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Srinidhi Balasubramanian

Assistant Professor

TBU

Research Interests

Air quality modelingAir quality impacts on human and environmental healthReactive nitrogen flowsSustainability of agriculture and food systems

srinidhi@iitb.ac.in

022-251-95856

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Education

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Ph.D.

Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.Tech.

Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay

B.E.

Civil Engineering, Mumbai University

Publications

1. Wang, Y., Nemitz, E., Tomlinson, S., Carnell, E., Yao, L., Scheffler, J., Liska,
T., Pearson, C., Dragosits, U., Venkataraman, C., Balasubramanian, S., Beck,
R., Sutton, M. and Vieno, M. (2024). ’Response of South Asia PM2.5 pollution to ammonia emission changes and associated impacts on human health’. Environment International, 16:109207.
2. Shandilya, R.+, Chaudhari, P.+ and Balasubramanian, S. (2024). ’Assessment
of the Statistical Performance of Chemical Transport Model Studies in India’. Environmental Science & Technology Air.
3. Singh, S., Balasubramanian, S. and Kavassalis, S. (2023). ’Complex linkages
between agriculture and air pollution pose a major threat to food security in
India’. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 121001.
4. Balasubramanian, S. and Babbar, D.+ (2022). ’Food driven air pollutant
emissions’. Nature Food, 3, 892–893.
5. Thakrar, S.K., Tessum, C.W., Apte, J. S., Balasubramanian, S., Millet, D.
B., Pandis, S. N., Marshall, J.D., and Hill, J.D. (2022) ‘Global, high-resolution,
reduced-complexity air quality modeling using InMAP (the Intervention Model
for Air Pollution)’. Plos One, 17(5), e0268714.
6. Balasubramanian, S., Hunt, N., Domingo, Gittlin, M., Colgan, K., Marshall,
J.D., Robinson, A. L., Azevedo, I. M. L., Thakrar, S., Clark, M. A., Tessum,
C. M., Adams, P., Pandis, S. and Hill, J. D. (2021) ‘The food we eat, the air
we breathe: A review of the fine particulate matter-induced air quality health
impacts of the global food system’. Environmental Research Letters, 16(10),
103004.
7. Domingo, N., Balasubramanian, S.*, Thakrar, S.*, Clark, M., Adams, P. J.,
Marshall, J., Muller, N., Pandis, S. N., Polasky, S., Robinson, A., Tessum, C.,
Tilman, D., Tschofen, P., and Hill, J.D (2021). ‘Air-quality damages of food’.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (20) e2013637118.
8. Thakrar, S., Balasubramanian, S., Adams, P. J., Ines M. L. Azevedo, Muller,
N. Z., Pandis, S. N., Polasky, S., Pope III, C. A., Robinson, A., Apte, J. S.,
Tessum, C. W., Marshall, J. D. and Hill, J. D (2020). ‘Reducing mortality
from air pollution in the United States by targeting specific emission sources’
Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 20, 7, 639-645.
9. Balasubramanian, S., McFarland, D.M., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Fu, K., Menon,
R., Lehmann, C., and Rood, M.J. (2020). ‘Effect of grid resolution and spatial
representation of NH3 emissions from fertilizer application on predictions of NH3
and PM2.5 concentrations in the United States Corn Belt’. Environmental Research Communications, 2, 025001.
10. Balasubramanian, S., Nelson, A.J., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Lin, J., Rood, M.J.,
Myles, L. and Bernacchi, C. (2017) ‘Evaluation of DeNitrification DeComposition
Model for Estimating Ammonia Fluxes from Chemical Fertilizer Application’.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 237-238, 123-134.
11. Nelson, A.J., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., Rood, M.J., Myles, L., Lehmann, C., Bernacchi, C., Balasubramanian, S., Joo, E., Heuer, M., Vieira-Filho, M. and Lin, J.
‘Season-Long Ammonia Flux Measurements Above Fertilized Corn in
Central Illinois, USA, Using Relaxed Eddy Accumulation’. Agricultural and
Forest Meteorology, 239, 202-212.
12. Balasubramanian, S., Koloutsou-Vakakis, S., McFarland, D.M. and Rood,
M.J. (2015) ‘Reconsidering Emissions of Ammonia from Chemical Fertilizer Usage in Midwest United States’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120, 6232-6246.

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Priyam Prasambit Tripathy

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