IISWBM - Prof. (Dr.) Jhumoor Biswas

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Dr Jhumoor Biswas is a graduate in Physics from Calcutta University, M.Sc in Physics from IIT Kharagpur and M.Tech in Physics and Meteorology from IIT Kharagpur. She completed her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from State University of New York at Albany, USA. She has more than 20 years' research experience in air pollution data analysis and air pollution modelling and more than 10 years of teaching experience in environment management and on management information systems in interdisciplinary subjects such as transport and logistics management, health care management and sports management. She has worked on research projects on environment and energy management sponsored by organizations such as National Science Foundation and Coal India Limited. She has several research publications in reputed international journals.

EDUCATION

CURRENT POSITION

TEACHING AREA

Courses taught in Transport and Logistics Management, Hospital and Health care management and Sports management.

1. Surface water pollution

2. Risk and disaster management

3. Environment management systems.

4. MIS

Work Experience

Professor	Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata	April, 2015	Continuing
Associate Professor	Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata	April, 2012	March, 2015
Assistant Professor	Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata	December, 2006	March, 2012
Research Scientist	Texas A&M University Kingsville, USA	May, 2005	December, 2006
Research Scientist	Ohio University, USA	September, 2003	April, 2005
Post-Doctoral Research Associate	State University of New York, Albany, USA	March, 2003	August, 2003
Post-Doctoral Research Associate	National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, USA	June, 2001	June, 2002

RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH WORK

Prominent Publications:

Era Upadhyay, Jhumoor Biswas, Akhilesh Mishra, Pradeep Kumar and Basant Maheshwari, 2026. Understanding Drought Dynamics in Semiarid Regions: A Multidecadal, Multi-Index Case Study from Western Rajasthan, India. World Water Policy, 12(2), 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.70081
Saikat Ghosh, Zuber Farooqui, Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas. 2026. An Evaluation of Air Quality in Major Urban Areas of India. Environmental Research Communications, 8(4), 045014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae5926
Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2026. An inter-comparison of sustainability performance of selected global railway companies. Social Responsibility, 22(1), 178-207. Print ISSN: 1747-1117, Online ISSN: 1758-857X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-09-2024-0660
Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2025. An investigation of environmental awareness and behavioral aspects of high school students in Kolkata. SN Social Sciences, 5(108). ISSN: 2662-9283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-025-01146-1
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. An Analysis of Key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Metrics in Several Important Manufacturing Segments of India. Indian Journal of Corporate Governance, 17(2), 202-233. Print ISSN: 0974-6862, Online ISSN: 2454-2482. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0974686224127693

