Parul Srivastava
Research Scholar
Pollution Management Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Parul Srivastava joined the Pollution Management Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program as a research scholar in December 2019. She is currently associated with the Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH) project.Srivastava has been working on the development of gridding routines for the Greenhouse Gas Air Pollution Interaction and Synergies (GAINS) model’s sectors using spatial data along with downloading and validating observation data of monitoring stations for GAINS regions to understand the current impact of air pollution. She has also worked on the source apportionment and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure impact calculations for South Asia, Vietnam, and Chile projects. She is currently working on updating and improving oil and gas infrastructure data in the GAINS model for the EUCLIMIT6 project.
She has an MSc degree in physics from Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, India and an MTech degree in atmospheric sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. She obtained her PhD degree in atmospheric sciences from IIT Delhi, India, in 2017. Her doctoral research emphasized the utilization of remote sensing techniques along with ground-based data and detailed chemical data to study the characteristics and radiative properties of aerosol particles, their mixing states, and particle morphology.
Last update: 01 FEB 2022
Publications
Srivastava, P., Purohit, P. , Schöpp, W. , Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Dey, S., Nygard, J., Tiwari, A., Sharma, M., & Amann, M. (2026). Integrated assessment of cost-effective air quality mitigation pathways for Uttar Pradesh, India. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-6350. In: EGU General Assembly 2026, 03 May - 08 May 2026, Vienna.
Purohit, P. , Schöpp, W. , Srivastava, P., Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Dey, S., Nygard, J., Tiwari, A., Sharma, M., Amann, M. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Dedring, S., Joshi, P., Lal, H., Ghosh, S., Sander, R. , & Nguyen, B. (2026). Cost-effective mitigation strategies for air quality management in Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Environmental Management 405 e129784. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.129784.
European Commission & Directorate-General for Environment (2025). Support to the development of the fourth clean air outlook – Final report. Publications Office of the European Union , Luxembourg. doi/10.2779/8768689.
World Bank (2025). Clean Air for Hanoi: What will it Take? World Bank
DoEFCC & World Bank (2025). Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Plan: Airshed based air quality analysis and recommendations. Department of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (DoEFCC), Government of Uttar Pradesh, India and the World Bank , Washington, D.C..