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Subimal Ghosh

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Awards and Recognitions
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  1. Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE)

  2. Recipient of 2024 Alexander von Humboldt Medal by the European Geosciences Union

  3. Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (India)

  4. Expert Committee Member of Climate Change Action Plan of Kolkata, India

  5. Convener of the Draft Writing Committee on “India’s Climate Research Agenda 2030 and Beyond”, by DST in 2022, published on 26th May, 2023 (https://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/India%27s%20Climate%20Research%20Agenda%202030%20and%20beyond.pdf )

  6. Listed as 75 Scientists under 50, who shaped today’s India

  7. Co-Chief specialty editor of Frontiers in Water.

  8. Senior Editor of Cambridge Prisms: Water.

  9. Institute Chair Professor from March 2021.

  10. American Geophysical Union Devendra Lal Memorial Award 2020

  11. Conferred Fellow of American Geophysical Union

  12. Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award from Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay.

  13. CRAY Dr A P J Abdul Kalam High Performance Computing Award 2020

  14. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2019 in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

  15. Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2018-19 in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

  16. Editor of Journal “Water and Climate Change” (2019-2023)

  17. Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) Award from PRL, Ahmedabad

  18. IIT Bombay Research Publication Award 2018.

  19. Article entitled “Coupled Land‐Atmosphere Regional Model Reduces Dry Bias in Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Simulated by CFSv2”, published in Geophysical Research Letters has been selected as research spotlight of American Geophysical Union (2018)

  20. Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group –I for Assessment report 6 (2018-2022)

  21. National Academy of Science India (NASI) Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award 2013 in Electronics, Computer and Engineering Sciences

  22. Reviewer of IPCC AR5 report (WG II)

  23. Young Scientist Award 2012 from Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in Engineering and Technology,

  24. Young Investigator Award 2012 from Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

  25. Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineer Award 2011.

  26. Institute of Engineers (India) Young Engineer (Civil) Award 2011

  27. The outstanding reviewer award for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2015.

  28. Editorial Board Member (Associate Editor) of Journal of Earth System Science (JESS), published by Indian Academy of Sciences (2014-2020)

  29. Editor of journal “Water and Climate Change”

  30. The outstanding reviewer award for Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2010.

  31. BOYSCAST Fellowship 2010 from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for carrying out research related to climate change in Oak Ridge national Laboratory, TN, United States of America.

  32. Young Scientist Award 2010 in “Engineering Sciences” from  Indian  ScienceCongress Association.

  33. Prof. N S Govinda Rao Medal Best Ph. D. Thesis Award 2007 from Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

  34. The Fast Track Project Grant for Young Scientists from Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (2008)

  35. National Doctoral Fellowship Award from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004.

  36. Awards Received by Students

    • S Kannan received the “Excellence in PhD Research Award” from IIT Bombay in 2013.

    • Kaustubh Salvi got the “Excellence in PhD Research Award” from IIT Bombay in 2015

    • Vittal H got the “Excellence in PhD Research Award” from IIT Bombay in 2018

    • Sahana A S got the “Excellence in PhD Research Award” from IIT Bombay in 2020

    • Anamitra Saha got prestigious Nehru Fulbright Fellowship in 2017.

    • Pratimal Patel received Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship in 2019.

    • Tejasvi Chauhan, Leena Khadke and Akash Verma received Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF)

    • Sarosh Alam Ghausi received Innovative Student Project Award 2020 for his Masters thesis from Indian National Academy of Engineers.

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Committees

  1. Co-Principal Investigator for setting up Interdisciplinary Program on Climate Studies at IIT Bombay (2012), a center of excellence funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

  2. Interdisciplinary Centre Policy Committee member for Climate Studies during 2012-2015 and 2019-2022.

  3. Review Committee Member (Project Monitoring Committee on “Uncertainty in Engineering Applications”) of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre during 2012-2015

  4. Department Policy Committee member for Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay for 6 years (2011-2014 and 2018-2021)

  5. Member of India-UK Water Centre at IITM, Pune

  6. Project Review Committee Member for mega-projects assigned to Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, funded by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (2015-17)

  7. Committee member for preparation of Updated Handbook for Faculty Members at IIT Bombay (2018)

  8. Committee Member of the Academic Rehabilitation Program (ARP) for students with backlogs and poor academic performances (2019)

  9. Member of Programme Advisory Committee on ‘Civil, Infrastructure & Transportation Engineering’, by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2020 onward) (2020-ongoing)

  10. Advisory Committee member of the Technocraft Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, IIT Bombay

  11. Member of Programme Advisory Committee on ‘Earth and Atmospheric Sciences’, by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2021).

  12. Member of Project Review Committee, Monsoon Mission- Phase III.

  13. Member of Programme Advisory Committee on FIST, by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2022 onward).

  14. Faculty selection committee member of several IITs and other research labs

  15. Member of project review committee of Monsoon Mission – III by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

  16. Convener of the Draft Writing Committee on “India’s Climate Research Agenda 2030 and Beyond” by DST in 2022

  17. Subject coordinator for Water Resources and Climate Studies of the Prime Minister research fellowship, Government of India (from 2023)

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