Prof. Yama Dixit

Dr. Yama Dixit received her BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from Hansraj College, Delhi University and MSc and MPhil degrees in Environmental Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She received a PhD degree from University of Cambridge, UK as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, following which she was an Institute Postdoctoral fellow at IIT Kanpur briefly before joining IFREMER, France as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow (2015-2017) and then was a Research Fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore (2018-2021). She joined CAS, IIT Delhi in October 2021.

Her broad area of research focusses on proxy reconstructions and paleoclimate dynamics, changes in hydrology, abrupt climate change and impacts on ancient societies. Her research interests aims to understand the patterns and mechanisms of climate change by using the natural climate experiments of the past archived in lake and ocean sediments. In particular, much of her research has focused on understanding Indian monsoon variability, impact of westerlies on Mediterranean climate and the South American Summer monsoon variability and associated Amazon river runoff. To decipher past changes in climate, she use the stable isotope and geochemical composition of biogenic carbonates and sediments.

Areas of Interest:

• Proxy Reconstructions and Paleoclimate Dynamics

• Changes in Hydrology

• Abrupt Climate Change and Impacts on Ancient Societies

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