Faculty Details

Faculty Dr. S.G. KARTHIGA DEVI
Dr. S. G. KARTHIGA DEVI

Assistant Professor

Dr. S. G. Karthiga Devi is a multidisciplinary researcher with an engineering background, applying her expertise to investigate the intersection of environment and health outcomes. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor in Industrial Hygiene and Safety at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research. She holds both Doctoral and Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. She is also pursuing a Post-Graduate Diploma in Data Science in Health and Climate Change for Social Impact from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, as a component of her post-doctoral training through the GHES (Global Health Equity Scholars) fellowship.

      She has done her research on advanced sensor-based monitoring to assess air pollution exposure among vulnerable populations. She has contributed to multi-institutional collaborative projects funded by prestigious organizations such as the DBT, India, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) US, and the WHO.

     Her research primarily focuses on air pollution and respiratory health, with expertise in aerosol deposition, lung morphometry, and data-driven decision-making. She has developed a lung model for determining aerosol distribution patterns and patented a method for estimating lung morphometry. Her work has been published in Scopus-indexed journals and presented at various national and international conferences. She holds memberships with the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and Collaborative on Air Pollution and Health Effects Research in India (CAPHER-India).