Supriyo Mitra


Bullard Laboratories
Department of Earth Sciences
Madingley Rise
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB3 0EZ
Phone: +44-1223-748938
email: sm377 @ cam.ac.uk

Date of Birth: 12 November 1976

Nationality: Indian

EDUCATION:

  • PhD (2000-2004): in Geophysics (Seismology), at Bullard Laboratories, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
  • Master of Science (1998-2000): in Applied Geology, Dept of Earth Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
  • Bachelor of Science (1995-98): in Geology, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University.

    • PhD Thesis:
    "Crustal structure of NE India and southern Tibet and a comparison with the lithosphere of the stable Indian Shield", with Dr. Keith Priestley.

    M.Sc. Dissertation:
    "Study of lateral ramp on the Terrain Boundary Shear Zone between Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and Bastor Craton,around Khariar, western Orrisa", with Prof T.K.Biswal.

    Academic/Professional GRANTS / AWARDS / MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Awarded Nehru Cambridge Scholarship (2000) by The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Overseas Research Scholarship from CVCP, U. K. for Ph.D. in Seismology at The Bullard Labs, University of Cambridge.
  • Elected Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (2000).
  • Elected Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2001).
  • Awarded Lundgren Scholarship by the Cambridge Philosophical Society for graduate studies at Bullard Laboratories (2004).
  • Member of American Geophysical Union and European Geophysical Society (2002 onwards).
  • Institute Representative of Foreign Affiliate Membership to Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS (since 2006).

    • Participation in WORKSHOPS / DISCUSSION MEETINGS:

  • Participated in Indian Academy of Sciences Discussion Meeting on the Structure and evolution of the lithosphere lead by Prof. Dan McKenzie (Bullard Labs, Cambridge) at Coorg, India, 2007.
  • Participated in an Intensive Course on Inverse Modelling, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), Bangalore, India, 2006.
  • Participated in CSIR-CMMACS Discussion Meeting on Inverse Modelling of Geophysical Data lead by Prof. Albert Tarantola (IPG Paris) at C-MMACS, Bangalore, India, 2006.
  • Participated in Workshop on Three-Dimensional Modelling of Seismic Waves Generation, Propagation and their Inversion, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 2002.

    • RESEARCH PROJECTS:
    1. Project Title: Investigation of the Deep Seismic Structure in the foreland of the Indo-Himalayan Collision Zone.
    Principal Investigator: Supriyo Mitra.
    Sponsor: Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development, IIT Kharagpur.

    2. Project Title: 3-Dimensional imaging of the lithosphere and active deformation across Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya and a comparison with NW-Himalaya.
    Principal Investigator: Supriyo Mitra.
    Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. S.S. Rai (NGRI) and Dr. V. Joshi (GBPIHED).
    Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology (Deep Continental Studies program).

    3. Project Title: The exhumation factor in the genesis of inverted metamorphic sequences - an evaluation from structure, metamorphism, fluid inlcusion and earthquakes.
    Principal Investigator: Saibal Gupta
    Co-Principal-Investigators: M. K. Panigrahi, Supriyo Mitra
    Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology (Deep Continental Studies program).

    RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS:
    1. Joint Coordinator from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur side on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between IIT Kharagpur and Cambridge University for Investigation of the Deep Seismic Structure of the Indo-Himalayan Collision Zone in Eastern India.

    2. Indian collaborator of the NERC funded Consortium 2004-2005 Indian Ocean earthquakes - Subduction Zone segmentation and controls on earthquake rupture.

    PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
    Solicited peer reviews for Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth) and Journal of Geophysics and Engineering.

    OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

  • Cambridge University, UK: Demonstrator for Physics of the Earth as a Planet (Part III Experimental and Theoretical Physics).
  • Tezpur University, India: Introductory lectures on Seismology and Plate Tectonics.

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