12:30pm - 1:30pm GMT
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Forty-fourth RECLAIM/GREENIN Webinar - Urban forestry and climate adaption & the Indoor Green Environment
Free
Online
Agenda
| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| 12.30pm - 12:35pm | Welcome Prof Prashant Kumar and RECLAIM Team |
| 12.35pm - 12:55pm | Urban forestry and climate adaption in Birmingham and the West Midlands Dr Emma Ferranti, Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at University of Birmingham |
| 12.55pm - 1:15pm | Greening the Indoors: Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability Dr Sumit K. Mishra, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India |
| 1:15pm - 1:25pm | Q&A |
| 1.25pm - 1:30pm | Announcement of next webinar and close |
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Dr Emma Ferranti
Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at University of Birmingham
Biography
- Emma conducts interdisciplinary research connecting infrastructure, the built environment, and green infrastructure. Current projects includes WM-Adapt, the pan-EU adaptation project, Carmine, WM-Net Zero, Road to Net Zero and the Healthy Low-carbon Transport Hub (HLTH). She is lead Infrastructure author for the Climate Change Risk Assessment Technical Report (CCRA4) and serves on the UNECE Inland Transport Committee’s climate adaptation group.
An advocate for urban trees, Emma co-facilitates the Trees and Design Action Group, curating the Seminar Series and developing practitioner resources. She serves on the Foresty and Woodlands Advisory Committee and Urban-FWAC and chairs the Birmingham Tree Board.
Dr Sumit K. Mishra
Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India:
Biography
- Dr. Mishra earned an M.Sc. in Physics from Lucknow University, an M.Tech. in Atmospheric Physics from Pune University and IITM Pune, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Civil Engineering) from IIT Kanpur. He joined CSIR-National Physical Laboratory in 2009 as a scientist and is now Senior Principal Scientist. He has been a visiting researcher at Tokai University, Japan, and worked with Prof. V. Ramanathan at SCRIPPS, UC San Diego under an IUSSTF fellowship (2012-13). Dr. Mishra received the CSIR Young Scientist Award (2014) and is a member of BIS and CIPM committees on climate and environment.
His research focuses on atmospheric particle characterization, air quality, and climate impacts, alongside developing lightweight pollution monitoring instruments for airborne platforms. He has published extensively in reputed journals and contributed to books and international reports.
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