EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.  
    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Roorkee, Uttarakhand
• M.Sc. in Applied Geology
    Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal
• B.Sc. in Geology                                                                
    Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, West Bengal
• Others: Qualified CSIR-UGC NET and GATE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Temporary Assistant Professor at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. 2023-24
• Teaching Assistant at Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Roorkee, Uttarakhand. 2018-22
• Summer Intern at ONGC Kolkata, West Bengal 2015

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
•    Exchange candidate: PROM International scholarship exchange of PhD candidates and academic staff at Universytet Jagielloński, Kraków, Poland 2022
      Project: Genesis of calcretes from India and Poland

MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Full Member at International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS). 

REVIEWER

• At the Journal of Earth System Science (JESS), Indian Academy of Sciences.

INVITED TALK

• Delivered a talk on ‘Linking diagenesis to sequence stratigraphy: A case study from Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India’ at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat 2024

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

1. Uchman, A., Bhattacharya, B. and Saha, A. 2023. Gastropod grazing traces (incipient Radulichnus isp.) in the Godavari River, India and their preservation potential in the fossil record. Paleontological Research, 27(4), 436-440. https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220003 (I.F.: 0.9)
2. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B. 2023. Controls of allogenic factors on the development of fluvial sequence stratigraphic architecture: A case study. Journal of Earth System Science (Springer), 132(1), 1-17.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-022-02038-1  (I.F.: 1.9)
3. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B., 2022. Controls on near-surface and burial diagenesis of a syn-rift siliciclastic rock succession: A study from Permian Barren Measures Formation, Southern India. Sedimentary Geology (Q1; Elsevier), 436, Article No. 106170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106170 (I.F.: 3.32).
4. Saha, A., Chakrabarty, S. and Bhattacharya, B. 2022. Evidence of the Permian marginal marine sedimentation recorded in sub-surface drill cores, Lower Gondwana successions, Southern India. Journal of Earth System Science (Springer), 131 (2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-022-01866-5 (I.F.: 1.9).
5. Bhattacharya, B. and Saha, A. 2020. Large soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) in Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India – potential link to syn-rift palaeoearthquake events. Journal of Palaeogeography (Q1; Springer), 9, 1 – 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42501-020-00063-z (I.F.: 2.789).

Abstracts in conferences

1. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B. 2022. Effects of tidal influence on the development of the fluvial sequence stratigraphic architecture- a study from the Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, Southern India. 10th International congress of tidal sedimentology, University of Basilicata, Matera, Italy. p. 99 – 100.
2. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B. 2022.Sequence stratigraphy of the Permian fluvio-tidal Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India. 37th Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists. University of Jammu, Jammu. p. 38-39.
3. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B. 2019. Sedimentary facies architecture of Permian Barren Measures Formation, Godavari River section, Pranhita-Godavari Basin. 36th Convention of Indian Association of sedimentologists, AMDER, AMD Complex, Hyderabad. p. 20.
4. Saha, A. and Bhattacharya, B. 2019. Sedimentological record of syn-rift earthquakes within Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India. 34th IAS International meeting of sedimentology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. p. 701.
5. Saha, A. and Mukherjee, S. 2017. An overview on the remediation of water and soil pollution using nanocomposite clays. 82nd Annual Convention of Indian Society of Soil Science, Kolkata, 2017.

SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Delivered a poster presentation on “Fluvial Sequence stratigraphy of Permian Barren Measures Formation” at 1st Research Scholar’s Day in IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. 2022
• Delivered an oral presentation on “Effects of tidal influence on the development of the fluvial sequence stratigraphic architecture - a study from the Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, Southern India” at 10th International congress of tidal sedimentology, Matera, Italy. 2022
• Delivered an oral presentation on “Sequence stratigraphy of the Permian fluvio-tidal Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Basin, India” at 37th Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists. Jammu, India. 2022
• Delivered an oral presentation on “Sedimentary facies architecture of Permian Barren Measures Formation, Godavari River section, Pranhita-Godavari Basin” at 36th Convention of Indian Association of Sedimentologists, Hyderabad, India 2019
•  Delivered an oral presentation on “An Overview on Remediation of Soil and Water Pollution using Nanocomposite Clays” at 82nd Annual Convention of Indian Society of Soil Science, Kolkata, India. 2017

• 1st Semester: Mineralogy (AG102T, AG102P)
• 3rd Semester: Geological Exploration (AG301T, AG301P)

• 1st Semester: Minerals, Rocks and Ores (AGG-1A)
• 1st Semester: Basic Geological Field Training (AGSEC 1.1)