Faculty

Faculty of Earth Science Department are listed below.

Debajyoti Paul
Professor and Head
PhD, Cornell University, USA, 2002

Office: 303E Western Laboratory Extension
Phone: +91 512 679 6169
Email: dpaul[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~dpaul/

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Geochemistry
Mantle Dynamics
Paleoclimate Reconstruction

Javed N. Malik
Professor
PhD, M. S. University of Baroda, India, 1998

Room: FB 317
Phone: +91 512 259 7723
Email: javed[AT]iitk.ac.in

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Active Tectonics and Paleoseismology
Geomorphology
Paleotsunami

Rajiv Sinha
Professor
PhD, University of Cambridge, UK, 1992

Office: 303B Western Laboratory Extension
Phone: +91 512 679 7317
Email: rsinha[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~rsinha/

RESEARCH INTERESTS
River Science – River Morphology and Dynamics, Flood Hazards, Morphology-ecology Linkages
Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
Climate Change and Paleoclimate Reconstruction

Santanu Misra
Associate Professor
PhD, Jadavpur University, India, 2007

Office: Room 201, Old SAC Building
Laboratory: Room 109, Old SAC Building
Phone: +91 512 259 6812
Email: smisra[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~smisra/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Santanu_Misra

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Structural Geology and Tectonics
Experimental Rock Deformation and Rock Physics
Deformation Mechanisms & Microstructure of rocks

Deepak Dhingra
Assistant Professor
PhD, Brown University, USA, 2014

Office: 206, Old SAC Building
Phone: +91 512 679 7497
Email: ddhingra[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ddhingra/

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Planetary Vis-NIR Remote Sensing
Lunar Geology, Characterization of Enceladus' plume

Impact cratering, melting and morphology

Dibakar Ghosal
Assistant Professor
PhD, IPGP, France, 2013

Office: Room 211, Old SAC Building
Laboratory: Room 218, Western Lab. Building
Phone: +91 512 679 6909

Email: dghosal[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~dghosal/Home.html

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Exploration Seismology
Poroelastic attribute analysis
Subduction Tectonics

Animesh Mandal
Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2013

Office: Room 203, Old SAC Building
Laboratory: Room 218, Western Lab. Building
Phone: +91 512 259 6811
Email: animeshm[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~animeshm

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Exploration Geophysics
Modeling and Inversion
Geophysical data processing/enhancement

Indra S. Sen
Associate Professor
PhD, Florida International University, USA, 2010

Office: FB 329, Faculty Building
Phone: +91 512 679 6440
Email: isen[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~isen/, www.whoi.edu/people/isen/

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental and low temperature geochemistry
stable and radiogenic isotopes
Geochemical modeling.

Ishwar Kumar C
Assistant Professor
PhD, Indian Institute of Science, 2015

Office: Room 111, Block-A, Old SAC
Phone: 0512-259-6952
Email: ishwar[AT]iitk.ac.in

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Petrology, Tectonics and Crustal evolution
Paleogeography and Continental reconstruction
Remote sensing and GIS applications

Amar Agarwal
Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT-Roorkee and KIT-Germany, 2015 (DAAD Sandwich model)
Office: Room Number 102, Old SAC Block-C
Phone: 0512 679 2145
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Web: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=aIxP2AcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied Structural Geology
Impact Cratering
Rock magnetism

Tajdarul Hassan Syed
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, USA, 2007

Office: Room No. 204, Old SAC Building, Block B
Phone: +91-0512-259-2193 (O)
Email: tsyed[AT]iitk.ac.in

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global water cycle, water budget, groundwater, glacier mass budget and remote sensing of the environment

Rabiul Haque Biswas
Assistant Professor
PhD, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, 2012

Office: Room 202, Block B, Old SAC Building
Phone: +91 512 259 2194
Email: rabiul[AT]iitk.ac.in
Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rabiul_Biswas

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Quantitative Earth Surface Processes
Low temperature thermochronology
Trapped charge dating and dosimetry

Anupam Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Ph. D., Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (2018)

Office: 303E, Western Laboratory Extension
Phone: +91-512-259-2248 (O)
Email: anupamb[AT]iitk.ac.in

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anupam’s research interests centre around the applications of major, trace elements, and radiogenic (e.g., Nd, Sr), traditional (C-O-S) and non-traditional (e.g., Ca) stable isotope systems to understanding Earth’s surface and deep interior processes. The overarching goals of his research are: (i) dating paleo-weathering event, (ii) understanding the effect of congruent versus incongruent weathering of silicate rocks on river water geochemistry, (iii) the cause and development of mantle heterogeneity, geochemical and isotopic evolution of Earth’s mantle over time with implications on the long-term storage of subducted crustal material inside the mantle and deep carbon cycle.