Prof. Ankit Agarwal
Prof. Ankit Agarwal
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Associate Professor, Department of Hydrology,
Joint Faculty at the International Center for Excellence in Dams
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Website: https://www.iitr.ac.in/~HY/Ankit_Agarwal
Visiting Scientist at GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/agarwal
Web of Science ResearcherID X-6301-2018
Editorial Experiences
Editorial Experiences
Associate Editor for the Journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)
Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier
Associate Editor for Hydrological Sciences Journal (IAHS)
Associate Editor for American Meteorological Society-Weather, Climate and Society Journal
Editor for Scientific Reports (Nature)
Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydroinformatics, IWA
Guest Editor for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) Special Issue: Estimating and predicting natural hazards and vulnerabilities in the Himalayan region
Guest Editor for Atmosphere (MDPI) Special Issue: Emerging Hydro-Climatic Patterns, Teleconnections and Extreme Events in Changing World
Guest Editor for European Physics Journal-B Special Issue: Evolutionary Game Theory
Guest Editor for Water Security Journal for Special Issue Water Security for Sustainable Development
Awards
Awards
2026
Prof. Ankit Agarwal, Professor, Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, has been selected for the prestigious NASI Young Scientist (NYS) Award 2026 by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions and leadership potential in research.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been nominated as a Member of the ANRF National Post Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) Expert Committee for Earth & Atmospheric Sciences.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal, Professor, Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, has been selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bengaluru, in recognition of his outstanding research contributions and academic excellence.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal, Associate Professor, Department of Hydrology, has been inducted as a Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) for the term 2026–2030 at the GYA Annual General Meeting and International Conference of Young Scientists, held in Bremen, Germany.
2025
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been awarded the Life Membership of Indian Meteorological Society.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been selected for membership in the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) for a period of 5 years beginning February 2025.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was selected as Deputy Secretary General of IAHS in December 2025.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been awarded the Young Engineer Award 2025 and inducted as Young Associate by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in December 2025.
2023
Prof. Ankit Agarwal, Department of Hydrology has been awarded the ‘Institute of Engineers (IEI) Young Engineers Award 2023-24’ in Environmental Engineering discipline. The award consists of a Plaque and a Certificate which will be presented during the inaugural session of the 37th National Convention of Environmental Engineers to be held at Himachal Pradesh (Shimla) during September 15-16, 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal, Department of Hydrology, has been awarded the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Travel Grant to participate in the IUGG Union in Berlin from 11-20th July 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been elevated to Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS) by RMets, London, UK for his outstanding contribution to the meteorology and climate field.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been selected as a Young Outstanding Faculty 2023 at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and awarded Institute Research Fellowship for 03 years.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been awarded the 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the European Geoscience Union (EGU).
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Journal of Hydrology (Q1, I.F.=6.787) initially for the three-year duration.
2022
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been selected as the DAAD Research Ambassador for three years (2022-25).
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports for a special collection of Remote Sensing and Climate Change.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has joined the Water security Journal as a guest Editor for Water Security for Sustainable Development.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been nominated as a member of the technical committee for the 8th R&D International Conference on “Global Trends in Water Resources, Power and RE Technologies’’, from 20-23rd December 2022 at IIT Gandhinagar by the Central Board of Irrigation & Power, New Delhi.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been nominated as a selection Panel member for the DAAD Falling Lab 2022. https://www.dwih-newdelhi.org/en/event/falling-walls-lab-india-2022.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been nominated as a selection Panel member for the DAAD Full PhD, Sandwich PhD program.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal proposal has been approved by the DST international division, Indo-Portugal Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation (2022-2025). Project Title: Anomalous Moisture Transport for Hydrological Extremes in a Changing Climate, Portugal coordinator the University of Lisbon.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal (PI) and Prof. Ashutosh Sharma proposal titled “Emerging Space Technology Application for Compound Extremes (STAC-X)” has been approved by the ISRO's Disaster Management Support Programme (DMSP) for 2-weeks training in May 2022.
SYSTA Award by IAHS presented to Prof. Ankit Agarwal by Prof. Sivapalan Murugesen at the IAHS Scientific Assembly 2022 at Montpellier, France on 01st June 2022. https://iahs.info/About-IAHS/SYSTA/2022-SYSTA-awards.do
2021
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been invited to serve as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Emerging Talents in Water Science: Water and Built Environment 2021/22” by frontier in Water.https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29913/emerging-talents-in-water-science-water-and-built-environment-202122
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Hydrological Sciences Journal (Q1, I.F.=3.787) initially for the three-year duration.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has joined the American Meteorological Society as an Associate Editor for Weather, Climate and Society journal.
Co-PREPARE: Collaborative Indo-German PRoject on Estimating and Predicting NAtural Hazards in the Himalayan REgion (PI: Ankit Agarwal; Co-PI: Dean International)
Academic Appointments
Academic Appointments
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Associate Professor in Department of Hydrology
Sept' 25 - present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Assistant Professor in Department of Hydrology
Oct' 19 - present
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Visiting Scientist in Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 4.4 hydrology
Jan' 20 - present
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Postdoc in complexity science research division.
Oct'18 - Sept' 19
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Guest doctoral researcher in complexity science research division under the
supervision of Prof. Jürgen Kurths.
Oct'15 - Sept'18
University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Doctoral researcher at “Natural Hazards and Risk in a changing world (NatRiskChange)” Graduate school funded by DFG.
Oct'15 - Sept'18
Technical University-Dresden, Germany
Visiting researcher at the “Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology, Technical University-Dresden, Germany “funded by DAAD.
Sept'14- Mar' 15
Invited Talks / Lectures (Prof. Ankit Agarwal)
Invited Talks / Lectures (Prof. Ankit Agarwal)
2023
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered a lecture on the topic titled “Multi-scale approaches in prediction hydro-meteorological extremes and teleconnections” on 07 Jan 2023 at NIT Warangal under the Modelling Hydrological Extremes under Changing Climate at NIT Warangal from January 2, 2023 to January 8, 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been invited as a keynote speaker in a conference on rural-urban transformation hosted by the University of Agricultural Sciences at GKVK Campus in Bengaluru, India, from February 1 to 3, 2023. He delivered a lecture titled Constructed Wetland Management in Urban Catchments for Mitigating Floods.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal has been invited as a panelist at the Workshop of the B-EPICC Climate Capacities Project funded by Germany’s International Climate Initiative (IKI), Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Center New Delhi, February 9 and 10, 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered a lecture on “Climate change implications in the design of Hydro and Thermal power projects” in the training workshop “Hydrological Analysis and Planning for The Hydro and Thermal Power Project” organized by the Department of Hydrology from March 13-17, 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered a lecture on “Climate change implications on Eco-hydrological systems“ in the “e-ITEC Training Program on Ecohydrology”organized by the Department of Hydrology from March 27-31, 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered a lecture on Geo & Hydro Science in DAAD PhD Proposal Writing Workshop on 4th April 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited to participate in the ‘International Climate Research Conclave 2023 (ICRC 2023)’ being organized jointly by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India at the IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India on 26th and 27th May 2023.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered a talk titled "Linking Anomalous High Moisture Transport to Extreme Precipitation " at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG 2023) on 12th July 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited by Early-Career Committee of IAHS to delivered a talk on “Academic Writing and Authoring in Science” during the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG 2023) on 12th July 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited by the Institute of Engineers during the 37th National Convention of Environmental Engineers to deliver a award lecture on “Forensic Analysis of Multiscale Dynamics in the 2023 Himachal Pradesh Floods” on 27th October 2023 at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited by the UPES Dehradun to deliver a keynote talk on “Disentangling the Characteristics and Drivers of Compound Drought and Hot Extremes” during the Sustainability Fair 2.0 -International Sustainability Conference on Health, Safety, Fire & Environmental Advances on 30th October 2023.
2022
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited to deliver a keynote lecture on Soft computing in the International Faculty Development Programme on Applications of Numerical Optimization Techniques in Science & Technology, supported by the European Commission under ERASMUS+ credit Mobility Program at the Amity University on 23rd June 2022.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was nominated to participate in the National Workshop cum brain-storming session “National Information System for Climate and Environment Studies (NICES)” scheduled on July 18 – 19, 2022 at ISRO, Antariksh Bhawan, Sadiq Nagar, New Delhi.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited to deliver a keynote lecture on “Network Techniques in Hydro-Climatology” at the i-Connect event onClimate Change through the lens of modelling, AI and ML on 21st July 2022 by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was panelist in the DAAD Panel Discussion: Research & Career Opportunities in the field of Geo- and Hydroscience scheduled on Nov 16, 2022.
2021
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections” during the Oxford Hydrology seminar series at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford on Nov 15, 2021.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal was invited to deliver a lecture on “Multi-scale approaches in forecasting extreme floods and their global connections” at the RISK-KAN lecture series. The Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events is a joint initiative of the Future Earth, IRDR, WCRP and WWRP programs https://www.risk-kan.org/ on 18 August 2021.
2020
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "spatial diversity of Indian Rainfall Teleconnections” during the Hydrology seminar series at the Technical University Munich, Germany on Nov 24, 2020.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Introducing wavelet and complex network-based approach to quantify emerging extremes” at the Discipline of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore and National Institute of Disaster Management on June, 2020.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Wavelet entropy-based evaluation of intrinsic predictability of time series” at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany in March, 2020.
2019
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Wavelet analysis of precipitation extremes over India and teleconnections to climate indices” at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany in December, 2019.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Understanding the scenarios of Hydro-climatic extremes in India” at the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering & Technology, Ghurdauri in November, 2019.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Unravelling spatio-temporal climatic patterns via multi-scale complex networks” at theDigital Earth Project , GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, GermanyDigital Earth Project , GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany in June, 2019.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Unravelling spatio-temporal climatic patterns via multi-scale complex networks” at the Indian Institute for Technology Kanpur in February, 2019.
2018
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Unravelling spatio-temporal climatic patterns via multi-scale complex networks” at the Czech Academy of Sciences in December, 2018.
Prof. Ankit Agarwal delivered an invited lecture on the topic "Multi-scale complex networks in geoscience” at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in October, 2018.
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