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भारतीय उष्णदेशीय मौसम विज्ञान संस्थान
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार का एक स्वायत्त संस्थान An Autonomous Institute of the
Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India

Recognitions to IITM Scientists

2025

Dr. Pramit Kumar Deb Burman, Scientist-D

  • Joined the Editorial Board of “Scientific Reports”— the prestigious, high-impact journal published by Springer Nature.

INTROMET 2025: The Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) Awards

  • Dr. Suryachandra Rao A.: IMS Fellow
  • Dr. Swapna Panickal: IMS Fellow
  • Dr. Vidya Pawar: Best oral presentation award
  • Mr. Amey Datye: Poster presentation award
  • Dr. Madhusudan Ingale: Best oral presentation award
  • Dr. Roma Varghese: Best Poster Award
  • M. Rakesh Ghosh: Best Poster Award
  • Dr. Rajmal Jat: Best Poster award
  • Ms. Tanvi Desai: Best Poster Presentation Award

IITM Best Employee Awards 2025 bestowed during IITM 64th Foundation Day

  • Dr. Moumta Bhowmik, Scientist-B: Outstanding contribution in the best research paper (Young Scientist)
  • Shri. Sandeep J., Senior Research Fellow: Outstanding contribution in the best student research paper
  • Dr. Deen Mani Lal, Scientist-E: Outstanding contribution in the best performance award in research category (Observational Research)
  • Dr. Jasti S. Chowdhuri, Scientist-F: Outstanding contribution in the best performance award in research category (Modelling Research)
  • Shri. Kunal Vishnu Yenul, Upper Division Clerk: Outstanding contribution in best performance award in administrative category.
  • Dr. Vidya Pawar, Project Scientist-I: Outstanding contribution in Scientific project staff (Observational Research)
  • Shri. Harish Chaudhary, Project Scientist-II: Outstanding contribution in Scientific project staff (Observational Research)
  • Dr. P.V. Rajesh, Project Scientist-III: Outstanding contribution in Scientific project staff (Modelling Research)
  • Dr. Rajmal Jat, Project Scientist-E: Outstanding contribution in Scientific project staff (Modelling Research)
  • Smt. Vishakha Chandiwade, Upper Division Clerk: Outstanding contribution in best performance award for outsource staff.
  • Dr. Medha Sachin Deshpande, Scientist-E: Contribution towards swachhata hi seva abhiyan and SCDPM 5.0 campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission-2025.
  • Miss. Tiasha Dev, Junior Research Fellow: Contribution towards swachhata hi seva abhiyan and SCDPM 5.0 campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission-2025.
  • Shri. Prakash Pandurang Vyavhare, Multi Tasking Staff: Contribution towards swachhata hi seva abhiyan and SCDPM 5.0 campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission-2025.

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Dr. Anoop Mahajan, Scientist-F

  • Nominated for the Atmosphere Assessment Team of the UArctic Climate Interventions project.

Dr. Swapna P., Scientist-F

  • Lead Author for Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 7th Assessment Report (AR7), for Chapter 5: Scenarios & Projected Future Global Temperatures.

Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist-F

  • Lead Author for Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 7th Assessment Report (AR7), for Chapter 6: Global Projections of Earth System Responses Across Time Scales.

Dr. Ayantika Dey Choudhury, Scientist-E

  • Lead Author for Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 7th Assessment Report (AR7), for Chapter 7: Projections of Regional Climate & Extremes.

Dr. Atul Kumar Srivastava, Scientist-E

  • Selected as an "Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio Journal"

Dr. Pramit Deb Burman, Scientist-D

  • Editor for Springer Nature Journal “Discover Applied Sciences" and "Discover Atmosphere”.

Dr. Sabin T.P., Scientist-E

  • Member of the CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT) under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) for an initial term of four years w.e.f. 01 January 2025.

Dr. Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Scientist-E

  • Awarded with "Editor of Distinction Awards 2025". He is honored with the Author Service Award for his contributions to Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.

