Dr. Sherly M. A. is presently working with TERI SAS as Assistant Professor. She has more than 7 years of work experience that includes teaching, industry and research. She received her Ph. D on topic ‘Urban Flood Risk Mapping of a Coastal Megacity – An Application to Mumbai’ from IITB-Monash Research Academy (A joint Ph. D program between Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Monash University, Australia) based in Mumbai. She completed her M. Tech in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Her interests include urban flood risk mapping, design rainfall analysis, flood modelling and hazard mapping, hydrologic & hydraulic modelling, disaster vulnerability assessment & mapping, and optimization in water resources.

Publications:

• Yadav, V., Sherly, M. A. , Ranjan, P., Tinoco, R. O., Boldrin, A., Damgaard, A. and Laurent, A. (2020). “Framework for quantifying environmental losses of plastics from landfills”. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 161(104914), ISSN 0921-3449, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104914
• Mohanty, M.P., Sherly, M. A., Ghosh, S. and Karmakar, S. (2020). “Tide-rainfall flood quotient: an incisive measure of comprehending a region's response to storm-tide and pluvial flooding”. Environmental Research Letters, 15(6): 064029, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8092
• Ghosh, M., Sherly, M. A. and Karmakar, S. (2019). “Flood Risk Assessment under Various Socio-economic Scenario”, ISH-HYDRO 2019 International Conference, Osmania University, India, 18-20 December 2019.
• Chaudhuri, R. R., Sherly, M. A., and Tarannum, F. (2019). “Waterscapes through Multi-stakeholder Approach for a Water-stress region in Delhi NCR, India”, ISH-HYDRO 2019 International Conference, Osmania University, India, 18-20 December 2019.
• Sherly, M. A., Janadri, K. K. and Karmakar, S. (2019). “Fuzzy cognitive mapping of flood risk perception and adaptive capacity of slum communities over the most flood-prone city in India”, 4th IMA International conference on Flood Risk (IMA 2019), 12 - 13 September 2019, Swansea University, UK.
• Mohanty, M.P., Sherly, M. A., Karmakar, S. and Ghosh, S. (2018). “Regionalized Design Rainfall Estimation: An Appraisal of Inundation Mapping for Flood Management Under Data-Scarce Situations”. Water Resources Management, 32(4725): 4725-4746
• Sherly, M. A., Karmakar, S., Chan, T. and Rau, C. (2016). “Design Rainfall Framework using Multivariate Parametric-Nonparametric Approach”. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 21(1), 04015049.
• Sherly, M. A., Karmakar, S., Parthasarathy, D., Chan, T. and Rau, C. (2015). “Disaster-Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area: An Application to Mumbai, India”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(6): 1198-1220.
• Sherly, M. A., Karmakar, S., Chan, T. (2017). “Mumbai to gain invaluable flood risk mapping”, in Excellence in India, collaborative research from Group of Eight (Go8) and Indian researchers, Group of Eight, Australia, pp:58-59, URL: https://go8.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/article/go8_excellence-in-india_web.pdf
• Mohanty, M.P., Gusain, A., Sherly, M.A., Karmakar, S. and Ghosh, S. (2016). “Estimation of Design rainfall for flood risk mapping in a data scarce situation”, 9th International Geographical Union Conference, New Delhi, India.