Rimjhim Bajpai

Biography

Rimjhim Bajpai joined the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program as a researcher in September 2025. Her main scientific interests focus on the intersections of climate change, migration, and health; Just Energy Transition; maternal and child health and family planning; and the role of social determinants such as ethnicity, gender inequalities, and nutrition in shaping health outcomes. She also has expertise in large-scale survey research, multilevel modeling, and spatial, quantitative, and qualitative data analysis.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in urban planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India in 2016, and a master’s degree in regional planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India in 2018. In 2022, she acquired another master’s degree in population studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. The title of her dissertation was “Burden of Anaemia among reproductive age women in low- and middle-income countries.”

Before joining IIASA, she worked with Population Council Consulting and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and NGOs such as Jan Sahas in India.

Last update: 16 SEP 2025