Dr. Ashraf Dewan

Ashraf Dewan is an environmental geographer who received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Science & Technology in 2005. Prior to joining Curtin, he taught in the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka for more than a decade. Ashraf has developed a strong national and international profile as an emerging leader in multidisciplinary research combining environmental science, climate change, and geospatial methods. In 2019–2020, he was included in a list of the world’s top 2% of researchers and is now ranked in the top 1% of environmental scientists by the prominent academic platform Research.com. Ashraf’s work on the drivers behind, and measures to mitigate, urban warming was featured in a film produced by The Economist, which was showcased at the 2021 COP26 summit in Glasgow. He was interviewed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a story on climate risk in South Asia. Since joining Curtin in 2010, Ashraf’s publication records include two research books, 105 high–impact journal articles, 11 book chapters, and 16 peer–reviewed conference papers. He recently led an international research team to develop 100 plus years of high resolution gridded rainfall product for a data–sparse, but well–recognised climate hotspot, Bangladesh. Ashraf was recently appointed co–chair (for 2022–2026) of the working group Environment and Health, part of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).