Prof. Sagnik Dey

Prof. Sagnik Dey is the Head and Vipul and Mahesh Chaturvedi Chair Professor in Policy Studies at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, India. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health, Policy and Management, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He is an Associate Faculty of School of Public Policy and Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre (TRIPC) at IIT Delhi. He served as Institute Chair Professor from 2019 to 2024 and as Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA) from 2019 to 2025.

He received his M. Sc. in Applied Geoscience from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and M. Tech. and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He worked as Postdoctoral Scientist at Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA before joining IIT Delhi.

Areas of Interest:

• Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interaction

• Air Quality

• Climate change and its Impact on Human Health

• Remote Sensing of the Climate System

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