Jayajit Chakraborty

Jayajit Chakraborty is a Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and M.S. in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Iowa. His research focuses on environmental justice, climate justice, disability justice, and disaster vulnerability, employing GIS and mixed-methods approaches.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geography, University of Iowa
• M.S. in Urban & Regional Planning, University of Iowa

Research Interests:

• Social dimensions of climate and environmental change
• Racial/ethnic and disability-based environmental disparities
• GIScience applications in environmental justice
• Food security and health equity

Grants & Awards:

• Funded by NSF, EPA, Australian Research Council, and other agencies
• Recipient of University of Texas System Faculty STARs Award
• NSF Geospatial Fellowship (2021)
• Top 2% cited researcher (Stanford-Elsevier ranking)

Committee Roles:

• National Academies Committee on Geospatial Data & Community Investment
• EPA Science Advisory Board (former member)
• EPA EJScreen Mapping Tool Review Panel (chair)
• Health Effects Institute’s CHERI Research Committee

Labs & Teams: Former director of the Socio-Environmental & Geospatial Analysis Lab at University of Texas, El Paso. Currently leads interdisciplinary projects at Bren School.