Research portfolio

Research & projects

Current work spans AI sustainability benchmarking, multi-pollutant water quality, stream-temperature dynamics, agricultural nutrient management and trade-linked environmental risks.

Acquired funding & leadership

Funded projects

Co-Principal Investigator · 2026–2027

OCPC · Bilateral Collaboration Project

Co-supervision of a PhD project on multi-pollutant, spatially explicit water-quality modelling from historical evolution to future scenario assessment.

Co-Principal Investigator · 2026–2028

In4Nile · Nile River Basin

Co-supervision of a PhD project on multi-pollutant, spatially explicit water-quality modelling across the Nile basin.

Research scientist contributions

Current & recent project work

Research Scientist · 2025–2028

FluSeeQ

Stream-temperature dynamics and hydrologic forecasting across Germany to support climate-adaptation assessment.

Stream temperatureHydrologyClimate adaptation
Research Scientist · 2025–2027

AquaSub

Satellite-informed modelling approaches to predict river-temperature dynamics and assess implications for aquatic ecosystems in Germany.

Remote sensingRiver temperatureAquatic systems
Researcher · 2023–2024

C-Narmada

Assessment of agricultural practices and nutrient fluxes in the Narmada Basin for sustainable farming and water-quality management.

AgricultureNutrientsWater quality

Grant development

Submitted Grant Proposals

Selected competitive research proposals developed and submitted for external research funding.

Principal Investigator · DFG SPP 2575 · 2026

STEEL

Research proposal submitted within the DFG Priority Programme Agri-Food Chains in Times of Multiple Crises, focusing on the resilience and sustainability of interconnected agricultural production, trade and food-supply networks under multiple and compound disruptions.

PI · Shekhar Sharan Goyal  |  Co-PI · Rohini Kumar
Submitted · Not selected for funding
Co-Principal Investigator · DBU · 2026

BioLandArch-DE

Research proposal submitted to the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), focusing on high-resolution characterization of agricultural landscape architecture and its links to biodiversity and sustainable land management in Germany.

Lead PI · Antara Dasgupta  |  Co-PIs · Shekhar Sharan Goyal & Rohini Kumar
Under submission

PhD research arc

From diagnosis to systems redesign

Three connected studies developed during my PhD, preserved with the original research figures from the previous website.

Project 01 · Scientific Data

District-scale nitrogen surplus in Indian agriculture

Annual district-level agricultural nitrogen budgets from 1966 to 2017 provide a long-term basis for diagnosing spatial change, uncertainty and nitrogen-use performance across Indian croplands.

Nitrogen budgetDistrict scale1966–2017Open data

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District-scale nitrogen surplus patterns in India
Long-term district nitrogen-surplus patterns across India.

Project 02 · Communications Earth & Environment

Indian interstate trade & nutrient pollution

This work traces nitrogen and phosphorus surpluses embedded in interstate crop flows, showing how agricultural trade can relocate environmental burdens toward major food-production hubs.

Trade networksNitrogenPhosphorusEnvironmental footprints

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Interstate cereal trade networks for rice and wheat
Interstate cereal trade networks and nutrient flows.

Project 03 · Nature Communications

Crop restructuring for lower environmental costs

This study evaluates agricultural restructuring pathways that jointly account for nutrients, water, greenhouse gases, economics and interstate trade while maintaining food-production constraints.

Crop restructuringWaterNitrogenGHGTrade

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Environmental co-benefits of nitrogen focused crop restructuring
Environmental and socio-economic co-benefits of crop restructuring.

Research synthesis

A connected programme

Overview of Shekhar Sharan Goyal research programme
Research overviewFrom agricultural nutrient pollution to trade networks and sustainability-oriented restructuring.