Dr Abhishek Chaudhary
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India
Dr. Abhishek Chaudhary is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at IIT Kanpur, India since 2018. Before that he was a postdoctoral researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland from 2015-18. He obtained Ph.D. in environmental engineering from ETH Zurich in 2015, Master of Science in environmental engineering from University of Cincinnati, USA in 2009 and B.Tech. from IIT Roorkee, India in 2007. He worked for United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) from 2009-2012 as environmental engineer.
His area of research includes biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, sustainable infrastructure, and environmental modeling. Currently, he leads the research on developing quantitative methods to assess the impact of human activities on multiple indicators of the environment through life cycle assessment (LCA) tool. In particular, he has contributed to the development of novel methods to assess the biodiversity footprint within LCA using species richness and phylogenetic diversity (evolutionary history) as indicators. Recently, he is been involved in designing sustainable diets that are nutritionally adequate, environmentally friendly, culturally acceptable and affordable through optimization algorithms. Overall, his research aims to generate information useful for guiding transition towards sustainable production and consumption globally.