Abhishek Dixit
Gandhinagar, Gujarat| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowships |
| Project Title: | Investigating river response to mass waste: Implications for flood risk in a warming Himalaya |
| Field of Study: | Earth Sciences |
| Home Institution: | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
| Host Institution: | Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA |
| Grant Start Month: | October 2026 |
| Duration of Grant: | Twenty-four months |
Brief Bio:
Dr. Abhishek Dixit is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He earned his BTech in 2015 from JSS Noida, affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, and completed his MTech in 2018 at IIT Guwahati. In March 2024, he was awarded a PhD from IIT Guwahati. As part of his doctoral research, he worked as a guest PhD student at the University of Goettingen, Germany, under the NAMASTE+ program funded by DAAD and the German Ministry of Education and Research.
Dr. Dixit’s research spans fluvial sedimentology, groundwater, glaciers, and oceans, with publications in leading international journals. He has also visited the University of Leeds under the BRAINSTORM project, funded by the university’s International Strategy Fund, to advance collaborations on Himalayan research.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Dixit is studying the impacts of large mass-wasting events, such as landslides and ice-rock avalanches, on river dynamics and flooding risks in the Brahmaputra River basin. His work combines geochronology, remote sensing, and numerical simulations to evaluate the consequences of these events in a warming Himalayan environment.