Associate Professor
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
📍 5F2 AB2
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Research Area
Environmental Science
Research Interests
My research group currently focuses on quantifying the sources of ozone precursors and aerosol sources over the North West Indo Gangetic plain using various source receptor modelling tools and in-situ observations. Our group characterizes different low-cost particulate matter sensors and evaluates whether the same can be used to substitute research grade equipment. We conduct source-receptor modelling studies with a range of source apportionment tools. More recently we have shifted our focus towards improving VOC and aerosol emission inventories over South Asia. We also work on quantifying the impact of air pollution on crops and natural vegetation using in-situ measurements and stomatal flux-based approaches.
Internationally, I am well known for for state-of-the art experimental studies on in individual particles, and biological samples using SEM, AFM and NanoSIMS. My work contributed significantly towards three publications in Science (Pöschl et al. Science, 2010, Pöhlker et al. Science 2012, Harris, Sinha et al. Science 2013) and two publications in PNAS (Musat et al. 2008, Pandey et al. 2023).
Since 2023 : Editorial Advisory board member of Discover Atmosphere
Since 2020 : Editorial Advisory board member of Environmental Science and Technology
Since 2020 : Scientific Steering Committee member for the second Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report
2007 - 2011 : Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz
2004 - 2007 : PhD (Dr.rer.nat) in Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2002 - 2004 : MSc Archeological Sciences TU Bergakademy Freiberg
1999 - 2002 : BSc Archeological Sciences TU Bergakademy Freiberg
2008 Best student paper award of the International Journal of Mass spectrometry
2002-2004-MSc studies supported by a fellowship of the German Merit Foundation
G Sharma and B Sinha. Future emissions of greenhouse gases, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds from municipal solid waste burning in India. Science of the Total Environment 858, 2023. URL, DOI
D Pandey, K Sharps, D Simpson, B Ramaswami, R Cremades, N Booth, C Jamir, P Büker, V Sinha, B Sinha and L D Emberson. Assessing the costs of ozone pollution in India for wheat producers, consumers, and government food welfare policies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(32), 2023. URL, DOI
P Chaudhary, S Garg, T George, M Shabin, S Saha, S Subodh and B Sinha. Underreporting and open burning – the two largest challenges for sustainable waste management in India. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 175, 2021. URL, DOI
S Datta, A Sharma, V Parkar, H Hakkim, A Kumar, A Chauhan, S S Tomar and B Sinha. A new index to assess the air quality impact of urban tree plantation. Urban Climate 40, 2021. URL, DOI
H Pawar and B Sinha. Humidity, density, and inlet aspiration efficiency correction improve accuracy of a low-cost sensor during field calibration at a suburban site in the North-Western Indo-Gangetic plain (NW-IGP). Aerosol Science and Technology 54(6):685-703, 2020. URL, DOI
G Sharma, B Sinha, Pallavi, H Hakkim, B P Chandra, A Kumar and V Sinha. Gridded Emissions of CO, NOx, SO2, CO2, NH3, HCl, CH4, PM2.5, PM10, BC, and NMVOC from Open Municipal Waste Burning in India. Environmental Science and Technology 53(9):4765-4774, 2019. URL, DOI
G Mills, H Pleijel, C S Malley, B Sinha, O R Cooper, M G Schultz, H S Neufeld, D Simpson, K Sharps, Z Feng, G Gerosa, H Harmens, K Kobayashi, P Saxena, E Paoletti, V Sinha and X Xu. Tropospheric ozone assessment report: Present-day tropospheric ozone distribution and trends relevant to vegetation. Elementa 6, 2018. URL, DOI
E Harris, B Sinha, D Van Pinxteren, A Tilgner, K W Fomba, J Schneider, A Roth, T Gnauk, B Fahlbusch, S Mertes, T Lee, J Collett, S Foley, S Borrmann, P Hoppe and H Herrmann. Enhanced role of transition metal ion catalysis during in-cloud oxidation of SO2. Science 340(6133):727-730, 2013. URL, DOI
C Pöhlker, K T Wiedemann, B Sinha, M Shiraiwa, S S Gunthe, M Smith, H Su, P Artaxo, Q Chen, Y Cheng, W Elbert, M K Gilles, A L D Kilcoyne, R C Moffet, M Weigand, S T Martin, U Pöschl and M O Andreae. Biogenic potassium salt particles as seeds for secondary organic aerosol in the Amazon. Science 337(6098):1075-1078, 2012. URL, DOI
U Pöschl, S T Martin, B Sinha, Q Chen, S S Gunthe, J A Huffman, S Borrmann, D K Farmer, R M Garland, G Helas, J L Jimenez, S M King, A Manzi, E Mikhailov, T Pauliquevis, M D Petters, A J Prenni, P Roldin, D Rose, J Schneider, H Su, S R Zorn, P Artaxo and M O Andreae. Rainforest aerosols as biogenic nuclei of clouds and precipitation in the Amazon. Science 329(5998):1513-1516, 2010. URL, DOI
N Musat, H Halm, B Winterholler, P Hoppe, S Peduzzi, F Hillion, F Horreard, R Amann, B B Jørgensen and M M M Kuypers. A single-cell view on the ecophysiology of anaerobic phototrophic bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(46):17861-17866, 2008. URL, DOI