Sonam Wangchuk

Dr. Sonam Wangchuk is a Cryosphere Specialist at ICIMOD. He has extensive experience in satellite and field-based cryosphere research, as well as in machine learning techniques, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalaya and the Arctic regions.

He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher and an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Expert at Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Sonam has a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of St Andrews, UK, and the University of Zurich, Switzerland, funded by the St Leonards Postgraduate Scholarship and the Swiss Excellence Government Scholarship. He completed his MSc in Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, funded by the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship program.