Sreyam Sengupta

Biography

Sreyam Sengupta is a researcher in the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. He is also affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His broad research interest lies in the intersection of land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) with biodiversity conservation and social justice.

To this end, Sengupta uses a combination of the land-use model MAgPIE (developed and maintained by PIK) with the energy systems and macro-economic modeling framework MESSAGEix (developed and maintained by IIASA). Occasionally, he also uses the simple climate model MAGICC (currently developed and maintained by PIK and the University of Melbourne, Australia) to obtain the temperature outcomes of the scenarios assessed by the MESSAGEix-MAgPIE framework.

Currently, he is involved with the GENIE project, as part of which he explores the co-benefits and trade-offs between climate change mitigation through land-based CDR methods and biodiversity conservation. He is also part of the Justice Model Intercomparison Project (JustMIP) of the ELEVATE project, where his focus is on including biodiversity conservation as a form of inter-species justice in Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). In addition, Sengupta is working with the Transformation Pathways workstream of the Earth Commission (EC).

He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K) in 2018, specializing in computational high-energy physics. He also has experience in theoretical and computational biophysics.

Last update: 25 JUN 2025