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KAJALJYOTI BORAH
Associate Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Mohanpur-741246, Nadia District, West Bengal
Email: kajalborah1979@gmail.com
kajal.borah@iiserkol.ac.in

Research Interest

Shallow crustal structure and High resolution tomographic image using Ambient Noise, Crust and upper Mantle anisotropy, Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ), Lithosphere Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB), Fractals.

Current Research Project
  • MoE-STARS: Crust and upper mantle shear velocity anisotropic structure in the Indo-Burma Ranges and its geodynamic implication, Amount:49 Lakhs, 2023, Principal Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
  • SERB core Research Grant Project Title: 3-D shear velocity attenuation structure of northeast India, Amount: 23.4 Lakhs, 2021-2023, Principal Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
  • SERB-MATRICS Grant Project Title: Seismic Imaging unsig Inversion Modeling , Amount: 6.6 Lakhs, 2019-2021, Principal Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
  • SERB core Research Grant Project Title: Regional stress in Northeast India and adjacent regions: Tectonic Implications , Amount: 22 Lakhs, 2018-2020, Co-Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
  • MoES Research Grant Project Title: Multi-Scale imaging of the deep geology of India-Eurasian region and the adjoining sea , Amount: 77 Lakhs, 2018-2020, Co-Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
Recent Publications
  • Swati Sharma, A. Chakraborty, Kajaljyoti Borah, Lithospheric imaging in the west Africa craton using receiver function modelling, Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAAG), 21/01/2025. (Accepted)
  • P. Mukherjee, Y. Ito, Kajaljyoti Borah, A.P. Mpuang, E.S. Garcia, R. Plata-Martinez, Along-Strike Forearc and Subducted Upper Slab Structure beneath North Chile and their Implications towards occurrence of Slow Slip, Journal of American Earth Sciences 148, 105064, 15/11/2024.
  • S. Mishra, Kajaljyoti Borah, G. Saha, Crustal shear velocity structure beneath the Mount Everest region inferred from receiver function modelling, Journal of Earth System Sciences (JESS) 133(4), 222, 08/11/2024.
  • S. Basak, A. Chakraborty, Kajaljyoti Borah, The mapping of shallow upper mantle discontinuities using teleseismic P-wave autocorrelation, Journal of Earth System Sciences (JESS), 133(3), 138, 12/07/2024.
Selected Publications
  • Kajaljyoti Borah, S.S. Rai, Sandeep Gupta, K.S. Prakasam, Sudesh Kumar, K. Sivaram, Preserved and modified mid-Archean crustal blocks in Dharwar Craton: Seismological evidence, Precam. Res., 246, 16-34, DOI:10.1016/j/precamres.2014.02.003, 2014. (pdf)
  • Kajaljyoti Borah, S.S. Rai, K.S. Prakasam, Sandeep Gupta, Keith Priestley, V.K. Gaur, Seismic Imaging of Crust beneath the Dharwar Craton, India from Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Receiver Function modeling, Geophys. J. Int., 197, 748-767, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu075, 2014. (pdf)
  • Kajaljyoti Borah, S.S. Rai, K. Priestley, V.K. Gaur, Complex shallow mantle beneath the Dharwar craton inferred from Rayleigh wave inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 198, 1055-1070, DOI:10.1093/gji/ggu185, 2014. (pdf)
Teaching
  • ES4103, ES4206, ES3203: Geophysics/Seismology Laboratory, BS-MS:3rd and 4th Year, PhD
  • ID4203, ID4109, ES4105: Inverse Theory, BS-MS 4th Year, PhD
  • ID4103: Geophysics, BS-MS 4th Year, PhD
  • ES3105: Seismology, BS-MS 4th Year, PhD
  • ES2201: Geophysics, Spring 2015, 2016, BS-MS 2nd Year
  • CS1101: Introduction to Computer Programming I, BS-MS 1st Year
  • CS1201: Introduction to Computer Programming II,BS-MS 1st Year
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Latest Project

Crust and upper mantle shear velocity anisotropic structure in the Indo-Burma Ranges and its geodynamic implication, Amount:49 Lakhs, STARS Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Rsearch in Science, 2023