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Professor Govindasamy Bala is a Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. He earned an M.Sc. from the University of Poona in 1988 and a Ph.D. from McGill University in 1994. His research focuses on global climate change, Earth system modeling, the carbon cycle, the hydrological cycle, radiative forcing and feedbacks, land use and land cover change, solar geoengineering, and global and regional monsoons. He uses comprehensive Earth system models to examine robust responses of the global climate, carbon, and water cycles, with contributions to understanding fast and slow feedbacks, solar geoengineering, and biophysical impacts of land cover change. These contributions have implications for mitigation strategies such as afforestation and climate intervention approaches.