Name: Dr. Balasubramani K Designation: Associate Professor & Head Phone: 04366-277261 Email:geobalas@cutn.ac.in
Biographic Sketch:
Dr Balasubramani is a Fulbright Fellow at North Carolina Central University (USA) and currently working as Associate Professor in Geography, Central University of Tamil Nadu. He has over 15+ years of experience in exploring geospatial technologies for different applications, including integrated risk assessments, watershed modelling, fluvial dynamics and public health and environmental datasets. He served as a Spatial Data Engineer in a software company (2006-2009), Guest Faculty at Madurai Kamaraj University (2009-2011) and Assistant Professor at Bharathidasan University (2011-2017). Dr Balasubramani's doctoral research was on land and water resources evaluation for sustainable development, awarded by the Madurai Kamaraj University (2016). He has conducted post-doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (Dept. of Space). His research is usually inter-disciplinary in nature and adopting geospatial technologies extensively. He has published 50+ research articles in journals, including publications in reputed remote sensing, earth science, and public health journals. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Editor of the Indian Geographical Journal. He has operated research grants worth of Rs.10 million funded by DST, SERB, ICMR, ICSSR, UGC and others. He is a recipient of Young Geographer Award by the National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI) and Young Scientist Fellowship by TNSCST (Govt. of Tamil Nadu). He has received international travel grants from IGU, SERB, ICSSR, DST and visited USA, Sri Lanka and Thailand for research presentations. He has won Best Paper Awards and delivered 100+ invited talks in conferences/workshops/training programmes. He has also extended contributions to Professional Societies such as ISRS, IGS and GSI and coordinated their programmes.
Research Highlights :
My current research focus is on exploring applications of geospatial technologies in interdisciplinary fields, especially:
Watershed modelling and sustainable land use planning
Disaster risk assessments
River basin dynamics and landscape evaluation
Spatial mapping/modelling of environmental and health datasets
Recent Publications :
Juni, K. J., Ramkumar, M., Venkateshwaran, B., Menier, D., Mathew, M. J., Balasubramani, K., & Siddiqui, N. A. (2025). Disentangling relative controls of landscape evolution and spatial heterogeneity in the Vaigai River Basin, southern India: Regional implications and applicability. Geoscience Frontiers, 16(6), 102128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102128(Impact Factor: 8.9)
Kumaraswamy, K., Balasubramani, K., Ramkumar, M., George, S. L., & Prasad, K. A. (2025). Regional Geomorphology of the Tamil Nadu Coast. In S. Chattopadhyay (Ed.), Marine and Coastal Resources of India (pp. 199–211). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81276-7_12
Balasubramani, K., Malhotra, R., & Gordana, V. (2025). Spatial patterns of Fulbright scholars of North Carolina: A meta-synthesis approach. GeoJournal, 90(1), 42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-025-11287-8(Impact Factor: 1.9)
Balasubramani, K., Bharti, P. K., Amarthaluri, C., Chellappan, S., Behera, S. K., Mohanty, A. K., Sarma, D. K., Dash, A. P., & Balabaskaran Nina, P. (2024). Spatiotemporal Epidemiology of Malaria in India from 2007 to 2022. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, tpmd230688. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.23-0688(Impact Factor: 3.7)
Balasubramani, K., Ravichandran, V., Prasad, K. A., Ramkumar, M., Shekhar, S., James, M. M., Kodali, N. K., Behera, S. K., Gopalan, N., Sharma, R. K., Sarma, D. K., Santosh, M., Dash, A. P., & Balabaskaran Nina, P. (2024). Spatio-temporal epidemiology and associated indicators of COVID-19 (wave-I and II) in India. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50363-2(Impact Factor: 4.6)
Nanjappa, D., Devaganga, K.P., Ramkumar, M. Nagarajan, R. Balasubramani, K. (2023). Physico-chemical Properties of the Vettar Estuarine Waters, Cauvery Basin, Southern India: Implications for Environmental Management. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 39, 1085-1100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-023-00564-3(Impact Factor: 0.7)
Abarna, R., Leo George, S., Balasubramani, K., Yuvaraj, S., Shekhar, S., Gnanappazham, L., & Kumar, A. P. (2023). Estimating built-up risk from multi-natural hazards: A case study of Northern coastal plains of Tamil Nadu. Natural Hazards Research, 3(1), 49-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.01.001
Balasubramani, K., Prasad, K. A., Kodali, N. K., Abdul Rasheed, N. K., Chellappan, S., Sarma, D. K., Kumar, M., Dixit, R., James, M. M., Behera, S. K., Shekhar, S., & Balabaskaran Nina, P. (2022). Spatial epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years and associated risk factors in India: District-level analysis of health, household, and environmental datasets. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 906248. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.906248(Impact Factor: 5.2)
Priyadarshini, K.N., Shekhar, S., Sivashankari, V., Balasubramani, K., Arun Prasad,K. (2021). Detecting heat-inducing urban built-up surface material with multi remote sensing datasets using reflectance and emission spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 264(Oct), 112591 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112591(Impact Factor: 13.5)
Balasubramani, K. (2018). Physical Resources Assessment in a Semi-arid Watershed: An Integrated Methodology for Sustainable Land use Planning, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 142, 358-379.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.03.008(Impact Factor: 12.7)
