Mohsin Ramzan

Mohsin is a Fulbright scholar pursuing a doctorate in urban and regional planning at the University at Buffalo. An international scholar from Pakistan, Mohsin began his doctoral work in the US in 2022 and joined the UB Food Lab in 2025. His research interests include climate change and mitigation, and the disparate impact of urban heat on varied groups of people.

At the Food Lab, Mohsin leads spatial and quantitative data management and analyses across multiple projects, including the national Data Justice for Food Justice project as well as more local projects focused on documenting disparities in the retail food environment in Erie County. Mohsin brings considerable training and work experience to his work in the Food Lab. Mohsin comes to the UB Food Lab with prior graduate degree in remote sensing and geographic information systems and work experience as a GIS professional with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Pakistan. In Pakistan he also taught GIS-related courses to undergraduate and graduate classes at a public university.

In his leisure time, Mohsin enjoys playing squash, badminton, and chess. He also likes hiking, kayaking, cycling, and reading.