Ashish Mishra

A civil engineer by training (B.Tech.) with an M.Tech. in Water Resources Engineering, I work at the intersection of urban climate and hydrology. I completed my PhD in Hydrology at IIT Roorkee (2025), where I studied how land-use change and urban form influence urban heat islands and microclimate variability, using a mix of in-situ monitoring, remote sensing, GIS, Python, and Google Earth Engine.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where I will examine how nature-based solutions perform across different urban contexts and how their social and ecological outcomes can be optimised for more climate-resilient cities.

Going forward, I want to keep my work practical: identify drivers of changing microclimates (heat, land cover, surface materials, vegetation), quantify implications for thermal comfort and infrastructure, and develop clear, reproducible indicators and maps that can support real planning and engineering decisions.