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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

Academic Background
  • Ph.D. (Applied Geophysics), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, 06/11/2013 Thesis Title: "Seismic Tomography of Dharwar Craton" (click here)
  • M.Tech. (Computational Seismology), Tezpur University, India, Gold Medalist, 2009
  • M.Sc. (Mathematics and Computing), IIT Guwahati, India, 2002
  • B. Sc. (Mathematics) Darrang College, Gauhati University, 2000
Positions
  • Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata, 27/05/2021-till date
  • Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, 03/01/2017-26/05/2021
  • Assistant Professor (on contract), IISER Kolkata, 11/08/2014-02/01/2017
  • Project Associate, NGRI, 01/10/2013-08/08/2014
  • Senior Research Fellow, CSIR, 2011-2013
  • Visiting Fellow, Bullard Lab, Cambridge University, 2011
Awards and Fellowships
  • Association of Exploration Geophysicists (AEG) Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2014
  • Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, 2011
  • Gold-Medal in M. Tech., 2009
Funded Research Projects
  • 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
  • IISER Kolkata Start-up Grant Project Title: Nature of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath India , Amount: 14 Lakhs, 2015-2018, Principal Investigator: Kajaljyoti Borah
  • NERC International Oppurtunities Funding (IOF) Project Title: Earthquake Without Frontiers Principal Investigators: James Jackson, Keith Priestley, Alex Copley (Univ. of Cambridge). Indian Collaborators (Co-Investigators): Supriyo Mitra, Kajaljyoti Borah (IISERK) and Sunil K. Wanchoo (SMVDU), Sponsor: Natural Environment Research Council, U.K.
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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