Kajaljyoti Borah Assistant Professor |
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Research Interest:
Shallow crustal structure and High resolution tomographic image using Ambient Noise, Crust and Mantle anisotropy, Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ), LithosphereAsthenosphere Boundary (LAB).
Academic Background:
- PhD (Applied Geophysics), ISM Dhanbad, 2013
- MTech (Computational Seismology), Tezpur University, 2009, Gold Medalist
- MSc (Mathematics and Computing), IIT Guwahati, 2002
- Bsc (Mathematics), Gauhati University (Darrang College), 2000
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2017 - 2021)
- Assistant Professor (On contract), IISER Kolkata (2014 - 2017)
- Project Associate, NGRI, CSIR (2013 - 2014)
- SRF, NGRI, CSIR (2011 - 2013)
Awards and Honors:
- AEG Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Geophysics, 2013-14 from Association of Exploration Geophysicists (AEG) (2015)
Selected Publications:
- Anand, Aakash; bora, Dipok; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Borgohain, Jayanta Madhab. 2018. "Seismological evidence of the Hales discontinuity in northeast India." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 154, 238-247
- Mitra, Supriyo; Priestley, K. F.; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Gaur, V. K.. 2018. "Crustal Structure and Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Plate Boundary System, Northeast India (in press)." Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), -, -
- Chaudhuri, Kuntal; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Gupta, Sandip. 2016. "Seismic evidence of crustal low velocity beneath Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt, India." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 261, 207-216
- Borah, Kajaljyoti; Bora, Dipok K.; Goyal, Ayush and Kumar, Raju. 2016. "Crustal structure beneath northeast India inferred from Receiver Function modeling." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 258, 15-27
- Bora, Dipok K; Borah, Kajaljyoti and Goyal, Ayush. 2016. "Crustal shear-wave velocity structure beneath Sumatra from receiver function modeling." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 121, 127-138