Prof Sagnik Dey

Prof. Sagnik Dey is Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, India and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health, Policy and Management, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He is the coordinator of Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA) and 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.

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.

His research interests are to understand 'air quality, climate change and health nexus' and 'remote sensing of the Earth's climate system'. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles (h-index - 49 as per google scholar).

Prof Dey received INSA Young Scientist Medal in 2008, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in 2012, Dr. Sudhansu Kumar Banerji MoES outstanding young faculty fellowship for the period 2011-2013, Teaching Excellence Award from IIT Delhi in 2016, and the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship for 2017-18. He has been selected for the prestigious Devendra Lal Memorial Medal for 2024 by American Geophysical Union

He is an international collaborator of NASA's MAIA satellite mission and the Global Burden of Disease Study. He served as an expert member of WHO Global Platform on Air Quality and Health and was a member of WHO Southeast Asia non-communicable diseases Regional Technical Advisory group. He is currently an expert member in WHO air quality and health program and co-convener of CAPHER-India network. He has led several international and national projects and worked as a consultant for the World Bank, UNEP and UNDP.

He is serving as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Pollution (NIHES journal), Associate Editor of Atmospheric Environment (Elsevier journal) and Heliyon (Cell press journal), and Editor of GeoHealth (AGU journal), Scientific Reports (Nature journal) and Earth System Dynamics (EGU journal).

He is serving as a member of the scientific advisory committee of the ICMR National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (Bhopal), the National Institute of Occupational Health (Ahmedabad), the Academic Council of TERI School of Advanced Studies. He is board member of School of Natural Resource Management, Central University Jharkhand and an expert member of Air pollution, climate change and health program and Heat-related illness and death surveillance program of the NCDC.

Interested students may contact directly for opportunity to join our RESEARCH (REmote SEnsing for AeRosol, Climate and Health impact study) group.

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Latest RESEARCH Group News

Prof Dey has been selected for 2024 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal by American Geophysical Union for his work on air quality and health impacts focusing on LMICs

We congratulate Dr Ekta Chaudhary, Dr Neha Singh and Dr Shashi Tiwari for their successful completion of PhD and wish them very best. We also welcome Ms Deeksha Gautam, Ms Khushboo and Ms Kavyaas new members of our RESEARCH group

A new nationa-level NO2 exposure dataset is published. It can be used for epidemiology studies. Read Singh et al. (2024), Atmos. Environ. X

Journal of Health and Pollution has been relaunched by NIHES to promote environmental and occupational health research in LMICs. The journal is open access without any fee. Lead authors must be from LMICs and the work needs to be done in LMICs. Prof Dey is Deputy Editor. Read Wright et al. (2024), Journal of Health and Pollution

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Description Prof. Sagnik Dey is Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, India and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health, Policy and Management, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He is the coordinator of Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA) and 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. 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. His research interests are to understand 'air quality, climate change and health nexus' and 'remote sensing of the Earth's climate system'. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles (h-index - 49 as per google scholar). Prof Dey received INSA Young Scientist Medal in 2008, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in 2012, Dr. Sudhansu Kumar Banerji MoES outstanding young faculty fellowship for the period 2011-2013, Teaching Excellence Award from IIT Delhi in 2016, and the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship for 2017-18. He has been selected for the prestigious Devendra Lal Memorial Medal for 2024 by American Geophysical Union He is an international collaborator of NASA's MAIA satellite mission and the Global Burden of Disease Study. He served as an expert member of WHO Global Platform on Air Quality and Health and was a member of WHO Southeast Asia non-communicable diseases Regional Technical Advisory group. He is currently an expert member in WHO air quality and health program and co-convener of CAPHER-India network. He has led several international and national projects and worked as a consultant for the World Bank, UNEP and UNDP. He is serving as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Pollution (NIHES journal), Associate Editor of Atmospheric Environment (Elsevier journal) and Heliyon (Cell press journal), and Editor of GeoHealth (AGU journal), Scientific Reports (Nature journal) and Earth System Dynamics (EGU journal). He is serving as a member of the scientific advisory committee of the ICMR National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (Bhopal), the National Institute of Occupational Health (Ahmedabad), the Academic Council of TERI School of Advanced Studies. He is board member of School of Natural Resource Management, Central University Jharkhand and an expert member of Air pollution, climate change and health program and Heat-related illness and death surveillance program of the NCDC. Interested students may contact directly for opportunity to join our RESEARCH (REmote SEnsing for AeRosol, Climate and Health impact study) group. Disclaimer:I represent my own opinions Latest RESEARCH Group News Prof Dey has been selected for 2024 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal by American Geophysical Union for his work on air quality and health impacts focusing on LMICs We congratulate Dr Ekta Chaudhary, Dr Neha Singh and Dr Shashi Tiwari for their successful completion of PhD and wish them very best. We also welcome Ms Deeksha Gautam, Ms Khushboo and Ms Kavyaas new members of our RESEARCH group A new nationa-level NO2 exposure dataset is published. It can be used for epidemiology studies. Read Singh et al. (2024), Atmos. Environ. X Journal of Health and Pollution has been relaunched by NIHES to promote environmental and occupational health research in LMICs. The journal is open access without any fee. Lead authors must be from LMICs and the work needs to be done in LMICs. Prof Dey is Deputy Editor. Read Wright et al. (2024), Journal of Health and Pollution