Other Publications

Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. Exploring Relationship between ESG Practices and Financial Attributes of Leading Companies. SCMS Journal of Indian Management, 21(2), 124-142. ISSN: 0973 - 3167
Sandipan Chakraborty and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. Role of Paytm to Build a Cashless Economy in India. Journal of Commerce, Economics & Computer Science, 10(1), 25-32. ISSN: 2395-7069
Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. An Assessment of Incorporation of Sustainability Practices in Indian Railways and its Impact on Financial Performance. Inspira -Journal of Modern Management and Entrepreneurship, 14(1), 56-62. ISSN: 2231-167X
Zuber Farooqui, Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Long-Term Assessment of Purple Air Low-Cost Sensor for PM2.5 in California, USA. Pollutants, 3(4), 477-493. ISSN: 2673-4672. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/pollutants3040033
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. ESG Initiatives of Indian Private Banks -A Case Study of ICICI Bank. Towards Excellence, 15(2). ISSN: 0974-035X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37867/TE150217
Zuber Farooqui and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Future of Transportation and Air Quality. EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers. October 2022. https://www.awma.org/ems
Anindita Mandal, Jhumoor Biswas, Soma Roychowdhury and Zuber Farooqui, 2021. A detailed perspective of marine emissions and their environmental impact from in a representative Indian port. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 12(1), 101194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2021.101194
Anindita Mandal, Jhumoor Biswas, Soma Roychowdhury and Zuber Farooqui, 2021. A representative study evaluation of a major port in India. Environmental Impacts of Marine Emissions and Impending Policy Formulation in a Major Indian Port. EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers. Special Issue https://www.awma.org/em
Era Upadhyay, Mugdha Nayak, Jhumoor Biswas, Saikat Ghosh, P. Chaitanya and Manali Dutta, 2020. An Analysis to understand the air quality patterns of north Indian cities. Pollution Research, 39(4), 1061-1073.
Anindita Mandal, Soma Roychowdhury, Jhumoor Biswas and Zuber Farooqui, 2017. An appraisal of emissions from ocean-going vessels coming to Kolkata port, India. Journal of Institution of Engineers (India) Series A. DOI: 10.1007/s40030-017-0238-7
Era Upadhyay, Mugdha Nayak and Jhumoor Biswas 2017. Air Quality Status of Lucknow City, A Case Study. International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, 5 (12), 69-74. ISSN: 2278-0181.
Arindam Dutta, Jhumoor Biswas, Soma Roychowdhury and Subhashish Neogi, 2016. Optimum Tilt Angles for Manual Tracking of Photovoltaic Modules. The distributed generation and alternative energy journal, 31(2), 7-35. A Publication of the Association of Energy Engineers.
Anindita Mandal, Soma Roychowdhury, Jhumoor Biswas, 2016. Performance Analysis of Major Ports in India: A Quantitative Approach. International Journal of Business Performance Management,17(3), 345-364.
Jhumoor Biswas, Kevin Crist, Saikat Ghosh, 2015. Assessment of Selective Reduction Strategies over Northeastern Regions of Ohio using a Photochemical Grid Model-A case study. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 5, 106-119. DOI: 10.4236/acs.2015.52008.
Saikat Ghosh, Jhumoor Biswas, Sarath Guttikunda, Soma Roychowdhury and Mugdha Nayak, 2015. An investigation of potential regional and local source regions affecting fine particulate matter concentrations in Delhi, India. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, 65(2), 218-31. DOI:10.1080/10962247.2014.982772.
Jhumoor Biswas, Kevin Crist, Saikat Ghosh, 2015. Assessment of Selective Reduction Strategies over Northeastern Regions of Ohio using a Photochemical Grid Model - A case study. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 5, 106-119. DOI: 10.4236/acs.2015.52008
Samanta Akash, Saibal Saha, Jhumoor Biswas, Arindam Dutta 2014. Evaluation of impact of shading devices on energy consumption of buildings in tropical regions. Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transaction of American Society of Mechanical Engineers,136,024503, 1-6.
Zuber M. Farooqui, Kuruvilla John, Jhumoor Biswas and Neelesh Sule, 2013. Modeling analysis of the impact of anthropogenic emission sources on ozone concentrations over selected urban areas in Texas. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 1 (4), 33-42.
Aneja Viney, A. Aiyyer, A.Hanna,U.Shankar, Z.Adelman, S. Arunachalam, S.T.Rao, R.Mathur, J. D. Mobley, V. Ramaswamy, V.Kriahna, V.Mallickam, M.P. Singh, Jhumoor.Biswas and E. Upadhyay, 2012. An Article on U.S. India Collaboration on Air Quality and Climate Research and Education. EM magazine of Air and Waste Management Association for Environmental Managers.
Jhumoor Biswas, Era Upadhyayay, Mugdha Nayak and Anil Kumar Yadav, 2011. An analysis of Ambient Air Quality Conditions over Delhi, India from 2004 to 2009. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 1 (4), 214-224.
Jhumoor Biswas, Kuruvilla John, and Zuberf Farooqui, 2009. Impact Assessment of global temperature perturbations on urban and regional ozone levels in South Texas. J. Advances in Geosciences, A-56, 10, 197- 211 Atmospheric Science.
Hogrefe, Jhumoor Biswas, B. Lynn, K. Civerolo, J.-Y. Ku, J. Rosenthal, C.Rosenzweig, R. Goldberg,and P.L. Kinney, 2004. Simulating regional-scale ozone climatology over the Eastern United State: Model evaluation results. Atmospheric. Environment. 38, 2627- 2638.
Jhumoor Biswas, C. Hogrefe, S. T. Rao, and others 2001: Evaluating the performance of regional-scale photochemical modeling systems: Part III-Precursor Predictions. Atmospheric Environment, 35, 6129-6149, Elsevier, USA.
Jhumoor Biswas, and S. T. Rao, 2001: Uncertainties in episodic ozone modeling stemming from uncertainties in meteorological fields. Journal of Applied. Meteorology. 40, 117-135.

