Teja specialises in the use of spatial data for disaster risk reduction and urban development. He has over ten years of work experience in the areas of urban risk and vulnerability assessments, spatial analytics for urban development and data visualisation. He has taught courses on urban risk and resilience, using GIS for hazard risk and vulnerability assessments, data visualisation and using earth observation data for monitoring SDGs. Teja received his Masters Degree Geo- Information Sciences (GIS) and Earth Observation (EO), with specialisation in Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management from the University of Twente and Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University. From 2013 - 2021, Teja worked with Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), where he led the IIHS Geospatial Lab, the centre for spatial research, consulting, and capacity building activities at IIHS, and he worked as Senior Practice Consultant with the Urban Risk and Resilience team. At the Geospatial Lab, he led a team of multidisciplinary researchers with expertise in geoinformatics, statistics, image processing, computer vision, machine learning and cartographic design. He was also a faculty for Urban Practitioners’ Programme and Urban Fellowship Programme. Prior to IIHS, he worked as a Fellow at People in Centre, Ahmedabad where he worked on projects related to capacity building for disaster safe construction, post disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation.