Jayajit Chakraborty

Dr. Chakraborty is a Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently serving as a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board, Work Group for Review of Science Supporting EPA Decisions, and the EPA Environmental Justice Science Committee. He recently chaired the Scientific Review Panel for the EPA's EJScreen Mapping and Screening Tool and is serving on the EPA Environmental Justice Science & Analysis Review Panel. He is also a member of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee that provides recommendations regarding data and tools for meeting the goals of the White House Justice 40 Initiative. Dr. Chakraborty’s research activities encompass a wide range of environmental health and environmental justice issues, with an emphasis on community vulnerability to hazards, risks, and disasters. He is particularly interested in applying geospatial tools and spatial statistical techniques for analyzing environmental and social injustices. Dr. Chakraborty has published over 120 articles/chapters and 4 books, and coauthored a chapter for the US Government’s Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). He has been a principal/co-principal investigator for over 30 sponsored projects, which include grants from the EPA, National Science Foundation, US Department of Transportation, US Department of Treasury, Florida Department of Transportation, and many other agencies. Dr. Chakraborty has a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning and Ph.D. in Geography, both from the University of Iowa.