Nabin Pradhan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

In his role as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Pulte Institute, Pradhan is a is part of the University of Notre Dame's Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. His research employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theories and methods from geography, public policy, sustainability science, applied econometrics and data science. His current research focuses on the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, with particular attention to health outcomes and socioeconomic inequality in lower- and middle-income countries. He draws on diverse data sources, including remote sensing, household surveys, climate model outputs and national censuses, spanning broad spatial and temporal scales. Using computational and data-driven approaches, his work examines how public policies and institutions can address interconnected global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality.

He holds a Ph.D. in environment and sustainability from the University of Michigan and received advanced training in data science and management from the Indian School of Business and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He also participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP 2023) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria.