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Sitindra Sundar Dirghangi

Sitindra Sundar Dirghangi

Assistant Professor (on Contract) 
Dept: Earth Sciences (DES)
E-mail: sitindra [at] iiserkol.ac.in
Complete CV:


Research Interest:
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Petroleum Geochemistry
  • Stable Isotope Geochemistry


Academic Background:
  1. Ph.D., Geochemistry July 2013, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  2. M.Sc., Geological Sciences (May, 2005, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India)
  3. B.Sc. with Honors in Geology (May, 2003, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)


Positions:
  1. IISER Kolkata, Assistant Professor (on contract; June, 2015 - present)
  2. GeoIsoChem Corporation, Covina, California, USA,Postdoctoral Researcher (January, 2014 – April, 2015)
  3. University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, Postdoctoral Researcher (May, 2013 – January, 2014)
  4. National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India Summer Trainee (2004)


Awards and Honors:
  1. Charlton Dows Cooksey Jr. Memorial Fellowship, Yale University (2006-2009).
  2. University Fellowship, Yale University (2005-2011).
  3. Qualified in the all India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in the year 2005.
  4. Qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) in the year 2005.
  5. Ranked 5th in all India entrance examination for M.Sc. in Geology at IIT Kharagpur (2003).
  6. Ranked 5th in all India entrance examination for M.Sc. in Geology at IIT Bombay (2003).


Selected Publications:
  1. Dirghangi, S. S., Pagani, M. (2013). Hydrogen isotope fractionation during lipid biosynthesis by Tetrahymena thermophila. Organic Geochemistry, 64, 105-111.
  2. Dirghangi, S. S., Pagani, M. (2013). Hydrogen isotope fractionation during lipid biosynthesis by Haloarcula marismortui. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 119, 381–390.
  3. Dirghangi, S. S., Pagani, M., Hren, M. T., Tipple, B. J. (2013). Distribution of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils from two environmental transects in the USA. Organic Geochemistry, 59, 49-60.
  4. Tipple, B. J., Pagani, M., Krishnan, S., Dirghangi, S. S., Galeotti, S., Agnini, C., Giusberti, L., Rio, D. (2011). Coupled high-resolution marine and terrestrial records of carbon and hydrologic cycles variation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 311, 82-92.