Raju Chalwadi

About Me

Welcome to my website. My name is Raju Chalwadi and I live in Mumbai. I am currently working as a Research Associate in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at IIT Bombay, India. I specifically focus on the questions of industrial sustainability and productivity enhancement for industries located in one of Thane's industrial zones. In 2024, I defended my PhD thesis at IIT Bombay, which explored the career of an urban community at the intersection of ecology and everyday city life. For the academic year 2022-2023, I was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship to write my dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.  My research interests fall under the discipline of Urban Anthropology, and at the broader theoretical plane, I aim to enrich our understanding of how cities and communities co-constitute each other.