Stella Jes Varghese

Dr. Stella Jes Varghese is a committed climate scientist with extensive expertise in climate change and monsoon variability. She completed her PhD in Science from CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, Bengaluru under AcSIR. Stella holds an MSc in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences from University of Hyderabad. She earned her BSc in Physics Honours from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Most recently, Stella served as a Research Associate at University of Hyderabad, where she worked on modeling the Indian summer monsoon and its variability over the last millennium. Prior to this, she was awarded the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) National Post Doctoral Fellowship, during which she researched future changes in extreme rainfall events during the Indian summer monsoon using CMIP6 models.

Her research interests include global climate modeling, climate change projections, extreme weather events, monsoon variability, and impact assessment. She has published several research articles and contributed to book chapters on climate change and its impacts. She is also an active peer-reviewer for many journals.