After receiving a master’s degree in climate science and technology, Shukla joined the School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW for her PhD. During her PhD she was also affiliated to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Her PhD thesis explores the long-term viability of solar PV technology under different future climate scenarios. She primarily focused on understanding the impact of climate change on the PV power production at multiple timescales. She is also interested in long-term and short-term energy forecasting, ramp event prediction and understanding variability of solar energy resources.
In August 2023, she joined the UNSW Hoex group as a post-doctoral research fellow and will be working on an ARENA project of advanced O&M modelling. Her research will focus on understanding the implications of extreme weather events on energy generation, exploring synergy between wind and solar technology, modelling future PV module degradation rates.