Dr. Sophia Yacob, Senior Research Fellow

  • Received first prize in the S.K. Ghosh Memorial Young Scientist Award 2025 by the India Meteorological Society, Kolkata. This recognition is for her recent research 'Dengue dynamics, predictions, and future increase under changing monsoon climate in India' published in Nature Scientific Reports.

Mr. Abhijeet Gangane, Project Scientist-I

  • Bagged 3rd prize in Dr. S.K. Ghosh Memorial Young Scientist Award by the Indian Meteorological Society, Kolkata chapter on 23 March 2025 for his study, “Impact of decreasing land-sea horizontal pressure gradient on the lightning activity over western India”, Gangane et al., published in the International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8542.

Dr. H.S. Chaudhari, Scientist F

  • Nominated as a member of the "Board of Studies of Space and Atmospheric Technology of SPPU University" for two years wef 27 December 2024.

Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist F

  • Received the Prof. R. Ramesh Endowment Award by the Ocean Society of India (OSI) for outstanding contributions in climate and ocean sciences at the OSICON 25 conference, CSIR National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, 05 February 2025.

Dr. Shikha Singh, Scientist D

  • Co-chair of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Regional Panel for a term of 2 years wef January 2025.

Dr. Ayantika Dey Choudhury, Scientist E

  • Member of the WCRP GPEX Working Group 3 on Precipitation Modeling, Prediction and Process Understanding.

Dr. Maheswar Pradhan, Scientist D

  • Elected as a member of CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel’s (MP) Working Group on Asian-Australian Monsoons (WG-AAM) with effect from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2027.

Dr. Vineet Kumar Singh, Project Scientist II

  • Winner of the best Ph.D. Thesis Award in the Oceans and Atmospheric Science category by Ocean Society of India (OSI) for OSICON-25.

Dr. S. Fadnavis, Scientist F

  • Appointed as a member of the Atmospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (APARC) Core Project Scientific Steering Group for the term from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2028.
  • Nominated as a member of the Governing Board of UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research (CSR), lndore.

Dr. R. Krishnan, Director

  • Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI).

India Meteorological Society (IMS) Awardees 2024 (IMS National Symposium TROPMET 2024)

  • IMS Fellow: Dr. Thara Prabhakaran, Scientist-G, IITM
  • IMS Associate Fellows: Dr Susmitha Joseph, Sc-F and Dr Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Sc-E, IITM
  • IMS Best Paper in Monsoon Research (formerly B N Desai Award): Ms. Mercy Varghese, Sc-E, IITM
  • IMS Best Paper on Weather and Climate Services (formerly Bhavanarayana Award): Mr. Avinash N Parde, Project Scientist-II, IITM

IITM Foundation Day Awards-2024: Best employees awards under 6 categories

  • Best employees 2024 for the Research category
  • Best employee award 2024 for the Administrative staff
  • Best employee award 2024 for the Project staff
  • Awards for Hindi outstanding contribution
  • Awards for Outstanding Performance (ACE)
  • Awards for Outstanding Performance Merit Certificate to the Section (General Administration and Security)

