Welcome to my personal web page.
Being born and brought up in a small town in the lap of the Himalayas, I have always admired and wondered about the beauty of humongous mountains. This childhood wondering lead me to start my career in Earth Science with seismology and ended up doing seismotectonics until my Masters at Seismological Observatory, IISER Kolkata. At this point, I had developed an interest in Earthquakes and still continue to have it. In 2016, I started my PhD at ICTJA Barcelona as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the framework of SUBITOP-ITN project with an interest in thermochemical imaging of our planet. During the PhD, I essentially worked and developed a career-long interest in determining the present-day physical state (Pressure, Temperature, Density and Seismic velocities) inside the Earth constrained by self-consistently integrating gravity field, passive seismological, petrological, mineral physics data sets, and understanding the processes behind. During my post-doc at GFZ Potsdam, which was funded by the DFG priority program 2017 Mountain building processes in 4D, I worked on the present-day upper mantle architecture of the Alps and its dynamic consistency with the help of geodynamic simulations. We also looked at the entire Alpine-Himalayan collision zone to understand the factors controlling the long-term continental lithosphere dynamics.
Contact: ajay.kumar[at]iiserpune.ac.in
