Devapriya Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
BCKV Campus Main Office, Mohanpur
Nadia, W. B. - 741 252
India
devapriya @ iiserkol.ac.in
Employment:
2015 – Present: Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research, Kolkata, India
2010 – 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research, Kolkata, India
2009 – 2010: Limited-term Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of
West Georgia.
Education:
2004 – 2009: Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2002 – 2004: M. Sc., Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India.
1999 – 2002: B. Sc., Geology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
Research grants:
2014: Ernst Mach Stipendien (Ernst Mach weltweit), OeAD-GmbH, Austria
2012: FAST Track Grant, DST, India
2011: Ernst Mach Stipendien (Ernst Mach weltweit), OeAD-GmbH, Austria
2007: Conchologists of America Research Grant
2007: Geological Society of America Research Grant
2006: Friday Harbor Laboratory Student Research Grant, University of Washington
2006: Scott Turner Research Grant, Department of Geological Sciences, University of
Michigan
2006: Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan
Awards & fellowships:
2012-2013: Staff Exchange Award, UKIERI, British Council
2009-2010: Ernst Mach Stipendien (Ernst Mach weltweit), OeAD-GmbH, Austria (Declined)
2004-2005: Graduate Student Fellowship, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
Professional experience
Teaching
- Research methodology, IISER-Kolkata
- Earth and Planetary Sciences, IISER-Kolkata
- Principles of Paleontology, IISER-Kolkata
- Paleontology Laboratory, IISER-Kolkata
- Sedimentology and Principles of stratigraphy, IISER-Kolkata
- Sedimentology Laboratory, IISER-Kolkata
- Historical Geology, University of West Georgia
- Physical Geology, University of West Georgia
- Physical Geology Laboratory, University of West Georgia
- Evolution and extinction, University of Michigan (Served as a Graduate Student
Instructor conducting laboratory sections for the course)
Research supervision
2014-Present: D. Chattopadhyay (PhD student)
2013-Present: S. Dutta (PhD student)
2012-Present: D. Sarkar (PhD student)
2015-Present: M. Bhattacharjee (IPhD student)
2016-Present: K. R. Kiran (MS thesis: Distribution of marine bivalves in relation to local environment)
2016-Present: A. Shankar (MS thesis: Effect of taphonomy in guiding molluscan distribution in shallow marine setting)
2014-2015: S. Das (MS thesis: Diversity of Middle Miocene molluscs of Kutch, India)
2014-2015: M. Jain (MS thesis: Sedimentology and stratigraphy of Middle Miocene formations of Kutch, India)
2012-2013: S. R. Prasanjit (MS thesis: Diversity of Recent molluscs along the Southern Indian coast)
2011-2012: A. Rathie (MS thesis: Study on the hydrodynamic properties of molluscan shells and its taphonomic implication)
2011-2012: S. Dutta (MS thesis: Quantitative modeling of biotic interaction using recent and fossil molluscan fauna)
2010-2011: A. Roy (MS thesis: Pattern of drilling predation among Jurassic bivalves from Kutch, India)
2008-2009: S. Groat (Undergraduate project: Effect of dissolution bias on drilling predation data)
2007-2008: S. Groat (Undergraduate project: Effect of durophagy on drilling predation data)
Museum/Collection management
Fall 2008: Museum Assistant (Worked on updating database, geo-referencing for the Michigan
Basin fossil collection of Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan)
Fall 2007: Museum Assistant (Worked on developing a database for the Michigan Basin fossil
collection of Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan; Curated Cenozoic mollusc collection from Florida)
Summer 2007: Museum Assistant (Photographing of Type collection, specimen conservation,
organizing and working on database for the Michigan Basin fossil collection of Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan)
Fall 2006: Museum Assistant (Worked on developing a database for the Type collection of
Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan)
Summer 2006: Museum Assistant (Worked on constructing taxonomic authority files on
collection database for Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan)
Industry
Summer 2009: Summer Intern, British Petroleum, USA (Evaluated part of Hugoton-Panhandle
gas field for new infill drilling locations using well log correlation and petrophysical calculations. Studied the complex sequence stratigraphic framework of the same field which is the largest gas field in North America)
Summer 2008: Summer Intern, USP, ExxonMobil (Interpreted subsurface 3D seismic data and
correlated well log data to construct structural and stratigraphic maps for a producing
gas field in South Texas and evaluated the leftover potential of the field)
Summer 2003: Summer intern, ONGC (Oil and natural gas corporation, India) (Described core
samples and correlated well log data from the offshore Bombay basin)
Invited talk (selected)
Community composition to climate change:A molluscan perspective, CEaS, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, March, 2016
Cannibalism to climate change:Insights from a sea shell, Indo-French Workshop on Marine Biology, CES, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, March, 2016
Today, yesterday and the day before: tracing cannibalistic trait through time, Austrian Paleontological Society, Vienna, Austria, May, 2014
Tracing behavioural adaption over geologic time: A case study on predation of molluscs, Austrian Paleontological Society, Vienna, Austria, October, 2011
Molluscan shells: An archive of response to biotic and abiotic triggers. National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India, December, 2011
Professional Memberships
Geological Society of America, Paleontological Society