Hello!
I am an ecological economist and political ecologist.
I am currently a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Last year, I was part of writing team for The Cost of Growth documentary.
Between 2022 and 2024, I was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher, based jointly at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Prior to this, I was a guest researcher at the Pufendorf Institute of Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2021 for short stints.
I have a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona where I am a part of the Environmental Justice Atlas team and the Ecological Economics group (Eco2Bcn). I defended my PhD in April 2021 on environmental justice movements focusing on coal conflicts in eastern India. The thesis was called Koyla Kahini, meaning the story of coal in bengali, my mother tongue.
Beyond research, I have been engaged in the scientific community by being a part of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 2022. I was also an elected executive committee member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics for the three consecutive term (2016-18, 2018-20, 2020-22), where I served as the convener of global and national alliances.
I am the co-founder of the Degrowth India Initiative, focused on research, activism and advocacy around degrowth, which aims to repoliticize the debate on socio-ecological justice and equity. I am also a part of the support group of the international degrowth conferences.
I regularly give classes and guest lectures on environmental justice, degrowth, decoloniality, climate justice and postdevelopment, in different universities. I also coordinate and teach a module on Fundamentals of Degrowth in the Master´s in Environmental Justice, Degrowth and Environmental Justice and another module on the Economics of Degrowth in the online Master´s on Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy.
I like to engage in public dissemination of research on socio-ecological justice and alternatives for well being and sustainability, as a regular contributor for Open Democracy, as a contributing editor for Uneven Earth as well as publishing in various other outlets including New Internationalist, The Wire, The Ecologist and Youth Ki Awaaz.