Prof. Saroj Kanta Mishra

Prof. Saroj Kanta Mishra is the YES Foundation Chair for Climate Modeling, Principal Investigator of the DST centre of Excellence, and Professor in the centre for atmospheric sciences at IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Delhi in 2012, Dr. Mishra served at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India, University of Colorado at Boulder, and National Centre for Atmospheric Research USA. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from UCE, Burla and holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from IISc, Bangalore. Dr. Mishra is a Climate Modeller with interests in the broad topics of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences. He has published extensively in these research areas.

Research Leadership:

• Principal Investigator, DST Centre of Excellence for Climate Information (2024–Present)

• Principal Investigator, DST Centre of Excellence in Climate Modeling (2017–2024)

• Founding Lead, Rockefeller Foundation Chair Professorship (2023)

• Founding Lead, YES Foundation Chair Professorship (2021)

• Founding Lead, YES BANK Chair Professorship (2019)

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