
India’s Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) represents India and its scholarly community at IIASA. TIFAC has established a national committee for the India–IIASA Programme to oversee research collaborations and capacity-building activities between the Indian research community and IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:

Improving land, soil, and water management in India

Energy and climate change modeling

Increasing India’s resilience to natural disasters

Projecting India’s demographic changes

Managing India’s forests for the future

Smart ways to clean up India’s air

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22 September 2022
An integrated modeling framework to assess surface and groundwater resources

29 April 2022
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Balancing food security and nitrogen use
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15 September 2022
Meet the 2022 YSSP scholarship recipients
Each year, select Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participants win a scholarship to support their travel and research. In 2022, IIASA welcomed Swaptik Chowdhury, the recipient of the Roger Levien Fellowship, and Chayasmita Deka, who received the Professor Jyoti and Professor Kirit Parikh Fellowship.
Publications
Kshatri, S.S., Dhillon, J., Mishra, S., Haghighi, A.T., Hunt, J. , & Patro, E.R. (2022). Comparative Reliability Assessment of Hybrid Si/SiC and Conventional Si Power Module Based PV Inverter Considering Mission Profile of India and Denmark Locations. Energies 15 (22) 10.3390/en15228612.
Agarwal, P. (2022). Air quality benefits from mitigation of Black Carbon emissions in Northern India. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Deka, C. (2022). Adoption of Electric Vehicles by the Middle-Income Group in India: A Comparison of Gain, Norm, Fear & Protection Motivators and Other Factors. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Dimitrova, A., Marois, G. , Kiesewetter, G., Rafaj, P. , Pachauri, S. , K.C., S., Olmos, S., Rasella, D., & Tonne, C. (2022). Projecting the impact of air pollution on child stunting in India – synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation, ambient air quality control, and clean cooking access. Environmental Research Letters 17 (10) e104004. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac8e89.
Patange, O. , Garg, A., & Jayaswal, S. (2022). An integrated bottom-up optimization to investigate the role of BECCS in transitioning towards a net-zero energy system: A case study from Gujarat, India. Energy 255 e124508. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124508.
Jha, C.K., Ghosh, R.K., Saxena, S., Singh, V., Mosnier, A., Perez Guzman, K. , Stevanović, M., Popp, A., & Lotze-Campen, H. (2022). Pathway to achieve a sustainable food and land-use transition in India. Sustainability Science 10.1007/s11625-022-01193-0.