Vinayak Sinha
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and University of Mainz, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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About
Vinayak Sinha works as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali which is located in the state of Punjab, India since November 2022, having worked earlier as Assistant professor from 2010 to 2015 and Associate Professor from 2016 till November 2022 at the same institute in India, which is an Institute of National Importance as per an act of the Indian Parliament.
He completed his Bachelors in Science (BSc with Honours in Chemistry) and Master in Science (MSc: specialization in organic chemistry of natural products) in 2002 from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthinilayam and subsequently completed a Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Analytical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2004.
He completed his doctoral studies and postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany from 2004-2007 (PhD) and from 2007-2010 (postdoctoral research).
He is currently an expert member of the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee (EPAC SSC), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution, and the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC), a Global Reserach Project under Future Earth.
He has previously served as the first Indian Co-chair (2017-2020) and a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) Member (2015-2020) of the Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study, another Global Research Project under Future Earth. In addition he has served as Editor (Subject: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) for Earth System Science Data, and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES, Nainital), Member of the Program Advisory and Monitoring Committee in Atmospheric Chemistry for the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India, Co-chair of working group (WG1) of the Atmospheric Composition in the Asian Monsoon (ACAM) a SPARC/IGAC activity and has contributed to the Third Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR). In 2018 he was featured among Asia’s leading scientist by the Asian Scientist magazine and in 2016 was awarded the National Academy of Science and Elsevier SCOPUS’s NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2016: in the subject area of Earth, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences for excellence in research. As the Convener and Founder Head he contributed significantly to establishing the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at IISER Mohali.
His current research is focused on ensuring more sustainable interactions with our environment through evidence-based understanding of emissions, atmospheric chemistry and air quality feedbacks as well as source apportionment of gases and fine mode aerosol in megacities through field studies. The investigations combine experimental tools such as proton transfer reaction mass spectrometers, gas chromatography and spectroscopic techniques with satellite remote sensed data, chemical box models and chemical transport models for comprehensive understanding. He set up the state-of-the-art IISER Mohali Central Atmospheric Chemistry facility in the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plain where atmospheric composition and meteorology measurements for >100 chemical and physical parameters including VOCs at ultra-trace level (ppt-ppb) are being made continuously since 2011. Ozone chemistry, hydroxyl radical reactivity, molecular chemical fingerprinting of air-pollution sources, volatile organic compounds, mass spectrometric measurements of atmospheric chemical composition and development of India-wide VOC emission inventories using measured emission factors and updated activity data are some of his group’s recent contributions.
Employment
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali Faculty2010 - Present
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Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie Post-doc2007 - 2010
Education
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Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and University of Mainz Ph.D2004 - 2007
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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi M.Tech (Analytical Chemistry)2002 - 2004
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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning BS-MS (Chemistry)1997 - 2002
Projects & Funding
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Publications (143)
- Chemical Composition of Atmospheric Brown Carbon From the Indo‐Gangetic Plain: Evidence of Near‐Infrared Absorption Save
- Investigation of factors that drive the extremely high summertime ozone pollution over the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plain using in-situ measurements and a chemical box model Save
- Implementation and Evaluation of an Observation-Constrained Secondary Organic Aerosol Parameterization in MOZART–GOCART Chemistry in WRF-Chem Save
- Supplementary material to "Implementation and Evaluation of an Observation-Constrained Secondary Organic Aerosol Parameterization in MOZART–GOCART Chemistry in WRF-Chem" Save
- A Novel Combinatorial Approach of Volatile Organic Compound Tracers, Low-Cost Sensors, and Source-Receptor Modeling for Spatial Identification and Quantification of Natural and Anthropogenic Sources of Criteria Air Pollutants: Case Study from the Indo-Ga… Save
- Chemical Characterization of Brown Carbon Aerosol Sampled in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Area. Save
- Global retrieval of TROPOMI tropospheric HCHO and NO2 columns with improved consistency based on the updated Peking University OMI NO2 algorithm Save
- Indian Land Carbon Sink Estimated from Surface and GOSAT Observations Save
- Reactive chlorine-, sulfur-, and nitrogen-containing volatile organic compounds impact atmospheric chemistry in the megacity of Delhi during both clean and extremely polluted seasons Save
- Biomass-burning sources control ambient particulate matter, but traffic and industrial sources control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and secondary-pollutant formation during extreme pollution events in Delhi Save