Venkatraman Srinivasan
Associate professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Address:
151 New Academic Complex 2,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600036, India
Primary email: Email-me
Alternative email: Email-me
Phone: +91 44-2257-4321
ORCID
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Research interests
eco-hydrology, climate change, food & water security, groundwater recharge, contaminant transport modeling and remediation
Education
PhD. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA, 2007-2013. Dissertation title: “Optimality and resilience in patterns of carbon allocation and growth in vegetation under acclimation response to climate change”. Advisor: Dr. Praveen Kumar
M.S. Civil Engineering, Auburn University, USA, 2004-2007. Thesis title: “Analytical solutions for sequentially coupled multi-species reactive transport problems”. Advisor: Dr. Prabhakar Clement (now at Alabama )
B.Tech. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2000-2004. Project guide: Dr. Ligy Philip
Professional experience
Associate professor, Department of Civil Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2025-present)
Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2018-2025)
Research scientist, Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2017-2018)
Post doctoral research associate, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2013-2017)
