Dr Sreekanth Vakacherla is a Senior Research Scientist at CSTEP. He completed his PhD and MSc from the Department of Physics, Andhra University. He previously worked with the University of Washington as a Project Manager, IIT Bombay as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, CMR Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor, and Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre-ISRO as a Scientist. His areas of interest include air quality and atmospheric aerosol monitoring, aerosol remote sensing, and aerosol instrumentation.