Prof. Abhishek CHAUDHARY

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering and Management at IIT Kanpur, India since 2018. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland from 2015-18. I obtained Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2015, Master of Science from University of Cincinnati, USA and B.Tech. from IIT Roorkee, India. I worked for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) from 2009-12.

My areas of research include biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, and environmental life cycle assessment (LCA). I have developed novel methods to assess the biodiversity footprint within LCA using species richness and phylogenetic diversity (evolutionary history) as indicators. We generate quantitative information for guiding transition towards sustainable production and consumption globally. More info at: https://chaudhary-lab.weebly.com/