Brief Bio
Dr. Raghavan Krishnan is the Director of IITM, Pune. He specialises in climate modelling studies relating to climate change, the Asian monsoon, and the water cycle. Under his leadership, the Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR) at IITM, Pune, developed the first Earth System Model (ESM) from India and contributed to the Coupled Modelling Intercomparison Project- Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). He was the coordinating lead author in the IPCC AR6 WG1 report (Chapter-8: Water Cycle Changes) and a drafting author in the IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers. He is a Member of the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Dr. Krishnan and his team from CCCR-IITM published the First National Climate Change Assessment Report of the MoES in 2020. After obtaining an MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, he pursued Ph.D. research in atmospheric sciences at the PRL, Ahmedabad. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Pune in 1994 and published over 150 scientific articles/papers. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, Bengaluru, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, and the Indian Meteorological Society. Dr. Krishnan was honoured with several awards for his scientific contributions, notably the Frontier Outstanding Research Award by the Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC), Japan, in 2000 and the 2021 National Award for Excellence in Atmospheric Science and Technology, MoES, Government of India.
