Postdoctoral Researcher
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße
52428 Jülich
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems (ICE)
Troposphere (ICE-3)
Building 05.2 / Room 3054
2025 - current: PostDoc, "Reactive Trace Substances/Energy-related Emissions", Forschungszentrum Jülich, IEK-8/ICE-3
2025: Envirotech G D Agrawal Award
2020 - 2023: Prime Minister's Research Fellow, Govt. of India, IIT Kanpur
2019 - 2025: Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. Title: "Comparison and integration of offline and online techniques for source identification of winter-time Water-soluble Organic Aerosols in Delhi and their implications on human health"
Bhowmik, H. S., Naresh, S., Bhattu, D., Rastogi, N., Prévôt, A. S. H., & Tripathi, S. N. (2021). Temporal and spatial variability of carbonaceous species (EC; OC; WSOC and SOA) in PM2.5 aerosol over five sites of Indo-Gangetic Plain. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 12, 375–390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2020.09.0
Talukdar, S.; Tripathi, S.N.; Lalchandani, V.; Rupakheti, M.; Bhowmik, H.S.; Shukla, A.K.; Murari, V.; Sahu, R.; Jain, V.; Tripathi, N.; Dave, J.; Rastogi, N.; Sahu, L. (2021) Air Pollution in New Delhi during Late Winter: An Overview of a Group of Campaign Studies Focusing on Composition and Sources. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 1432. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111432
Bhowmik, H. S., Shukla, A., Lalchandani, V., Dave, J., Rastogi, N., & Kumar, M. (2022). Inter-comparison of online and offline methods for measuring ambient heavy and trace elements and water-soluble inorganic ions (NO3−, SO42−, NH4+, and Cl−) in PM2.5 over a heavily polluted megacity, Delhi. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 2667–2684, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2667-2022
Bhowmik, H.S., Tripathi, S.N., Sahu, R., Shukla, A.K., Lalchandani, V., Talukdar, S., Tripathi, N., Sahu, L. (2022). Insights into the Regional Transport and Local Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Delhi, India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 22, 220113. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.220113
Bhowmik, H. S., Tripathi, S. N., Shukla, A. K., Lalchandani, V., Murari, V., Devaprasad, M., Shivam, A., Bhusan, R., Prévôt, A. S. H., & Rastogi, N. (2024). Contribution of fossil and biomass-derived secondary organic carbon to winter water-soluble organic aerosols in Delhi, India. Science of the Total Environment 912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168655
Verma, P. K., Devaprasad, M., Dave, J., Meena, R., Bhowmik, H., Tripathi, S. N., & Rastogi, N. (2024). Summertime oxidative potential of atmospheric PM2.5 over New Delhi : Effect of aerosol ageing. Science of the Total Environment, 920(February), 170984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170984
Bhattu, D., Tripathi, S. N., Bhowmik, H. S., Moschos, V., Lee, C. P., Rauber, M., Salazar, G., Abbaszade, G., Cui, T., Slowik, J. G., Vats, P., Mishra, S., Lalchandani, V., Satish, R., Rai, P., Casotto, R., Tobler, A., Kumar, V., Hao, Y., … Uzu, G. (2024). Local incomplete combustion emissions define the PM2.5 oxidative potential in Northern India. Nature Communications (1–13). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47785-5
Bhowmik, H. S., Tripathi, S. N., Puthussery, J. V, Verma, V., Dave, J., & Rastogi, N. (2024). Reactive oxygen species generation from winter water-soluble organic aerosols in Delhi’s PM2.5. Atmospheric Environment: X, 22(March), 100262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeaoa.2024.100262
Akanksha, Shukla, A.K., Bhowmik, H.S., Yadav, A.K., Jain, V., Murari, V., Gaddamidi, S., Lalchandani, V., Tripathi, S.N. (2024). Comparative analysis of winter Composite-PM2.5 in Central Indo Gangetic Plain cities: Combined Organic and Inorganic Source Apportionment and Characterization, with a focus on the Photochemical Age effect on Secondary Organic Aerosol formation. Atmospheric Environment, 120827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120827
Hao, Y., Strähl, J., Khare, P., Cui, T., Schneider-Beltran, K., Qi, L., Wang, D., Top, J., Surdu, M., Bhattu, D., Bhowmik, H. S., Vats, P., Rai, P., Kumar, V., Ganguly, D., Szidat, S., Uzu, G., Jaffrezo, J. L., Elazzouzi, R., … Daellenbach, K. R. (2025). Transported smoke from crop residue burning as the major source of organic aerosol and health risks in northern Indian cities during post-monsoon. Environment International, 202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109583
Lalchandani, V., Tripathi, S. N., Srivastava, D., Mishra, G., Thamban, N. M., Mishra, S., Tripathi, N., Wang, L., Prévôt, A. S. H., Bhowmik, H. S., Dixit, K., Sahu, L. K., & Gunthe, S. S. (2025). Semi-volatile oxygenated organics and ammonium chloride increasing sub-micron aerosol hygroscopicity, cloud condensation nuclei and PM1 mass in the Delhi region. Atmospheric Environment, 358, 121356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121356
