CURRENT MEMBERS:
Ramananda Chakrabarti (PI)
Students pursuing Ph.D. at CEaS:
Gaurav Singh Papola (joined 2021, Jan)
Soumyaroop Bhattacharya (joined 2021, Aug)
Arka Chakraborty (joined 2022, Aug)
Netra Pillai (joined 2022, Aug, ERP)
Sudipa Samanta (joined 2023, Aug)
Arunava Das (joined 2024, Aug)
Students pursuing Ph.D. at ICWaR:
Walter Samuel (joined 2017, Aug, co-supervision with Prof. V. Venugopal)
Radhika Varshney (joined 2021, Aug, co-supervision with Prof. Praveen C. Ramamurthy)
Masters Students
Mansi Kesarwani
Postdoctoral researchers:
Dr. Prachiti Kanakdade (DST Women Scientist WOS-A, joined April 2023)
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ALUMNI:
Ph.D. students
Anupam Banerjee (Ph.D., 2012-2018; Niigata University/Assistant Prof. IIT Kanpur) (recipient of the Institute Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis) (https://www.iitk.ac.in/es/profile-anupam-banerjee)
Surajit Mondal (Ph.D., 2013-2019; Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Saskatchewan, Cananda)(https://ca.linkedin.com/in/surajit-mondal-46b34041)
Rahul Dasgupta (Ph.D., 2014-2020; Postdoctoral Researcher, NISER Bhubaneshwar/ PRL Ahmedabad/IISc/Freie Univ. Berlin)(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul-Dasgupta-2)
Pallabi Basu (Ph.D., 2014-2020; Postdoctoral Researcher, LMV of Clermont-Ferrand, France)(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pallabi-Basu)
Valens Hishamunda (Ph.D., 2015-2021; Postdoctoral researcher, Texas A&M University, San Antonio/Princeton University)(https://geosciences.princeton.edu/people/valens-hishamunda)
Sarath P. K. (Ph.D., 2019-2023; jointly supervised with Prof. Damien Cardinal, Sorbonne Univ.)(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarath-Pullyottum-Kavil-2)
Sourav Ganguly (Ph. D., 2016-2023 - joined my group in 2018, Aug; Postdoctoral researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)(https://sites.google.com/view/sgangulygeology/about)
Suraj Singh Chauhan (Ph.D., 2016-2024; Postdoctoral researcher, Univ. Houston, USA) (https://www.uh.edu/directory/index.php?emplid=MjQwOTY2Ng==&loc=HR730&dpt=H0109)
Utpalendu Haldar (Ph.D., 2018-2024; RA IISc)
Biswajit Panda (Ph.D., 2018-2025, co-supervisors: Profs. Sambuddha Misra and V. Venugopal; RA IISc)
M.Tech. / M.S. students
Dipankar Pathak (M. Tech., 2015; graduate student at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern)
Sailaja P. V. (M. Tech., 2016; graduate student at NC State University, USA)
Srishti Sharma (M.Tech., 2018; graduate student at FSU, USA) (recipient of the K N Krishnaswamy Medal at IISc)
Gaurav Singh Papola (M.Tech., 2019, doctoral student, IISc, Bangalore)
Satendra Kumar (M.Tech., 2021)
Rishant Prakash (M.Tech., 2023, graduate student, Arizona State University)
Harsh Thakur (MS thesis 2024, graduate student, Arizona State University)
Undergraduate students
Mainak Guha (BS thesis, 2021)
Harsh Thakur (BS thesis 2023)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Shiba Shankar Acharya (postdoctoral researcher 2016-2018; Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Kolkata)
Simontini Sensarma (postdoctoral researcher, 2019-2021; Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneshwar)
Seema Kumari (National postdoctoral fellow, 2022-2024; Researcher at University of Munster, Germany)
Other students
Ratikanta Sikdar (2012-2013; Geological Survey of India)
Pallab Chatterjee (2015-2016; Geological Survey of India)
Gautham S. Baichapur (2013-2017)
Sourav Dutta (2017-2018; Coal India Limited)
Aindrila Pal (2020-2021, Rice University)
Pritish Saha (2021-2023, ONGC)
Suchismita Saha (2022-2023, ONGC)
Summer Students (what they did next):
1. Gourab Karak (2012), IIT Kharagpur
2. Anupam Samanta (2012), Jadavpur University (Ph.D., IISER Pune)
3. Saunak Sinha Ray (2012), University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
4. Sakkubai Mokhamatla* (2013), Andhra University
5. Pratishtha Narain (2013), Pondicherry Central University
6. Jyotsnamani Mohanta (2013), Pondicherry Central University (Ph.D., Univ. Saskatchewan)
7. Proteek Chowdhury (2014), IIT Kharagpur (Ph.D., Rice University)
8. Sampriti Basak (2015), IIT Kharagpur (Ph.D. Ruhr University Bochum)
9. Diptiranjan Mall* (2016), IIT Bombay
10. Aakash Verma* (2016), Ravenshaw University
11. Souryadip Ghosh* (2016), Jadavpur University
12. Shashank P M (2018), IIT Roorkee (Ph.D., LMV Clermont-Ferrand, France)
13. Siddharth Khan (2018), IISER Kolkata (Ph.D., LMV Clermont-Ferrand, France)
14. Debjeet Pathak (2018), Presidency University (Ph.D., Rice University)
15. Tuhin Subhra Mondal (2018), Banaras Hindu University
16. Paras Singh (2018), Delhi University
17. Tamalkanti Mukherjee* (2018), Presidency University (Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur)
18. Debosmit Banerjee* (2019), ISM Dhanbad
19. Leevya T.S.* (2021), ISM Dhanbad (online)
20. Nivedita Pandey * (2021), IIT Kharagpur (online)
21. Subhashish Dey* (2021), Cotton University (online)
22. Joel George* (2022), IIT Bhubaneshwar
23. Debarun Mukherjee* (2022), Presidency University (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
24. Kingshook Pal (2023), Presidency University
* Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellow