This group is led by Akshaya Nikumbh. She joined IIT Bombay as an assistant professor in January, 2024. Prior to joing IIT Bombay, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from October 2021- December 2023. She received her BE in electronics and telecommunication from Pune university, and PhD in atmospheric science from IISc Bangalore. If you are interested in working on climate science using and developing diverse tools, data, and theory, you can reach out at akshaya.nikumbh@iitb.ac.in. Currently, we are looking for interns, JRFs, PhDs and postdocs.
Akshaya joins IIT Bombay
Akshaya joins the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies (IDPCS), IIT Bombay as a fifth core faculty.
AGU 2023
You can check out Akshaya's AGU talks and sessions here.
GFDL lunchtime seminar
Akshaya gave a seminar on her postdoc work of using GFDL's AM4 model for simulation of organization of tropical convection and precipitation extremes
NOAA PSL visit
Akshaya gave a seminar on "Impacts of changing horizontal resolution on the organization of tropical convection" at NOAA, PSL tropical dyncamics group
NCAR visit
Akshaya gave a seminar on "Does increasing horizontal resolution improve the simulation of intense tropical rainfall?" at CAS, NCAR, Boulder