Arnab Chakraborty has been a PhD student in the IHS research group Social Sustainable Transformation since 2024. He studied sociology with a focus on environmental issues and completed his Master’s degree in Development Studies, specialising in sustainability and public health. Before joining IHS, he worked with the Institute for Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), collaborating with activists, policymakers, and researchers to support just and sustainable food systems in the Global South.

His doctoral research explores how technologies influence their own developers and how reflexivity and alternative imaginaries can shape more inclusive, future-oriented innovation. Focusing on climate change, biodiversity loss, and political crisis, he applies participatory and digital methods such as mapping, netnography, and photo-voice.