Dr. Rahul Chopra
Director, CSECC FLAME University, Project Director, Project TROP ICSU, PhD - Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Rahul Chopra is the Director of the Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Climate Change and an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at FLAME University, India. He is also the Project Director of a global climate change education project (TROP ICSU) of the International Union of Biological Sciences that aims to integrate climate change education in the curriculum across the world.
Rahul’s interests are multidisciplinary and include curriculum development in Earth and Environmental Studies; the use of satellite derived remotely sensed and in-situ data to evaluate our changing environment; historical GIS and the spatial humanities; field based geological and environmental studies, and the use of high resolution chemical analyses instruments and data to study various earth and environmental processes.
He received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, USA.
He has been a member of the Expert Group on COVID-19 in Pune as part of the Pune Knowledge Cluster; Ambassador of The Earth Project; Visiting Professor at Ashoka University; the Coordinator and Convener of the National Resource Center on Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.
