Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
https://chaudhary-lab.weebly.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abhishek_Chaudhary7
https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=kOOiIKQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Office
Faculty building, Room-310,
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Sustainability Data Analytics, Climate Change, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Biodiversity Conservation
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland (2015)
Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A (2010)
Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India (2007)
20. Conference grant, ACS Spring 2023, USA (2023)
19. Conference grant, World One Health Congress, Singapore (2022)
18. Conference grant, Uppsala Health Summit, Sweden (2022)
17. Conference grant, World Biodiversity Forum, Switzerland (2022)
16. Conference grant, Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung, Germany (2022)
15. Visiting professorship, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2022)
14. Conference grant, Purdue University, USA (2022)
13. Conference grant, International Conference of Agricultural Economists (2021)
12. Travel grant, International congress for conservation biology, Malaysia (2019)
11. Travel grant, International Workshop on Bending the Biodiversity Curve, The Netherlands (2019)
10. Travel grant, Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme, Switzerland (2019)
9. Travel grant, International Meeting on Science-based Targets for Species, U.K (2019)
8. Travel grant, Workshop on Innovating global fruit and vegetable food systems, Keystone, CO, USA (2018)
7. Travel grant, Workshop on quantitative indicators of food systems resilience, Beijing, China (2018)
6. Postdoctoral fellowship, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2016)
5. PhD scholarship, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2012-2015)
4. Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Scholarship (2012) (declined)
3. Graduate scholarship, University of Cincinnati, USA (2007-09)
2. Erasmus Mundus Masters Scholarship (2007) (declined)
1. Masters scholarship, Singapore NTU-Stanford Environmental Engineering Partnership (2007-09) (declined)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (2018-present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2016- 2018)
Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2012- 2015)
Environmental Engineer, United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Cincinnati, U.S.A (2009- 2012)
Research Assistant, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A (2007- 2009)
7. Initiation grant, IIT Kanpur (2020-22)
6. National research project grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (2017-20)
5. Research grant, The Netherlands Environmental Protection Agency (PBL), The Netherlands (2017)
4. Research grant, Pulse Canada (2017)
3. Research grant, The Nature Conservancy, USA (2016)
2. Research grant, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA (2010-12)
1. Student contractor research grant, United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA (2009-10)
2025
69. Donaldson, J., [….]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (in review). Guidelines for responsible AI use in LCA. International Journal of Lide Cycle Assessment.
68. Song, J., Chaudhary, A., et al. (in review). Life cycle biodiversity assessment of global crop cultivation: framework, advances, and outlooks. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
67. de Ven, D.J.V., [….]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (in review). Beyond “Least-Cost” allocation: Optimising sectoral contributions for Paris-compatible mitigation targets over multiple SDG trade-offs. Nature Climate Change.
66. Rabeschini, G., [….]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (in review). Quantifying dependencies of internationally traded coffee and soy trades on Nature’s contributions to people. People and Nature.
65. Berger, I., [....]., Chaudhary, A. (in review). How to achieve dual goals of sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the semi-arid tropics: a case study for Andhra Pradesh, India. Land Use Policy.
64. Moreno, J., [....]., Chaudhary, A. (in review). Projecting future biodiversity savings under different climate mitigation scenarios. Global Environmental Change.
63. Bidoglio, G., [....]., Chaudhary, A. et al. (in review). Tracing the biodiversity footprints embodied in the global supply chains of agricultural commodities: an example of Germany and China. Ecological Indicators.
62. Stoekli, S., Merian, S., [....]., Chaudhary, A. (in review). Advancing biodiversity footprinting for food-related behavior change. Nature Human Behaviour. Preprint here.
61. Bonfanti, J., [....]., Chaudhary, A. et al. (accepted). An evidence map of the impact of agricultural management practices on biodiversity. Ecology Letters. Preprint here.
60. Cisneros-Pineda, A., Chaudhary, A., et al. (accepted). Mapping trade driven land use change and consequent biodiversity loss due to future global population increase. Science of the total environment.
2024
59. Hayman, D., [....]., Chaudhary, A. (2024). The panzootic spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 Sublineage 2.3.4.4b: A Critical Appraisal of One Health Preparedness and Prevention. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Full text here.
58. Chaudhary, A., Krishna, V. (2024). A quantitative framework for characterizing the current and obtaining a future sustainable agricultural production mix meeting environmental, nutritional, and economic goals. Environmental Research Letters, 19, 074008. Full text here.
57. Bahaveresh, C., [....]., Chaudhary, A. et al. (2024). An integrated inventory of One Health tools: mapping and analysis of globally available tools to advance One Health. CABI One Health, 3, 1. Full text here.
56. Garber, P., [....]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2024). Global wildlife trade and trafficking contribute to the world's nonhuman primate conservation crisis. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, 1400613. Full text here.
55. Chaudhary, A., Akhtar, A. (2024). A novel approach for environmental assessment of road construction projects in India. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 106, 107477. Full text here.
54. Marques, A., Lancker, K., Willemen, L., Schulp, JEC., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2024). Role of Nature's contributions to people in sustaining international food trade. People and Nature, 6, 410–421. Full text here.
53. Chaudhary, A., Hertel, T. (2024). Recent developments and challenges in projecting the impact of crop productivity growth on biodiversity considering market-mediated effects. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(6), 2627–2635. Full text here.
2023
52. Mettenleiter, T., [....]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). The One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP). One Health Outlook, 5, 18. Full text here.
51. Markotter, W., [....]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). Prevention of Zoonotic Spillover: From relying on response to reducing the risk at source. PLOS Pathogens, 19(10), e1011504. Full text here.
50. Hayman, D.T.S., Koopmans, M.P.G., [.....], Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). Developing One Health surveillance systems. One Health, 17, 100617. Full text here.
49. Gumbs, R., Faith, D., Pellens, R., [….], Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). The post-2020 global biodiversity framework must safeguard the Tree of Life. Conservation Biology, e14138. Full text here.
48. Anastasiou, K., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). Conceptualizing the drivers of ultra-processed production and consumption and their environmental impacts: a group model-building exercise. Global Food Security, 37, 100688. Full text here.
47. Cisneros-Pineda, A., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). The missing markets link in global-to-local-to-global analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 041003. Full text here.
46. Chaudhary, A. (2023). Sustainable food systems: the way forward in the Indian context. Indian Pediatrics. Full text here.
45. Markotter, W., [....]., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2023). One Health action for health security and equity. The Lancet. 401(10376), 530-533. Full text here.
2022
44. Chaudhary, A., Akhtar, A. (2022). A template for evaluating cradle to site environmental life cycle impacts of buildings in India. ACS Environmental Au, 3, 94-104. Full text here.
43. Perez-Escamila, R., [....], Chaudhary, A. (2022). Healthy and sustainable diets. Med (Cell Press) 3, 723-726. Full text here.
42. Estrada, A., Garber, P., Garnett, S., [….], Chaudhary, A. et al. (2022). Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction. Science Advances, 8, eabn2927. Full text here.
41. Chaudhary, A., Maier, L., Strassburg, B., et al. (2022). Sub-national assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity and habitat restoration opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5), 054022. Full text here.
40. Chen, C., Chaudhary, A., Mathys, A. (2022). Dietary change and global sustainable development goals. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6, 771041. Full text here.
39. Adisasmito, W.B., Almuhairi, S., [….], Chaudhary, A., et al. (2022). One health: a new definition for a sustainable and healthy future. PLOS Pathogens. 18(6), e1010537. Full text here.
2021
38. Chen, C., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2021). Nutritional adequacy of global food production. Frontiers in Nutrition 8, 739755.
37. Kimani-Murage, E., [….], Chaudhary, A., et al. (2021). An optimal diet for planet and people. One Earth, 4(9), 1189-1192. Full text here.
36. Kastner, T., Chaudhary, A., Gingrich, S., et al. (2021). Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity and human nutrition. One Earth. 4(10), 1425-1443. Full text here.
35. Chaudhary, A., & Krishna, V. (2021). Region-specific nutritious, environmentally friendly, and affordable diets in India. One Earth, 4, 531-544. Full text here.
34. Mair, L., Bennun, L.A., Brooks, T.M., [….], Chaudhary, A., et al. (2021). A metric for spatially-explicit contributions to science-based species targets. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1-8. Full text here.
33. Metson, G.S., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2021). Nitrogen and the food system. One Earth, 4(1), 3-7. Full text here.
2020
32. Ramesh, R., Kalin, L., Hantush, M., Chaudhary, A. (2020). A Secondary Assessment of Sediment Trapping Effectiveness by Vegetated Buffers. Ecological Engineering, 159, 106094. Full text here.
31. Leclere, D., Obersteiner, M., Barrett, M., Butchart, S.H., Chaudhary, A. et al. (2020). Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy. Nature, 585(7826), 551-556. Full text here.
30. Estrada, A., Garber, P., Chaudhary, A. (2020). Reconciling Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primate conservation. PeerJ, 8, e9816. Full text here.
29. Chaudhary, A., & Tremorin, D. (2020). Nutritional and environmental sustainability of lentil reformulated beef burger. Sustainability, 12, 6712. Full text here.
28. Green, A., Nemecek, T., Chaudhary, A., Mathys, A. (2020). Assessing nutritional, health, and environmental sustainability dimensions of agri-food production systems. Global Food Security, 26, 100406. Full text here.
27. Chen, C., Chaudhary, A., Mathys, A. (2020). Nutritional and environmental losses embedded in global food waste. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 160, 104912. Full text here.
26. Verones, F., Hellweg, S., Anton, A., Azevedo, L.B., Chaudhary, A. et al. (2020). LC-IMPACT: a regionalized life cycle damage assessment method. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(6), 1201-1219. Full text here.
25. Rust, N., Ridding, L., …..Chaudhary, A., et al. (2020). How to transition to reduced-meat diets that benefit people and the planet. Science of the total environment, 718, 137208. Full text here.
2019
24. Harwatt, H., Ripple, W.J., Chaudhary, A., Betts, M.G. and Hayek, M.N. (2019). Scientists call for renewed Paris pledges to transform agriculture. The Lancet Planetary Health, 4(1), e9-e10. Full text here.
23. Chaudhary, A. (2019). Sustainability assessment of Indian diets: A modeling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3, S9.
22. Chaudhary, A., Krishna, V. (2019). Country-specific sustainable diets using optimization algorithm. Environmental Science & Technology 53, 7694-7703. Full text here.
21. Estrada, A., Garber, P.A., Chaudhary, A. (2019). Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction. PeerJ, 7, e7068. Full text here.
20. Chen, C., Chaudhary, A., Mathys, A. (2019). Dietary Change Scenarios and Implications for Environmental, Nutrition, Human Health and Economic Dimensions of Food Sustainability. Nutrients, 11(4), 856. Full text here.
19. Willett, W., Rockstrom, J., Loken, B., Springmann, M., …., Chaudhary, A. et al. (2019) Our food in the Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet, 393, 447-492. Full text here.
2018
18. Chaudhary, A. & Mooers, A. (2018). Terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity loss under future global land use change scenarios. Sustainability, 10(8), 2764. Full text here.
17. Chaudhary, A. et al. (2018). Nutritional Combined Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Analysis for Incorporating Canadian Yellow Pea into Cereal-Based Food Products. Nutrients, 10(4), 490. Full text here.
16. Chaudhary, A. & Brooks, T.M. (2018). Land use intensity-specific global characterization factors to assess product biodiversity footprints. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(9), 5094–5104. Full text here.
15. Chaudhary, A., Gustafson, D., & Mathys, A. (2018). Multi-indicator sustainability assessment of global food systems. Nature Communications, 9(1), 848. Full text here.
14. Steel, M., Pourfaraj, V., Chaudhary, A., Mooers, A.O. (2018). Evolutionary isolation and phylogenetic diversity loss under random extinction events. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 438, 151-155. Full text here.
13. Chaudhary, A., Pourfaraj, V. & A.O. Mooers. (2018). Projecting global land-use-driven evolutionary history loss. Diversity and Distributions, 24, 158-167. Full text here.
2017 and earlier
12. Chaudhary, A. & Brooks, T.M. (2017). National Consumption and Global Trade Impacts on Biodiversity. World Development, 121, 178-187.
11. Chaudhary, A., Carrasco, L.R., Kastner, T. (2017). Linking National Wood Consumption with Global Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Losses. Science of the Total Environment, 586, 985-994.
10. Chaudhary, A. & Hantush, M.M. (2017). Bayesian Monte Carlo and Maximum Likelihood Approach for Uncertainty Assessment and Risk Management: Application to Lake Oxygen Recovery Model. Water Research, 108, 301-311.
9. Chaudhary, A., Pfister, S. et al. (2016). Spatially Explicit Analysis of Biodiversity Loss Due to Global Agriculture, Pasture and Forest Land Use from a Producer and Consumer Perspective. Environmental Science & Technology, 50, 3928–3936.
8. Chaudhary, A., Burivalova, Z., Koh, L.P., Hellweg, S. (2016). Impact of Forest Management on Species Richness: Global Meta- Analysis and Economic Trade-Offs. Scientific Reports, 6, 23954.
7. Chaudhary, A., & Kastner, T. (2016). Land Use Biodiversity Impacts Embodied in International Food Trade. Global Environmental Change, 38, 195-204.
6. Chaudhary, A., et al. (2015). Quantifying Land Use Impacts on Biodiversity: Combining Species–Area Models and Vulnerability Indicators. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(16), 9987–9995
5. Verones, F., Huijbregts, M. A., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2015). Harmonizing the Assessment of Biodiversity Effects from Land and Water Use within LCA. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(6), 3584–3592
4. Steubing, B., Suter, F., Heeren, N., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2015). What are the most ecologically sustainable uses of wood? [in German]. Swiss Journal of Forestry, 166(5), 335-338.
3. Chaudhary, A., & Hellweg, S. (2014). Including Indoor Offgassed Emissions in the Life Cycle Inventories of Wood Products. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(24), 14607-14614.
2. Hantush, M. M., & Chaudhary, A. (2013). Bayesian Framework for Water Quality Model Uncertainty Estimation and Risk Management. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 19(9), 04014015.
1. Abhishek, A., Lee, J. Y., Keener, T. C., Yang, Y. J. (2010). Long-term wind speed variations for three Midwestern US cities. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 60(9), 1057-1064.
Have presented research in over 50 international conferences around the world in the past 10 years.
1. Owen, N., Chaudhary, A., et al. (2021). Conservation of evolutionary heritage supports the transformative change required for the CBD post2020 Framework: proposed phylogenetic diversity indicators as a contribution from non-state actors. Submission from the IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force. 2020, Available here.
2. Chaudhary A. et al. (2020). Environmental, nutritional and cost impacts of beef-lentil blended burgers. Available here.
3. Chaudhary, A. et al. (2018). Sustainable and Equitable Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Productivity and Consumption are Needed to Achieve Global Nutrition Security. Position paper from workshop organized by Aspen Global Change Institute at Keystone, Colorado, USA. Available here.
4. Abell, R., et al. (2017). Beyond the Source: The Environmental, Economic and Community Benefits of Source Water Protection. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA. Available here.
5. Chaudhary, A., et al. (2016). Potential species loss from land use. LC-Impact methodology for LCA. Available here.
6. Chaudhary, A. (2015). Towards Improved Assessment of Environmental Impacts Embodied in Agricultural and Forestry Products. Dissertation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Available here.
7. Abhishek (2010). The Impact of Climate Change on Air Quality for Midwest USA. MS thesis, University of Cincinnati, USA. Available here.
15. Akhtar, A. (2023). Environmental impacts of infrastructure projects in India. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur
14. Chen, C. (2021). Nutritional combined environmental impact assessment of global food systems. PhD thesis, ETH Zurich (co-supervision)
13. Tangri, S. (2021). Environmental sustainability in defense sector of India. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur
12. Patidar, P. (2021). Land use change and ecosystem service loss in India. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur
11. Singh, A. (2021). Sustainability Assessment of Dairy, Meat and Fisheries Sector in India. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur
10. Navin, N. (2020). LCA of a building at IITK campus. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur (co-supervision)
9. Sachan, N. (2020). Assessment of biodiversity threats in India. MTech thesis, IIT Kanpur
8. Yadav, S.S. (2019). Environmental impact of construction materials in India. BTech summer project, IIT Kanpur
7. Chen, C. (2018). Swiss Food Sustainability Analysis. MSc thesis, ETH Zurich
6.Pezzati, L. (2015). Using GLMs to Assess Biodiversity Recovery in Global Wetlands. MSc thesis, ETH Zurich
5. Catteau, B. (2015). Quantifying human toxicity impacts of common indoor products. BSc thesis, ETH Zurich
4. Messmer, A. (2015). Life cycle assessment of adhesives used in wood constructions. MSc thesis, ETH Zurich
3. Luck, M. (2015). Quantifying the impact of Swiss food imports on biodiversity. BSc thesis, ETH Zurich
2. Hirschberg, J. (2014). Characterizing regionalized land use and land use change flows for forestry products and quantifying their impact on biodiversity. BSc thesis, ETH Zurich
1.Deshpande, P. (2013). Assessment of Pollutant Emissions and Occupational Exposure in the Informal E-Waste Recycling and Disposal Facilities. MSc project thesis, ETH Zurich
Total citations (as of March 28, 2025) = 17650
i10-index = 56
h-index = 36
Lab homepage: https://chaudhary-lab.weebly.com/
ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abhishek_Chaudhary7
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