Associate Professor
103, Elements Building
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
IISER Bhopal
+91 755 269 1373 (Office)
Graduate Student
Pooja joined the group in 2020 and her work focuses on provenance studies of sandstones of central India, specifically focusing on the outlier basins of the Vindhyan group exposed in Bhopal and Sagar.
Graduate Student
Jitendra joined the group in 2024 and the focus of his research is looking at the geochemistry of various rock suites of the Chota Udaipur region of Western India.
Graduate Student
Premkumar joined the group in 2024 and is looking to unravel the evolutionary history of the granties and the basement gneisses of the Chhota Udaipur Alkaline Complex in Gujarat.
Graduate Student
Subhashree joined the group in 2025 and her work focuses on the Tertiary Sedimentary Sequences of Southern Indo-Burmese Ranges: Re-assessing the Provenance, Channel Diversion Event, Paleo-geography and Paleo-climatic Conditions
Graduate Student Co-Supervised with Dr. Jyotirmoy Mallik
Priti joined the group in 2025 and her work encompasses the tectono magmatic evolution of western coastal dyke and includes investigation of the structural controls, magma emplacement mechanisms, and temporal evolution of Deccan dyke swarms along the western continental margin of India.
Graduate Student (Co-Supervisor)
Damipaiah is a senior Geologis at DMGC, Shillong. He is also pursing his PhD jointly from from Assam University and our group at IISER Bhopal. Damepaiah is working on the varied felsic to mafic volcanism across the Shillong Plateau associated with Kerguelen plume volcanism.
PhD Students
Vandana Kumari (2017-2023)
Sunit Mohanty (2019-2025)
Abhishek Pandey (2019-2025)
Shyama (2018-2025)
Gaurav Kumar (2019-2025)
Post Doctoral Fellows form the IGG Group
Dr. Sabyasachi Chatterjee (2018) - Assistant Professor at Amity University, India
Dr. Joyeeta Bhattacharjee (2019) - Project Scientist C, MoES, India
BS-MS Students from the IGG Group
BS-MS 2019 Batch
Rupal Ambulkar - Currently a graduate student at IITM Pune, India
Rishabh Rana - Currently PO at Canara Bank
BS-MS 2020 Batch
Nidha Azeez - Currently a graduate student at Bristol University, UK
Divyareshmi T R - Currently a graduate student at The University of Manchester, UK
Nithin Kumar - Currently a project assistant at IISc Bangalore, India
BS-MS 2021 Batch
Pankaj Kumar - Currently a Junior Research Fellow at IISER Bhopal, India
Harsh Pushkar - Geological Survery of India
Puneet Singh, Himanshu Meena
BS-MS 2022 Batch
Nirupa Gedam, Tamanna
BS-MS 2023 Batch
Shikta Dev, Shivangi Singh, Anand S. R., Vishal Nareda, Harsh
BS-MS 2024 Batch
Anjaly Suma, Merin Agnes, Sanchi Gaikwad, Prashik Tayade, Balaji Naik (as Co-Supervisor)