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About Pankaj Kumar

Name	:	Pankaj Kumar
Designation	:	Associate Professor
Department	:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email	:	kumarp@iiserb.ac.in
Contact	:	+91-755-2691385 (Office)
	:	+91-755-2691386 (Lab)

Academic Profile

Since June 2022	:	Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Bhopal, India
Sept. 2015 - June 2022	:	Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Bhopal, India
1st - 28th Sept. 2015	:	Ramanujan Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
June 2014 to Aug. 2015	:	Research Scientist, Climate Service Center 2.0, Hamburg, Germany
July 2009 to May 2014	:	Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
July 2010 to May 2014	:	Guest Scientist, Climate Service Center 2.0, Hamburg, Germany
Feb. 2008 to June 2009	:	Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
June 2006 to Feb. 2008	:	Research Associate, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
May 2001 to Jan. 2007	:	Ph.D., Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. Supervisor: Dr. Rupa Kumar Koli and Co-supervisor: Dr. M. Rajeevan

Fellowship Awarded

• Recently, I have been selected as a international member of "Expert Team on Hydrometry" by the World Meteorological Organisation, for the term 2024-2026.
• I have been selected as a member of international "CLIVAR/GEWEX" Monsoons Panel a body of World Meteorological Organisation, from May 2021 - December 2023.
• Second time nominated as International Expert on Open Panel of CCI Experts (OPACE) by United Nations (World Met. Organization), on the recommendations of its permanent representative (i.e., Director General, India Meteorological Department, Govt. of India) in March 2018.
• Nominated as International Expert on Open Panel of CCI Experts (OPACE) by United Nations (World Meteorological Organization) on the recommendations of its permanent representative (i.e. DG, IMD, Govt. of India), June 2016.
• "Ramanujan Fellowship" SERB, Government of India for the period 2015-2020.
• SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START), University of Hawaii, USA fellowship for the period 2-12 January 2008.
• Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Research Associate fellowship, for the period 2006 June to 2008 January.
• India Meteorological Department, Government of India, fellowship for conducting research on "Development of Long Range Forecast Capabilities", 2001-2006.
• University Grants Commission, India, Studentship during M. Sc. (Tech) in 2000.

Membership

• AGU      : Life membership of American Geophysical Union
• EGU      : Life membership of European Geosciences Union
• WMO    : Membership of Expert Team on Hydrometry by the World Meteorological Organisation (2024-2026)
• IMSB     : Life membership of India Meteorological Society, Bhopal Chapter (Chairman at present)

Invited Talk in International Conferences

• Kumar P, (2020) Addressing Climate Change Extremes using Dynamical Models and Big Data (An Integrated Approach), The Fourth Paradigm : From Data to Discovery, at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 27-30 January 2020. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2019) Indicators and drivers of mass-balance over Karakoram-Himalayan glaciers, Energy and climate and broader topics on technology assessment: Seminar Series - IDP in Climate Studies, at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 12 September 2019. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2019) Onset of Indian Summer Monsoon: Theory and Prediction, at Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, India, 25-26 July 2019. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2019) Regional Earth System Modeling Over South Asia & Lessons learned from Water-Food-Energy nexus Workshop, International Workshop on "Water-Energy-Food Nexus Perspective: Path Making for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Country Actions in Asia” Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), 25-26 June 2019. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2019) The response of Himalayan glaciers to climate variability and climatic change, International workshop on Climate Change and Extreme Events, IIT Mandi, India, 18-20 April 2019. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2019), Air-Sea Interaction improves the monsoon climate: A regional coupled atmosphere-ocean model assessment, MoES Brainstorm Meeting (AI/ML), IITM Pune, 25-27 March 2019 (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2018), Indicators and Drivers of Mass-balance over Karakoram Himalayan glaciers, Indian geophysical union-2018 5-7 Dec. 2018, RNTU, Bhopal (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2018) Indicators and drivers of mass-balance over Karakoram-Himalayan glaciers, TROPMET 2018, BHU, Varanasi, India, 24-27 October 2018, . (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2018), India-UK Water Centre workshop on "Advancing Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Management Capabilities" at Lancaster, UK, 18-20 September 2018. (Invited Presentation)
• Kumar P, (2018) Glaciers Mass balance changes in the Karakoram: A dynamic regional coupled glacier-climate model assessment, India-UK Water centre workshop at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India, 2-4 May, 2018. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2017) Regional coupled model simulation improves precipitations dry bias and extremes over India, INTROMET 2017, SAC, Ahmedabad, 7th Nov. 2017. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2017) Response of Himalayan glaciers to climate variability and climatic change, at India Meteorological Department, Pune India, 2nd June 2017. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2017) Developing Hydro-climatic Services for Water Security, at International workshop organized by India-UK Water Centre, Pune during 29 Nov. to 1 Dec. 2016. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2016) Identifying climate information needs for Himalayan India, Regional Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services for the Third Pole Region, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 9-11 March 2016. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2015) Identifying Climate Change Information Needs for Himalayan Region of India, International Workshop Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Himalaya: Science and Policy Interface Kumaun University, Nainital, 2-3 Nov. 2015. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, Kotlarski S, Christopher M, Sieck K, Frey H, Stoffel M, Jacob D (2015) "Past evolution of Himalayan glaciers: a regional climate model study", TROPMET2015, Chandigarh, India, 15-18 February 2015. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, Wiltshire A, Ahrens B, Gobiet A, Jacob D (2012) "Climate change and changing monsoon patterns", Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2012 side event "Water: our global common" New Delhi-India, 31January 2012, . (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2012) "Climate change and changing monsoon patterns," Round-table discussion on bi and multilateral Indo-European Cooperations on Climate Research and innovation, New Delhi-India, 25th Nov 2012, . (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P, (2012) "Climate Scenarios for the Ganges Basin", EU project HighNoon special event at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, 2012, New Delhi-India, 3rd February 2012, . (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P and Jacob D (2012) "Simulation of the regional climate model REMO over CORDEX West-Asia", Pune, India, 25-26 February 2012. (Invited Talk)
• Kumar P and Jacob D (2010) "South Asia Summer Monsoon Climate: Recent Past and Future", Continents under Climate Change, Conference on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Humboldt-Universit\E4t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany,21-23 April 2010. (Invited Talk)

