Rajul Pandya

Executive Director, Global Futures-Education Lab and Fulton Presidential Professor of Practice, MLF Teachers College

Senior Global Futures Scholar, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

rajul.pandya@asu.edu

Mail code: 1811

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Pandya joined Arizona State University as the Fulton Presidential Professor of Practice in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Executive Director of the Global Futures Education Lab in 2024. Before that he served as the Vice-President of Community Science and founding Director of the Thriving Earth Exchange at the American Geophysical Union.

Educated as a physicist and atmospheric scientist, Pandya brings a history of working at the intersection of science, education and community partnerships to advance understanding of the scientific and social dimensions of sustainability. His work has focused on how the sciences can be more participatory, how community participation contributes to scientific innovation and societal relevance, and science as a community and human right.

Raj invites everyone—especially people from communities who have been historically excluded —to help build sustainable futures where people and nature thrive together.

Photo by Beth Bagley, AGU

Education

PhD Atmospheric Science, University of Washington

BS Physics, University of Illinois

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4312-5239

Editorships

Community Science Exchange

Service

Pandya serves on advisory boards for the Anthropocene Alliance, Aspen Global Change Institute, Community and College Partners Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Institute for Science and Policy at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, ISET International, and Public Lab. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the American Red Cross, and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Assess NASA Science Activation 2.0, Resilient America Roundtable, and Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication. Raj recently joined the National Academies Climate Crossroads Advisory Committee.

In the past, Pandya chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on “Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning,” was a founding board member of the Citizen Science Association (now the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences), and served as the (volunteer) Commissioner for Education and Human Resources for the American Meteorological Society.