Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, Roorkee (1996-2003) Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee (2003-2008) Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee (2008-2013) (currently on lien from IIT Roorkee) Academy fellowships: Indian Academy of Sciences (F.A.Sc.) National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc.)

      Current research interests:

• Tertiary vertebrate faunas of India, including mammals (both terrestrial and marine), their evolutionary and biogeographic implications and integration with floral proxies.
• Microbiota, from the late Cretaceous Deccan and infra- and intertrappean sequences of peninsular India, and their implications for K/T boundary events,  paleoclimates, paleoecology and paleobiogeography  
• Integration of faunal and floral fossil data with stable isotope geochemistry and strontium isotope stratigraphy.

       Research Fellowships/Assignments held previously (at post-doctoral level):

           In India

• Research Associate (CSIR), Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1991-1994)
• Pool Scientist (CSIR), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roorkee, Roorkee (1994-1996)
• Ramanna Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2008-2011)

           Abroad

• Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (Visitorship,1994-1995)
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (Commonwealth Fellowship, 1999)
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (INSA-Royal Society Scientists’ Exchange Programme, 2001)
• National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France (CNRS Professor Invitee, 2002)
• Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, Kitasyushu, Japan (JSPS Fellowship, 2004)
• University College London, UK (INSA-Royal Society Scientists’ Exchange Programme, 2007)
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (2007)
• Seoul National University, South Korea (INSA Scientists’ Exchange Programme, 2011)
  

  Publications:  104, excluding abstracts (listed below)

  In journals/edited volumes: 99
  In conferences/Seminars/Symposia/ workshops: 5
  Edited Volume: Special issue of the Journal of Biosciences (India’s Fossil Biota: Current Perspectives and Emerging Approaches, published by Springer)
  

    Citations: +1575 (source: www.scholar.google.com)

  + 875 (source: www.scopus.com)

   h-index: 20 (source: www.scholar.google.com); 17 (source: www.scopus.com)

  Other current responsibilities:

  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Geological Society of India
    (for fast track articles)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Current Science
  • Chief Editor, The Palaeobotanist
  • Member, CSIR Research Committee on Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (2011-ongoing)

  Doctoral Guidance: 5 Ph.D.s awarded