Dr Shreya BANERJEE
Dr. Shreya Banerjee is an architect and urban planner turned climatologist who received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP), India in 2021. Previously, she obtained a Master of City Planning (MCP) in 2016 from IIT KGP and Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) in 2014 from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, India.
She joined teh Cooling Singapore 2.0 project in February 2021. Prior to this, Shreya was an Assistant Professor at TISS Mumbai, India where she taught heat mitigation strategies as part of an urban planning studio course. She employs statistical learning and computational techniques to solve issues pertaining to Sustainable Built Environment with an emphasis on climate risk mitigation, human biometeorology and climatology, energy usage and urban design.
While in IIT KGP, she worked in various consultancy projects such as "Energy efficient intervention for affordable housing” and "Customizing Mass Housing-Adaptive & Flexible Grammar for Tropical Wet and Dry Climatic Zones of West Bengal and Odisha". She was responsible for the research design, literature review, planning proposal, building energy simulation, performance analysis, report and presentation preparation.
Shreya received the prestigious Building Energy Efficiency Higher and Advanced Network (BHAVAN) fellowship jointly sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and US Department of State in 2019 to carry out a part of her PhD research at the Urban Climate Research Centre, Arizona State University (ASU) during the Fall semester 2019. While at ASU, she researched on human biometeorology, CFD simulations and microclimatic field sensors.
She is a registered architect in India. She also has experience working as an Analyst in the globally leading Real Estate Property Services Company. She had published her research in several high impact factor journals and delivered talks on various conferences. With a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry, she is well capable of securing research funding, publishing in internationally recognized journals and conducting research with the potential to create impact. She is also serving as a reviewer of few globally renowned journals.
Research interests
- Outdoor Thermal Comfort in heterogenous urban setting in tropical cities
- Tropical vegetation modelling and efficient landscaping to minimize heat stress
- Statistical modelling of people's perception and behavior towards energy and climate
- Formulating strategies for climate responsive urban planning in high density cities
Key publications
Journal papers
- Banerjee, S. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2020) ‘A meta-analytical review of outdoor thermal comfort research: Applications, gaps and a framework to assess low-income settlements in Indian megacities’, Urban Climate. Elsevier, 33 (September 2020), p. 100641. DoI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100641
- Banerjee, S., Middel, A. and Chattopadhyay, S. ‘Outdoor thermal comfort in various microentrepreneurial settings in hot humid tropical Kolkata: Human biometeorological assessment of objective and subjective parameters’, Science of the Total Environment. Elsevier, 721 (15th June 2020), p. 137741. DoI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137741
Conferences
- Banerjee, S., Middel, A. and Chattopadhyay, S. (2020) ‘Bio-meteorological assessment of outdoor micro-entrepreneurial informal communities in extreme heat- A case of two tropical Indian megacities’, in European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2020. DoI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1160
- Banerjee, S., and Chattopadhyay, S. ‘Improving Quality of Life (QoL) in Informal Settlements of South Asian Megacities- Why Adding Micro-Climatic Dimension with Socio-economic Sustainability is Important’, presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), April 24-27, 2019, at Los Angeles, USA