Oceanography & Climate Science
PhD Candidate at the University of Southampton & National Oceanography Centre, studying how El Niño-Southern Oscillation evolves in a warming climate and how it is expressed in the subsurface ocean.
About
I study the dynamics of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and how anthropogenic warming reshapes it. My work involves evaluating eddy-resolving, high-resolution climate model simulations and running targeted sensitivity experiments with atmosphere-forced ocean models, to disentangle the mechanisms driving ENSO variability, particularly its expression in the subsurface ocean.
My research sits at the intersection of physical oceanography, ocean-atmosphere coupling, climate variability and change, and ocean modelling, with growing interests in applying AI/ML techniques to climate science problems.
University of Southampton & NOC2023 - Present
Thesis: “Evolution of El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in a warming climate: Subsurface ocean expression in observations and high-resolution climate models”
NERC INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnership funded.
Advisors Dr. Joël Hirschi, Dr. Adam Blaker, Dr. Jennifer Mecking & Dr. Stephen Kelly (NOC); Prof. Robert Marsh (University of Southampton)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India2018 - 2023
Minor in Data Science & Engineering
CPI: 8.81/10 (equiv. to First-class honours)
Proficiency Medal for Best Academic Performance
MS Thesis: “Western Boundary Currents: Representation in High-Resolution OGCMs and their Relationship with Climate Modes”
Advisors Dr. Pankaj Kumar (IISER Bhopal), Prof. Paul Myers (University of Alberta)
Experience
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Aug 2025 - Oct 2025
NSF NCAR · Boulder, USA
CGD Laboratory, NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
Assessed resolution dependence and future reorganisation of Indo-Pacific variability (IOD, ITF, ENSO interactions) in high-resolution (0.1°) coupled CESM simulations under multiple warming scenarios.
Supervisors Dr. Gökhan Danabasoglu, Dr. Isla Simpson, Dr. Fred Castruccio
May 2022 - Aug 2022
University of Alberta · Edmonton, Canada
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics & Modelling Lab, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Analysed North Atlantic Current representation in high-resolution NEMO configurations, comparing modelled SST/SSH and section transports against satellite/reanalysis data; work continued into MS thesis.
Supervisor Prof. Paul G. Myers
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
IISER Bhopal · India
Climate & Glacier Modelling Lab, IISER Bhopal, India
Helped develop an adapted SRGAN architecture to spatially downscale IMD gridded rainfall from 1.00° to 0.25° over India, contributing primarily to its technical implementation: architecture design, coding, testing and hyperparameter tuning.
Supervisor Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
IISER Bhopal · India
Climate & Glacier Modelling Lab, IISER Bhopal, India
Applied SRCNN and SRResNet super-resolution techniques to downscale IMD daily gridded rainfall (1980-2010); published as a first-author comparative assessment in SN Computer Science.
Supervisor Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Research Output
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Climate Dynamics (Preprint)
In Revision - Original Preprint AvailableJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Submitted - Under ReviewModeling Earth Systems and Environment, 10, 2221-2237
Conferences & Talks
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Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 · Glasgow, United Kingdom
AGU Fall Meeting 2024 · Washington D.C., USA
EGU General Assembly 2024 · Vienna, Austria
Other presentations
Technical
Beyond Research
Contact
I'm always open to conversations about ocean dynamics, climate variability, and potential collaborations.
