Pritanjali Pradeep Shende is a Consultant in the Air Quality Modelling team at CSTEP.

She completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, her MTech in Environmental Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal, and her BTech in Biotechnology from RTM Nagpur University.

Prior to joining CSTEP, she worked as a Project Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune; as a Senior Research Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru; as a Visiting Scholar at SEAS, Harvard University; and as a Lecturer (Civil Engineering Department) at Rajib Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar.

Her areas of interest include air quality modelling using CTMs such as GEOS-Chem and WRF-CAMx.