Dr. Victor R. Shinde
Victor R. Shinde has over 12 years of work experience— encompassing academics, practice, and management— in the environmental engineering and management sector, in six countries—India, Mauritius, Seychelles, Thailand, Korea and Japan. He specializes in ‘urban water’ topics, particularly in relation to supply-side and demand-side engineering and management of water. He has carried out several projects supported by reputed entities such as APN, CGIAR, CTCN, and UN Environment. He coordinates the Climate Change Asia initiative whose vision is to build capacities of governments and other stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific to access climate finance as a means to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals. He also coordinates the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) project at AIT. CTCN is the operational arm of the UNFCCC Technological Mechanism mandated with helping developing countries adopt technologies to mitigate, and adapt to, climate change. He has published more than 20 articles in books, journals and conferences.
Prof. Tawatchai Tingsanchali
Tawatchai Tingsanchali is Professor Emeritus and senior hydrodynamic expert at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). His area of expertise are includes flood modeling and risk management, river engineering and, Water Engineering and management. He supervised master and doctoral theses for 40 years since 1975 to today. He owns more than 200 publications (journal publications, conference and research reports). Prof. Tawatchai also works as a consultant in flood control and management and river engineering for 37 years.
Dr. Nat Marjang
Dr. Nat Marjang has Twenty two years experience in hydrology, hydraulics, water resources, sedimentation studies, drainage and flood protection study/planning, computer modeling in water resources engineering, geographic information system (GIS), database management, and teaching hydrology and hydraulic engineering. He also can introduce as an expert in HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, HEC-3, HEC-4, CropWat, Microsoft Office computer programs. He is one of the developers of three-dimensional hydraulic model for turbulent flow in prismatic open channels.
Dr. Chitrini Mozumder
Chitrini Mozumder has more than 10 years of experience in the field of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Currently, she is working as a senior research specialist in remote sensing and GIS department in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Prior to joining AIT, she has worked in Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman as a Postdoctoral research fellow. She obtained her doctorate from AIT and Master and Bachelor of Engineering from National Institute of Technology Warangal, India and Assam Engineering College, India respectively. Her research interests include remote sensing and GIS applications in environmental monitoring and management, Land use change analysis and modelling, spatial analysis and decision support. Her key research projects include sustainable flow in large Indian river Ganges, Deepor Beel Ramsar wetland management using a scenario based geospatial approach.
For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitrini-mozumder-5b149522/
Dr. Roland Treitler
Mr. Treitler started his career in the financial market. After trading derivatives for 13 years he switched to the environmental sector, in which he has been working since 2002. His unique and interdisciplinary experience – technical high school, political science at university, financial market and environmental sector – helps in managing environmental and development projects for the German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which he joined in 2011. He has been working on Transboundary Water Management and the National Water Master Plan in Afghanistan, on Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the flood and drought management and environmental economics in Thailand and conducted internal and external trainings for economics on environment and climate finances. Lately, he supported the elaboration of GCF proposals of international organizations and GIZ..
Dr. V. Rajesh Chowdhary
V Rajesh Chowdhary has more than 7 years of experience in the field of Remote Sensing & GIS. He has obtained his doctorate from Asian Institute of Technology and started working as Research Associate at AIT itself since then. He has obtained his Master and Bachelor degree from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), India and Jawaharlal Technological University Kakinada, India respectively. His research interest includes RS&GIS application in Urban Planning & Management, Urban Disaster Risk Reduction & Management, Forest Carbon Stock, Ionospheric Modelling, Space Weather, GNSS, Web GIS, and Open GIS. His key research projects includes, Research on ionospheric Scintillations in Asia (RISA) using GNSS, 2011- 2014 and Local ionospheric scintillation analysis (LISA) using GNSS stations in Thailand, 2014-2016 respectively, funded by US AOARD (United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development) and Collaborative Research for the Regional Forum on Climate Change on the topic “Developing new methods to monitor forest carbon in Asian tropical forests” 2016 – ongoing.
For further Information: http://rajeshvattikut8.wixsite.com/vrajeshchowdhary
Ms. A. Thedini Asali Peiris
Asali have been working as a Research Associate in Water Engineering and Management Department in Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. She received her undergraduate degree in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering and Master degree in Water Engineering and Management field of study from AIT. She also worked as a part time research assistant in Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Africa and Asia (RIMES). She is contributing to several on-going research projects in the department. Her area of research interest is encompass with Climate change trend analysis, Climate change impact analysis, Ecosystem services and Hydrology.
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Prof. Mukand S. Babel
Mukand S. Babel is a Professor in Water Engineering and Management Department at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Prof. Babel’s professional experience in teaching, research and consultancy spans about 30 years in Asia. He has over 220 publications in international refereed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has also carried out more than 60 capacity building, research, and sponsored projects in collaboration with international agencies/organizations such as ADB, APN, Danida, FAO, IGES, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNU, World Bank, and various universities and institutions in Japan, South Korea, Europe and USA. He is the Chair of the Climate Change Asia initiative at AIT that seeks to develop capacities of countries in accessing climate finance by developing bankable project proposals.