Conference Proceedings

Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Practices of Indian Power Sectors- A Case Study of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC). Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in the Power Sector towards Sustainable Development Goals-iPPSDG. ISBN: 978-93-5891-755-0 to be held on: 23rd & 24th June 2023, Kolkata.
Z.Farooqui, Jhumoor Biswas,S. Rouchowdhury and S. Ghosh, 2020. Evaluation of low-cost sensor for PM2.5 Assessment: A case study of California State 2020. Conference proceedings at A&WMA's 113th Annual Conference & Exhibition Online from San Fransisco, California June 29th - July 2nd, 2020.
V.Chandrasekar, C.Radhakrishnan and Jhumoor Biswas, 2018. Assessing the influence of weather radar observations in predicting local air quality over Delhi. Conference proceedings at Second Conference on Radar Meteorology (iRAD 2018) held at National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, India held in January 8th - January 11th, 2018.
Jhumoor Biswas, Anindita Mandal, Soma Roychowdhury and Zuber Farooqui, 2016. Assessment of Impact of Marine Emissions of Ocean-going Vessels in a Major Port in India. Conference proceedings at 109th Annual Conference & Exhibition of Air and Waste Management Association held at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 2016.
Jhumoor Biswas, Zuber Farooqui and Sarath Guttikunda, 2014. Meteorologically Adjusted trend analysis of surface concentrations in Delhi India. Conference proceedings of 107th Annual Meeting of Air and Waste Management Association held at Long Beach, California, USA from June 24th - June 27th, 2014.
Saikat Ghosh, Jhumoor Biswas, Sarath Guttikunda, Soma Roychowdhury and Mugdha Nayak, 2014. Assessment of potential regional and local source regions affecting fine particulate matter concentrations in Delhi, India. Conference proceedings of 107th Annual Meeting of Air and Waste Management Association held at Long Beach, California, USA from June 24th - June 27th, 2014.
Ghosh Saikat, Jhumoor Biswas, Sarath Guttikunda, Kevin Crist and Soma Roychowdhury, 2013. Investigating the local and regional source regions of particulate pollution in New Delhi, using trajectory clustering. Conference proceedings of 16th International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) World Clean Air Congress held at Capetown from September 29th - October 4th, 2013.
Uddameri Venkatesh and Jhumoor Biswas, 2010. Assessing the Dependence between Streamflows and Rainfall in Bhagirathi River, West Bengal using Copula Theory. The paper was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Hydrology and Water Shed Management with focal theme on Climate Change, Food and Environmental Security organized on occasion of Silver Jubilee Year by Center for Water Resources held at Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University at Hyderabad, Volume I pp 462-469., February 2nd - February 6th, 2010.
Jhumoor Biswas, John, Kuruvilla and Farooqui, M.Z, 2008. Modeling the impact of temperature perturbations on urban and regional ozone levels in Texas. IASTED International Modeling and Simulation 2008, Quebec, Canada. Paper number - 620-137.
Farooqui, M. Z., Jhumoor Biswas and Kuruvilla John, 2008. Potential Impact of Climate Perturbation of Ozone Episode over an urban area of South Texas -Paper no: 707-Published in Proceedings of 101st Annual Conference of Journal of Air and Waste Management Association, June, 2008.
Jhumoor Biswas., C. Hogrefe, and S. T. Rao, 2002. Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ozone Production Efficiencies Over the Eastern United States, Proceedings of the 95nd Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association held at Baltimore, MD. June 23rd - 27th.

