Mukund Gupta

Mukund Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, where he has been serving since November 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in climate science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020) and conducted postdoctoral research in physical oceanography and sea ice dynamics at the California Institute of Technology.

His research centers on the coupled interactions between the ocean, cryosphere, and carbon cycle. He investigates processes ranging from global-scale ocean currents to kilometer-wide turbulence and individual sea ice floes. His methodological toolkit includes Large Eddy Simulations, Discrete Element Models, Global Climate Models, and remote sensing data analysis. These approaches allow him to study complex phenomena such as sea ice melt dynamics, nutrient transport in subtropical oceans, and climate responses to volcanic activity.

His recent publications, appearing in top-tier journals like Geophysical Research Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, demonstrate a strong focus on polar and oceanic systems, with emerging themes in climate modeling and Earth system feedbacks. His work bridges observational data with high-resolution modeling to improve understanding of climate change impacts.

• Eddy-induced dispersion of sea ice floes at the marginal ice zone (2024)
• A nutrient relay sustains subtropical ocean productivity (2022)
• Regimes of sea‐Ice floe melt: ice‐ocean coupling at the submesoscales (2022)
• Sea-ice melt driven by ice-ocean stresses on the mesoscale (2020)
• The effect of Antarctic sea ice in limiting Southern Ocean carbon outgassing (2020)
• The climate response to multiple volcanic eruptions mediated by ocean heat uptake (2018)

Mukund Gupta teaches in the CW1 Climate Modelling program at TU Delft, contributing to the education of future geoscientists. He is actively involved in research and has not been indicated as retired, deceased, or former staff. No specific information about advisees, grants, or awards is available in the provided text.

He is affiliated with the Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS) Laboratory at TU Delft, which focuses on atmospheric science, Earth system science, and geodetic remote sensing. The lab supports advanced computational and observational research, and Gupta’s work likely contributes to its mission of understanding environmental change through integrated modeling and remote sensing techniques.