Experience

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• Switzerland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Sustainability

  • Apr 2022 - Present

• Senior Consultant

  • Oct 2021 - Apr 2022



SOFIES

• Switzerland
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2017 - Present



Collaboration with Yale School of Forestry & Env. Studies, University of Minnesota, NCSU, UBC

• Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. Koppal, Karnataka. India

• Project Manager

  • Feb 2014 - May 2017

  Project Manager: Experimental Interventions to Facilitate Clean Cookstove Adoption, Promote Clean Indoor Air, and Mitigate Climate Change. This project has four broad objectives, linked to feasible improvements in clean stove design and dissemination and their impacts on health and climate: 1) assess the acceptability and availability of different stove technologies and fuels, 2) experiment by varying stove price and social interactions among users to determine the impact of these variables on stove adoption rates, 3) measure in situ the impacts of stove adoption on indoor and outdoor air pollution, and climate-forcing, and 4) model the impacts of widespread stove adoption on regional and global climate through a range of scenarios directly informed by data from the field. Funding organization: EPA In collaboration with Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, University of Minnesota, North Carolina State University, University of British Columbia, and Samuha, Bangalore, India. Show less



Collaboration with Ghent University, University of Minnesota

• Bengaluru Area, India

• Independent Researcher

  • Nov 2013 - Mar 2014

  Project Management and Data collection: 'Applicability of a noise-based model to estimate in-traffic exposure to black carbon and particle number concentrations in Bangalore City.' A collaborative research study with Ghent University, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University and University of Minnesota. Project Management and Data collection: 'Applicability of a noise-based model to estimate in-traffic exposure to black carbon and particle number concentrations in Bangalore City.' A collaborative research study with Ghent University, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University and University of Minnesota.



Collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota

• Bengaluru Area, India

• Independent Researcher

  • Nov 2013 - Feb 2014

  Roadside trash burning is a common practice that is largely unexamined even though it emits pollutants into the atmosphere that negatively affect both human health and the environment. The objective of this research is to make an initial examination of characteristics of particulate matter (PM) associated with roadside trash burning. In Bangalore India, emissions from a variety of smoldering and flaming roadside trash/refuse piles (n=24) as well as background ambient aerosol samples (n=6) were collected for fine particulate matter (particles having diameters less than 2.5 m), which were analyzed for organic and elemental carbon (OC/EC), water- and methanol- soluble brown carbon, and toxicity (i.e. redox activity, measured according to the DTT assay). In collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Minnesota. Show less



Resource Optimization Initiative

• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Associate

  • Sep 2010 - Nov 2013

  ROI promotes the implementation of concepts and tools of Industrial Ecology in strategies for resource optimization in developing countries through research-oriented projects. As a research associate at ROI I was the primary researcher on a range of projects as well as the project manager for a few air pollution research studies. Sample research investigations: • Project Manager: 'Exposure to Air Pollution in Hyderabad, India', A research project evaluating the Air pollution levels across a rural-urban gradient, across Low and High SES communities in Hyderabad - a collaborative investigation with University of Minnesota Oct 2012 – Aug 2013 • Project Manager: Stove change-out: A "win-win-win" for development, environment, and health? A research project evaluating the impact of the CDM based ‘improved cook-stove’ intervention on stove emissions, indoor and village-level pollution, and health in a rural village, Hire Wadrakal, Karnataka, India – collaborative investigation with University of Minnesota and University of British Columbia. Jun 2011 – Aug 2012 • Assessing potential changes in biomass flows due to India’s biodiesel policy: A comparative Material Flow Analysis of the Jatropha curcas and Prosopis juliflora economies in Tamil Nadu - a collaborative investigation with Yale University. Dec 2010 – May 2011 • Assessing the financial feasibility for safe recycling of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) in Bangalore - a collaborative investigation with University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Nov 2010 – Apr 2011 • Compiling a review on Indian energy policy and strategy: pre and post COP 15 – in collaboration with Megha Shenoy and Tara Parthasarthy. Presentations: Jain, G. ‘Stove change-out: A "win-win-win" for development, environment, and health?’ The International Society of Exposure Science. Lessons Learned: Contributions of Exposure Science to Environmental and Occupational Health. — Seattle, Washington, USA. Oral presentation by Jain. G, 29 October 2012. Show less