Shilpi Samiksha

Analytical Research Specialist with experience in experimental research and data analysis. Detail-oriented and methodical professional successful in developing in-depth research projects. Reliable team player with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

• Usefulness of Stable Carbon Isotope and other Chemical Tracers to Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources of P.M. Particles over a National Park in Central India, 10th International Aerosol Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA, Best Poster Award
• Evaluating the Choice of Primary OC/EC to Estimate Secondary OC, 10th International Aerosol Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Choice of OC/EC ratio in the EC tracer method to estimate secondary organic carbon over a National Park in Bhopal, India: A sensitivity analysis, 36th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• Anomalous Si/Al Ratios in PM10 and PM2.5 Road Dust at Several Locations in India, European Aerosol Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
• Mass absorption efficiency of elemental carbon over Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal, India: Temporal variability and implications to estimates of black carbon radiative forcing, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Best Research Presentation Award in International Aerosol Conference
• Qualified UGC-CSIR NET (National Eligibility Test)
• Qualified ICAR-NET
• Selected for NASA-In-House Training Program
• 2nd Prize Winner in Workshop Conducted by BARC
• Foreign Travel Grant by CSIR
• Workshop by MAX Planck Germany on Green House Gas Modelling
• Workshop on Source Apportionment of PM2.5 by TERI
• 2nd Top Scorer in B.Sc. in Patna University
• 3rd Top Scorer in M.Sc. in Central University of Bihar
• Highest Marks in English in All India Senior Secondary Examination (12th)
• Certificate by AMCAT for English proficiency and data analysis
• Certificate from NASA On Fundamentals of Machine Learning in Earth Sciences
• Certifications from hysplit, GHGs inventorization, machine learning, Source Apportionment

• Report, Climate Vulnerability Assessment for Adaptation Planning in India Using a Common Framework, Shilpi Samiksha; Bihar State Pollution Control Board, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Climate vulnerability and risk assessment at the national level using a common framework, Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
• Research Article, Occurrence and transport of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater streams and its detection and remediation by chemical-biological methods, Sayan Bhattacharya, Kumar Abhishek Shilpi Samiksha & Prabhakar Sharma, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 9, 100221, 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100221
• Research Article, Characteristics of PM2.5 emitted from the combustion of vehicular fuel and solid biomass: Thermally fractionated carbon, δ13C values, and filter-based light absorption, Shilpi Samiksha, Ramya Sunder Raman, JaiPrakash, Annada Padhi, Gazala Habib, Prasanta Sanyal, & Ankur Bhardwaj, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 13, 6, 101443, 10.1016/j.apr.2022.101443
• Research Article, Physical, chemical and optical properties of PM2.5 and gaseous emission from cooking with biomass fuel in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Annada Padhi, Mahek Bansal, Gazala Habib, Shilpi Samiksha, & Raman, Science of the Total Environment, 156730, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156730
• Research Article, PM10 and PM2.5 chemical source profiles including optical attenuation and health risk indicators of paved and unpaved road dust in Bhopal, India, Shilpi Samiksha, Ramya Sunder Raman, Jayant Nirmalkar, Samresh Kumar, Environmental Pollution, 222, 477-485, 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.067
• Research Article, A note on unusual Si/Al ratios in PM10 and PM2.5 road dust at several locations in India, Shilpi Samiksha and Ramya Sunder Raman, Chemosphere, 181, 376-381, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.04.077
• Research Article, Carbonaceous Aerosols and light absorption ability at an urban site of Delhi: Implications for local air quality and climate, Zainab Arub, Ananda Padhi, Shilpi Samiksha, Ramya Sunder, Gazala Habib, Gaurav Singh, Journal of Air & Waste Management Association, 978-1-5108-3192-6
• Research Article, Two-year record of carbonaceous fraction in ambient PM2.5 over a forested location in central India: temporal characteristics and estimation of secondary organic carbon, Shilpi Samiksha, Samresh Kumar, Ramya Sunder Raman, Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 14, 473–480, 10.1007/s11869-020-00951-2