Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

© E. Elias/BGC

Eldho Elias

Doctoral Researcher

Department Biogeochemical Signals (BSI)
Research group Airborne Trace Gas Measurements
Intern. Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC)

Main Focus

Regional inversion of greenhouse gases (mainly methane) over the Indian subcontinent. This involves utilisation of mixing ratio measurements from both in-situ and remote sensing measurements and modelling of atmospheric transport using the STILT (Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport) model.
Designing of a ground-based atmospheric methane measurement network over India focused on reducing the annual uncertainty in the methane fluxes.
Regional inversions using the Community Inversion Framework (CIF). Currently, focused on methane inversions over Europe using ICOS measurements but will be doing similar study over India using TROPOMI data.

Curriculum Vitae

04/2023 - 10/2023: Research visit at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), Paris-Saclay, France with Dr. Antoine Berchet.
10/2020 - Present: Doctoral Student at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
03/2020 - Present: PhD Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena within the IMPRS-gBGC program supervised by Dr. habil. Christoph Gerbig.
06/2019 - 01/2020: Project Assistant at Greenhouse gas Modeling and Applications (GMA) group in IISER Bhopal, India under the project 'Top-Down Estimation of Regional Sources and Sinks of GHG over India' funded by the Max Planck Society.
07/2018 - 04/2019: Master Thesis on 'Network Designing of Cost Effective Atmospheric Measurements over India' under Dr. Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, IISER Bhopal, India.
08/2014 - 05/2019: BS-MS Dual Degree in Physics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India.