Faculty Details
Dr. Dev Anand Thakur
Designation
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Disaster Risk Management: Multi-hazard disaster risk mapping, Hydrodynamic flood inundation and hazard mapping, Coastal flood hazard analysis, Probabilistic vulnerability assessment, Socio-economic and infrastructure vulnerability analysis, Accessibility analysis of critical infrastructure, Resilience assessment of coastal roadways and bridges, Compound flooding events, Flood resilience strategies
Analysis of hydro-climatic extremes: Regionalisation and design rainfall analysis for data-poor catchments, Statistical downscaling of extreme rainfall events, Utilising satellite data for hydro-climatic applications
Catchment hydrology: Understanding of various physical processes involved in water balance within a catchment, Hydrological modelling
Awards/Honours
Awarded the Excellence in Doctoral Research Award 2024-2025 for the doctoral thesis during the Convocation 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at The University of Alabama, United States of America
- Awarded the DAAD fellowship (Research Grants – Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees/Cotutelle, 2024/25) to visit GFZ Potsdam as a Visiting Research Scientist.
- Awarded the Institute Gold Medal for securing the highest CGPA for batch 2019-2021 in Master of Technology (MTech) in Water Resources Engineering and Management, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal.
- Secured 1st Rank in Bachelor of Engineering Civil Engineering (2014-2018) in Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore (College level).
- Secured 7th University Rank in Bachelor of Engineering Civil Engineering (2014-2018) in Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum (University Level).
- Awarded the Student Travel Grant to participate in the International Conference on Regional Climate ICRC-CORDEX 2023, September 25-29, 2023, Trieste, Italy.
- Awarded the Student Travel Grant to participate in the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 12-16 December 2022, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Awarded the Student Travel Grant to participate in the Fourth Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML), hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) between 21-23 December 2023.
- Awarded the Best Paper Award during the International Conference on Climate and Weather-Related Extremes- New Dimensions, challenges, and solutions (ICCWE2022), Sep. 19-20, 2022, IIT Roorkee, India.
- Awarded the Best Paper Award during the International Conference on Future of Water Resources, January 18-20, 2024, IIT Roorkee
Research Experience:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 16 Jun. 2025 to 11 June 2026
The University of Alabama, United States of America
Project title: Enhancing Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Resilience to Compound Flood Impacts
Funding organizations- Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
DAAD Visiting Researcher Oct. 2024 to Apr. 2025
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
Project title: An Integrated Risk-Based Framework Towards
Understanding Transition Zones in Coastal Multi-Hazard Areas
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- Thakur, D. A., Mohanty, M. P., Mishra, A., & Karmakar, S. (2024). Quantifying flood risks during monsoon and post-monsoon seasons: An integrated framework for resource-constrained coastal regions. Journal of Hydrology, 630, 130683, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.130683 (Q1, Impact factor: 6.3)
- Thakur, D. A., & Mohanty, M. P. (2023). A synergistic approach towards understanding flood risks over coastal multi-hazard environments: Appraisal of bivariate flood risk mapping through flood hazard, and socio-economic-cum-physical vulnerability dimensions. Science of The Total Environment, 901, 166423. Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166423 . (Q1, Impact factor: 8.0)
- Thakur, D. A., & Mohanty, M. P. (2024). Do disparities exist in flood risks during monsoon and post-monsoon seasons? Comprehending diametric behaviors over coastal multi-hazard catchments. Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8c6d . (Q1, Impact factor: 5.8)
- Thakur, D. A., Shirsath, V. T., & Mohanty, M. P. (2025). Nuisance Flood Risk: Defining a New Horizon in Urban Flood Risk Management through Hydrodynamic Flood Hazard Modelling and Indicator-Based Vulnerability Assessment. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105969 (Q1, Impact factor: 4.5)
- Thakur, D. A., & Mohanty, M. P. (2024). Exploring the fidelity of satellite precipitation products in capturing flood risks: A novel framework incorporating hazard and vulnerability dimensions over a sensitive coastal multi-hazard catchment. Science of The Total Environment, 920, 170884, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170884 (Q1, Impact factor: 8.0)
List of Book Chapters:
- Thakur, D. A., & Mohanty, M. P. (2025). Utilizing Multi-criteria Decision-Making Techniques for Computing Composite Vulnerability over a Severely Flood-Prone Multi-hazard Catchment. In Progress in Multicriteria Decision Making Models: A New Paradigm to Monitor Hazards (pp. 291-309). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Thakur, D. A., Suryawanshi, V., Ramesh, H., & Mohanty, M. P. (2025). Evaluating the reliability of open-source hydrodynamic models in flood inundation mapping: an exhaustive approach over a sensitive coastal catchment. In Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook (pp. 93-108). Elsevier.
- Singh, H., Tripathi, P., Thakur, D. A., & Mohanty, M. P. (2025). Socioeconomic-Cum-Physical Vulnerabilities to Riverine Floods over Large Watersheds: A Comprehensive Framework by Leveraging Shannon Entropy and TOPSIS. In Progress in Multicriteria Decision Making Models: A New Paradigm to Monitor Hazards (pp. 337-350). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.