• Developing carbon credit projects under NBS, and Improved Cookstoves • Leading a products development (sustainability, agriculture and climate) on web2 and web3 • Managing a team of researchers, software developers, data scientist, business and marketing • Leading and Managing Cross Country Team for Precision Agriculture, Circular Economy, ESG Reporting, Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability.
Founder, COO and Chief R&D (18/06/2021-24/08/2022) Global Farm Solutions Inc. Ontario, Canada • Managed a product from ideation to proof of concept (POC) in AgTech • Conceptualised a couple of products in food system domains that includes agriculture, forestry and climate • Worked on ESG and achieving SDGs including calculating GHGs under scope 1, 2 and 3 • Led operations and hired 50+ people team including co-founders .
Principal Agri-Researcher (Team Lead) (01/02/2021-04/05/2022 Fasal-Wolkus Technology, Bengaluru, KA, India. ● Led Agri-Research Team with a diverse (agronomy, entomology, pathology, physiology, plant genetics and breeding) background ● Worked with interdisciplinary & multidisciplinary teams to develop solutions for precision agriculture ● Developed and reviewed predictive models (irrigation and pests for several vegetables, fruit and timber trees etc.) ● Developed a method for irrigation scheduling (irrigation calculator) and quick soil texture analysis ● Developed an SOP for IoT device installation for annual, perennial horticultural crops and timber trees ● Designed and developed an insertion tool for soil moisture sensor (Irrometer Watermark) installation ● Developed and reviewed validation protocols for varieties of pests and irrigation management for multiple crops ● Developed experimental design to conduct a variety of research for several types of crops i.e. fruit trees, vegetables, timber trees, forage and cereals etc. for multinational companies in collaboration with Fasal ● Closely worked with product and business team(helped them develop unique products and generate more than US$10M .
Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2018-09/2020) University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Quebec, Canada
• Established two poplar plantations over 10 hybrid poplar clones in boreal regions of Canada to study the impact of climate change in future environmental changes to achieve the goal of food and energy security such as biomass production, ecological changes and sustainability • Co-supervising university students (bachelors and masters) and mentoring summer research assistants • Executing/conducting experiments in field (inventory and collecting soil and leaf samples) and lab setup (prepared soil samples for elemental analysis including pH and performed soil test) • Analyzed complex dataset to study the impact of random and fixed factors and developing models for growth and of hybrid poplar clones in Canada • Managing projects, writing grants, research articles, technical reports and presenting output of studies in conferences (national and international).
Biologist/Researcher (04/08/2011-31/12/2018) Global Change Research Institute Brno, Czech Republic: CzechGlobe Center for the Study of Global Climate Change Impact
• Developed project to study the belowground biomass production and root architecture in annual field crops and poplar clones under elevated CO2 and drought condition • Measured impact of environmental factors on production and morphological characteristics on model plants, fields and woody crops • Quantified leaf area index in different canopies and measured physiological parameters of plants such as photosynthesis and transpiration using chlorophyll fluorescence and gas-exchange techniques • Output of the studies published in peer review journals.
Ph.D. in Forest Ecology (28/042017) Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
CERTIFICATE & TRAINING
• GIS & GPS Certificate Course- Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, ISRO (NRSC), India • 4th Euro-Coppice Training School- “Coppice Management, Biodiversity and Services”. Organized by the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in cooperation with the Forestry District of Rhineland-Palatinate Boppard, Germany • Euro-Coppice STSM (Short Term Scientific Missions)- Plant & Vegetation Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium. • Completed two months Erasmus practical traineeship-Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium • Attended Ecophysiology Techniques Workshop-Lisbon, Portugal organized by Cambridge University of London • Attended LI-COR Eddy covariance training course from university of BOKU, Vienna, Austria • Completed 4 months internship/thesis work-Food Technology Center, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
GRANTS & AWARDS
• Cost Action from European Union (EU) for training school in Latvia • Cost Action EU for summer training school in Germany • Cost Action EU for short term scientific mission in Belgium • Erasmus Plus from Erasmus EU for an exchange research for two months at University of Antwerp, Belgium
SKILLS
• Entrepreneurship and Startup Management • Team Leadership and Interdisciplinary Collaboration • Project Management and Grant Writing • Product Development and Innovation • AgTech and ClimateTech: Profound understanding of Agricultural Technology (AgTech) and ClimateTech, with the ability to leverage technology for sustainable farming and climate solutions; Internet of Things (IoT), Satellite and Sensor Technology • Carbon Market and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) • Data Science and Analytics • Marketing and Business Development • Research and Development • Technical Writing and Scientific Communication • Hiring • Languages (Fluent in English, Native Hindi, Conversational in French and Czech)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed articles Berhongaray, G., Tripathi, A.M., et al. (2023). Soil water availability affects the vertical distribution of fine roots in poplar short rotation coppice. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3117896/v1.
Das, V., Tripathi, A.M., et al. (2020). Cobalt-doped CaO catalyst synthesized and applied for algal biodiesel production. Renewable Energy 161, 1110-1119.
Tripathi, A.M*., et al. (2018). Water availability influences allocation of nutrients and metals in short rotation poplar plantation. Biomass and Bioenergy, 116, 151-160.
Tripathi, A.M*., et al. (2018). The Evaluation of Radiation Use Efficiency and Leaf Area Index Development for the Estimation of Biomass Accumulation in Short Rotation Poplar and Annual Field Crops. Forests, 9(4), p.168.
Orság, M., Fischer, M., Tripathi, A.M., et al. (2018). Sensitivity of short rotation poplar coppice biomass productivity to the throughfall reduction–Estimating future drought impacts. Biomass and Bioenergy, 109, pp.182-189.
Fischer, M., Zenone, T., Trnka, M., Orság, M., Montagnani, L., Ward, E.J., Tripathi, A.M et al. (2017). Water requirements of short rotation poplar coppice: Experimental and modelling analyses across Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Singh, M.G., Chanraveer, Tripathi, A.M. (2017). Isolation and screening of lipase production microroganisms from natural sources. Indian Journal of Ecology, 44(1):19-23.
Kumar, V., Tripathi, A.M. et. al. (2016) Tree or shrub Jatropha curcas L.: Biofuel and Potential Herb. Journal of Biofuels 7(2):89-100.
Tripathi, A.M*. et al. (2016) Evaluation of indirect measurement method of seasonal patterns of leaf area index in a high-density short rotation coppice culture of poplar. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 64: 549- 556.
PROJECTS DEVELOPED
• Advancing Climate Resilience and Mitigation in Agriculture through Mechanistic AI Simulation and IoT Technologies, AgMission, USA , 2023
Developing an advanced IoT and blockchain integrated operating system for crop and carbon monitoring and management from farm to end user, Activate Fellowshp, USA 2022
Global climate change impact and mitigation using hybrid poplar plantations in short rotation coppice management postdoc project for Banting Fellowship, Canada, 2018
A global analysis of forest canopy structure using PCL (Portable Canopy LIDAR) with Geoffrey Parker (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA), 2017
Facilitating a multi-faceted extension approach for promoting agroforestry as sustainable and climate resilient land use system in Gujarat, India, 2017
Study and documentation of local microclimate and human comfort in urban green infrastructure (EPA, USA), 2017
The role of vegetation types for ground water quality improvement in river floodplains: a case study, 2017
Study and Documentation of Agroforestry Practices in Gujarat, 2016