Professional Services

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer for Geology, Geochemistry, Journal of Earth System Science, Lithos, and Geoscience Frontiers, Journal of Himalayan Geology

Trustee, Carbonatite Research Centre, Kadi Pani, Gujarat (May 2015-Ongoing)

Expert member of technical committee for purchase of MC-ICPMS, NCAOR Goa (2015)

Expert member of technical committee for purchase of research and teaching microscopes, IISER Tirupati (2018, 2020)

Expert member of selection committees for graduate student selection to the prestigious Govt. of India PMRF (Prime Ministers Research Fellowship, 2019)

Expert member of selection committees for various levels of staff selection at IISER Bhopal

Sessions Chaired in Conferences

Rare Minerals and Rare Earths workshop organized by Geological Survey of India and Atomic Minerals Division, 2019

National Seminar on the Dynamics of Surface & Subsurface Geological Processes, Pondicherry University, 2018

Field Workshop on “The Geological Significance of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and the Sylhet Trap Magmatism of Meghalaya Plateau” organized by Geological Survey of India, Shillong, 2017

International Seminar on Carbonatites-Alkaline Rocks and Associated Economic Mineral Deposits, Gujarat, 2017

Contact Programme on “Earth Surface Processes”, IIT Gandhinagar, 2013

Inorganic Mass Spectrometry Users Meet, November 2013

Inorganic Mass Spectrometry Users Meet, September 2014

Institute Level

· Presiding Officer, Internal Complaints Committee as per the provisions of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (December 2017 – December 2019)

· Member, Instruction and Skill Development sub-committee, Centre for Science and Society (August 2021 – Ongoing)

· Member, Committee for selection of Institute Post-Doctoral Fellows (May 2018 – December 2021)

· Member, Academic Senate, IISER Bhopal (November 2012 – December 2019)

· Member, Institute Academic Affairs Committee (January 2014 – December 2018)

· Member, Review Committee for SRS (2013)

· Member, Convocation Sub-Committees, IISER Bhopal (2013-2019, and 2022)

· Warden, Girls’ Hostel (August 2011-December 2015)

· Member, Anti-ragging Committee (August 2011-December 2015)

· Faculty Advisor for first year students (August 2018 – July 2019; August 2022 - July 2023)

· Member, Uday Editorial Board (2011-2014)

· Convener, Cooperative Community Creche and Pre-School (December 2012-April 2016)

· Member, Cooperative Community Creche and Pre-School (May 2016-December 2017 and April 2022-Ongoing)

· Member, Shops and Establishments Management Committee (January 2020 – December 2020)

· Member, Security Advisory and Executive Committee (SAEC) (March 2012 – December 2014)

Department Level

· Convener, Department Undergraduate/Postgraduate Committee (DUGC/DPGC) EES, IISER Bhopal (November 2012- December 2015)

· Convener, Department Undergraduate Committee (DUGC) EES, IISER Bhopal (January 2016 – December 2018)

· Member, Department Undergraduate Committee (DUGC) EES, IISER Bhopal (2019 onwards)

· Faculty Advisor for 4^th year EES major students (January – May 2022)

· Member, Department Faculty Advisory Committee (DFAC) EES, IISER Bhopal (May 2018 – December 2021)

· Member, Safety Committee, EES, IISER Bhopal (2021-Ongoing)

· Instrument in-charge for LA-ICPMS and MC-ICPMS (since commissioning in 2015 – 2019)

PhD and MS Examiner

· Ph.D. Thesis Examiner of Mr. Samresh Kumar, EES, IISER Bhopal (2019)

· Ph.D. Thesis Examiner of Mr. Shilpi Samiksha, EES, IISER Bhopal (2021)

· Examiner, Ph.D Comprehensive Examination, EES, IISER Bhopal for 22 students till date

· Member, MS Thesis evaluation committee EES, IISER Bhopal for 34 students till date

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Conducted a Field Training Workshop entitled “Amba Dongar Carbonatite-Alkaline Rocks and Associated Mineral Deposits” in 2018 with Prof. S. G. Viladkar and Dr. R. Duraiswamy.

Popularization of Earth Science and Science Public Outreach in Bhopal

1. “A Brief History of Earth” at Civil Engg Society of Truba (CEST) and Truba Group of Institutes, September 2018.

2. “Vestiges of the Kerguelen Plume in alkalic mafic-ultramafic, carbonatitic complexes and flood basalts in NE India” Science Day Talk at IISER Bhopal, October 2013

3. Participated in the 21^st National Children Science Congress 2013- KVS Regional Level

4. Participated in the 22^nd National Children Science Congress 2013- KVS Regional Level

5. Popular Science lecture and Rocks and minerals displays for Summer Outreach at IISER Bhopal on several occasions