Alok Krishna Gupta
Mineralogy
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Alok Krishna Gupta earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, following which he joined University of Pittsburgh as a Teaching Assistant and then a post-doctoral Fellow (1965-71). He underwent post-doctoral training at the University of Western Ontario under Professor William S Fyfe. Subsequently, he worked with Professor ND Chatterjee at Ruhr University, Germany (1974-75), and at the Hokkaido University, Japan under the supervision of Professor Kenzo Yagi (1975-77). He joined the University of Roorkee (1978) and joined the University of Allahabad as a Professor (1985). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia (1979-80); University of Tasmania (1983); University of Texas at Dallas (1994); University of Bristol, UK (1999); and Chernogolovka, Moscow (1987, 1998).
Research Interest
Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology
