Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan : IAGR Conference 2024

Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, West Bengal

Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan is the founder of the Geography Department at Jadavpur University which was initiated in 2014. She has a long tenure of teaching at different Universities of West Bengal namely North Bengal University and The University of Burdwan as full time Faculty and as Guest Faculty at the University of Tripura, WBSU, Calcutta University, Kalyani University.  She studied at the University of Calcutta, where completed her PhD in 1996. She is an Urban Geographer who is proficient in Remote Sensing GIS and therefore combines the strengths of Regional Planning and Human Geography. She has 70 research papers and 8 books to her credit. She has delivered lectures across Universities in India and also at the University of Colombo and Dacca presented papers at national and international conferences across the country. She has taken up projects under UGC and has been supervising several research fellows. She has guided more than 20 scholars who have obtained their doctoral degree and has also supervised several MPhil scholars. She is in the editorial board of many renowned journals like Hill Geographer, Regional Science Policy and Practice, Indian Journal of Regional Science and at present is the Editor of Geographical Review of India, Kolkata. At present she working on two edited volumes to be published by Springer and Elsevier