International Awards & Recognitions

2025: International Conference – Water Security and Climate Change Conference 2025 (October 8–10, 2025), Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Oral Presentation.

2025: Workshop and Academic Conference – Research–Policy Links in the Indian Ocean World: Designing Resilient Futures on the Basis of Historical and Ethnographic Research (June 22–24, 2025), Mainz, Germany.

2025: International Conference – CBDM India 2025: Disaster Resilience: Community-Based Systems to Save Lives and Preserve Health (June 20, 2025), JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. Distinguished Panelist (Panel Discussion: Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Management).

2025: International Conference - Problems of Coastal areas in Historical and international comparison: Media, Technical, and Policy Issues (March 13 - 16, 2025), Hue University of Sciences, Vietnam. Invited Talk.

2023: Seminar on Climate Change, Disasters, and Health Risks (October25, 2023 to October 29, 2023), Shanghai University, China. Invited Talk.

2023: Ecologies of Labour symposium and workshop at the Center for Policy, citizenship and Society, Nottingham Trent University, UK. (June 15 – 16, 2023). Full travel support provided. Invited Talk.

2023: 5th International Symposium on the Effect of Climate Change on the World's Ocean. Bergen, Norway. (April 17-21, 2023). Travel Grant: CAD 800. Poster Presentation.

2022: Environmental Policy Discourses since the 1960s: Politics, Problems and Narratives of Environment Policies in Europe and Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (November 24 – 25, 2022). Invited Talk. Full travel support provided.

2019: Transdisciplinarity of Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability' training workshop, AUGUST 24-29, 2019, in SYLHET, BANGLADESH. Full travel support was awarded by Too Big to Ignore, Canada. (Declined due to official reasons).

2019: OceanObs'19, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. (September 16 – 20, 2019). Full travel support awarded by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colorado USA. Poster Presentation.

2019: The Future Oceans2 IMBeR Open Science Conference 2019, Brest, France. (June 17 – 21, 2019). Travel grant: 1200 EURO – The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research. Paper Presentation.

2019: Ocean Visions 2019 conference – Climate Summit – Successes in resilience, adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability (April 1 – 4, 2019). Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Travel grants: 1170 USD. Paper Presentation.

2018: Water Security & Climate change conference, University of Kenyatta, Nairobi, Kenya (December 3 – 5, 2018). Travel support: exceed-Swindon Project, Germany. Paper Presentation.

2018: Sustainability and Development Conference, Michigan, USA. (November 9-11, 2018). Travel grant: 1200 USD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. Paper Presentation.

2018: São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Ocean Interdisciplinary Research and Governance, São Paulo, Brazil (August 13- 25, 2018). Travel support: Oceanographic Institute (IOUSP), the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA/USP). Short-Term School

2018: Development Studies Association (DSA) 2018: Global Inequalities Conference, University of Manchester, UK. (June 27 – 29, 2018). Travel grant: 665 GBP – Journal of Development studies and DSA, UK. Paper Presentation.

2018: Adaptation Futures 2018 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. (June 18 – 21, 2018). Travel support: International Climate Adaptation Organizations. Paper Presentation.

2018: The Effects of Climate Change on World's Oceans, 4th International Climate Change Symposium, Washington, DC. (June 4 – 8, 2018). Travel grants: 1500 USD. Awarding Agency: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Paper Presentation.

Media Coverage and Expert Interviews

2024: Expert Interview – NRC (Netherlands): Interviewed on the impacts of climate change and coastal management in Tamil Nadu. Published in NRC, the Netherlands, on 26 September 2024.

2026: Expert Interview – The Established (Digital Magazine: India): Interviewed by the editor of The Established on climate change and intensifying heatwave conditions in India. The published feature highlighted my expert commentary. Published on 19 June 2026.

Peer Review Support

2023: Outstanding Reviewer Award by the "Energy Research & Social Science" (Impact Factor: 6.7. Elsevier Journal)

2019 – Onwards: Regular reviewer for several journals and books including:

• Sage Open
• Springer Nature Book Proposals
• Oxford University Press Book Proposal
• World Development (Elsevier)
• Natural Hazards Research (Elsevier)
• The Scientific World Journal
• Coastal Management (Taylor & Francis)
• American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC)
• Geo: Geography and Environment (Wiley)
• MARE Publication Series (Springer)
• The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change
• Qeios
• Energy Research & Social Science [Elsevier]
• The International Journal of Community and Social Development [SAGE]
• Cogent Arts & Humanities [Taylor & Francis]
• International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction [Elsevier]
• Social Policy & Administration [Wiley]
• Community Development Journal [Oxford]
• Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture [Taylor & Francis]
• Cogent Social Sciences [Taylor & Francis]
• Cogent Education [Taylor & Francis]
• Cogent Arts & Humanities [Taylor & Francis]
• Frontiers in Environmental Economics [Frontiers]
• Environment and Social Psychology
• Journal of Environment and Development [SAGE]
• Discover Global Society [Springer]
• Local Government Studies [Taylor & Francis]
• Marine Policy [Elsevier]
• Geoforum [Elsevier]
• Earth system governance [Elsevier]
• Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space [SAGE]
• Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture [Taylor & Francis]
• International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology [Springer]
• Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences [Springer]
• International Critical Thought [Taylor & Francis]
• Research in Globalization [Elsevier]

Teaching, Scholarship and Professional Practice

2020 – 2022: Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) Program

• Designed and developed an online course titled "Community Organization and Social Action for Sustainable Development" tailored for refugee students.
• Acted as an expert in the selection process of students for the program by participating in interviews.
• Provided mentorship to students and conducted evaluations of their writings.
• Acted as a Faculty-in-Charge of the Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) Program for around two years.

2019 – Onwards: Designed, developed, taught, and evaluated the following courses for the undergraduate honors students of XIM University.

• Mainly teach for the students of B.Sc Sustainable Development [Hons], B.Sc Environmental Science [Hons], and MBA Sustainability Management
• Also, teach for the students of B.Sc. - Mass Communication (Hons.) and B.A.-Public Administration and Governance (Hons.).
• Received positive to very positive feedback for all the courses that I handled.

2019 – Onwards: Capstone Research Projects:

• Mentored students of B.Sc Sustainable Development (Hons) and Environmental Science (Hons) of XIM University.

Sustainability Discovery Program:

• Mentor to the MBA (Sustainability Management) students of XIM University for their Sustainability Discovery Program (SDP).

Skills & International Experience

Skills:

• Designing and executing teaching courses
• Evaluation of teaching activities
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate supervision
• Engaging with international students
• Promoting teaching and research in international platforms
• Teaching and research mentoring
• Designing and executing ethically sound research programmes
• Reviewing manuscripts of various international journals and books
• Evaluating research outcomes
• Interdisciplinary teaching and research

International Experiences:

USA, UK, Netherlands, France, Norway, China, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Vietnam, Germany, Uzbekistan.