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2024

Dr. Sachin Ghude, Scientist F
  • Editor of the Nature Scientific Report Journal.
Dr. Anoop Mahajan, Scientist F
  • Scientific Steering Committee member of (a) the Southern Ocean Indian Sector (SOIS) Regional Working Group (RWG), sponsored by Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
  • Scientific Steering Committee member of the Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (CATCH) program, sponsored by IGAC.
  • Youngest editor for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), an esteemed EGU (European Geophysical Union) journal.
Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist F
  • Featured among the Top 2% Scientists of 2023 by Elsevier Data Repository (Ioannidis et al. 2024).
  • Received the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for the year 2024 in Earth Science. This esteemed recognition is bestowed upon exceptional young scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of Science and Technology.
  • Core member of the Management Committee of the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)- co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), World Health Organization (WHO), and NOAA.
  • Editor of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (OLAR), an open access journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr. Thara Prabhakaran, Scientist G
  • Steering Group member of the urban prediction project of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP).
  • Invited by IAMAS (International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences) to lead the International Commission on Tropical Meteorology (ICTM) planning group.
Dr. Ankur Srivastava, Scientist D
  • Member of the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) Panel. His initial term will begin on 1 August 2025 and extend until 31 July 2028.
Dr. Atul Kumar Srivastava, Scientist E
  • Ranked #45 in India among Best Scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences for 2024.
  • Council Member for the National Council of India Meteorological Society (IMS) for the term 2024-26.
Dr. Jasti S. Chowdary, Scientist F
  • Editorial Board Member for the Journal 'Global and Planetary Change'.
Dr. Sabin T.P., Scientist E and Dr. Gaurav Govardhan
  • Associate Fellow, National Council of Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) for outstanding contributions to atmospheric and climate sciences.
Dr. Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Scientist E
  • Associate Editor of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL); a journal published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Dr. Deewan Singh Bisht, Scientist B
  • Associate editor for Springer Nature Journal “Water, air and soil pollution”.
Ms. Aditi Modi, Scientist D
  • Appointed as the member of the National Decade Coordination Committee (NDCC) by Secretary, MoES, Govt. of India wef 19 January 2024.

2022-2023

 Dr. Phani Murali Krishna, Scientist –E & Shri S.M.D. Jeelani, Scientist –E 
  • Recipients of the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam HPC Awards 2023 in the category of Group Award (Efficient HPC Facility Design and Management) for efficient deployment, administration, and management of the largest HPC system in India.
 Dr. Susmitha Joseph, Scientist - F 
  • Appointed by the WWRP/WCRP Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S) Project to manage S2S Regional Activities Wikis for South Asia.
 Mr. Avishek Ray, SRF 
  • Bagged 3rd prize in Dr. S.K. Ghosh Memorial Young Scientist Award by Indian Meteorological Society, Kolkata chapter on 23 March 2023 for his recent study “Seasonal variability in size-resolved hygroscopicity of sub-micron aerosols over the Western Ghats, India: Closure and parameterization” by Ray Avishek, Pandithurai G., Mukherjee S., …et al.  published in Science of The Total Environment, 869: 161753, April 2023, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161753.
 Dr. R. Krishnan, Director 
  • Membership of the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) for the World Climate Research programme has been extended for two years from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024.
 Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Scientist –F 
  • Member of Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research of the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) w.e.f.  20 February 2023.
  • Elected as the Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru in 2022 (effective from 2023). 
 Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist –E 
  • Member of the WCRP Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR) Core Project Scientific Steering Group (SSG) for the period 2023-2026
  • Recipient of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal Medal on 14 December 2022, during the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago, USA for his outstanding research in Earth and Space Sciences. He was also awarded the Lifetime Membership of the AGU.
 Dr. G. Pandithurai, Scientist –F 
  • Member of the executive committee of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA) for the period January 2023 to December 2025.
  • Member of Bureau of Indian Standard for sectional committee on “Meteorological Instrumentation”.
 Dr. Padmakumari B., Scientist –F 
  • Member of the executive committee of Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA) for the period January 2023 to December 2025. 
 Dr. (Smt.) Swapna P., Scientist –E 
  • Member of the “Strategic Ensemble Design team for WCRP CMIP7”.
  • Member of Sea Level Rise Working Group, WCRP Safe Landing Climates (SLC) Lighthouse Activity.
  • Membership to Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM), World Climate Research Program (WCRP) is extended till end of 2022. 
 Dr. Atul Kumar Srivastava, Scientist –E 
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of the MDPI Journal “Remote Sensing” on “Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans”.
  • Guest Editor of a Special Issue entitled “Urban Air Quality and Climate Change” of an open access International Journal “Sustainability”. 
 डॉ. मिलिंद मुजुमदार, वैज्ञानिक- ई 
  • पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय द्वारा हिंदी पखवाड़ा एवं पुरस्‍कार वितरण समरोह-2022 का आयोजन  17 अक्‍टूबर 2022 को प्रात: 11:00 बजे मंत्रालय के महिका सभागार किया गया।  मंत्रालय के अधीन कार्यालयों/संस्‍थानों में कार्य करने वाले एवं नोडल राजभाषा अधिकारियों का अतिरिक्‍त कार्यभार संभालने वाले आई.आई.टीम, पुणे के वरिष्ठ वैज्ञानिक डॉ. मिलिंद मुजुमदार को प्रशस्‍ति-पत्र प्रदान किया गया।
 श्री. भूपेंद्र बहादुर सिंह, वैज्ञानिक- ई 
  • पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय के हिंदी पखवाड़ा एवं पुरस्‍कार वितरण समारोह में मंत्रालय तथा इसके अधीन कार्यालयों के वैज्ञानिको के लिए आयोजित प्रतियोगिता पुरस्कार एवं प्रशस्ति-पत्र प्रदान किया गया।
 डॉ. शिखा सिंह, वैज्ञानिक- डी 
  • पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय के हिंदी पखवाड़ा एवं पुरस्‍कार वितरण समारोह में मंत्रालय तथा इसके अधीन कार्यालयों के वैज्ञानिको के लिए आयोजित प्रतियोगिता पुरस्कार एवं प्रशस्ति-पत्र प्रदान किया गया। 
 Dr. Sachin Ghude, Scientist –F 
  • Appointed as a LEAD Expert Team Urban Services (ET-US) Working Group on WMO - Regional Association II.
  • Elected by Integrated land ecosystem atmosphere process studies (iLEPAS) to serve as a Co-Chair starting from 2022. Before serving Co-Chair, Dr. Ghude served iLEAPS as Member, Scientific Steering Committee.
  • Member, Expert Group constituted by Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to examine the suggestions before finalization of the policy to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR. This Expert Group will finalize the policy to curb air pollution in Delhi-NCR.
 Dr. A. Suryachandra Rao, Scientist –G 
  • Taken charge of a Co-Chair of CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel (MP) of WCRP this year for 2022, in addition to his role in Working Group on Asian-Australian Monsoons (WG-AAM) of MP.
  • Co-chair of CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel of WMO.        
 Dr. Suresh Tiwari, Scientist-F 
  • Selected as Member of Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for evaluation of projects relating to NCM sector in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for 3 years w.e.f. 11 July 2022.
 Pooja Pawar, Project Associate –I 
  • Appointed as member of iLEAPS South Asian and Middle East Early Career Scientists Network (SAMEECSN). 
Sreyashi Debnath, Project Sci. –II
  • Appointed as member of iLEAPS South Asian and Middle East Early Career Scientists Network (SAMEECSN).
Dr. Suvarna Fadnavis, Scientist –F
  • Editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).

