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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

... towards excellence in science

An Autonomous Institution, Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

Tapabrato Sarkar

Assistant Professor
Dept: Earth Sciences (DES)
E-mail: tapabrato [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
 

Combination and correlation of petrology, geochemistry and geochronology to understand crustal evolution.

Academic Background:

  1. PhD (Petrology), Institute for Geosciences (University of Kiel, Germany), 2014, Awarded highest grade
  2. MSc (Applied Geology), Department of Geological Sciences (Jadavpur University), 2010
  3. BSc (Geology (Hons), Physics, Mathematics), Department of Geological Sciences (Jadavpur University), 2008
  4. ISC (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Science), Julien Day School (NA), 2005

Positions:

  1. Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
  2. Post doctoral fellow, University of Johannesburg (2015 - 2016)

Awards and Honors:

  1. Associate Fellow from West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2024)

Selected Publications:

  1. Tiwari, Ashish Kumar; Sarkar, Tapabrato; Karmakar, Sourav; Sorcar, Nilanjana and Mukherjee, Sneha. 2023."Long-lived high-grade metamorphism in southern India: Constraints from charnockites and sapphirine-bearing semipelitic granulites from the Madurai Block. ." Journal of Metamorphic Geology , 41, 1261-1297
  2. Talukdar, Moumita; Sarkar, Tapabrato; Sengupta, Pulak and Mukhopadhyay, Dhrubajyoti. 2022."The Southern Granulite Terrane, India: The saga of over 2 billion years of Earth's history." Earth Science Reviews, 232, 1-35
  3. J, Padmaja; Sarkar, Tapabrato; Dasgupta, Somnath; Dash, J K; Bhutani, Rajneesh and Chauhan, Hiredya. 2021."High pressure granulite facies metamorphism at the interface of the Archean Bastar craton and the Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Belt, India.." Precambrian Research, 363, 1-19
  4. Sarkar, Tapabrato. 2021."Ultrahigh-temperature mafic granulites from the Madurai Block, southern India: Constraints from conventional thermobarometry, pseudosection analysis, and rare earth element-based thermometry." Geological Journal, 56, 1-25
  5. Chowdhury, Jashodhara; Mitra, Supriyo and Sarkar, Tapabrato. 2021."Hales discontinuity in the southern Indian continental lithosphere: seismological and petrological models." Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 126, 1-20

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