Sriroop Chaudhuri is a professor of environmental studies and geospatial modelling at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He has interests in environmental systems monitoring and modeling, water resources development, and climate change in developing nations. He is the co-founder/-director of the Centre for Environment, Sustainability and Human Development (CESH) at his present university. Sriroop earned his Ph.D. and Post-Doc from West Virginia University and Texas A&M AgriLife Research, respectively. He has numerous publications in high impact factor journals and had his work featured in several popular press articles. Sriroop serves on editorial/advisory boards to several environmental journal/organizations.