Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

CSP Ojha

CSP Ojha
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, India

Biography

Dr. C.S.P.Ojha, PhD (Imperial College, London ) is a Professor in Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee since 2004. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience in the area of water resources and environmental engineering. He has coauthored about one hundred seventy five journal publications, twenty five book chapters and authored/edited about half a dozen books. He has supervised more than three dozen Phd students. He has beenrecipient of  Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2001, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. in 2008, STINT Fellowship in 2009, Visiting Fellowship of ASCE in 2010 and Senior JSPS Fellowship in 2010-11. He has received research paper awards from ASCE in 2001,2009, 2010 and 2013, and half a dozen research paper awards from reputed Indian organizations. He was awarded BCEEM by American Academy of Environmental Engineering in 2011 and Curtis Visiting Professorship by Purdue University in 2012-2013.

Research Interest

Flow and contaminant transport, root water uptake by plants, irrigation scheduling, hydrologic processes, water resources management under climate change