Future Environmental Leaders

Expertise and topics of interest:

  • Water Security, Integrated Water Resource Management
  • Resource Nexus, Water-Energy-Food Nexus
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation

Kaushal Chapagain

Framework For Assessment of Water Energy Food Nexus Under Climate Change: An Application to the Ping River Basin, Thailand

Study Program: Water Engineering and Management
Home University: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
Hosting University: United Nations University (UNU-FLORES)
Expected graduation: December 2022
ABCD Scholarship Period: 01/10/2021 to 30/09/2022 (12 months)

Expertise and topics of interest:

  • Hydraulic Engineering and Coastal Engineering
  • Tsunami bore impact studies
  • Experimental and numerical modelling
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Hybrid defence for coastal protection
  • Effect of vegetation in wave attenuation

Harish Selvam

Tsunami Bore Forces on the Buildings and the Force Reduction Measures

Study Program: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Home University: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Hosting University: RWTH Aachen University
Expected graduation: December 2022
ABCD Scholarship Period: 01/10/2021 to 30/09/2022 (12 months)

Expertise and topic of interest:

  • Nature-based Solutions
  • Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
  • Sustainable Urban Development
  • Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus

Pyae Mon Naing

Evaluation of Nature-based Solutions for Urban Climate Adaptation in Synergy with Sustainable Development of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

Baker Matovu

Expertise and topic of interest

  • Hydraulic Engineering & Water modeling
  • Eco-friendly materials & sustainable development
  • Machine Learning & AI applications in water security
  • Disaster preparedness and management
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation

Nandhini Duraimurugan

A Smart Geo Sensor-Based Eco-Friendly Approach to Protecting River Banks

Study Program: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Home University: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Hosting University: RWTH Aachen University
Study Period: 2020-2025
ABCD Scholarship Period: 01/04/2022 to 31/12/2022

Expertise and topic of interest:

  • Gender Empowerment
  • Resource Nexus, (Blue Economy and Livelihoods)
  • Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis
  • Systems thinking, mapping, and modeling
  • Coastal socio-ecological analysis.
  • Social research and multi-stakeholder interactive frameworks

Baker Matovu

The Resource Nexus Perspectives in the Blue Economy of India: The Case of Sand Mining ins Kerala

Study Program: Sustainable Development
Home University: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Hosting University: United Nations University (UNU-FLORES) and TU Dresden
Study Period: 2020-2023
ABCD Scholarship Period: 01/04/2022 to 31/12/2022

Expertise and topic of interest

  • Water Resource Modeling and Simulation, Watershed Hydrology, Water
  • Resources Systems Analysis, Water Balance, Water Quality, Time Series
  • Analysis, River Health, Framework Development.
  • Future climate change and land-use change projections, Remote Sensing
  • and Geographic Information System.
  • Hydro Meteorological Hazard Assessment and Flood Modeling.

Triambak Baghel

Investigating the Impact of Climate Change And Land Use Change on River Health.

Study Program: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Home University: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Hosting University: Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Study Period: 2017-2022
ABCD Scholarship Period: 01/04/2022 to 31/12/2022

Coding Skill:

  • Python, R Programing.