Dr Neha Mittal

Profile

Neha is an interdisciplinary environmental researcher focusing on climate services and climate impacts analysis. Her work uses multi-disciplinary methods including participatory approaches and climate data analysis to help build a more holistic understanding of potential future climate change across sectors and regions.

Prior to Leeds, Neha worked as a Research Assistant at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, analysing multi-model datasets of historical and future climate projections to develop country climate briefs for Malawi and Tanzania on UMFULA project. She also worked for the WWF-UK examining freshwater management, riverine restoration and monitoring of river health through remote sensing techniques.

Current projects

• Co-production of Climate Services for East Africa, CONFER – H2020 funded project (2020-2024)
• Climate & Water Narratives for Cross-Sectoral Planning in the Lake Malawi Shire River Basin – NERC DFID funded project (2020-2021)
• Integrating Lessons on Co-Production in Climate Science and Services – NERC SHEAR funded project (2020-2021)
• Improving Preparedness to Agro-Climatic Extremes in Malawi, IPACE-Malawi – NERC SHEAR Catalyst funded project (2018-2020)
• Climate Information for Resilient Tea Production, CI4Tea – NERC DFID funded project (2017-2019)

Qualifications

• PhD on climatic and hydrological extremes (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
• MSc in Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Erasmus Mundus Programme)
• MSc in Environmental Sciences (Panjab University, India)
• BSc in Geology (Panjab University, India)

Research groups and institutes

• water@leeds
• Sustainability Research Institute
• Climate Change Adaptation, Vulnerability and Services