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Sanchari Thakur

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

Geo informatics, Remote sensing, Subsurface Exploration
Department of Civil Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science,
Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Chamber: 1212-I
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Education

  • B.E. Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2010 - 14)
  • M.Tech. Geoinformatics and Natural Resources Engineering, CSRE, IIT Bombay (2014 - 16)
  • PhD in Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy (2016 - 20)
  • Post-doctoral Fellow at Remote Sensing Lab, University of Trento, Italy (2020 - 24)

Brief Bio

Dr. Sanchari Thakur  earned her B.E. (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani (Hyderabad Campus), graduating with 9.64 CGPA, followed by an M.Tech. in Geoinformatics and Natural Resources Engineering from IIT Bombay, where she was the top rank holder and recipient of the Institute Silver Medal. She completed her Ph.D. in Remote Sensing at the University of Trento, Italy, and subsequently worked there as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow on several international radar sounder projects for ESA, NASA and the Italian Space Agency. She was part of the PI-team designing the radar sounders RIME for the Jupiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the moons of Jupiter and the SRS for the EnVision mission to Venus. 

Her research focuses on subsurface exploration of terrestrial and planetary environments using radar sounders and remote sensing techniques, with applications ranging from cryosphere studies of the polar ice caps, groundwater exploration, mineral resources and hydro-geology. Currently she holds the DST-awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Research grant for five years, under which she aims to design a satellite mission for subsurface exploration of the targets in the Indian subcontinent and test its prototype on an airborne platform.