Conferences Attended

Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2025. Energy Efficiency Measures in Eastern Railway: Towards Net Zero Future, Net Zero Conference 2025 (Theme: Together towards Sustainable future) at Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), August 30th, 2025.
Jhumoor Biswas, 2025. Assessment of Air Quality in Major Indian Cities, Air & Waste Management Association's 118th Annual Conference & Exhibition at Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, New Carolina, June 11th, 2025.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2025. Do Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Activities Influence Financial Performance of Leading Indian Firms?, Air & Waste Management Association's 118th Annual Conference & Exhibition at Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, New Carolina, June 10th , 2025.
Sandipan Chakraborty and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. Impact Analysis of Carbon Tagging with Digital Payments on Consumer Payment Behaviour, 11th International Conference on Sustainability (Theme: Climate Positive World) at Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, November 22nd, 2024.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2024. An Empirical Study to Assess the Pro-environmental Behaviour of the Information Technology Workforce in India, 11th International Conference on Sustainability (Theme: Climate Positive World) at Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, November 21st, 2024.
Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. An Assessment of Incorporation of Sustainability Practices in Indian Railways and its Impact on Financial Performance, International Conference on Recent Global Innovations, Challenges and Trends in Multidisciplinary Research at B.B.D. Government College Chimanpura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, December 18th, 2023.
Sandipan Chakraborty and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Role of Paytm to Build a Cashless Economy in India, International Conference on Recent Global Innovations, Challenges and Trends in Multidisciplinary Research at B.B.D. Government College Chimanpura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, December 18th, 2023.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Intercomparison of Environmental Perception of Two Most Important Industrial Sectors in Post Covid Times, 6th ERC 2023 Leveraging Sustainability through Technology for Agile Organizations at Biswa Bangla Convention Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, September 15th, 2023.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Practices of Indian Power Sectors- A Case Study of National Thermal Corporation Limited (NTPC), International Conference on Innovations in the Power Sector towards Sustainable Development Goals at Biswa Bangla Convention Center, Kolkata, June 23rd, 2023.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Assessing the environmental consciousness of the industrial workforce in India using structural equation modelling (SEM), 3rd International Conference - Sustainable Development at Management Development Institute, Murshidabad (MDI), February 4th - February 5th, 2023.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Assessment of Environmental, Social and Governance Disclosure Practices among Varied Industrial Sectors, 3rd International Conference on Changing Business Paradigm, (ICCBP-2023) Theme: Reinventing Management through Sustainability, Innovation and Analytics at Management Development Institute Murshidabad, (MDI), January 6th, 2023.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2023. Assessment of Impact of Sustainability Practices on Leading Companies' Financial Performance, Graduate Research Meet at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, January 6th, 2023.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Sustainability Reporting in India-A Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), 105th Annual Conference of Indian Economic Association at CMS Business School, Faculty of Management Studies, JAIN (Deemed-to-be-University), Bengaluru, December 29th, 2022.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Assessment of environmental perspective of the workforce in India using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), 2nd Pritam Singh Memorial (PRISM) Conference - Leading the business of the future: Talent, Technology and Transformation in a changing world at Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, November 17th - November 19th, 2022.
Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Sustainability Reporting in India- A Study of ITC Sustainability Reports, One-Day National Conference on Contemporary Issues in Business Education (NCCIBE 2022) at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata, November 12th, 2022.
