Pulak Sengupta

Pulak Sengupta
Born (1963-12-05) 5 December 1963 (age 60)
West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on grain-scale reaction mechanism
Awards
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Pulak Sengupta (born 1963) is an Indian petrologist and a professor and former head of the Department of Geological Sciences of Jadavpur University.[1][2] He is known for his studies on grain-scale reaction mechanism and ultra-high temperature regional scale metamorphism[3] and his studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;[4][note 1] ResearchGate and Google Scholar, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 31[5] and 60 of them respectively.[6] Besides, he has contributed chapters to many books published by others.[7][8][9] He has also mentored doctoral scholars in their studies.[10][note 2]

Sengupta, born on 5 December 1963 in the Indian state of West Bengal did his master's studies at Jadavpur University and subsequently secured a PhD from the same institution before joining his alma mater as a member of faculty.[11] He is an elected fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences,[12] and the Indian National Science Academy.[13] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2006. Apart from academics his interests include photography and travelling.[14]

  1. ^ "Recruitment row at JU - Head of geology department resigns over political bias". The Telegraph. 2016. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017.
  2. ^ "List of faculty" (PDF). Jadavpur University. 2016.
  3. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  5. ^ "On ResearchGate". 2016.
  6. ^ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
  7. ^ Alok Krishna Gupta (6 October 2011). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior: Crust, Mantle and Core. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-4419-0346-4.
  8. ^ Rajesh Srivastava (22 March 2011). Dyke Swarms: Keys for Geodynamic Interpretation. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-3-642-12496-9.
  9. ^ Soumyajit Mukherjee; Kieran F. Mulchrone (21 December 2015). Ductile Shear Zones: From Micro- to Macro-scales. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 141–. ISBN 978-1-118-84496-0.
  10. ^ "Curriculum vitae". Presidency University. 2016.
  11. ^ "Faculty profile". Jadavpur University. 2016.
  12. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  13. ^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  14. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.


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