nimai senapati

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Dr Nimai Senapati

Mathematical Modeller

Sustainable Soils and Crops

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Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
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+44 (0) 1582 938 295
Email
nimai.senapati@rothamsted.ac.uk
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Biography

Nimai is a mathematical modeller (post doctorate research scientist) at Rothamsted Research, working on two strategic programmes viz. DFW (Designing Future Wheat) and ASSIST (Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems). The main aim of his work is to design and test in silico wheat ideotypes of high yield potentials for future target environments, and to identify key wheat traits for improvement. He is also actively involved in silico quantification of national wheat yield potentials and yield gaps across the UK under current and future climates. After finishing his PhD in soil carbon modelling from the University of New England, Australia, he joined INRA, France in 2012 as post doctorate researcher in ecosystem modelling and worked on modelling of carbon, nitrogen, water and heat dynamics and greenhouse gas (CO2 and N2O) exchange and emissions in/from managed grasslands and grain cropping systems until 2017. Nimai has joined Rothamsted Research at the end of 2017 as a mathematical modeller working on wheat plant (ideotype). He is specialising in modelling of soils, agriculture, agroecosystems and plants. His main expertise is in mathematical, statistical and mechanistic models of soil-plant-atmosphere interface. Nimai is also actively involved in international activities on crop model inter-comparison and improvement, such as AgMIP-Wheat.

Strategic Programme

  • Designing Future Wheat (DFW)
  • Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST)

Awards

  • 2013 – PhD in Soil Science (Simulation of Soil Carbon Dynamics), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
  • 2007 – MSc in Soil Science (Soil Chemistry/Fertility/Modelling), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • 2005 – BSc in Agriculture (Hons.), Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India

Measures of Esteem

Scholarships/Fellowships/Awards

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Ecosystem Modelling 2012-2017 - French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Poitou-Charentes, Versailles-Grignon, France

International Postgraduate Scholarship for PhD Programme (Modelling Soil Carbon Dynamics) 2009-2012 (UNEIPS) - University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Merit Certificate for obtaining the highest overall credit point average of 8.60 out of 10.00 in the M.Sc. Soil Science Programme during 2005-2007 - Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Gold Medal in Master of Soil Science [DR. Narinder Singh Randhawa Medal] - Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Junior Research Fellowship for M.Sc. Programme in Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry 2005-2007 (JRF) - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India

Member 

European Geosciences Union (EGU) & The International Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs)

Journal Reviewer

Environmental Modelling and Software, Scientific Reports, Science of The Total Environment, Soil and Tillage Research, Plant and Soil, Biogeosciences etc. 

Invited article contribution

SATSA Mukhapatra - Annual Technical Issue 2015, 19: pp., 49-58 & 69-82; Modelling and Simulation of Diffusive Processes. Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 293-313.