Biography

Dr. Debanjana Das is the Assistant Director of the Center for Research and Education for Promoting Safety (REPS) in the School of Engineering at Howard University. She is an interdisciplinary physical scientist with over 10 years of experience in STEM research and education.

Dr. Das earned her PhD and MS in Atmospheric Sciences, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry with minors in Physics and Mathematics. She completed her postdoctoral research at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining REPS, she worked as a Research Scientist at the NOAA NCAS-M Center at Howard University.

Her technical expertise includes working with large observational and modeling datasets, ground-based and space-based observations, numerical modeling, and statistical methods to study large-scale atmospheric circulation, natural hazards, and their impacts on critical infrastructure and community safety. Dr. Das is a recipient of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Bill Hooke Award for Science and Policy Leadership, and she has published more than 20 peer-reviewed research papers in leading scientific journals. She is also highly active in science communication, partnership building, and science literacy, with a strong focus on fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between scientific and non-scientific communities.