The Southern Ocean Indian Sector (SOIS) Regional Working Group (RWG) welcomes new leadership team member, Anoop Mahajan.

Dr. Anoop Mahajan is an atmospheric chemist working on sea-air interactions and the effect of ocean emissions of trace gases on the atmosphere and climate. He is currently based at the Center for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, where he heads a group on chemistry-climate interactions.  He completed his PhD from the University of Leeds, UK and conducted post-doctoral research at Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Madrid (IQFR), CSIC, before moving back to India in 2012. He has participated in more than 20 international projects, including in the Southern Ocean, Antarctic and Arctic. He is on the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) executive committee and a member of Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (CATCH) and the Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds (CIce2Clouds) programs.He is also involved with the Indian Southern Ocean program, and was the leader of the last Indian Scientific Expedition to the Southern Ocean (ISESO).