• Regional climate modelling
• Weather and climate extremes
• Climate risk and impact
• Science of climate change
• Model evaluation
• Land-atmosphere interactions
• Indian monsoons

Dhirendra Kumar, a faculty at the School of Climate Change and Sustainability at Azim Premji University, is a climate scientist and risk modeler. His research focusses on understanding and quantifying physical climate risks, particularly those arising from extratropical storms and compound wind-flood hazards, through high-resolution climate model simulations and the development of open-source catastrophe models.

 He previously worked as a Research Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, England and holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

 His research interests include compound weather and climate extremes, land-atmosphere interactions, dust-weather interactions, the science of climate change, and the Indian Monsoons. By bridging academic research with real-world applications, his work supports climate-resilient strategies in the insurance, finance, and policy sectors.