
Dr Neha Mittal
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Climate services; climate information co-production and communication; climate adaptation; future climate projections; seasonal climate forecast
- Email: N.Mittal@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 9.118 School of Earth and Environment
- Website: Twitter | LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
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 Servcies 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 Leesons 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)
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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