NCAOR Staff - Dr. Anirudha Vijay Mahagaonkar

Dr. Anirudha Vijay Mahagaonkar

Project Scientist I
Department Name : Antarctic Cryosphere & Environment Section
Desk No : +91-832-2525636
anirudhavm@ncpor.res.in

Field Of Specilization : Antarctic Cryosphere, Optical and SAR Remote Sensing, Interferometry, Ice-Atmosphere Interactions
Current Research Activities : Ice Shelf Dynamics, Katabatic and Foehn Winds, Atmospheric Rivers, Supraglacial melt and ponding, Remote Sensing Applications in Cryosphere



Academic Record

2020-2025: PhD in Antarctic Cryosphere and Remote Sensing, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2017-2019: Masters in Geoinformatics and Earth Observation, Faculty of Geo-Information science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands and ISRO-Indian Institute of  Remote Sensing, India
2012-2014: M.Sc. in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University



Professional Record

2025-Present: Project Scientist – I, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa, India.
2024-2025: Research Scientist, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
2020-2024: Doctoral Researcher (NCPOR. MoES-NPI Fellowship), Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
2019-2020: Research Fellow at IIT Bombay, India
2014-2017: Research Fellow (MHRD-GATE) at IIT Guwahati, India



Detailed CV