2021

Dr. Ila Agnihotri, Research Associate, CCCR-IITM
  • Has bagged prestigious award presented by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) for her science writing skills named Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research – AWSAR 2021.
  • Her Science Story on “Integrating climate variations, water availability and Agriculture for Sustainable livelihood” is selected in Postdoctoral Fellow Category among best stories.
  • More details about the award can be found out at: https://www.awsar-dst.in/results-2021
Dr. Suvarna Fadnavis, Scientist-F, Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology 
  • Appointed as Editor of the Journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), current impact factor 6.11, CiteScore: 10.1, h5-index: 93
  • Her research subject areas are Aerosols, Clouds and Precipitation, Dynamics, and Gases. Details are available at:

https://www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/editorial_board.html

Dr. Yogesh Kumar Tiwari, Scientist E, CCCR-IITM

Nominated by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as an Expert Member at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to:

  • Technical review of GHG inventories and other annual information reported by Annex-I Parties,
  • In-depth review of Annex-I Party national communications,
  • Review of biennial reports of developed country Parties,
  • Matters related to non-Annex-I Party national communications,
  • Technical analysis of biennial update reports from non-Annex-I Parties,
  • Review of reports on systematic observation, etc.

Details about Dr. Tiwari’s Expertise and Tasks are mentioned at:

https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/roestaging/Pages/RosterOfExperts.aspx