Dr. Ajay Kumar | Faculty Humanities and Social Science - Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun

Dr. Ajay Kumar
Assistant Professor

RESEARCH AREA
Climate change and its mitigation approaches, digitalization and its drivers and implications, sustainable development and its dimensions, entrepreneurship ecosystem and economic development, technology transfer and commercialization, S&T development, indicators-assessment based approach in multiple sectors.

EDUCATION

Post-Doctorate, EDI Ahmedabad
Ph.D., IIT Indore
M.Phil., DAVV Indore
M.A., CCS University Meerut

AWARDS/HONORS

Awardee of “Excellence in Research’ during the Academic Year 2018 – 19 from the DIT University Dehradun (Uttarakhand).
Post-Doctorate Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology (DST) (Government of India) – Centre for Policy Research in S&T Entrepreneurship through Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad during February 11, 2016 to January 05, 2018 (2 Years).
Senior Research Fellowship in PhD from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)(Government of India) during July 23, 2010 to July 22, 2014 (4 Years).
Sandwich Scholarships for Visiting PhD Students from Developing Countries by The Food Security Center (FSC), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany), from April, 2013 to October 31, 2013.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) (Nepal)
Poverty Reduction, Equity Growth Network (PG Net) (Germany)
Food Security Center (FSC), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany)
International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS) (Japan)
International Climate Change Information and Research Programme ICCIRP (Germany)

Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor (Research) in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun. He has rich experience in teaching and research. Dr. Ajay has published several research papers in reputed national and international journals in diversified areas such as climate change, agricultural productivity, projected crops yields and agricultural productivity in different climate change scenarios in India; GDP projection at state level in India, assessment of food security at national and cross country level, estimation of GFSI across economies, assessment of environmental sustainability index (ESI) and its association with socio-economic indicators, measurement and determinants of entrepreneurship ecosystem and its implications on economic development, and implications of digitalization on economic development at national and global level.