Debanjan Guha Roy, PhD

PhD and M. Tech-Ph.D Students

•  Aparna Singh (2021 - Now; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Angan Sengupta, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur)

• Ananya Srivastava (2021 - Now; Co-supervisor: Dr. P. Ravi Prakash, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, IIT Jodhpur)

• Naveen Sharma (2023 - Now)

M. Tech Students

• Vishal Santosh Agrawal (2025 - M. Tech in Infrastructure Engineering with Specialization in Energy, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering; Co-supervisor: Dr. Vinod Vijay Kumar, Centre for Technology Foresight and Policy, IIT Jodhpur)

• Anish Kumar Das (2024 - Data and Computational Science, School of AIDE; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Saran Aadhar, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, IIT Jodhpur)

• Abhishek Jain  (2024 - M. Tech in Infrastructure Engineering with Specialization in Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering; Co-supervisor: Dr. Trishikhi Raychoudhury, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, IIT Jodhpur)

• Ajay Bharat Rathi (2023 - M. Tech in Infrastructure Engineering with Specialization in Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Anand K. Plappally, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur).

• Dhanya Shah (2022- M. Tech in Infrastructure Engineering with Specialization in Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering)

B. Tech Students

• 2024: Jai Goyal, Prabal Singh, Mahendra Jakhar 

Student Interns 

• Deepak Singh (2024 - Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)

• Ishaan Pandey  (2024 - Dept. of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)

• Apoorva Gupta (2021 - Dept. of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat)

• Ratnamani Kumar Thakur (2021 - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala)

*PhD Student  #M. Tech Student $B. Tech Student

1.  Agrawal VS#, Guha Roy D,  Kumar VV (2025)Techno-Economic Assessment of Solar-Powered Green Hydrogen Production in India: A Case Study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.151401.

2. Jain A#. Guha Roy D, Raychoudhury T, Jangra S, Prakash R (2024) Comparative Efficacy of Raw and Modified Magnesite in the Defluoridation of Aqueous Solutions. Desalination and Water Treatment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dwt.2024.100913.

3. Guha Roy D, Goyal J$, Talukdar M. (2024) Capacity assessment and economic analysis of geologic storage of hydrogen in hydrocarbon basins: A South Asian perspective. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.10.282

4. Singh A*, Sengupta A, Guha Roy D. (2024) A Molecular Simulation Study on Pore-scale Behaviour of Nitrogen-based Fracking Fluids for Potential Geo-energy Applications. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2024.113252

5. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2022) Effect of heat-treatment on the pure- and mixed-mode fracture properties of a homogeneous sandstone. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2022.100430.

6. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2020) Predicting deformational properties of Indian coal: Soft computing and regression analysis approach. Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2019.106975. 

7. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2018) Regression and soft computing models to estimate young’s modulus of CO2 saturated coals. Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2018.07.016. 

8. Guha Roy D, Singh TN, J. Kodikara. (2018) Predicting mode-I fracture toughness of rocks using soft computing and multiple regression. Measurement. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2018.05.069.

9. Talukdar M, Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2018) Correlating mode-I fracture toughness and mechanical properties of heat-treated crystalline rocks. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2017.09.009.

10. Guha Roy D, Singh TN, Kodikara J. (2017) Influence of joint anisotropy on the fracturing behavior of a sedimentary rock. Engineering Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2017.08.016. 

11. Sharma KM, Guha Roy D, Singh PK, Sharma LK, Singh TN. (2017) Parametric study of factors affecting fluid flow through a fracture. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-3142-6.

12. Guha Roy D, Tripathy A, Singh TN. (2017) Effect of different wall roughness on the frictional behavior of rock joints. Journal of the Geological Society of India. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0603-1. 

13. Guha Roy D, Singh TN, Kodikara J, Das R. (2017) Effect of Water Saturation on the Fracture and Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1253-8.

14. Guha Roy D, Singh TN, Kodikara J, Talukdar M. (2017) Correlating the Mechanical and Physical Properties with Mode-I Fracture Toughness of Rocks. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1196-0.

15. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2016) Effect of heat treatment and layer orientation on the tensile strength of a crystalline rock under Brazilian test condition. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-015-0891-y.

16. Guha Roy D, Vishal V, Singh TN. (2016) Effect of carbon dioxide sequestration on the mechanical properties of Deccan basalt. Environmental Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-5587-4. 

17. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2015) Fluid flow through rough rock fractures: parametric study. International Journal of Geomechanics. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000522. 

*PhD Student  #M. Tech Student $B. Tech Student

1. Srivastava A*, Guha Roy D, Ravi Prakash P (2025) Analysis of crack initiation and propagation mechanisms in polycrystalline rocks using discrete element modelling. 10th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference (10IYGEC),  IIT Indore, 11-12 March 2025.

2. Singh A*. Sengupta A, Guha Roy D. (2025) Adsorption isotherms analysis of liquid nitrogen inside montmorillonite and kaolinite rock pores using molecular simulations. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-5108, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5108, 2025

3. Singh A*, Sengupta A, Guha Roy D (2025) Adsorption behaviour of liquid nitrogen adsorbed inside porous Illite rocks. International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment, 8th-10th March 2025, BITS Pilani Goa, India.

4. Singh A*. Sengupta A, Guha Roy D. (2024) Molecular simulation studies on nitrogen adsorption inside silica and illite rock pores. ACS Fall 2024. Paper ID: 4102875. August 18-22. Denver, Colorado, USA.

5. Shah D#, Guha Roy D. (2024) Mitigating Wind-Blown Desert Sand in Solar Parks of Rajasthan: Assessing Dunes and Barriers for Protection. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Issues in Energy, Infrastructure and Disaster Management (Ed. Amit Kumar Verma, T. N. Singh, Edy Tonnizam Mohamad, A. K. Mishra, Ranjith Pathegama Gamage, Ramesh Bhatawdekar, Stephen Wilkinson); Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-1759-0, https://link.springer.com/book/9789819717569.

6. Singh A*. Sengupta A, Guha Roy D. (2023) Molecular simulation of liquid Nitrogen adsorption in porous silicate rocks. Molecular Simulations: Advances & Applications (MSAAP). June 2-3, Mumbai, India.

7. Singh A*. Sengupta A, Guha Roy D. (2022) A study on nitrogen adsorption in porous silica rocks using molecular simulations. Advances in Smart Materials, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering (CHEMSMART-22). December 16-18. Rourkela, India.

8. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2017) Fracture and tensile properties of the layered crystalline rocks. 7th Indian Rock Conference (INDOROCK-2017), Delhi, India, 25-27 October 2017, ISBN 81-86501-25-1.

9. Guha Roy D, Singh TN, Kodikara J. (2016) Correlating Fracture Properties of Saturated Sedimentary Rocks with Compressive Strength. 9th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS9). International Society of Rock Mechanics (ISRM). Bali, Indonesia, 18-20 October 2016. Paper ID: ARMS9-PO6-P108.

10. Bagga P, Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2015) Effect of carbon dioxide sequestration on the mechanical properties of Indian coal. EUROCK 2015 & 64th Geomechanics Colloquium, 1163-1168.

11. Guha Roy D, Singh TN. (2015) A Numerical Study of the Effect of Surface Roughness on the Fluid Flow. GEO India 2015 - 3rd South Asian Geosciences Conference and Exhibition. Paper ID: 2011927.

• 2019: Awarded DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

• 2015: Awarded Star Fellowship by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), USA.

• 2014: Awarded Duncan A. McNaughton Research Grant by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), USA.

• 2011: Awarded DST-INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education 2008 by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for being among the top 1% in 12th standard board examination.

• 2008: Received scholarship under the Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students-2008 from Ministry of Human Resource, Govt. of India for scoring more than 80% marks in Higher Secondary examination (declined).

• 2007: Awarded National Merit Scholarship, Govt. of India. (declined)

• 2006: Was selected and participated in Central Program for Youth Leadership in Science (CPYLS)-2006, organized by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.