Sushobhan Majumdar

Sushobhan Majumdar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Pandit Raghunath Murmu Smriti Mahavidyalaya (Affiliated to Bankura University, India). He is an applied geographer who holds a doctorate in geography from the Deparment of Geography at the Faculty of Science at Jadavpur University in Kolkata and a postgraduate degree from Presidency University in Kolkata. Previously he was employed by the Government of West Bengal as a ‘Group A Officer’ in the “Minority Affairs and Minority Education Department”. He is presently engaged in research on the design and development of environmental geographies. Urban geography, social geography, regional development and planning, remote sensing and GIS, and geography of transport are among his main areas of study. Additionally, he is working on different development projects for the Government of West Bengal's Socio 3 Economic Planning Unit of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). He has more than 50 research papers published in a variety of reputable journals, proceedings, and edited volumes both nationally and internationally. He has already authored two edited volumes on urban related issues. He has held an excess of 30 national and international seminars and conferences, both in India and overseas. He gave guest or special talks as part of numerous national and regional programs. He holds memberships in the Geographical Society of India, the Regional Science Association of India (RSAI), the Institute of Indian Geographers (IIG), and the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI). He has recently been heavily involved in mapping and simulating surface temperatures in Indian metropolises and their effects on the environment.