Present Designation: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Influence of urban form on the changing dynamics of surface and canopy layer UHI across the local urban climate zones of Delhi, a semi-arid megacity
Area of research: Urban Heat Island, Sustainable Cities, Urbanization, Air Pollution, Nature-Based Solutions, Sustainable Development Goals, Heat Inequality
Profile Summary: Currently working on the UPSURGE project ‘City-centred approach to catalyse nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development’ funded by the Horizon 2020 funding.
Education
Year Degree (Branch), Name of Institution
2021 Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
2014 M.Sc. (Geoinformatics), TERI University, Delhi
2012 B.Sc. (Chemistry(H)), Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi
Research Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Budhiraja, B., Pathak, P. A., & Acharya, D. (2019). Studying Surface and Canopy Layer Urban Heat Island at Micro-Scale Using Multi-Sensor Data in Geographic Information Systems. Geospatial Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 389-410). IGI Global.
• Bakul Budhiraja, Lech Gawuc & Girish Agrawal (2019). Seasonal analysis of surface urban heat island intensity in Delhi city region using local climate zones and conventional indicators. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 12(12), doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2955133
• Budhiraja, B., Agrawal, G., & Pathak, P. (2020). Urban heat island effect of a polynuclear megacity Delhi–Compactness and thermal evaluation of four sub-cities. Urban Climate, 32, 100634
• Budhiraja, B., Pathak, P., Agarwal, G., & Sengupta, R. (2021). Satellite and Ground Estimates of Surface and Canopy-Layer Urban Heat Island: Comparison and Caveats. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 12(4), 1-21
Publications in reputed conference proceedings
• “Spatio-temporal variability of urban heat islands in local climate zones of Delhi-NCR" with Prasad Pathak and Girish Agarwal, SPIE Remote Sensing 2017 (Warsaw, Poland); Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments II, Volume 10431, 1043110 (2017); DOI: 10.1117/12.2280253
Paper presented at national/international conferences.
• “Surface urban heat island effect of a polynuclear megacity Delhi: Morphological and Thermal evaluation of three sub-cities” with Girish Agrawal and Prasad Pathak at the 10th International Conference on Urban Climate 2018 (New York, U.S.A.) [Poster presentation] (Awarded International Travel Grant by Department of Science and Technology (DST))
• “Spatio-temporal variability of urban heat islands in local climate zones of Delhi-NCR" with Prasad Pathak and Girish Agarwal, SPIE Remote Sensing 2017 (Warsaw, Poland); Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments II, Volume 10431, 1043110 (2017); DOI: 10.1117/12.2280253. [Poster presentation and proceedings] (Awarded Partial student funding by SPIE)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2280253
• "Urban Heat Island Dynamics in Local Climate Zones of Delhi" with Prasad Pathak and Girish Agarwal, International Conference on Urban Geoinformatics, TERI University, Delhi, February 2017 [Poster presentation]
• "Integrating Smart Platforms to Analyze Energy Patterns in Academic Building" with Prasad A. Pathak and Deepika Mann, Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment Book, pp.823-827, January 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18663-4_127 [Poster and Proceedings]
Work Experience
Duration Designation, Name of employer
Feb 2020 to Mar 2021, Postdoctoral Research Associate, O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi NCR
Oct 2021 to Dec 2021, Research Fellow, Ashoka University, Delhi NCR
Awards and Recognitions
• Best Student Poster Presentation Award for presenting a paper on "Urban Heat Island Dynamics in Local Climate Zones of Delhi" at the International Conference on Urban Geoinformatics, TERI University, Delhi, February 2017
Email ID: b.budhiraja@qub.ac.uk