Swiss National Science Foundation through University of Lausanne

Transformation of waste management practices and policies in South Asia during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on gender equality and sustainability

2025

Swiss National Science Foundation through University of Lausanne

Qualitative Study on Gendered Waste Work in Alappuzha’

2025

Omidyar Network

Urban Planning for Coastal Cities

2024-2026

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affaires

Smart Cities Mission Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Government of India Phase I & II

2024-2025

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India

Establishing a Centre for Policy Research in STI at IIT-Bombay with a focus on climate change and digital media technologies

2023-2028

Prof. Shishir Kumar Jha

Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC), Govt of Kerala

Technology Solutions for High Water Table Areas

2023-2024

Landscape Analysis for four coastal states on climate resilient WASH Infrastructure-CRCC

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)

2023-2024

Tecnimont Pvt. Ltd.

Circular Economy towards of Solid Waste in Barauni, Bihar

2023-2024

The Duleep Matthai Nature Conversations Trust (DMNCT)

Strengthening Local Governance Deepening CANALPY 2.0

2022-2023

DAAD and UGC

Exploration: New Opportunities in Indo-German Academic Cooperation

2020-2024

Technical University of Munich

Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK

Toward Brown Gold: Re-Imagining Off-Grid Sanitation in Rapidly Urbanising Areas in Asia and Africa

2021-2024

IDS Sussex, UK

Tata Centre for Technology Development

Sustainable Housing in Flood prone Areas

2020-2023

GOPA Infra GmbH

Support to Integrated Wastewater and Septage Management (IWWSM) Guidelines for Kerala

2019-2021

University of East Anglia, UK and IIHS, Bangalore.

Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) through the University of East Anglia

Voice After Disaster

2019

University of Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Centre for Integrated Urban Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Duleep Matthai Nature Conversations Trust (DMNCT)

Strengthening Canalpy Activities to Reclaim Canal Commons in Alleppey Kerala

2019-2022

Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development

Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste management: Learning from post-crisis governance initiatives in South Asia

2018-2022

Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK; Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway; Kyoto University, Japan.

Belmont Forum

Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environment

2018-2021

University of California Berkeley, USA

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Million SoUL Program- Phase II Localization of Solar Energy through Local Assembly, Sale and Usage of Solar Urja Lamps (SoUL)

2016-2018

Dep. Of ST – International Division under Indo-Canadian Impact Programme

Decentralised Waste Water Management: A study of technology and financial appropriateness of water and waste water infrastructure in selected cities of India,

2015-2017

University of Toronto, Canada

Mitacs Globalink Research Award through Ministry of Human Resource Development, GoI

Economic modelling of decentralised waste water treatment.

2015-2016

DESE, IIT Bombay

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust

Solar Urja Lamps through Localisation of Solar Energy

2014-2016

Ministry of Rural Development, GoI through Council for advancement of people’s action and rural technology

A Pilot Project on CTARA-MORD Research in Development fellowship

2014-2016

Indian European Research Network Program

Water Engineering: Normalization, Development and Social History

2014-2015

ANR, Paris

TATA Main Grant

Capacitating local governments in risk

2013-2045

United States India Educational Foundation (Obama-Singh 21st Century knowledge Initiative Award)

Sustainable Indian Water Infrastructure project (SIWIP); a systems approach with Institute of South Asian Studies, UC Berkley

2013-2015

Concordia University, Canada

Centre for International Climate Change and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO), Norway

India’s climate and energy policy strategy in a globalizing world: Changing global structures and international cooperation (INDGLOB)

2013-2015

CICERO, Norway

National Clean Energy Fund, MoEF, Govt. of India

Localization of Solar Energy Through Local Assembly, Sale and Usage of 1 Million Solar Study Lamps

2013-2015

DESE, IIT Bombay

Centre for International Climate Change and Environmental Research-Oslo (CICERO), Norway

India in a globalizing world? The effects of changing global structures and international cooperation on domestic climate and energy policy development 

2012-2016

CICERO, Norway

National Centre for Photovoltaic Research, IIT Bombay

Panchayat planning for Solar Integration in Kerala

2012-2014

Dept. of EE, IIT Bombay