Prof. Biplab Biswas : IAGR Conference 2024

  Prof. Biplab Biswas, Department of Geography, University of Burdwan, West Bengal Prof. Biplab Biswas has completed his Masters’ in Geography from The University of Burdwan (1996), followed by M.Phil.degree in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2000). In 2008, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree from The University of Burdwan. The title of his doctoral thesis was “Land use and land cover change in Damodar Basin: A Spatial Modelling Approach”. He joined the Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan on 02^nd January, 2002 as a Lecturer in Geography. While in service, he carried out his Post-Doctoral Research (2014-15) under “Raman Fellowship” in the Clinical Research Building, Miller School of Medicine, The University of Miami, USA. The title of his Post-Doctoral thesis was “Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Quantifying Air Pollution”. He has about 40 published papers in different national and international books and journals. His research interests include Water resource for Sustainable Development, Atmospheric Pollution & Public Health and GIS. He has successfully guided 5 Ph.D. and 7 M.Phil. students. He has delivered about 80 Invited Talks in various National and International Forum. In his career he has received many financial grants from different funding agencies like University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India, Department of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of West Bengal), Natural Resource Database Management System (NRDMS, DST, Govt. of India), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB, DST, Govt. of India) etc.