Gavendra Pandey is the Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Institute for the Environment at UNC-Chapel Hill. Before joining UNC-IE in March 2020, Dr. Pandey served as a Senior Project Scientist in the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He also served as a Senior Research Fellow in LMEE at the University of Evry, France. He is a postgraduate in Applied Mathematics from IIT Roorkee, India, and holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from IIT Delhi, India. Dr. Pandey is an Air Pollutant Dispersion Modeler with interests in the broad topics of Atmospheric Sciences such as air-quality modeling, Inverse modeling, and aircraft dispersion modeling. He has published extensively in these research areas in peer-reviewed journals like “Atmospheric Environment” and “Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health”. Currently, at UNC-IE, he is leading the development of the dispersion model for aircraft sources, on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration.