ABOUT
Himalayan Permafrost Consortium (HiPERC) is an international collaboration of researchers and institutions focused on studying permafrost in the Himalayan region. HiPERC aims to advance scientific understanding of permafrost and its role in the Himalayan cryosphere, as well as to provide information on the implications of permafrost degradation for water resources, infrastructure, and society. The consortium brings together researchers from diverse fields, including glaciology, geography, geophysics, hydrology, and social sciences, to facilitate interdisciplinary research on permafrost. HiPERC intends to collaborate with local communities and stakeholders to ensure that research findings are useful and relevant to the region's development and sustainability.
Intact Rockglacier near Kibber. PC- Soumik Das
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Prof. Milap C Sharma
Team Leader
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Prof. Lewis Owen
Advisor
His research and teaching focus on understanding the nature and dynamics of Quaternary paleoenvironmental change, landscape evolution, environmental geology, and natural hazards along active plate margins. He has concentrated his efforts on two major geologic-geographic regions: 1) the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen; and 2) the western Cordilleras of North and South America. This is because these regions provide some of the best natural laboratories for understanding the dynamics of geomorphic, tectonic and climatic processes. Ultimately, they provide analogues for understanding the evolution of many ancient plate boundaries.
Prof. Marcus Nüsser
Advisor
His research interests include mountain and glacier research, development research, human-environmental interaction, political ecology, socio-hydrology, land use systems, resource management and land degradation in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Simon Cook
Advisor
A geoscientist interested in Glaciology and Alpine Geomorphology, much of his work focuses on understanding the mechanisms that shape landscapes (including glacial, fluvial and mass movement processes) and geohazards in mountain environments (including landslides and outburst floods).
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Dr. Pankaj Kumar
IUAC
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Dr. Susanne Schmidt
SAI-Uni Heidelberg
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Dr. Pavitra V Kumar
IUAC
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Dr. Atul K Singh
IUAC
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Soumik Das
PhD Candidate
PhD candidate working on Periglacial landscapes of High altitude Arid landscapes of the Himalayas. His primary focus is to see the dynamics of Permafrost and Rock glaciers in the trans-Himalayan region of Spiti and Ladakh, using both traditional survey techniques and space-borne satellite imageries.
Dagmar Brombierstäudl
PhD Candidate
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Elora Chakraborty
PhD Candidate
She works in reconstructing event chronology in the Higher Himalayas using Dating techniques and stratigraphy
Lucia Manatschal-Riedener
PhD Candidate
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