Talk in International Conferences

• Kumar P, Aditya Kumar Dubey (2020) "Heatwave teleconnections with global circulation patterns for India" Sixth International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS 6), Pune India, 11-15 February 2020.(Poster)
• M. Engelhardt, Kumar P, L. Lu, AL. Ramanathan (2016) Mass-balance modelling of ChhotaShigri and Patsio glacier in western Himalaya, India, EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna Austria, p.15047, 17-22 April 2016.(Talk)
• Kumar P, Demitry Sein, William Cabos, Daniela Jacob (2014) "Improved precipitation extremes and climatology in a regional coupled model simulation over CORDEX south Asia domain", TROPMET2015,Chandigarh, India, 15-18 February 2015. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Kotlarski S, Christopher M, Sieck K, Frey H, Stoffel M, Jacob D (2015) "Past evolution of Himalayan glaciers: a regional climate model study", International Conference On Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood,Kathmandu, Nepal,12 - 14 January 2015, . (Talk)
• Kumar P, Demitry Sein, William Cabos, Daniela Jacob (2014) "Improved precipitation extremes and climatology in a regional coupled model simulation over CORDEX south Asia domain", American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, USA, 15-19 December 2014. (Talk)
• Kumar P, A.H\E4nsler, D.Sein, W.Cabos,Jacob D (2014) "Improvement of simulated monsoon precipitation over South-Asia with a regionally coupled model ROM", WMO Technical Conference on Climate Services - Building on CLIPS Legacy, 30 June - 2 July 2014, Heidelberg, Germany.(Poster)
• Kumar P, D. Sein, W. Cabos, Jacob D (2014) "Improvement of simulated monsoon precipitation over South-Asia with a regionally coupled model REMO-MPIOM",3rd Lund Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop 21st Century Challenges in Regional Climate Modelling, Lund, Sweden, 16 - 19 June 2014. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Jacob D (2013) "Past and future evolution of monsoon climate over CORDEX-West Asia domain", International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013, 4-7 November 2013, Brussels Belgium. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Kotlarski S, Christopher M, Sieck K, Frey H, Stoffel M, Jacob D (2013) "Past evolution of Himalayan glaciers: a regional climate model study" Climate Change and Environmental Pressure: Adaptation and Resilience of Local Communities in the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya (HKH), Hamburg, 09-11 October 2013, Germany. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Teichmann C, Jacob D, Haensler A, Remedio A, Saeed F,"Regional Climate Modeling in tropical and subtropical regions within the CORDEX-framework using REMO". Meeting of the Americas, Cancun,Mexico, 14-17 May 2013. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Kotlarski S, Christopher M, Sieck K, Frey H, Stoffel M, Jacob D (2013) "Past and future evolution of Himalayan glaciers: a regional climate model study" European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 07-12 April 2013. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Kotlarski S, Christopher M, Sieck K, Frey H, Stoffel M, Jacob D (2012)"Simulating the evolution of Himalayan glaciers with the regional climate model REMO", American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012, 3-7 December 2012, San Francisco, USA. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Wiltshire A, Asharaf S, Ahrens B, Lucas-Picher P, Christensen J H, Gobiet A, Saeed F, Hageman S, Jacob D (2012) "High resolution multi model climate change scenario over India including first uncertainty assessment", OCHAMP, 21-25 February 2012, Pune, India. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Wiltshire A, Asharaf S, Ahrens B, Lucas-Picher P, Christensen J H, Gobiet A, Saeed F, Hageman S, Jacob D (2012) "High resolution multi model climate change scenario over India including first uncertainty assessment", Workshop on 'Glaciers, Snow Melt and Runoff in the Himalayas' 6-7 February 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Wiltshire A, Asharaf S, Ahrens B, Lucas-Picher P, Christensen J H, Gobiet A, Saeed F, Hageman S, Jacob D (2011) "High resolution multi model climate change scenario over India including first uncertainty assessment", American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2011, 5-9 December 2011, San Francisco, USA. (Poster)
• Hagemann S, Kumar P, Jacob D, Asharaf S, Ahrens B (2010) "Regional climate simulations over India", EU project WATCH General assembly, Amsterdam, Netherlands,November 2010. (Talk)
• Kumar P, Elizalde A, Haensler A, Hagemann S, Jacob D, Rechid D, Podzun R, Remedio S, Saeed F, Sieck K, Teichmann C, Wilhelm C (2010) "Validation of the regional climate model REMO over the several CORDEX regions throughout the globe", 5th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of REGional Climate Models, Trieste, Italy, May-June 11, 2010,. (Talk)
• Kumar P and Jacob D (2009) "Improved Monsoon Climate with RCM over South Asia", EU project WATCH General assembly, 3-6 November 2009, Potsdam, Germany. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Podzun R, Jacob D (2009) "MPI regional climate model REMO simulations over South Asia", 2nd Lund Regional-scale Climate Modeling Workshop: 21st Century Challenges in Regional-scale Climate Modeling, 4-8 May 2009, Lund, Sweden. (Poster)
• Kumar P, Podzum R, Jacob D (2009) "MPI regional climate model REMO simulations over South Asia", EGU General Assembly, 19-24 April 2009, Vienna, Austria. (Poster)
• Kumar P and Jacob D (2009) "MPI-M input to HighNoon & Monsoon in REMO", HighNoon Kick-off meeting and Open Science Seminar, New Delhi-India, May 2009, . (Talk)
• Kumar P, (2008) "The Indian Monsoon: An overview", Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. (Talk)
• Kumar P (2008) "The Asian Monsoon System: Prediction of Change and Variability", Hawaii, USA, 2-11 January 2008,. (Talk)
• Kumar P, K. Rupa Kumar, M. Rajeevan, "Climate change simulations over northeast monsoon region of south asia", Second International Conference on Earth System Modeling (ICESM), 27-31 August 2007, Hamburg, Germany.
• Kumar P, K. Rupa Kumar, Rajeevan M, K. Krishna Kumar (2007) "Northeast monsoon: Teleconnections with ENSO and IOD", Celebrating the Monsoon: An International monsoon conference," IISC Bangalore, 24-28 July 2007, Bangalore, India. (Poster)
• Kumar P, (2006) "Northeast monsoon rainfall variability in south peninsular India and its long-range prediction," TROPMET-2006, 21-23 November 2006, Pune, India. (Poster)
• Kripalani R H, Kulkarni A, Kumar P and Sabade S S (2004) Indian Monsoon Variability: Role of Indian Ocean Dipole Mode, International Workshop on Role of Indian Ocean in Climate Variability over India, Pune-India, 23-27 February 2004,. (Talk)
• Kumar P, K. Rupa Kumar, Rajeevan M (2004) "Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Variability over India and its Teleconnections with Sea Surface Temperatures", International Workshop on Role of Indian Ocean in Climate Variability over India, 23-27 February 2004, Pune, India. (Poster)
• Kumar P, K. RupaKumar, Rajeevan M, Munot A (2003) "Interannual Variability Of Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Over South Peninsular India: Teleconnections and Long Range Prediction", Monsoon Environments: Agricultural and Hydrological Impacts of Seasonal Variability and Climate Change, Trieste, Italy, 24-28 March 2003,. (Talk)

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