Ananya Mallik is an assistant professor at University of Arizona since 2020. She is an experimental petrologist. In her research group, they investigate how the interactions between the interior and surface of the Earth and planetary bodies evolve the chemistry and dynamics of these reservoirs. They primarily use high pressure-temperature equipment to simulate conditions in the interior of planets. Some of her specific research interests include: subduction zone magmatism, specifically how does subducted crust contribute to magmas formed in subduction zones and how do volatile elements participate in arc magmatism. Her research group also investigates the Moon’s interior evolution – using the mass, moment of inertia and bulk composition as constraints to understand the present-day interior structure of the Moon, including the thermal and mineralogical profile. They also investigate the effect of density-driven lunar mantle overturn on the evolution of the lunar crust and interior. More recently, they are studying the effect of hydrogen on lunar interior evolution, with a goal to constrain the bulk hydrogen content of the Moon. This may shed more light into the origins of the Earth-Moon system.

Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay is an eminent structural geologist. He superannuated in June 2019 as a professor from the Department of Earth Sciences. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He was educated at the Calcutta University and Indian Institute of Technology, Khraragpur, where he received his PhD degree in Geology in the year 1981. Professor Mukhopadhyay has won the IIT Silver medal for ranking First class First in M.Sc. 1975, and VV Sastri Gold Medal and Endowment Lecture, Geological Society of India, 2019. He has supervised 8 PhD students, published more than 50 peer reviewed articles and completed more than 25 projects.

Jibamitra Ganguly was educated in India (Calcutta and Jadavpur Universities) and the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Geophysical Sciences. He has published extensively in a wide range of areas in the Earth and Planetary sciences and is an author/editor of several books dealing with thermodynamics and diffusion kinetics, especially as applied to geological and planetary systems, as well as a book on the Astrophysicist Meghnad Saha and a recent Geochemical Perspective volume. Prof. Ganguly is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt research prize from Germany, a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Geophysical Union and is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Kaushik Das studied his undergraduate and post-graduate courses in geology at Jadavpur University, and did doctoral study at Hokkaido University. He is now working at the Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science, Hiroshima University.

Nic Beukes is Professor of Geology at the University of Johannesburg. He worked two years for the Geological Survey of South Africa in Pretoria before joining RAU (now UJ) in 1969 where he has risen through the academic ranks from lecturer to full professor in 1986, acted as Chair of the Geology Department (1998-2002), leader of the PPM Research Group (1997-2013) and Director of the DSI- NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA) (2014 to 2018).

He is essentially a field geologist, specializing in sedimentology and stratigraphy, with emphasis on understanding the origin of iron and manganese ore deposits and the nature of surface environments on early earth. He is an A1-rated scientist by the National Research Foundation since 2001 and recipient of many awards of which the Jubilee and Draper Medals of the Geological Society of South Africa and the National 2017 NSTF-South 32 Life-time Award are most significant. He has authored/co-authored 212 refereed scientific articles, three books, over 300 conference abstracts and some100 confidential technical reports to industry.

Dr. Pranesh Sengupta carried out his studies in Mineralogy and Petrology from Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and subsequently joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai. He is currently Head - Geomaterials Group and Professor in Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai. Dr. Sengupta is a Member - International Predisposal Network (International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA ), and also serving as Chief - Scientist in IAEA Coordinated Research Project on 'Ion Beam Irradiation on Nuclear Waste Form Development (INWARD). Dr. Pranesh Sengupta's research interests are (a) immobilization of high level nuclear wastes, (b) deep geological disposal of nuclear wastes, (c) natural analogue studies and d) Geomaterial Science. He has authored more than 100 research articles in Peer Reviewed Journals, recipient of several national and international recognitions and have vast experiences in serving various committees of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and also leading Departmental Plan Projects as Apex Project Coordinator.

Priyadarshi Chowdhury is currently a research fellow at the Monash University in Australia. He did his Bachelor's and Master's at the Jadavpur University (India) and his Ph.D. at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). He was awarded the D.A.A.D PhD fellowship in 2013. He integrates field observations with petrology, diffusion geospeedometry and geodynamic modelling to understand the evolution of continental crust and lithosphere dynamics during the Precambrian. His current research interests include the evolution of plate tectonics, continental growth-&-recycling on the early Earth, and tectonic style at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary.

Rajdeep Dasgupta is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Rice University. In his research, he studies the role of subsurface melting and magma on the origin and evolution of the Earth and other terrestrial planets. Rajdeep Dasgupta earned his B.Sc. in 1998 and his M.Sc. in 2000 from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India and completed his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Minnesota in 2006. Dasgupta was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota, and then was a postdoctoral fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. He joined the faculty of Rice University in 2008 where he is now a professor. In 2011, Dasgupta received the F.W. Clarke Medal from the Geochemical Society, an award given to an early-career scientist for a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry. The American Geophysical Union awarded him the James B. Macelwane Medal in 2014. In 2012, he won the Hisashi Kuno award, given annually to an AGU member who has made outstanding contributions to the fields of volcanology, geochemistry or petrology. Rajdeep Dasgupta is an expert on the deep carbon cycle and his research centers on how carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen in the mantle affect magma melting processes. He has created new models for how rocks melt in carbon-rich environments and calculated carbon’s solubility in the core. Dasgupta has developed a way to use major elements in magmas to estimate their source region and composition in the mantle. He also is researching sulfur solubility, to understand sulfur transport in subduction zones.

Sanjay Kumar Mandal is a field-based geomorphologist primarily interested in the topography-tectonics-climate-erosion-sedimentation interaction in the mountain belts. His research focuses on understanding this interaction by quantifying the dates and rates of surface processes using cosmogenic isotopes, low-temperature thermochronology, geochronology, and isotopic studies coupled with numerical landscape evolution modeling. He obtained his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is a recipient of the Alexander von-Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship and DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship.

The research of Santanu Kumar Bhowmik focuses on decoding the styles of tectonism, present and past, from oceanic subduction to continental collisions and supercontinent assembly events. For this, I use metamorphic rocks of Archaean to Phaneozoic age and a variety of tools, including reconstructions of P-T-t paths, monazite and zircon geochronology and diffusion chronometry. My current research interest lies in modeling metamorphic transformations and fluid evolution along slab-mantle wedge interfaces from Mesozoic subduction zones in Nagaland-Manipur Ophiolite Belts, NE India and studying the early earth orogenesis, centering around the question when and how did the modern-style plate tectonics begin on the Planet Earth.

Supriyo Mitra is a seismologist interested in earthquake source physics, internal structure of the Earth and propagation characteristics of seismic waves. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge UK and is presently a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, IISER Kolkata. Mitra has pioneered broadband-seismological-field experiments in the Himalayas, and studies velocity structure and earthquake source properties, to test hypotheses of lithospheric evolution. Among his major contributions have been the crustal structure and evolutionary model for the Eastern-Himalayan plate-boundary system. Mitra has been a part of several international research projects, which include UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UK-IERI) Thematic Partnership, Earthquake Without Frontiers (EwF) consortium and Royal Society International Collaboration Award. He is a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist medal (2010), NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award (2012), Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2011-2014), National Geoscience Award (2016), Cambridge-Hamied Fellowship (2016), and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). He has been a Visiting Professor of the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan (2019) and is a Regular Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (2019-2024).