Dr. Somnath Baidya Roy

Dr. Somnath Baidya Roy

Dean (Planning), IIT Delhi and Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences

Dr Roy is Dean (Planning) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences. He also holds the Rockefeller Foundation Climate Science and Technology Chair and serves as Professor-in-Charge of the IIT Delhi Sonipat Campus. Dr. Roy’s research focuses on modeling land–atmosphere interactions and renewable energy meteorology, examining how vegetation dynamics and land-use change, such as deforestation and agriculture—affect regional weather and climate. His work has implications for climate change, food security, biological carbon sequestration, and carbon accounting, as well as for wind and solar energy systems. He is an Editor of Earth System Dynamics, a journal of the European Geosciences Union, and a co-convenor of Energy Meteorology at the EGU General Assembly. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Atal Incubation Centre at IIT Delhi. His research has been funded by agencies including the US NSF, NASA, ISRO, DRDO, and SERB, and he advises government and industry on climate, forestry, renewable energy, and net-zero issues.

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