{"id":30337,"date":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/?page_id=30337"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:43:04","slug":"dr-chirag-dhara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/dr-chirag-dhara\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Chirag Dhara"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"30337\" class=\"elementor elementor-30337\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac80f7 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"cac80f7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7791\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Chirag Dhara is a quantum physicist turned climate scientist holding two doctorates: one in Earth System Science (2017) from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and University of Hamburg, Germany and the other in Photonics (2013) from the Institute of Photonic Sciences and Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to joining Krea University, he spent two years as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). He co-authored India\u2019s first comprehensive climate change assessment report released by IITM in June, 2020 (as an official report of the Ministry of Earth Science, India). He is also a contributing author to the IPCC AR6 report (2021).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chirag regularly contributes analytical pieces in the national and international media on science and policy.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The escalating climate and ecological crises are increasingly posing an existential threat to life on Earth. The roots of these problems are profligate resource exploitation and pollution that are inherent to the prevailing economic system that prioritises growth at all costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chirag\u2019s work spans sustainability science and policy. Topics of ongoing work include near-term regional and global monsoon projections, regional climate change, climate performance assessments, climate responsibility and finance, human development and inequality, physical limits to growth, and sustainable transitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please refer Google Scholar: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=6qx4rgEAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=6qx4rgEAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><strong>Chirag teaches the following courses:<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Climate change: Science, economics, and policy<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design Thinking (focus on social-ecological systems)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternative energy on a finite planet<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced topics in sustainability: planetary and societal boundaries<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainability transitions: context and scalability<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental consequences of war<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theatre of the climate: performing a just future (interdisciplinary science-arts collaboration)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Chirag Dhara Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies PhD, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry PhD, Institute of Photonic Sciences and Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya chirag.dhara@krea.edu.in Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram Link About Research Publications Teaching Modules About Dr Chirag Dhara is a quantum physicist turned climate scientist holding two doctorates: one in Earth System Science (2017) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/dr-chirag-dhara\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Chirag Dhara&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-30337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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