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)
Subhadip Misra (joined 2025, Aug)
Priyangshu Deb (joined 2025, 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)
Dhrutikam Jena (joined 2025, Aug)
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; Institute Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis) > Niigata University >Faculty, IIT Kanpur
Surajit Mondal (Ph.D., 2013-2019) > University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Rahul Dasgupta (Ph.D., 2014-2020) > NISER Bhubaneshwar > PRL Ahmedabad > Freie Univ. Berlin > Univ. Pretoria
Pallabi Basu (Ph.D., 2014-2020) > LMV of Clermont-Ferrand, France
Valens Hishamunda (Ph.D., 2015-2021) > Texas A&M University, San Antonio > Princeton University
Sarath P. K. (Ph.D., 2019-2023; jointly supervised with Prof. Damien Cardinal, Sorbonne Univ.) > Stockholm University
Sourav Ganguly (Ph. D., 2016-2023 - joined my group in 2018, Aug) > Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Suraj Singh Chauhan (Ph.D., 2016-2024) > Univ. Houston, USA
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) > University of Bern
Sailaja P. V. (M. Tech., 2016) > NC State University, USA
Srishti Sharma (M.Tech., 2018; recipient of the K N Krishnaswamy Medal) > FSU, USA
Gaurav Singh Papola (M.Tech., 2019) >, IISc, Bangalore
Satendra Kumar (M.Tech., 2021)
Rishant Prakash (M.Tech., 2023) > Arizona State University
Harsh Thakur (MS thesis 2024) > Arizona State University > Yale University
Mansi Kesarwani (M.Tech., 2025)
Undergraduate students
Mainak Guha (BS thesis, 2021)
Harsh Thakur (BS thesis 2023)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Shiba Shankar Acharya (postdoctoral researcher 2016-2018) > Faculty, Presidency University, Kolkata
Simontini Sensarma (postdoctoral researcher, 2019-2021) > Faculty, 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 Interns:
Gourab Karak (2012), IIT Kharagpur
Anupam Samanta (2012), Jadavpur University > Ph.D., IISER Pune
Saunak Sinha Ray (2012), University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
Sakkubai Mokhamatla* (2013), Andhra University
Pratishtha Narain (2013), Pondicherry Central University
Jyotsnamani Mohanta (2013), Pondicherry Central University > Ph.D., Univ. Saskatchewan
Proteek Chowdhury (2014), IIT Kharagpur > Ph.D., Rice University
Sampriti Basak (2015), IIT Kharagpur > Ph.D. Ruhr University Bochum
Diptiranjan Mall* (2016), IIT Bombay
Aakash Verma* (2016), Ravenshaw University
Souryadip Ghosh* (2016), Jadavpur University
Shashank P M (2018), IIT Roorkee > Ph.D., LMV Clermont-Ferrand, France
Siddharth Khan (2018), IISER Kolkata > Ph.D., LMV Clermont-Ferrand, France
Debjeet Pathak (2018), Presidency University > Ph.D., Rice University
Tuhin Subhra Mondal (2018), Banaras Hindu University
Paras Singh (2018), Delhi University
Tamalkanti Mukherjee* (2018), Presidency University > Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur
Debosmit Banerjee* (2019), ISM Dhanbad
Leevya T.S.* (2021), ISM Dhanbad (online)
Nivedita Pandey * (2021), IIT Kharagpur (online)
Subhashish Dey* (2021), Cotton University (online)
Joel George* (2022), IIT Bhubaneshwar > Ph.D., University of Göttingen
Debarun Mukherjee* (2022), Presidency University >Ph.D., CalTech.
Kingshook Pal (2023), Presidency University
Jahnvi Sanjayrao Chandne (2024, 2025), IISER Bhopal
R. Ashtami* (2025), IISER Bhopal
Nakul B (2025), Shiv Nadar University
Shubhan R (2025), IISc Bangalore
Nihi Sarkar (2025), IISc Bangalore
* Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellow