Bandana Kar

Dr. Bandana Kar is an interdisciplinary scientist with experience in academia, national laboratory, and the federal government. She is serving as an AAAS Science, Technology and Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy. She was a Senior Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2017-2022), and a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (2008-2017). She has received $10+ million in funding from NASA, NSF, DOE and DHS to develop solutions at the intersection of science, technology and policy to improve energy and community resilience to extreme events. She was the recipient of the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographers and a fellow of the 2009 NSF’s Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship Program. She has published 65+ peer-reviewed manuscripts and coedited the book Risk Communication and Community Resilience. She contributed to the White House – OSTP’s Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Science to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking (2024) and delivered a plenary as the US delegate at the 2024 PH-US-UNCTAD Harnessing Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Workshop. She is the 2024 President of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.