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Jitendra Kumar Pattanaik

Assistant Professor (on Contract)
Dept: Earth Sciences
E-mail: jitendra.bapi [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
  • Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)
  • Application of cosmogenic radionuclides such as 10Be and 26Al in the geosciences
  • Understanding of chemical weathering and CO2 consumption rate using major & trace elements and Sr isotopes.


Academic Background:
  1. Ph. D. (Earth Sciences), 2010, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
  2. M. Sc. (Applied Geology), 2002, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
  3. B. Sc. (Geology Hon's), 2000, Utkal University, Orissa


Positions:
  1. Junior Research Fellow, Department of Earth sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, (2002-2003)
  2. UGC - JRF & SRF, Department of Earth Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, (2003 - 2008)
  3. Scientist, National Facility for Isotope Geosciences (NFIG), Department of Earth Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, (2008 - 2010)
  4. IISER Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, (July, 2010 onwards)


Awards and Honors:
  1. University Grant Commission - Junior Research Fellowship, India. 2002.
  2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Junior Research Fellowship, India, 2003.
  3. Standing second best in the paper presentations of 10th ISMAS, Triennial International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Munnar, India, 2006.
  4. Awarded UGC - Dr. D. S. Kothari Post doctoral fellowship, 2010.


Selected Publications:
  1. Pattanaik J. K., Balakrishnan S., Bhutani R. and Singh P., (2007): Chemical and Sr isotopic composition of Kaveri, Palar and Ponnaiyar rivers:  Significance to weathering of Granulites and Granitic gneisses of southern Peninsular India, Current Science, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp no. 523 - 531.
  2. Nissar Ahmad, A. A. Wani, R. Ram, S. R. Abhilash, Rakesh Kumar, J. K. Pattanaik, Sankar De, R.K. Karn, and T. Nandi (2006): Beam-single and beam-two-foil experimental facility to study physics of highly charged ions, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 77, 033107.
  3. Pattanaik J. K., Balakrishnan S., Rao P. S. and Senthilnathan D., (2003): A preliminary study on different recent marine shell to find out their suitability for EPR dating, Late Quaternary Environment Change: emerging issues, Proceedings of the International PAGES workshop and training program at the French Institute, Pondicherry, edited, Vol. 42, pp no. 119-122.