Prof. Somnath Baidya Roy

Dr. Somnath Baidya Roy is a Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was born in Calcutta and grew up mostly in the city and its vicinity. He went to the US to pursue PhD at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey but stayed on for more than 18 years working as a post-doc in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology/Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University, a Research Associate in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Duke University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After that he returned home and joined CAS in December 2013. His research areas are modeling land-atmosphere interactions and renewable energy meteorology. He is the Chief Editor of Earth System Dynamics, a journal of the European Geosciences Union and a co-convenor of Energy Meteorology of the EGU General Assembly.

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