Abhijit Bhattacharya
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Abhijit Bhattacharya earned his BSc in Earth Sciences (1976) and MSc in Applied Geology (1978) from the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He completed his PhD (1984) from the same Department under the supervision of Professor AB Mukherjee. He did his post-doctoral research in association with Sisir K Sen in the Department, and continued to work on mineralogic thermo-barometry with Michael M Raith at the University of Bonn, Germany. On returning to India, he joined IIT Kharagpur as Lecturer (1988) and became Professor in 2002.
Research Interest
Petrology, Geochemistry
