Group Leader: Research Group Sylvanus, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
"KIT-Associate-Fellow" [eligible to be a Ph.D. Supervisor and Examiner (Prüfungsberechtigung)] at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Emails: somidh.saha@kit.edu; somidhs@gmail.com
"KIT-Associate-Fellow" [eligible to be a Ph.D. Supervisor and Examiner (Prüfungsberechtigung)] at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Emails: somidh.saha@kit.edu; somidhs@gmail.com
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Photo credit: Rake Hora/BNN
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Globally, forests are declining due to human activities, diseases, and climate change induced disturbances. My research aims to restore forests and make them more resilient to climate change impacts. I work in urban, commercially managed, semi-natural, and nature protection areas. My research span to temperate, sub-tropical and tropical forest ecosystems. I believe that solutions for the grand challenges in forestry should be developed by inter and transdisciplinary research. Therefore, I connect methods of forest inventory, experimental ecology, silviculture, plant biology, and technology assessment to socioecological, sociocultural, and sociotechnical dimensions of forests.
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Updates
- I won the YIN (Young Investigator Network) Award 2021 and YIN Research Grant 2021 (Euro 20,000) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology jointly with Dr. Claudia Bizzarri for our project on photosynthesis.
- Research grant on regeneration and restoration after forest fire
- A new project on future "biocities"
- Project on mitigation of heat islands' impact in urban areas
- Research grant on increasing resilience of urban forests