Jayita Saha, Arindam Dutta and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Sustainability in Indian railways: A case study of application of solar photovoltaic system on a railway coach, Indian Institute of Management, 2nd Pritam Singh Memorial (PRISM) Conference - Leading the business of the future: Talent, Technology and Transformation in a changing world at Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, July 2022.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Intercomparison of environmental perception of two important industrial sectors in post covid times, SYMBICON 2022 - 2nd International Conference (Online Mode) - Neo Business Practices for the Evolving World at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Nagpur, April 4th - April 6th, 2022.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2022. Assessment of Environmental Awareness, Attitude and Behaviour in Key Sector - Education, International Conference on Biotechnological Interventions to Overcome the Challenges of Covid/Post-Covid Era (BIOCoPE - 2022) in Online mode held at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, March 24th - March 25th, 2022.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2021. Air Pollution from the Automobile Industry, 7th International Conference on Environment and Ecology (ICEE) at Jointly - International Foundation for Ecology and Environment, Kolkata; Dept. of Environmental Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; Dept. of Botany, Govt. Kamala Raja Girls' P.G. (Autonomous) College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, November 26th - November 28th, 2021.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2021. Environmental Awareness and Behavior of Workforce, 7th International conference on sustainability and management strategy (ICSMS 2021) at Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, September 30th - October 1st, 2021.
Jhumoor Biswas, Impact of drought areas of Rajasthan: A representative case study, International Conference on Dryland Agriculture, Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Nam S&T Centre, N. Delhi, Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development, Zimbabwe, July 21st - July 23rd, 2021.
Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas, 2021. Environmental Perspective of Workforce Across Industries, International Conference on Business Research and Innovation (ICBRI) - 2022 at Management Development Institute, Murshidabad (MDI), January 28th - January 29th, 2021.
Jhumoor Biswas, Evaluation of low-cost sensor for PM2.5 Assessment: A case study of California State, A&WMA's 113th Annual Conference & Exhibition, San Francisco, California June 29th - July 2nd, 2020.
Mandal, A., Biswas, J., Farooqui, Z. and Roychowdhury, S., Assessment of impact on air quality from ocean going vessels coming to Kolkata port India, 12th International Conference on Air Quality Science and Application, Online Conference Hosted by Aristotle University Thessaloniki, May 18th - May 22nd, 2020.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Chapter titled "Environmental perspective of workforce across industries" in the book titled "Advances in Management Research-Emerging Challenges and Trends", 2023 Authors: Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Routledge -Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 9781032387147.
Chapter titled "Intercomparison of Environmental Perception of Two Most Important Industrial Sectors in Post Covid Times" in the book titled "A Compilation of ISTD 6th Eastern Regional Conference Papers-Leveraging Sustainability through Technology for Agile Organizations", 2023 Authors: Soma Sinha Sarkar and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Learnet Publishing. ISBN: 978-81-957591-5-6.
Chapter titled: "Assessment of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Disclosure Practices among Varied Industrial Sectors" in the book titled "Reinventing Management through Sustainability, Innovation and Analytics", 2023. Authors: Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-93-56403-45-1.
Chapter titled "An Evaluation of Incorporation of Sustainability Parameters in a Public Sector Organization and Their Impact on Financial Performance" in the book titled "Resilience and Sustainable Development", 2023. Authors: Jayita Saha and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-93-56404-13-724681097531.
Chapter titled "Sustainability Reporting in India- A Study of ITC Sustainability Reports" in the book entitled "Contemporary Issues in Business Education", 2022. Authors: Sweta Bania and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Bharti Publication. ISBN 978-93-94779-56-3.
Chapter titled "An assessment of meteorological drought variability in representative areas of Rajasthan" in the book entitled "Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Agriculture in in semi-arid areas", 2022. Authors: Era Upadhaya and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-16-7860-8.
Chapter titled "Life cycle assessment and Environmental Audit: Emerging tools of Environment Management in Business" in the book entitled "Environmental Management: Issues and Concerns in Developing Countries", 2021. Author: Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62529-0_13
Chapter titled "Air Quality Modeling- Why Do We Need It?" in the book entitled "Climate Change: Impact on Air Quality Biodiversity and Agriculture", 2018. Authors: Era Upadhyay, Mugdha Nayak and Jhumoor Biswas. Publisher: Excel India.
Chapter titled "Impacts of Emission and Global Temperature Pertur Air Quality in South and Central Texas" in the book entitled "Environmental Sustainability Issues in the South Texas-Mexico Border Region", 2013. Authors: N Sule, Z Farooqui, Jhumoor Biswas, K John. Publisher: Springer Netherlands. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007- 7122-2. Print ISBN: 978-94-007-7121-5. Online ISBN: 978-94-007-712.
Chapter titled "Climate Change Impacts on Regional and Urban Air Quality in South Texa". in the book "The Changing Climate of South Texas 1900-2100 Problems and Prospects, Impacts and Implications", 2007. Authors: Jhumoor Biswas and Kuruvilla John. Publisher: Kingsville Crest-Ressaca 2007. ISBN: 0979842603 / 9780979842603.

Faculty

Prof (Dr) Jhumoor Biswas

M.Sc., M.Tech, PhD

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