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 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 (Ph.d.; University of Göttingen)
23. Debarun Mukherjee* (2022), Presidency University (Ph.D., CalTech)
24. Kingshook Pal (2023), Presidency University
25. Jahnvi Sanjayrao Chandne (2024), IISER Bhopal
26. Jahnvi Sanjayrao Chandne (2025), IISER Bhopal
27. R. Ashtami* (2025), IISER Bhopal
28. Nakul B (2025), Shiv Nadar University
29. Shubhan R (2025), IISc Bangalore
30. Nihi Sarkar (2025), IISc Bangalore
* Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellow