Dr. Piyush Srivastava

Profile

I am currently an Inspire Faculty at the Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India and additionally hold a Visiting Researcher position at the School of Earth and Environment (SEE), University of Leeds, since Jan 2021. Prior to this, I worked as Post Doctoral Research Fellow at SEE from Feb 2019 to Jan 2021 and have been associated with ICAS.

Work Experience:

Inspire Faculty (Jan 2021 – cont.) at Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

PDRA ( Feb 2019 – Jan 2021) at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

Sr. Project Scientist  (May 2018 – Feb 2019) at Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Project Scientist  (May 2017 – May 2018) at Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) January 2012-May 2018

M.Sc. in Mathematics (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)  July 2008-June 2010

B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (Kisan PG College, Bahraich, India) July 2004-June 2007 

Research interests

• Improving the surface layer physics in WRF model for efficient estimation of surface fluxes and reduce bias in the model simulated surface variables. 
• Turbulence data analysis, estimation of surface fluxes, evaluating the parameterization schemes in numerical weather prediction, climate and air quality models. 

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science