Antara Dasgupta

I completed my Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Delhi University, New Delhi, in 2011. During this time I volunteered extensively with Greenpeace which peaked my interest in environmental science. It was during my master’s degree in natural resource management at Doon University, Dehradun that I studied remote sensing for the first time. I received the MYCOE-SERVIR Himalaya Fellowship offered by NASA in association with the American Association of Geographers, ESRI and ICIMOD, to complete my thesis which was primarily focused on the study of climate change resilience in mountain communities using GIS. I then did another master’s in remote sensing and GIS as a part of a joint education programme between ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO. My master’s research work was assessing 2D flood model performance using SAR-derived flood maps.

My PhD study is being undertaken under IITB- Monash research program which endeavours to encourage academic collaboration between the scientific community of India and Australia. This program requires the students to spend a minimum of one year of their Ph. D. at Monash.  The time spent at Monash, which would be in the second half of the PhD (2017), will focus on the data assimilation and performance analysis.