Kushagra Pandey is a PhD candidate in Water and Climate Risk(WCR) department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and member of the COASTMOVE project. The aim of the PhD is to develop a global agent-based model for coastal adaptation and migration model and study the impact of climate change, sea level rise and floods on coastal risk, economy and demography.
Before IVM, Kushagra was a research collaborator at Environmental Intelligence (EI), Milan, Italy where he developed his master’s thesis.
Expertise
Climate data science, particularly in assessing the impacts of climate and human behaviour on the economy, ecosystem, and water management.
Education
2021: MSc Environmental and Land Planning Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
2018: BTech Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar.
