Darshan Karwat

Darshan is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at Arizona State University (ASU), where he runs re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds environmental protection, justice, and peace in engineering. His current work and teaching focuses on engineering and science for environmental, energy, and climate justice; on developing new methods to understand and plan participation in energy transitions; border walls and wildlife; the politics of science and engineering; re-imagining environmental and sustainability governance; and fluid dynamics.

Darshan is an aerospace engineer by training (specializing in gas dynamics and combustion) and space, rockets, and satellites were his first love, apart from soccer; so he’s excited to be on SkyTruth’s board. Before ASU, he spent three years as a AAAS Fellow in Washington, D.C., first at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Innovation Team, where he worked on climate change resilience and low-cost air pollution sensors, and then at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Water Power Technologies Office, helping design and run the Wave Energy Prize. He is originally from Mumbai, India, but feels equally at home in Michigan or Washington, D.C. (and now, Arizona!).