Dhruv Bhagtani

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University (supervisor: Laure Resplandy). My research focuses on climate-driven changes in global ocean oxygen inventories and their complex links to anthropogenic heat and carbon uptake. Operating at the intersection of Earth system models and observational datasets, I specialize in identifying forced climate signals and quantifying uncertainty across both physical and biogeochemical data.

I finished my PhD in Earth Sciences in 2025 from the Climate and Fluid Physics group (supervisor: Andy Hogg), Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University. I used numerical models to understand better the interplay between winds and air-sea heat fluxes in driving large-scale ocean circulation, with an emphasis on gyres.

I obtained a Bachelors of Technology (with honors) degree in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in Aug 2020. For my honors project, I parallelised a finite-element based solver to estimate cyclone inundation in coastal regions.