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Dr. Arun Prasad Kumar serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, School of Earth Sciences, at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India, in a regular capacity since March 2020. Prior to this, he held positions as contractual Assistant Professor and Guest Faculty at the same department from June 2018 to March 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, with a thesis on spectral analysis for species characterization of mangroves in Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, using hyperspectral remote sensing. His academic journey includes an M.Sc. in Earth Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University in 2010, where he achieved university first rank, and a B.Sc. in Geography from the University of Kerala in 2008, also securing first rank. Arun Prasad Kumar was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellowship by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (2017-2018), enabling postdoctoral research as a Guest Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 2015, he received the Green Talents Young Researcher Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, supporting a research internship at DLR. He also qualified for CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship and NET with 36th rank in Earth Sciences.