Arvind Kumar Jain
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Arvind Kumar Jain earned his BSc from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi and MSc from Lucknow University. He joined the Department of Geology and Geophysics (now Earth Sciences) at the University of Roorkee as a Junior Research Fellow of UGC to work under the supervision of RS Mithal and earned his PhD (1970). He was a UGC post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Roorkee (1970-71). After a brief stint at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehra Dun (then housed in Delhi University), he joined the University of Roorkee as Lecturer (1974) and served there till his retirement (2006). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Karlsruhe between 1979 and 2001, and JSPS Fellow at the Hokaiddo University in 2004.
Research Interest
Geology, Structural Geology & Tectonics
