Debatosh Partha
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Wayne State University, 2024
M.S., Civil Engineering, Wayne State University, 2023
B.S., Civil Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, 2019
Curriculum Vitae
Hi there! I am Debatosh Banik Partha, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Climate Change Research Group (CCRG) at the Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University. I grew up in the most beautiful and greenest country in the world (to me), Bangladesh. Both of my parents are teachers, so I spent my formative years in a continuous learning environment but made sure I had all the fun as a child playing outdoor games and school bunking! I was always curious about nature & my surroundings, and the mechanism of how natural things perfectly align with each other. Driven by the passion to learn the dynamics of applied mechanics, I did my bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), one of the top 4 public engineering universities in Bangladesh. During my sophomore year at KUET, I was introduced to the fascinating world of research and invested almost all my time in independent & collaborative studies investigating different dynamics of environmental pollution that included heavy metal pollution in groundwater, wastewater treatment & reuse, noise pollution, etc. But I wanted to learn more and dig deep, so I sat on a plane on a cold Tuesday evening in December 2019, leaving my family behind, to the land of opportunities & top-notch research, the United States to start my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on atmospheric science & public health in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where I worked as the first doctoral researcher in HUANG group and received my MS and Ph.D. in 2023 and 2024 respectively. My research interests primarily focus on atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, public health, and their application to community well-being and policy reform through atmospheric model development, air quality analysis, and health risk assessment. I develop and employ chemistry-climate and chemistry-transport modeling like GEOS-Chem and CAM-Chem along with emission inventory analysis (e.g., CEDS), field data measurement, and exposure-response functioning to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic & natural emissions of air pollutants on ambient air quality and human health. Apart from research, I love to drive, go on road trips, go camping, backpacking, hiking, kayaking, eat out, and think & act on the well-being of earth's atmosphere and its inhabitants. 