Faculty

Dr. Shahzad Gani joined as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in February 2023. Shahzad has a PhD in Civil Engineering (2019) and a MS in Environmental Engineering (2016) from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BTech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute Technology Delhi (2013). Shahzad was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki (2020–2023). He is now a Visiting Researcher at INAR, University of Helsinki.

Shahzad is passionate about improving air quality and tackling climate change. His research aims at understanding the sources, sinks, and processes that drive atmospheric aerosols. Furthermore, he is interested in studying the interplay between atmospheric aerosols, meteorology, and climate change. Over the past decade of working on research questions related to air quality, he has developed diverse skillsets that include: (i) Designing and executing long-term atmospheric measurements, (ii) Setting up and operating range of air quality instrumentation—low-cost to state-of-the-art, (iii) Complementing field measurements with satellite and modeling datasets, (iv) Interpreting air quality observations in the context of physics, chemistry, and meteorology, (v) Studying aerosol dynamics in extremely polluted environments, (vi) Providing hands-on training related to atmospheric measurement and analysis.

Shahzad is also interested in environmental storytelling. He is the creator and host of Atmospheric Tales — a podcast that amplifies stories about air pollution and climate change from around the world. He is also an Editor of Geoscience Communication, a European Geosciences Union journal.