Dr. Sherchan currently serves as the interim director of the Center for Urban and Coastal Climate Research. Dr. Sherchan is a full professor of environmental biotechnology and environmental health sciences at Morgan State University and an adjunct research professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He also serves as the director of two centers- Center for Climate Change and Health and Center of Research Excellence in Wastewater Based Epidemiology. He received his PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona. He was a tenured faculty member in the department of Environmental Health Sciences at Tulane University before moving to Morgan State University.  In addition, over the past 15 years, he has gained considerable experience working with communities affected by climate change and natural disasters in the US and other low-income countries such as Haiti and Nepal. He was also selected as a NIH Climate and Health Scholar in 2022-2023.  He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles, many in top-tier journals such as ACS EST, Water Research, Stoten, Lancet etc. He has served as the PI or co-PI for several grants including from NSF, NIH, NOAA, EPA, USGS and private foundations like Gates Foundation. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Water and Health, Total Environmental Microbiology and BMC Infectious Diseases. He is also on the editorial boards of ACS Water, Pathogens, CSCEE and Science of the Total Environment. He is passionate about teaching and mentoring, with experience across all educational levels from high school to doctoral programs. He currently teaches BIOL 624 Environmental Biotechnology.

He is an experienced administrator, scholar, and professor with a proven track record in higher education. He is skilled in leadership, grant writing, data analysis, mentoring, and community engagement.