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I am a planetary geologist. My approach to understanding the extra-terrestrial planets and their past is by studying the surface mineralogy of the planets using remote sensing and their possible geological activity, particularly physical and chemical weathering processes, which are yielded up by investigating potential analogue sites on Earth. Recently, I have been studying the different aqueous activities which are evident from the presence of aqueous minerals on Mars and the Moon, to establish a suitable aqueous environment by formulating geochemical modelling. Reported literatures in many scientific journals, like Squyres et al., Fairén et al., Arvidson et al., Ehlmann et al. Kerschmann et al., whose works provide unequivocal identification of OH/H2O and comprehensive ideas on the initial aqueous environment on Mars and the Moon.

B.Sc.(Hons.) Geology , (Burdwan University, 2006)

M.Sc. Applied Geology, (Presidency College, 2008)

M.Tech. Earth and Environmental Sciences (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2010)

Ph.D. Planetary Science (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2017)

My doctoral work at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur was on Basalt weathering and Jarosite formation in Kachchh, India as a terrestrial analogue to Mars. After completion of the degree I joined BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, India in 2018 as an assistant professor in the department of Geology. I taught Mineralogy, Petrology, Engineering Geology and Indian Stratigraphy at that time. After 7 months of teaching there I joined Presidency University, Kolkata.

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Remote sensing and GIS in UG and PG level
Stratigraphy of India in UG level
Martian Geology in UG level
Igneous petrology (Practical) in UG level
Mineralogy (practical) in UG Level

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Chavan, A., Sarkar, S., Thakkar, A., Solanki, J., Jani, C., Bhandari, S., Bhattacharya S.,Desai B.G., Ray, D., Shukla A.D.,Sajinkumar K.S., Mitra, S.,Gupta S.,and Thakkar, M. G. (2022). Terrestrial Martian Analog Heritage of Kachchh Basin, Western India. Geoheritage, 14(1), 1-26.

Mitra, K., Mitra, S., Gupta, S., Bhattacharya, S., Chauhan, P. and Jain, N., 2018. Modelling basalt weathering at elevated CO2 concentrations: implications for terminal to post-magmatic rifting in the Deccan Traps, Kachchh, India. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 463(1), pp.227-241.

Mitra, S., Mitra, K., Gupta, S., Bhattacharya, S., Chauhan, P. and Jain, N., 2017. Alteration and submergence of basalts in Kachchh, Gujarat, India: implications for the role of the Deccan Traps in the India–Seychelles break-up. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 445(1), pp.47-67.

Bhattacharya, S., Mitra, S., Gupta, S., Jain, N., Chauhan, P. and Parthasarathy, G., 2016. Jarosite occurrence in the Deccan Volcanic Province of Kachchh, western India: Spectroscopic studies on a Martian analog locality. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 121(3), pp.402-431.

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