80307, U.S.A |
| 2008 – 2010 | : | Construction Engineer,, Shapoorji Pallonji Pvt. Limited, Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, India |